The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-16
CITY NEWS.
Is easter Sunday.

see our line oil delivery wagons
and buggies. Sherwood
Are you looking for an exchange
of any kind? Read the want column
Give Bucks starch trial. You'll
like it. Two pennies in each 1oc pack
age.
Easter marks the end OF Lent and
this year the beginning of the base
bali season in Keokuk
Young men who want lively. snap
Ply styles will find Ewers-McC arthy
Cos. stock full OF them.
Rabbits are credited with laying
colored Easter eggs. but If Easter eggs
are placed In an incubator they won't
hatch out bunnies
Mrs. X. Simmonds, chiropodist,
has removed from 52s N. Fifth to sos
N. Third st. Telephone 312 Black.
The steamer Dubuque is due to
arrive here this evening at o'clock
from ST. Louis. The boat will lie here
all night and return south tomorrow
morning at six o'clock.
-Kollmyer & Talbot will arrange
your power transmission.
The fire department made a run
to Second and Fulton streets shortly
before 200 o'clock yesterday after
noon. Some burning weeds had
caused some excited resident to
turn In an alarm. The services Of the
department were not used
Let Leming do your. wall paper
inc opd poip%{Du 0nd Nolp
Al. Waugh viii make trip to
Lancaster, Mo-. this evening to con-
fer with w. P. Hall and purchase
some circus equipment. Mr. Waugh
expects to get started with his wild
west show about the first of June and
Mr.. Hall has equipment that Mr..
Waugh can use to good advantage in
his shows.
In the last issue of The World
Today an illustrated article about the
keokuk dam appears. 1t is from the
pen of Frank G.. Moorhead. and is ar
ranged in its most interesting form.
The publicity received is through the
efforts of the Keokuk Commercial
Club
-Kollmyer & Talbot will take care Of
your gasoline and steam engine troub-
les.
IF. E. v. Crimmins, of this city,
now located at Houston, Texas, where
he has the responsible position of
cashier for the Union Central Life
| Insurance Co., is Interested and pleas
ed over the prospects of the old home
town and will keep advised of the
progress of events here. Frank is de-
lighted with Houston and predicts a
great advancement for that city and
the southwest.
Blue fame Perfection oil cook
stove with or without cabinets at
Smith Hardware Co.
Beautiful Easter music will ring
from the choir lofts of many of the
Protestant and Catholic churches OF
the city this morning and evening In
the church announcements today the
programs OF several special musical
services appear and wo-shipers and
church attendants will have an oppor-
tunity of hearing both Instrumental
and vocal tidings of the glad Easter
time in song.
Big new line harness at Sher-
woods, 703 Main.
Molly" the little mascot, black
and white kitten of the police officers.
has either lost herself, strayed or
been stolen. There was general de-
preston in police camp last night be
cause o. the sudden disappearance
of the feline and II is hoped that any
one seeing her will be kind enough
10 return the pet The way to tell
Molly, IL in doubt, is to make a circle
of the arms by claspifig the two hands
together and then say. Jump, Molly,
jump If Molly jumps or if she
doesn't, return her any way and receive
gratified thanks Of the force
CO to Leniing for new wall pa
per patterns. 9o4 Main
anniversary OF the death of Abraham
Lincoln, who was shot in Ford's
theatre, Washington, D. c., early
! in the evening of the 14th of
April. When recalled to mind vester-
day number of the older citizens OF
keokuk spoke of the day of Lincoln's
death as one of the bluest in the his
tory of the country" "reminiscences
of the time when the Savior of his
Country was shot and the manner in
which the news was received in Keo-
kuk the next morning were related
! Every boy in the city on April 18th.
1865, was selling extras every few
minutes during the day and number
of these copies are still kept here as
momentos of that eventful happening.
The Gate City newspaper office. was
, then located at Second and Main
streets.