The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-20
CITY NEWS.

Officer Jake Park Of the police
| force is taking weeks vacation.
Nearly all of Keokuk's young PEG.
pie attending colleges are at home
TO spend the summer vacation.
Buy groceries of Harry Samuels
/ 1900 Johnson. Bell phone 942 Black.
! -Keokuk has been chosen as the
place for holding the next convention
of the Epworth league of the Burling-
ton district.
i Have harness repaired at Sher-
woods
4 Tomorrow will be the longest day
of the year and the last day Of spring.
Summer is due to arrive on Thursday
morning.
H Rev. ]. w. Potter will speak at the
twenty-second annual convention OF
the Ottumwa district of the Epworth
League in session today
Sherwood has the largest stock
of harness, buggies and delivery wag-
ons in Keokuk. See them at 7oS
Main.
Members OF the Quincy auto club
will make an overland trip to keo-
kuk on next Sunday The visit is for
an outing and to inspect the dam.
Regular meeting Morning Star
NIGHT at 500 o'clock at Castle hall,
Fifth and Blondeau. Visiting Knights
invited. c. c. Koepf, c. c.
II A weed burner used in keeping up
the right of way along the Rock Is
land railroad tracks, passed through
here the other day. The device is
one rarely seen here and is good
invention for keeping the rank growth
of weeds along the tracks burnt out.
The awning in front of the Seibert
cigar store at Fourth and Main street,
caught fire this morning at s o'clock
and burned all off before any of the
shade could be saved. The fire de-
partment was called out and other
parts of the building protected from
the flames.
One of the largest tarantulas ever
seen here. was captured yesterday In
a Lagomarcine-Grupe Fruit company
car while employees of the place
were unloading bananas. The pois-
onous reptile is fine specimen OF
this harmful specie and is being kept
at the local office of the concern.
Tit Vermont Street M. E. Sunday
school of Quincy will come on their
annual excursion on the steamer w
w. and barge to Keokuk and return
next Wednesday, June 21st. The boat
will start from Quincy at $50. This
school has the reputation of taking the
largest and most successful excursion
every year that goes out of Quincy.
A special meeting OF Keokuk lodge
No. JOG of the Elks is to be held to-
morrow evening to take action regard
ing the death of Charles Johnson of
Montrose who was member Of the
local lodge. A delegation will probably
be selected to go to Montrose on
Thursday and attend the funeral
John NJ. Collins of Chicago, a
union man and at one time candidate
of the socialist party for mayor OF
Chicago and at another time for gov.
ernor of Illinois. will speak on social
ism at the county court House in Keo
kuk Thursday evening. The address
is especially for the workingman. Mr.
Collins is union man, member IN
good standing and former president
OF Unity lodge, No. 1874 international
Association of Machinist's union The
address will be free to the public and
ladies especially are invited.
A man who claimed his home is
in keokuk. and who gave his name az
F. L. Ulrich to the Quincy police, go
in trouble at Baldwin park, the bis
summer garden at that place Sunda!
afternoon, last A Quincy paper thi
morning says of the fracas: That the
management of Baldwin park Is de
termined that there shall be no NOR,
rowdyism there was proved by the
arrest Of two men who created dis
> turbance yesterday afternoon. One o
them. F. L. Ulrich. of Keokuk, strucl
with his cane the other. Albert Clip
pert, Of Quincy, and inflicted scalI
wound that bleo profusely. Ulrich wa
placed under arrest promptly by OF
fcer Riney, a special policeman ant
O deputy sheriff hired by the manage
: ment to preserve the peace, and ply
sician was summoned to dress Cir
perts head There would have beef
small chance 10 convict Gippert had h
not called two young women and
:, young man as witnesses for the de
| Tense, and they testified that he USE
bad language and defied the officer t
arrest him, and threatened to sue tn
management of Baldwin park, an
spoke roughly to the doctor after tn
latter had dressed his head. Uric
! wanted to go home last evening, an
as he was willing to enter plea
guilty to the charge Of peace disturb
ance, he was accommodated, and fin
IS that with costs amounted to 1928 wa
e imposed and paid Gippert was fine
the same amount