The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-13
CITY NEWS.

Lap robes and blankets go at
cost at Sherwoods.
Robert Queisner has conveyed to
Water Power Co. ia acres in Jeffer-
son township.
The banks are closed today in OBJ
servance OF Lincoln's birthday, Sun
day the 18th.
I'm consideration of $3.50 Henry
Cole has conveyed to ]. s. Knobs,
40 acres in Jefferson township.
Miss Grace McManus is i'll with
tonsilitis and Master Tommy McManus
is sick with pneumonia at their home,
corner Morgan and Tenth streets.
Sherwood for harness repairs.
VIM. West has given to the Water
Power Co. an option on certain de-
scribed land near the second lock I'M
ill March /, the price to be paid be-
ing 1926.
| "Ottumwa's Ways Are Ways That
Pay" Is the slogan for the city of Ut
tumwa, according to the decision by
the judges in the newspaper slogan
1 contest conducted by the Courier.
i ID. W. Haggerty has conveyed to
Frank ]. Ewers, the front 65 feet of
lots IL and IL as shown by Otley and
Stripes maps and the front IS feet OF
lots / and as shown by Dulls map,
In block 81.
The last will Of David w. Nc
Eroy was opened and read in the
district court clerks office today
/ Mary B. McElroy, wife. is named as
i sole beneficiary and is appointed ex
) ecutrix. John A. McElroy, son. and
: Henry B. Collision, son-in-law, are
named as executors.
n This week at ST. Louis, a confer
4 cnce between Captain John Streckfus
d of the Carnival City Packet Co.. ane
4 the officials of the Diamond 10 line
e which has been purchased by thu
e Streckfus steamboat line, will b.
e held. A st. Louis paper this morn
ing states that work of remodellin.
i and repairing the Diamond 10 lin
, steamers will commence immediately
: III. D. Judson, chief engineer o
! the c., B. & @. railroad, with head
+ quarters in St Louis, arrived in tn
!. city today with three other st. Loui
: engineer corps men to look after wir
? matters of interest to the 60 in thi
!. city. Those accompanying Enginee
). Judson were: NJ. H. Hills, R. N
: Baker and NJ. l. Lippett
! Quite number of Quincy bus
= ness men were in the city today, tai
!, ing observations Of the power works
= Daily, groups OF men from variou
: cities in this vicinity and from afal
!. are visiting the city In a bushes
: capacity or merely to take an II
4 ventory of what is being done on dar
construction.
There is new breed OF cats !
Keokuk Perhaps the singular nun
= Der would apply better and "cat
Z without the IS" would explain NOR
: clearly. Officer Tom Freeman's CT
y has been stolen and in explaining
y a group the other day about his Ma
- tese puss, the name Of his particuls
u breed of meow four-legger. Office
"A Freeman said it was "bob-ta
:. SINCE"
: I'm the schools this afternoo
~ songs and verse. appropriate to tt
IS natal day of Abraham Lincoln wei
~ sung and spoken by the scholar
>. Several programs were given last Fl
OF day afternoon A week from Wedne
r day, George Washington entertai
u ments will be the order of sociabili
u for the scholars, their parents al
e. teachers.
er lin spite of unfavorable wealth,
60 a large number visited the water POI
es er sites Sunday and this afternoo
IN Arrangements ere being made to pus
1T the work much more rapidly and mig
ne shifts are expected to be workir
when the plant is in full operate
lis early in the spring.
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