The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-13
CITY NEWS.

/ directors Office tomorrow evening at
As O'Clock for the purpose of elect
( ing track team captain. A dual
meet with Mt. Pleasant will be held
in Mt Pleasant Friday evening.
The church league will open its
schedule Wednesday evening at S:45
o'clock. The teams meeting on the
opening night are the Presbyterians
and Methodists, old time rivals. No
admission will be charged and ar
rangements will be made to accom-
modate the large crowd
The employed boys basket ball
league of the Y NJ. C. A was closed
Saturday evening. the Blacks winning.
A banquet for this class will be given
at 6 o'clock Thursday evening, at
which time plans for an indoor base
ball league for the class will be dis
cussed Interest in this sport is keen
among members of this class.
The basket ball season at the Y.
M. G. A. has closed. Saturday the
boys league was concluded, when the
deciding game was played, the Pur-
pies winning the pennant, with five
victories and one defeat. The junior
gym class banquet will be given Tues
day evening at o'clock An indoor
baseball league will be organized.
See the new buggies at Sher-
woods.
Many Keokukians took advantage
of the pleasant afternoon to view the
water power operations from the river
bluff on the Iowa side. The work on
the swinging bridge was completed
yesterday and river traffic will not be
delayed minute by the water power
people. The work on the Iowa side is
/ broadening very rapidly
An automobile accident was bare
ly averted at the corner of Third and
Main streets early this morning when
two drivers met at the Curtis monr-
ment. Brice Pease was driving
water power automobile across Main
on Third, going north, and Collier
Raber was plotting George We;s-
mann's machine down Main. The
former bumped the monument in
escaping crash and some damage
was done the front of the machine
r. A. Waite, Jr., boys secretary
of the international committee of the
Young Mems Christian Association,
| will be in Keokuk Saturday to remain
three days in connection with the
boys work. Mr. Waite is conceded to
be the foremost worker among boys
in America and is commonly called
the Big Boy Leonard Paulson,
state secretary for boys work, will
accompany Mr. Waite. They are max
ing three weeks tour of the state.
and will end their schedule in Keokuk.
While descending the steps near
the tank of the water power company
/ at Second and Futon about o'clock
| Sunday afternoon. Miss Florence
! Dimond of 1904 High street slipped
and fell forward. being precipitated
thirty feet head-long down the flight
Her nose was broken by the fall and
she was taken to nearby residence
and later TO physicians office where
the injury was attended She is now
getting along all right. although the
mishap was a painful one for Miss
| Dimond.
Fort Madison has but one tele-
phone system now-that of the Bell
company. The transfer was made
Saturday and of it the Fort Madison
Democrat says: The Mississippi Val
ley Telephone company's office fix
lures were dismantled today and re-
moved to the Bell offices. This com
pletes the consolidation of the two
local phone systems and hereafter
the Iowa telephones will be the only
ones in use in this city The work Of
transferring the wires of the Hubing-
er company has been occupying the
time of large force for several
weeks past. The consolidation will re-
quire another telephone board at the
Bell office, where other additions and
Improvements are contemplated dur
ing the year.
Judge Henry Bank adjourned the
January term of the district court in
Fort Madison Saturday. He spent
| Sunday at his home here and went to
Mt. Pleasant today to open court
OF the term there the Democrat says:
The January terms of court here at
Fort Madison are the longest terms
for this city on the calendar. having
forty-six days of actual court. and Of
course a great amount of business has
been transacted. On the Law and
chancery docket &C cases were dis
posed of, three of them being tried by
jury. On the probate docket 54
cases We're disposed of. none of which
were contested, but which necessitat-
ed a great amount of record work.
During this term fourteen wills were
probated and executors appoined: also
eighteen administrators and sixteen
guardians took their oath of office.