The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-01-11
CITY NEWS.

Blankets See the goods. get the
| prices at Sherwood's.
The Monday music club chorus
meets this evening in the Y NJ. C. A.
auditorium
Regular meeting OF Hermann
lodge. No. 116, L o. o. F.. tonight at
80 o'clock. Visiting brethren cordial.
ly invited
The death o. the infant child. q
daughter, OF Mr.. and Mrs. ]. B. VIII
liams. residing seven miles west of
the city, occurred .oday.
Keokuk Camp NJ. W. A. No. 6:2
Tili hold its regular meeting tonight
at Woodman hall All members are
requested to se present
L. E. Denmire has clean upper
level ice for sale by car lots. For
prices and rates enquire of A. C. Max
well. agent Burlington Route.
Miss Mary Collins gave an inter-
esting and instructive talk on her
work among the Indians to the
geography classes of Terrence school
on TUESDAY morning.
Public meeting at the opera house
tomorrow evening at o'clock. The
weather man says It will be cold
evening but the citizens say they in
tend to generate enough enthusiasm
to make it very comfortable.
Miss Margaret Davalt, Keokuk
young woman. has secured a position
OF trust and worth as stenographer to
Lieutenant Governor Gamalich of Mis-
souri,. she leaving yesterday for JEFF
ferson City, to assume her new duties.
The public meeting called for the
opera house tomorrow evening by
Mayor Elder is for the purpose of dis
cussing plans whereby Keokuk can
meet the new conditions as they de
velop through the construction OF the
water power.
-Masonic-Special meeting of
Eagle Lodge No. - A. F. and a NJ
7:3o o'clock, Thursday evening, Jan
12. 1911. Work on second degree. Wis
ting brethren fraternall- invited. BY
order of the ". NJ. 6. H. Johnston,
Secretary.
A tip to the wise-See or phone
Harry B. Samuels, 1907 Concert St
for brooms, spices, extracts, all
grades toilet or laundry soaps. fresh
canned goods all kinds. Snow Boy
Washing Powder, pounds 15c. Best
abstraction guaranteed.
The annual business and social
meeting of the members OF the First
congregational church and the First
Christian church will be held this
evening 4 social hour will follow
both sessions The yearly. reports of
the church and Sunday school officers
will be read.
Keokuk will be the fayorite steam
boat excursion mecca this summer.
The building of the water power dam
viii attract thousands of visitors. Out
of this number many will decide to
locate in this CITY. No city in the
Mississippi valley has the future that
KeokGk has. When the visitors ar
rive their impressions should be "a
Yorabie.
Every day from divers points il
the couutry articles are appearing in
newspapers and magazines relative to
the big water power dam being built
across the Mississippi river at Keo-
kuk The amount of advertising Fol-
unfairly given TO this city in the man
ner mentioned would buy considerable
stock in the dam-and the investor
would have enough left for an occas-
ional side trip TO some winter resort.
1t viii be but few months until
the winter is over and the passing of
cold weather will witness an impetus
in water power building that will be
a revelation in construction work TO
the people OF Keokuk ard this section.
II is expected that in the early spring
two thousand men will be working on
fhe Keokuk and Hamilton dam It will
be sight good for eyes that have
been commercially III for several days.
The government engineers are
not going to take any chances on low
water next summer, and in places
where there is danger are getting
busy TO remove tn distractions if
possible. Just below the city Of Dav-
export. where the Helen Blair was
wrecked last summer, a rocky ledge
was found in the river. Soundings are
being taken through the ice at this
spot and al other places. and these
distractions viii be dynamited early
in the spring. 4 great deal OF I'M
+ proTement work will be done this
season between Davenport and Buff
falo, ten miles down the river 1t is
the intention TO create six-foot
channel along this stretch. as rapidly
as possible. as part of the general
scheme of waterway Improvement
The municipal Improvement move
+ seems to have struck this section OF
the country all at once, the little bug
Of prosperity. get up and do things
being omnipresent just now. Keokuk
I is lined up, big and strong, Daven
T port. Muscatine. Burlington. Hannibal
and Fort Madison are pulling the
+ right strings and giving the boom
tone to the middle west.
-Galesburg has been in darkness
/ for two weeks because of the Inability