The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-23
CITY NEWS.
Buy harness at Sherwood's.


Hannibal. Mo-, is TO have. new
button works, mandatory landed
BY the commercial organization OF
that city.
The regular monthly meeting of
the school board will be held Friday
evening.
Fresh hainut, white fish. Spanish
mackerel. red snapper ss,d smeits at
Jos. Haubert's. 7os Main.
Just received fifty more boxes of;
those fine naval oranges. While they
last soc peck. Weisman's, 7o7 Main.
Sherwood is selling blankets and
lap robes at cost
Everyone planning to attend the
/ Company L military BAH IS requested
/ to secure tickets in advance so that
the committee in charge OF supper will
know how many to prepare for. Tick
/ cts are on sale at Ayres. Renaudss
|. and LeBron's.
Merchants who have March sale
| announcements 10 make should not
/ fail to get space In next Sunday morn
ing's Gate City. It will be an oppor-
tunity to tell not only all the people
in Keokuk of your bargains but the
near Keokuk as well.
Tickets for Company LIS military
ball are on sale at Ayres', Renauds
/ and LeBron's jewelry stores.
Hurley Moore. one of the night
%" switching force is laid up at his
home with illness. Several of the To-
cal yard fore are i'll at the present
! time with grippe and other maladies.
Being sick seems to be the popular
/ diversions of many throughout the
city at the present time and this sea-
son has been an extra marked one in
the matter of colds, aches and all
forms of illness.
Burlington Gazette: In the au-
dience at the Garrick this morning to
hear the address of Engineer Hugh
I Cooper on the Keokuk dam project
was Hon. Thomas Hedge, who as con-
i gresham from this district was di-
rectly responsible for the successful
passage of the measure in the house
CT representatives.
City and towns are given the atl-
! thority to levy a special tax, not to
exceed five mills, to create fund
whereby river fronts are to be beau
tilted, in bill introduced in the SEN
/ ate yesterday by Senator Francis.
His measure provides that upon pc
| tition of one-fourth of the voters OF
the city or town, the city council may
order the special levy made. The
fund thus created Is to be used for
any scheme to beauty river or lake
fronts or to improve the streams.
/ Paper for Henrietta Crossman in
"Anti-Matrimony' has been lost and
Manager Worley was busy today tele-
phoning to different managers trying
| to get trace of the lost shipment so
1 he could give the usual billboard ad-
vertising. II no paper is received it
would make no difference with the
performance as Henrietta Crossman
is one of the best, favorite in Keo-
kuk. and should and no doubt will re-
ceive a packed house.
Have harness repaired at Sher.
woods.
d. II. Lee ifIc anu vie vi OpO-
kane, Wash. have returned to the
west after two months visit with
relatives and friends Burke, son
of the late A. J. LeFaivre, left here
about twenty years ago, mere boy,
to try his fortune in the Big Bend
wheat country with its broad expanse
of unbroken land. Against many odds,
4 he has made good, however, In the
| venture. and returned to look again
upon the scenes of his youth. While
he found many unchanged places, let
the city of his birth has greatly i'm
proved in many respects, and SO great
ly impressed was he with Keokuk's
is-to-be that he thinks strongly OF
returning in the future and taking up
/ permanent residence here.
Fresh cucumbers at Immegart's.
The Nauvoo Rustler is Of the opin-
ion that with proper effort on the part
of the people the c., B. and @. r. R.
/ can be induced to build line of their
railway into the old Mormon town.
Concerning the matter it says: A. G.
/ Maxwell of Keokuk, general agent for
the Burlington road, called on the
Rustler while in the city last Tues
day. In speaking OF the matter OF
railroad connections with Nauvoo, and
the matter Of the @. building line
into Nauyoo, Mr.. Maxwell stated that
if the business men here could show
that the G. was not getting its just
share of patronage from the city and
that some other route is getting It,
q and that a road into the town would
/ pay, the @. would undoubtedly build
into Nauvoo in the very near future.
i The new Hotel Burlington is q
beauty. 1t is the finest in the state
. SO many who have good knowledge
/ OF Iowa hotels, claim. 1t certainly is
fine demonstration of what team
work can do for a community The
business and financial interests OF
Burlington banded themselves to
4 gether and built 100000 structure
r. l. ara monument not only tn the