The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-02
CITY NEWS.

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the Benevolent Union will be held at
the home tomorrow morning at ten
O'Clock.
Regular meeting OF Keokuk
lodge No. JOG. B. p o. E., tonight at
Elks' hall. Sixth and Main street.
Visiting Elks invited.
Get permit to smoke and take
it home to show your wife. They will
be issued next week.
Charles Dickey, superintendent OF
Kingan & Company's packing plant at
Indiapolis. left Keokuk last night for
Rochester, Mimi, where he will I'M
dergo an operation OF quite serious
nature. He was accompanied by Mrs.
Dickey and his brother-in-law, B. l..
| Auwerda. Mr.. Dickey has been at
home resting for the past week.
Mrs. Frank M. Jones, who was
operated on at Rochester, Mimi, is re-
ported as getting along nicely.
High school students had half
holiday this morning, the flush pipes
in the building having become OBJ
structed and made the building an
unpleasant and unsanitary place for
session. Plumbers were called to
remedy the defects, and school was
resumed this afternoon. number of
the K. H. S. students formed them
/ selves into party and enjoyed roller
| skating during the morning hours.
| The Water Power Company gives
notice in this evenings issue that it
will be impossible to permit visitors
at the works on either side of the riv-
er after tomorrow, Feb. 3rd. This is a
wise precaution as those who are ac-
quainted with the construction Of the
! gigantic river wall and it's accompany
/ ing parts, know of the hazardous posi-
ton in which visitors would be placed
many times during the progress Of
the work. Thus the protective mani
festo is issued by the power dam Off
Gals to prevent any accidents what
ever by excluding the public from
the sections where work is rapidly ad-
vancing.
-Keokuk merchants who conduct
ed January clearing sales report fine
business. AS a general sale 1t ex-
ceeded anything held in former years,
and the merchants are we'll pleased.
A safe and dependable line of mer-
chandise was offered and the patrons
of the Keokuk merchants are also
pleased. Good goods can be obtained
of Keokuk's business men. And the
out-of-town or mail order customer is
making a mistake in more ways than
one when they fail to patronize the
local merchant.
! street next week.
Ten deaths occurred at the Sol
dier's Home in Quincy during the past
month. The list follows: William
Chesney. Co. /, 154th, Ill. Int. died
Jan. /, 1911. aged 70; William saun-
ders, Co. X, 152nd Ill. INIT. died Jan.
| 1, aged &C years; Norman Rayburn,
Co. H, 9th Ill. Init S. ~ W.. died Jan.
5, aged "A; Isaac Ballinger, Co. B.
96th Ohio Init, died Jan. s, aged n;
William N. SHIRLEY Co. K. 44th Ill.
| INIT. died jan s, aged S5: Joseph
| Kapple, Co. D., 152nd Ill INIT. died
Jan. 9, aged SO; Sylvester c. Gilbert
! Co. c., 18th ILL., Init, died Jan. Is,
aged "a; John Palmer. Co K, oath
/ Ill Unfit, died Jan. II, aged SO; Geo.
I DELPHI, Co. E., 135th Pa. INIT. died Jan.
l1S. aged II; James N. Davis, Co. D..
10th Ill. INIT. died Jan. 10, aged Sc;
died while on furlougb. reported dur
ing January 1911; Michael Wallach,
Co. F., 2Sth Ill Inf, died Dec. 81,
aged 10.
Don't neglect to get your permit
to smoke next week
Yesterday afternoon about two
o'clock. the ice on the rapids and in
the river here, went out, the warm
weather having broken up the solid
mass which has been there since the
oath of December, the day before
Christmas, when the biting wind
closed up the channel. Ice piled up
high on both banks of the river yes
terday afternoon and was a beautiful
and wierd sight for those who hap
pened to be along the shore when the
huge pieces and the little ones fell
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nonderously over each other and
crowded along with the rush of water.
The fact that breaking up of the
ice has occurred at this time. does not
necessarily mean that the channel
will not freeze up again this winter,
If cold weather stays. as February
and March are yet to pass. In former
years, the ice has gone out in mid
winter and the big stream frozen ov-
er again after the breaking up. No
DAMAGE from the piling-up of ice yes
terday has been heard OF and the
pieces floated quietly out without the
usual breaking up of fixtures, boat
houses and the like along the banks