The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-17
CITY NEWS.
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Advertisers can cover Keokuk
with one paper-The Gate City.
Call and see the big bed, side
board and twin tables before shipment
is made. Lamb & Bertsch.
Regular meeting of Keokuk lodge
No. 10. l. o. o. F.. Monday night at
1880 o'clock Visiting brethren fra
ternally invited.
Mrs. NJ. j. Reynolds of 324 Main
is now ready for ladies' tailoring and
dressmaking for the fall season. She
invites you to call.
The second call of the Upper
Mississippi River Improvement Asso-
citation has been issued by the COM
mittee in charge, from Quincy, under
date of September 14th, for the con-
vention which will be held at Alton.
| Ill.,, on October 25 and IS, this fall.
For the new hat, get you new
hat pin at Ayres'.
Let ]. C. McManus fill your coal
bins for the winter Office Ninth and
Johnson. Both phones.
| Attend race meet. stock display
and baseball tournament at Donnell-
son, Iowa, Sept. goth. The Burling-
ton will run special train leaving
Keokuk at 1890 p. M, arriving at
Donnellson at 1:45 p. M, returning,
leave Donnellson at $50 p. m.
The Bon Ton Millinery store has
opened In Hamilton, ILL., Millinery in
all the latest styles will be shown at
opening, Saturday, Sept %. You are
/ invited.
-Womankind filled the hat shops
of the city yesterday afternoon and
evening, inspecting and purchasing Of
fine stocks displayed by Keokuk's up
to-date milliners. Nearly all of the
millinery stores conducted their fall
openings Saturday.
See the hand bags and umbrellas
in Ayres window.
The daily circulation of The Daily
Gate City is over 5000 copies. 1t js
the largest circulation in the city OF
| Keokuk and outside of the city of
Keokuk of any Keokuk newspaper and
advertisers can inspect the circula-
4 ton records.
New buggies at greatly reduced
prices Sherwood's.
The death of Clinton Brown oc-
Cured in ST Louis on Friday and the
body has been brought to Keokuk for
burial this afternoon. The deceased is
survived by his wife who was for
merIy Miss Fannie Thurman of Keo-
kuk; a little daughter and brother,
Frank Brown, of ST. Louis.
Billy" Roth, the 20. switch en-
! gineer had one of his hands quite
badly hurt Friday morning when the
apron of coal chute fell on it. The
engineer saw the falling chute and
rather than jump from his place on
the coal tender, he chung to the side
.of the tender. He would probably
have been injured worse had he
| Jumped from his high position on a
trestle bridge.
"A horse pulling the butcher wag-
| on belonging to the Otto Pfaffe meat
market, ran away at Sixth and Bank
streets last night and narrowly miss
| ed being struck by street car from
the west end when the outfit reached
Fifth and Bank. The driver stayed on
! the seat until the animal made for a
telephone pole. In jumping the deliv-
/ eryman had one of his legs bruised.
4 The horse freed itself from the traces
4 and ran up toward the Wells school
where 1t was caught The wagon was
badly damaged.
II About a former Keokuk resident,
L Walter Clyde Jones. the Augusta, GlL)
Eagle says: Roy West is reasonably
fertile and usually meets all campaign
developments promptly, and now that
we have had the Walter Clyde Jones
I excelsior banner scorching over the
state from speed limit automobile,
look out for flying machines lowering
4 over every voting precinct. with
the Autograph of Deneen on the
planes, bearing the legend that Con-
stantine saw emblazoned upon the
fiery cross in the starry decked heay-
! ems