The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-25
CITY NEWS.
Dressed chickens at Jos. u

U0Tl 3.
New flannellette, 10 and 121s cent
yard at Central Store.
About IL O'clock this morning, the
steamer st. Paul arrived in port from
st. Paul enroute through to st. Louis.
A number OF passengers were aboard
for this city and the boat is having a
good trip.
About the most popular fishing
place in the vicinity of Keokuk at
present. is at Sandusky. Dozens of
local anglers go up there every day
and pull good fries out Of the canal
and river.
Hoffman sells home killed meats.
Place Sunday order with him.
The baseball game between the
Knights of Columbus councils of Han
nibal and Keokuk which was to have
been played here on Sunday, has been
postponed.
New percales, SO inches wide. 10
and 125sc yard at Central Store.
Jerry Harrington and Sam O'Con-
nell with their phaeton well filed
with camping articles, fishing utensils,
etc., went to Fox Island on Fox riv-
er, fifteen miles below here, yesterday
afternoon where they will spend a
week, angling and enjoying an out
ing.
Buy fly nets cheap at herwood's.
The tearing down OF the old Bur
rows row building will be begun in
September, according to an announce
ment of the commissioners. There
has been considerable complaints
from time to time regarding this old
structure, which has long been unsafe.
Only two of the rooms are now &C.
cupied.
Special showing of white hats
Friday and Saturday at the c. & G..
millinery store, 621 Main street.
The steamer Dubuque was in from
Burlington last night at $50 on its
way to st. Louis. Nine foreign water
power workmen shipped through as
second class passengers and three
cabin deck round trip passengers
boarded here. The Dubuque left at
80 for the south.
Buy harness of Sherwood.
The Hamilton Press, mentioning
the death of w. S. Sample
says: W. S. Sample, an old and
we'll known citizen of Keokuk died
Saturday night, aged 6S years. Mr..
Sample was one of the pioneers of
this section and his friends were
legion. He was one of Gods noble
men The gentleman was chief of the
fire department of Keokuk for years
and the fire bell which announced his
death to the people of his home town
was one purchased by his father,
VITA the salary earned by him as may
or of the city. He has been real
estate dealer for number of years.
Outings, 5 S1-3, 10 and 121s cent
yard: large assortment, Central Store.
Spring lamb, choice beef, veal and
pork, you always get at JOS Hau-
bert's market, 7O9 Main.
A government inspector was In
Keokuk yesterday making the rounds
of saloons and opening up whisky
barrels with a view to seeing wheth-
err or not local dealers were being
short measured Only one instance
of shortage is reported, that being at
Klinbeils saloon, corner of First and
Main streets. According to local
brewer these inspectors come fire.
quently and find that the whiskey
barrels are short gallon or two.
The inspector. he says, then takes
the matter up with the firm shipping
it in and it is required to make up
the shortage Nothing in the nature
of prosecution is expected, he says.
New dress trimmings now on dis
play at the Central Store.
A single page in single issue OF
the Century taken for advertising pur-
poses costs $500, in Harpers $780, in
other prominent magazines from $3.50
down to 800. A yearly advertise
ment of one column in the Chicago
Tribune costs $4,000; in the New
York Tribune $4,000 for the lowest,
and s3595O for the highest rates; in
the New York Herald $36, 203 for the
lowest and $4,000 for the highest
priced column. These papers, 1t is
said, are never at loss for adver-
Using to fill their columns. These
figures will doubtless be of interest
to the man who invests ten dollars
and fatters himself with the idea that
he is a liberal advertiser, and in adj
dition "mooches' copy of the paper
each time his ad appears
New fall dl ess goods now on dis
play. soc to $3.50 per yard, at the
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