The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-01-03
CITY NEWS.

| stop al SHeIWOuu anu ho'S
your harness repaired.
Complaint from the ice and coal
men is of that gum shoe variety.
Attend A. O.. H. dance Friday even
ing at Schoutens hall. Tickets 5Oc
all rights reserved.
California and Florida advertise
ments seem to posses more attrac-
lions the past few days and not few
citizens are accommodating the warmer
climate feeling.
George Stillwell, formerly a Gate
City lino-o-type operator, is president
of the Quincy typographical union.
Cards were received today by
members of De La Sale council,
Knights of Columbus. announcing the
/ installation and duck supper to be
held this evening.
| Stop at Sherwood's for harness.
lap robes and autoist blankets, ToS
Main street.
The Keokuk merchants report a
very fine December business. One
merchant had an increase of more
than a thousand dollars.
If you shoe repair work is done
bv Karle, it's the best. Try him, S14
Main street.
See Mrs. Ella Wise for dressnak-
4 ing, 902 Main street
Regular melting OF the order OF
Owls tonight, at their hall, corner
Third and Johnson streets. Visiting
Owls invited. BY order Of Worry
4 Peident. Paul T. Pechstein. secre.
tary.
The mercury registered 10 degrees
below zero this morning on the Keo-
4 kuk and Hamilton bridge, which signi-
| flies that dear old winter is in. our
/ midst. Three laughs from the coal
man.
Telephones in the office OF the
plumbing shops were used quite fire.
quently today. Frozen water pipes
were numerous. Last night the ex
IRENE cold weather executed consld-
cradle damage.
Regular meeting Morning Star
lodge. No. 5, knights of Pythias to-
night at 500 O'Clock at Castle hall,
/ Fifth and Blondeau. Visiting Knights
1 invited. Special business. Make ex-
ira effort to be present G. Bruce
1 Lake C. c.
The cold weather that struck
Keokuk was not local. A cold wave
has swept the Mississippi valley and
this city is just getting her part OF
/ the general freeze. Telegraph reports
from all parts of the state show be-
low zero weather and considerable
suffering is reported
1 The Quincy post office EMPLOYING
force are going to have their Sundays
for rest and recreation. At least TINS
] is the way it looks at this time. with
the sentimen. practically unanimous
in favor of backing Postmaster WILCOX
in deciding to- close the post ONCE on
Sundays after the patrons OF the Of
fee. or decided majority of them,
have done so through referendum
vote that will be taken in very lew
DAYS by the city letter carriers me
movement was given pronounced
1 boost when quite a number OF the
largest patrons of the mails in that
city Informed the postmaster that they
would favor closing, and will SO vote.
The very largest patrons OF the office
1 have already Endorsed the move. me
churches of the city will give 1.-THE
movement a hearty Endorsement.
Quincy Herald: Miss Ethel Hough
of Keokuk passed away Saturday eve
ming at 5:45 O'Clock at st. Mary's hos
pital after short illness. Miss Hough
left her home in Keokuk week ago
/ intending to spend the holidays with
/ relatives at Augusta, Ill She had a
! bad cold when she left. but did not
consider her condition alarming. On
! the train she suffered a chill and
when she reached Quincy she was
quite i'll and it was thought best that
/ she he taken to the hospital rather
/ than brave the weather and the re-
mainder of her trip. Upon her ar
rival at the hospital. the physician
who was summoned, diagnosed her
illness as pneumonia, which refused
TO Weld to medical treatment and
4 Saturday evening she breathed her
last. Her father is also Ill and was
unable to come down from Keokuk
when it was realized that there was
no hope for her recovery and her
mother is at present in California
for her health. Her two sisters came
to Quincy and We're at her bedside,
one returning to Keokuk Saturday
evening and the other accompanying
the remains home yesterday morning
Burial will be in Keokuk