The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-01-24
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red to the Water Power Company lot
/ 2. Galland.
! &C. F. Mcfarland was in Cedar
Rapids yesterday attending the quar-
I terly meeting of the Eastern Iowa
Paper Dealers association.
Adj. Gen. Guy Z. l. gan of the
/ Iowa National Guard, yesterday mus
! tered in company of the guard at
Fort Dodge. The company is to be
/ known as Company F. Fifty-sixth regi-
ment. Capt. S. B. Philpott will be put
| in charge.
Regular meeting Morning Star
] lodge, No. 5, Knights of Pythias to-
| night at 500 O'Clock at Castle hall.
Fifth and Blondeau. Visiting Knights
! invited. Special business. Make ex-
ira effort to be present. c. Bruce
/ Lake C.. G.
-Sherwood's is the place to trade
when you want harness, lap robes and
/ blankets.
/ Seventeen years in the Fort
Madison penitentiary is the penalty
| Stirling Kitchen of Des Moiens must
| pay for the murder Of Verne WILDER,
an east side pool hall owner. The negro
killed WILDER there by striking him
over the head with billiard cue after
the two had quarreled.
Miss Julia Foley received tele-
gram yesterday afternoon from Kan
sas City bearing news of the death
/ of Mrs. Hannah Ryan, who passed
away there yesterday. The body will
arrive here tonight for burial and be
taken to the home of Mrs Hannah
Foley, TIC South Sixth street.
/ Otto Nelson of Revere, Mo-. was
in the city yesterday greeting old
friends whom he met while resident
of Keokuk from the High school of
which he is a graduate. He has just
returned from Alaska where he has
been employed as an engineer with
the Guggenheim syndicate. His broth
er. Malcolm, has been with him for
the past two years, assisting with the
engineering corps. Otto left Keokuk
+ seven years ago. after graduating from
the High school.
Every merchant, every manufac-
turer, every business man is anxious
to do better In 1911 than ever be-
fore. He wants to break all records
this year and the way to do it is to
advertise. Get it down to a system.
Watch it like you do your sales. Elk
pertinent until you have the right
/ plan and when you get it, the rest is
easy. You will not only get your
share and more of it, but you will
create new business.
Yesterday the executive commit
tee of the Iowa State Federation of
Labor began its work of deciding
what legislation will be asked for the
llaboring men of the state in the gen.
eral assembly. The session OF the
committee began in Des Moines Sun
day and since tnat time it has been
busy canvassing the vote on the
proposition of changing the manner Of
selecting the officers of the fedora
ton.
Visitors to the Illinois side where
| the Keokuk and Hamilton Water Pow
err Co. are building the big dam from
/ that side to connect with the Iowa
4 side are surprised at the amount of
material and number of buildings and
general progress that is being made.
/ The construction scene is one OF ac-
/ tivity and denotes vigor in every fiber.
I An equal energy is being distributed
I by the working force on the Iowa side
and when 1900 TO 1000 men are at
+ work this summer. as they will be.
the mean business" sign viii be ap-
parent.
/ Bert Daley this morning received
another fine man-hunter, blood hound,
BY express from Illinois. A fine speci-
men of female trailer was received by
Mr.. Daley. who now has eight of the
animals, whose services have been
required time and again by the police
department here and elsewhere in
4 trailing criminals. The latest dog
came from Dr. Knox at Lbertyyille,
Ill. and the price paid for it was
I 800. The fine bred animal is an off
spring Of Magician, the father and
Kilce' the mother, two of DR.. Knox's
dogs. Fat and sleek. the newest fe.
male hunter of the Daily octet of
dogs. Will need thinning down and viii
be used for trailing purposes the
same as the others of the flock. The
latest animal TO arrive attracted much
attention as It was being led ont Main
street this morning By the owner
The 1911 annual meeting of the
Iowa State Drainage association will
be held in Mason City February Il
and Is. Men who are thoroughly
posted on drainage subjects will speak
The program will be more varied and
more interesting this year than thai
OF any former meeting. Among tbs
prominent speakers are: Samuel H
Lea, state engineer, Pierre, S. D.; ]
A. Harmon, Peoria, III; C. W Boyn
ton, Chicago: James A. King, Charles
City; Hon w Fl. KfIpack, Council
Bluffs: Hon. ]. II Blake, Webster
City; Prof A Margton, College Of En-
gineering, Ameg; and Hon. John Ham
mill, Britt: and other weiIknowr