The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-04
CITY NEWS.

| Maclaren's nippy cheese. Imme-
CART.
Bridget Grant has been appointed
guardian of William Henry Grant, a
minor child.
-Ewers- Mccarthy Co.'S clothes
have assumed leading position in
Keokuk
! The following Nauvoo item OF
local interest appears in this weeks
Independent: Miss Leila Haggett OF
this city will graduate from the Keo-
kuk high school in June.
The steamer Keokuk has fitted
into the daily run between here and
1 Quincy and carrying south freight and
passenger business, while the Black
Hawk Is running between this city
and Burlington. River business has
not picked up to any great extent up
to the present time and Sunday trips
will not be made by either OF the
local packets until warmer weather
permits.
Regular meeting of Keokuk
lodge No. LOG, B. T. O. E.. tonight at
Elks hall, Sixth and Main street
| Visiting Elks invited. Initiation
Installation of officers.
John Cownie, former member OF
the state board Of control, was In
Keokuk today. Mr.. Cownie, 1t will be
remembered was charged with mis-
conduct by Governor Carroll upon his
investigation of state institution mis-
conduct The arrest of the governor
and indictment by the grand jury OF
the head state official In the
libel suit brought by Cownie, are
newspaper reports still fresh in the
minds Of many Mr.. Cownie who is
making his home in South America,
merely stopped off here for short
time
Regular meeting OF Puckechetuck
encampment No Z. l. O.. 0. F. at
Odd Fellows hall at o'clock tonight.
Visiting brethren fraternally invited
to attend.
I'm a circular boosting the Wau-
bonsie Trail, the association back of
the proposition says o. this city
which is to be the eastern end of the
projected road across Iowa: Keokuk
the busy city where the Father of
Waters is being harnessed, will be-
come the mecca Of thousands of cross
country tourists in few years. There
is where the second greatest engineer
ing project on the Western Hemis-
phere is now under way. We refer
| to the big dam now being erected
across the Mississippi river which
will supply power to st. Louis. Des
Mones, and hundreds OF smaller
towns in the states converging near
that point This big engineering
scheme will be worth days drive
in fast auto to anyone who admires
objects OF this kind.
Quincy Journal: The Keokuk
came In this morning on her regular
run, with good business A special
announcement was made this morning
/ of the Sunday service of the Blair
, line boat, which viii give the people
of Quincy and towns between the Gem
| City and Keokuk a chance to see the
| big dam at the latter city Beginning
| Saturday, the Keokuk will leave Quin
| CIV every Saturday afternoon at 300
o'clock and run up to Warsaw. Pas
sengers who are bound for Keokuk
will be sent on the trolley cars from
| Warsaw without additional charge
| The boat will then leave Warsaw and
return to Quincy, laying here ovel
night Every Sunday morning the
Keokuk will leave Quincy at O'Clock
for Keoknk. The day will be spent II
/ the latter city, and about 7 O'Clock
in the evening the boat will return tt
/ Quincy. where she will lay over al
night, leaving here Monday afternoon
at o'clock on her regular trip. Elk
cursion rates will prevail On these
Sunday trips, probably about fit,
cents for the round trip.
-Keosaqua Republican: Sunday
April 80, 1911. Mrs. Eliza McMannan
Rowley, second wife of the late Rev
l.. T. Rowley, the husband residing II
Keosauqua during the Civil war, a
which time he was presiding eldel
in the NJ. E. church, died of apoplex,
az Mt Pleasant, Iowa, aged 70 years
4 7 months and day. During her early
4 life she resided at Winchester in this
county, where her parents and Other
relatives lived, and during the Civil
war she was an army nurse, most Of
4 the time serving In what is known
ss the Estes House in Keokuk, which
wng used as an army hospital from
1862 to 1855. Her husband and her
self were well known in Van Burer
/ county by the residents here durins
the war time days. She was an aun
Of J. w. Rowley Of the Republican
Everybody liked Aunt Liza as she
was called by her acquaintance. Flu
neral services were held May !, II
charge OF Rev. Myers of the NJ. e
/ church, the burial being in the ole
1 Mt. Pleasant cemetery.