The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-21
CITY NEWS.

| Woods has sold to Charles CroWson
1913 acres of land near Sandusky.
Your Sunday dinner will be com
! plete with a choice roast of meat from
/ the market OF NJ. l. Hoffman.
The best shod people buy their
shoes of Miller. The Shoe Man.
The city of Keokuk today con.
veyed to the Water Power Company
q small tract of land near Prices
! Creek.
Good bicycle tires only $500 per
pair at Smith Hardware Co.
OF the Oldest settler In Lee
! county. the FIT. Madison Democrat
says: Washington Galland. who has
been in the ST. Elizabeth hospital for
treatment. has left that Institution.
much improved in health.
Two cottages on choice lot, north
side. will sell at price to net inves-
tor per cent. Address Invest
ment,' care Gate City office.
Ride in Sherwood buggy.
Buy dressed chicken or a roast
OF beef, veal, pork or lamb for your
Sunday dinner at Haubert's, 7O9 Main,
both phones.
The Ewers-McCarthy Co. store
shows the result of three years up-to-
date business methods.
There will be preaching in Mel
rose NJ. E. church next Sunday morn
ing by Professor C. G. Wallenius, D.
D., OF Theolog Seminary. Evanston,
Ill. Be sure to come and hear this
popular gentleman.
Preparations are being made at
the high school for graduation exer-
cises and closing of school in June.
Several of the clubs and associations
in the school have been having their
photographs taken this week for pub
/ LEGATION in the annual Comment and
for school exchange purposes.
| While John Shores, a Postal
Telegraph messenger, was riding
along on Fifth street between Main
and Blondeau, last night about 500
O'Clock, the carbide lamp on the head
OF his bicycle blew up, frightening the
rider for moment. Passersby who
heard the loud report of the lamp
thought possibly young Shores was
hurt but aside from the headlight of
the messengers bike" all else re-
manned unscathed
Ladies' brown velvet and black
satin pumps, $3.50 at Miller's.
Mrs. Angie Spicer, cook on up-
Per Mississippi river steamboats, for
a number of years. died in a Quincy
| hospital, after a lingering illness of
complication OF diseases. Mrs.
Spicer was well known among river
men and passengers She was at
one time cook on the oliver Ores
cent, and later went to the Keokuk,
| controlled by the Carnival City Pack
ct company. Last season she was
/ transferred to the cabins and had been
on the Wenona All the steamboat
office men, captains and others on the
| Carnival City and other packet boats
In upper river cities sent flowers as
tributes of esteem in which the de
ceased was held She was forty-seven
years of age and is survived by her
husband and three daughters.
&C. H. Benson has moved from
11o1 Fulton st. to 229 s. sevnth ST.
Mention was made yesterday OF
the appropriation by the board of
supervisors of sum not to exceed
5000 for an experimental farm for the
county. This agreement was reached
after discussion Of the warden's prop
osition by the board and Messrs. Joe
Fry and George Rogers. the latter
gentlemen representing the Lee Coun-
ty Farmers association. through
whose efforts the matter was brought.
A fifteen-acre patch on the state farm
is to be set aside for experimental
purposes. This land Is already plow-
ed and the corn experiments will be
conducted this season. The work will
be done by the convict labor and the
state farm machinery will be used,
thereby doing away with all expense
save that Of the transportation of the
extension department officials and
such special apparatus as may be
required for special experimental dem
onstration.
You have noticed the swell OK
fords your friends are wearing-they
come from Miller's.
This evening, In the chapel OF
Westminster church, Will be held the
annual meeting Of the Westminster
Brotherhood. supper to be served by
the sewing society ladies' at ZOO
o'clock. The principal feature Of the
after-supper program will be an ad.
dress on the relation of men to the
forward movements In the church of
today by laymen. Rev. C. c. McIntire
of Waterloo. will be the speaker Mr.
McIntire was recently pastor of one
of the churches OF Salt Lake City, but
is now engaged in forwarding the
laymen's movement in the Presbyter-
ian churches OF Iowa, and Is meeting
with hearty reception by the men to
whom he goes with his message. All
the men of the Westminster congre
cation whether memhers of fhp