The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-07
CITY NEWS.


Avoid the rush Get baseball
tickets at Wards cigar store.
See us about guttering and spout
ing, furnace work and metal ceilings.
Our prices are right. Settler & Cherry
{ Co.
Reliable shoe repair work done
quick at Karle's, 814 Main.
Special meeting Order Of Owls,
Sunday. May Z, at 2:3O p. m. All
members are requested to be present.
BY order of worthy president.
New line Of velvet pumps and OK
fords. Prices to please. Huiskamp's
Regular meeting OF Keokuk lodge
No IS, Il o. O. F.. Monday night at
7::3O O'clock. Visiting brethren fra
ternally invited Work in first degree,
Full attendance wanted.
See Jennings new line wall paper,
9O4 Main street.
Remember we do all kinds Of tin
work at the lowest eprices and have
none but skilled mechanics. Settler &
Cherry Co.
y
thy Co.'s label is guaranteed.
Masonic: regular meeting Hardin
lodge, No. 80, A. F. and A. M. Monday
evening, 8 o'clock. Visiting brothers
fraternally invited to attend BY Or
der OF w. NJ, C. NJ. vogler, secretary.
Woodman dance Monday night.
All rights reserved a.
The Royal Neighbor convention at
Denver. Col, closed yesterday. Mrs.
Jos. w. Steiger, the local delegate,
will be home some time this week.
Miller home, Twelfth and Des
Moines, for SALE See Miller, GIG Main.
Michael Allen has filed damage
suit against the e. l. Dupont de
Nemours Co., for $1,999.s9 charging
the company with the blame Of an ac-
cident he was in while working at
the powder plant at Mooar on April
81, 1909, in which he lost an eye.
Keep pace with the styles by
watching Ewers-McCarthy Co.'S win
dow display.
AT the last meeting of the Eagles
Aerie No. $50, the following were.
selected as delegates to the conven-
ton which will be held in Des Moines
on June 6, and s.: Geo.J. d. Salzer,
Chas. A. Noakes, Frank Moeller, and
Geo. Smith.
ALI kinds OF machines repaired by
Kollmyer & Talbot, $40 Bank st.
The Mills Ellsworth Co. closed
Cofurdo1y of<orpo<,r r1,,r{rr <h< ho,~ -
the funeral OF William Mills, who
was buried at Portageville, Mo. Mr..
Mills was the founder of this com.
pany and his death occurred at Cairo,
H., as before mentioned in this paper.
Buggies selling at low prices at
Sherwood's.
At the Des Moines river bridge,
water power activity is very lively.
From this location sand is being
pumped upon the banks and thence
loaded into cars and hauled to tho
illinois shore. A large force OF men
/ located at that point.
| See our $3.50 two-strap pump, in
all feathers. Huiskamp & Son.
Keokuk is indeed fortunate in get
| ting the water power and the chance
to identify Stone & Webster with the
commercial life Of the city An up
to-date electric light plant and street
car service are certainly needed.
Don't fail to vote for the franchise
May 25.
/ For shafting, pulleys and gearing
/ see Kollmyer & Talbot, $40 Bank st.
People who live in glass houses
should not go away from home and al
low bonfires to be built back OF the
house so that the light shines through
the windows and make people believe
the house Is on fire. Such thing oc-
Cured Friday night and caused an
alarm to be turned in from Seven
teenth and Carroll streets The de-
partment made the long run for
nothing.
Nothing new is offered by the
grocers in the way of new fruits or
vegetables, but the dealers have some
interesting news in the way of better
things and lower prices to give out.
Local gardeners have not been able
to bring much to town as yet owing
to the cool spring which retarded
everything. A week or two Of warm
weather will make big change and
then everything will be plentiful.
Strawberry shipments are now coming
| regularly from the Arkansas fields. To.
matoes are still scarce. During the
past week or two, the price has adj
yanced steadily until now it Is $1.25 a
crate. The retail price Of choice stock
remains at fifteen cents pound, but
It will not be long before the supply
will be more plentiful and the price
more reasonable.