The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-14
CITY NEWS.

-opecldt SATURDAY sale OF neck
wear at Miss Fanning's.
JOB Kirkendall has brought suit
in the district court against !. w
Kirkendall for $500 on two promissory
notes.
One. two and three hole blue flame
oil stoves at Smith Hardware Co.
County Attorney Theodore A.
Craig has been in Fort Madison this
week assisting in work before the
grand jury. The body finished it's
session in few days, having little
to do. Attorney Craig is now home
Let Markley send you choice
roast for Easter Sunday dinner
-Puckechetuck Lodge NO. AZ meers
every Friday night at s o'clock. L. E.
Witch. N. G.. SEQ. Immegart. Sec
rotary. All members requested to be
present. Business of Importance.
Young men who want lively snap
py styles will find Ewers- Nc arthy
Cos. stock full Of them.
The suit which is to be filed for
the May term of the district court
against the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy, for DANA ges resulting to
Steve Brunt Tuesday. original notice
in which was served yesterday, will
be for $4,000, according to informa-
ton gained from attorneys today
Among the allegations set out in the
petition will be that the defendant
company had no right to switch above
the south line of Main street as pro-
vided for in the city ordinances.
-Ewers-McCarthy Co., the hat store.
-Chas. Mulch of Nauvoo. owner OF
the ferry. City of Nauvoo, was bust
ness caller in Keokuk today. Mr..
Mulch has applied for license to the
Nauyoo city council to operate his
ferry boat between Nauvoo and Mont
rose. The council has the matter
under consideration, and will no
doubt grant his request, as 1t Is the
only steam ferry operating between
the two towns.
Easter Market - Westminster
Chapel, Saturday afternoon, to g.
"A large number of extra copies
of The Gate City of last Monday even
ing containing an illustrated write up
OF the Keokuk and Hamilton water
power dam have been sold and sent to
different parts of the country. A
limited number of copies are still
available. Be sure and send copy
to your far away or nearby friends.
It's a good way to advertise Keokuk.
There will be services at the Swe-
dish Lutheran church this evening at
$500 o'clock. All are welcome
The New York Dramatic News
says of the Keokuk Grand opera
house, its manager and the season
just closed: Keokuk-Grand opera
house e.. c. Worley, manager). The
Grand closed the most successful
season for several years last week, it
being record breaker in several re-
spects. Fifty-three attractions with 10
sell outs. Manager l.. c.. Worley, of
Peoria. deserves well earned praise
and great credit for the fairness with
which he treated his house patrons
and for the high grade attractions
brought here.
TWENTY-FIVE second hand organs
for sale. IS to s35. W. w. Kimball
company, 3o7 Main
The novel sight of seeing a piano
pulled three stories high and into the
new Owl lodge building. was witness
ed by a dozen persons yesterday after
noon at 8 O'Clock, when the instrument
of that order was lifted by the block
and tackle method nearly thirty feet
in the air, dangling as it was pulled
up.
Rugs. aprons and bags at the
Easter sale and market, Congregations
al Chapel, Saturday afternoon.
The Gate City mentioned previous
ly the petition for single court house
to be built at West Point. 1t was
made to the board of supervisors of
Lee county and the text is Of interest.
1t follows: The citizens of West
Point and vicinity will pay to the
treasurer of Lee county the sum of
eighty thousand fsS0,000) dollars to
oaNl 1NdlitS Lie so@liiC " oC dG~u III
the purpose of building a new court
house, providing that the legislature,
now In session at Des Moines, Will
determine that there shall be but one
county seat in said county, and that
said county seat shall be located at
West Point, in said county and state:
one-half of said amount, namely, forty
thousand (s40,000) dollars shall be
due and hereby is made payable when
the location of said county seat has
been legally determined as above, and
the remaining forty thousand (s400 00)
dollars shall become due as soon as
the said court house is completed and
the same accepted by the committee
selected for that purpose. Witness
our hands this 4th day OF April, A. D.,
1911.
Ewers- Mccarthy Cos. spring
styles of shirts, neckwear and hosiery
are very effective.