The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-07
CITY NEWS.

Big line harness at Sherwood's.
lis pairs mems $3.50 and $500 OK
fords, now $3.50 at Miller's.
Ali of the regular passenger
trains into the city had good business
! yesterday, persons coming from the
| four points to see the dam.
Better come early If you want a
pair of those mems oxfords for $2.5O
| at Miller's.
You should see our line of new
! buggies at Sherwood's.
| Two youths were drowned near
| Clinton yesterday, Albert Terry and
James Golden, both twenty years of
| age.
Have harness repaired at sher-
woods.
Keokuk council No. 1889, will meet
| in regular session at s o'clock at A..
o. U. W. hall Monday evening Will
| initiate a large class Of benefit candi-
dates. All members are earnestly
requested to be present and give the
candidates most cordial welcome.
The Elks camp. closed Sunday
evening afer having been in progress
for several weeks The 1911 camp
was very successful and very pleas
ant one and Afforded enjoyment to the
members The ladies' day feature
was an enjoyable one The Elks camp
is growing in popularity every year.
The committee, which was a very
proficient one. was busy today having
the equipment returned to the club
room for storage
Probably some of the older citi.
zens and members OF the g. A. R. will
recall the incident mentioned in the
following bit Of news of fifty years
ago. published in the Burlington
Hawk-Eye, which says: At Keokuk,
two brothers, Hniskamp, played a
game Of chess to see who stuck to the
shoe store and who went to the front.
The elder won, but the younger
couldn't abide by the decision and ul-
| timately sheuldered the musket
| Mrs. Anna Croughan Of No. 200
Bank street, aged rs years, suffered
| fracture OF her right arm and other
( injuries at her home Saturday night
at s o'clock. DIR. W. Frank Brown
reduced the fracture. Mrs. Croughan
was sitting in rocking chair and
( accidentally rocked off of the porch.
The right arm was broken near the
shoulder joint and her face was badly
bruised.
/ -Des Moines Capital: The Des
Moines River Power company has
been organized with a capital stock of
/ 100000 to OWL and operate the water
/ powers on the Des Moines river. 1t
/ is understood that the organization is
| really made in Maine. The articles of
| incorporation SO far as the Iowa or
/ ganization is concerned, were filed
with the secretary OF state today. 1t
is understood this company will own
the water power that is now being
developed at Keosauqua, and will de-
velop the power wherever suitable
dam can be made.
Work OF tearing down the old
brick house which has stood on the
| corner Of Fourth and Bank streets,
the southeast corner, for a number OF
years is going on. The c. B. & @. rail-
road company will build an addi-
tional uptown switch on the dumping
grounds which have been put In shape
for the laying OF tracks. A letter has
been received by General Yardmaster
Roberts from w w. Woodin, road
master of the Burlington, stating that
400 yards of sand are to be shipped
here from Pennington for use in com.
pleting the run around" in the new
uptown switch tracks.
i The Burlington Saturday Post in
its last Saturday issue says: DR.. G.
4 Walter Barr, the Keokuk author and
all around clever gentleman, came UP
On the Black Hawk last Tuesday and
transferred to the Helen Blair on his
short-line voyage to ST. Paul. DR.
Barr Is quite well known to many oil
our readers as the gentleman who re
ported for the daily press the grea,
religious revival conducted here some
years ago by Rev. Vim. A. Sunday
the evangelist, who SO happily blends
the financial with the spiritual Many
persons still contend that Dr. Bars
reports constituted the best part Of
the revival.
On Sunday morning the members
: of the defunct order Of Talbot Owls
met with the members of the newly
organized order known as the hide
: pendent Order Of Owls and the ole
charter was taken from the walls ani
nearly all the old membership wen
in the new order The furniture, Ak
lures and all other property of The
r old lodge was sold to the new one
. The membership of the new order are
very enthusiastic and predict a grea
e future for It, The new order is in
4 corporated and is setting apart eacl
4 month certain per cent of their gros
income for the purpose Of paying sicl
J. and death benefits and this fund can
not he used for anv other r,,rnace