The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-23
CITY NEWS.

robes. 7o3 Main street.
Commencing December z, the La
Grange postoffice will have posta
savings bank.
New lap robes, blankets, harness
and supplies. Sherwood, 7o3 Mar
street
Read the advertising columns Of
The Gate City before you start on
your shopping tour.
/ John S. Ferguson has conveyed
to Gilmore Ferguson lots 10, II and
IL. block go, Kilbourne addition
Public dance, city hall, Hamilton
Ill, Friday night. Admission SOC.
Auspices firemen.
Use The Gate City as a trade
builder. Your advertisements will
talk to more people than any other
agency that can be provided.
Join the early shoppers club and
get your holiday presents before the
big rush starts. 1t will be easier for
You and will be easier for the clerks,
The railroad officials who visited
Keokuk yesterday were greatly i'm
pressed with the water power propo-
isition, its. progress and the future OF
this city.
The property conveyed by Cassie
1 Woodward to Amelia Reichman is 10.
Gated at Fourteenth and Morgan
streets instead of Fourteenth and
Des Moines.
Order now best Springfield coal
yet selling $325 FIVE ton lots. ]. z.
McManus. both phones. Office. Ninth
/ and Johnson.
The Loyal Order of Moose had a
social time last night in their lodge
rooms. A supper followed by a
smoker was enjoyed by the members
who were present.
The Woolworth & Co. 5 & 10c
Store announces its Christmas open
ing Friday, to o'clock. Agnes or
chestra.
The labor case of Davey James,
NEGRO, against j. Locke Warwick,
erstwhile hotel man, was settled and
dismissed. James claimed $3.50 from
Warwick for services performed for
him last summer
Our next, horse and mule auction
at Hamilton, Illinois, will be Nov. 25.
Will have 200 head of horses of all
classes. Bring in your horses and
mules and we will sell them for you
at good prices. B w. Elder.
Good progress is being made on
a 11yr hr1s1 t. -
the contractors that the building can
be enclosed before the severe winter
weather arrives so as to permit inter
Tor work during the cold weather.
Hear them sing at he Grand Sat
urday, see their comedy stunts.
Who? The Lyric Singers. Price CSC.
Warden Sanders has received in
formation that there is to be a trans
fer of eighteen or more convicts
from the state penitentiary at Fort
Madison to the reformatory institu-
ton at Anamosa. The penitentiar.
is crowded for room and the reforma-
tory has room to spare, notwith.
standing the fact that the count there
is still considerably above the 600
mark. The number discharged from
the reformatory during the past week
far exceeded the number coming in,
so that the count has been on the
downward road for several days, but
with the beginning of court in several
counties it is expected to increase
again. The transfer will be made
Iundor diroc+inp of tbo yorda~ 20 A.
penitentiary and the prisoners prob.
ably will have n car to themselves as
usually is the case in transferring
prisoners from one institution to an
OTHER.
-Finnan Haddie at immigrants.
After bringing a suit for s4os.
claimed to be due him for medica.
service, DR.. F. B. Dorsey of this city
has been made defendant in SIS. 90,
damage suit in Hannibal OF the
case the Hannibal Journal SAYS. A
very interesting case will be tried at
the next term of the United States
court. The plaintiff is DR.. F. B. Dor.
sey of Iowa and the defendants are
John T. Legg and his wife, Jennie
Iegg. The defendants live In VIII.
Jamestown, Lewis county, Mo-, and
the case began when DR.. Dorsey filed
suit against the defendants in the sum
|of s408, the amount which he claims
is due him for professional services.
The defendants at once filed a coun-
ter claim against the physician Tor
$4,000 damages. They claim that the
defendant, Jennie Legg, on the advice
of the physician, submitted to an
operation and that her life was there
by endangered and that she suffered
great bodily pain and anguish When
the counter claim was filed DR.. Dor.
sey had the case removed to the
United States court. He is represent
ed by 0. c. Clay, Wade, Dulbar &,
Davis, while the defendants are rep-
resented by Hilbert & Henderson and
Noah w Simpson.