The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-14
CITY NEWS.
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lodge, No. 116, l. o. 0. F., tonight ct
7:30 o'clock. Visiting brethren cor
daily invited.
-Keokuk Camp M. w. A. No 622
will hold its regular meeting tonight
/ at Woodman hall. All members are
requested to be present.
Graduation week over, number
of the boys of the class have found
employment and have entered upon
their several fields of endeavor.
Many have resolved and expressed
/ themselves of the opinion that safe
and sane Fourth of July is the better
way after all. Not three weeks re
main before independence Day
Mrs. Mary Downey, living between
B and C on Williams street, suffered
paralytic stroke last Friday Rela-
tives were notified of Mrs. Downey's
! condition, though she is reported i'm
proved now
! The commencement exercises of
st. Peters high school will be held in
! st. Peters Catholic church this even
4 ing. 1t will be the first time that
such exercises have.ever been held in
a church in Keokuk and the custom
is distinctly new here
j w. Steiger, who has been
housed up at home for several weeks,
following serious attack, was able to
be out last evening for an automobile
ride with friends and was kept busy
greeting friends on the streets who
were glad to see him out again.
Rev. S. S. Murphy. who was pas
! tor of the First M. E. church at the
corner of Ninth and Bank streets,
| thirty-seven years ago, renewed ac-
quaintances with many of his old time
Keokuk friends while here Sunday and
Monday. Rev Murphy now is making
his home in Kansas.
Joseph Waldorf has been charged
with embezzlement by balee in the
court of Justice John Leindecker. His
trial has been set for Thursday morn
ing at 10 o'clock. The information
against Waldorf was filed by James
kizer. According to the story VALID
orff borrowed a violin and pawned it
at second hand store on upper Main
street
John A. Dunlap, cashier of the
Keokuk National bank, leaves this
evening for Mason City. where he will
attend the state bankers convention.
Mr.. Dunlap does not say that he will
bring the convention to Keokuk in
1912 but promises to make an effort
! Ia hjp cot
soon as Keokuk can accommodate 1t.
About 1900 usually attend the con
ventions.
This is Flag Day The 134th an.
niyersary of the act of congress which
approved the stars and stripes as the
national flag of the United States, is
the cause for observing June IA as
Flag Day In but few places were
flags fioated from Keokuk buildings
and many were not aware of the fact
that this is the day for honoring the
birth anniversary OF Old Glory.
I'm another column of this paper
appears the professional card of DR.
H. Raindge, osteopathic physician, a
graduate of the American School of
Osteopathy, under the founder, DR.. A.
I. STILL of Kirksville, Missouri The
, doctor and his wife have removed
from Kirksville and will make this
, city their home in the future. His of
fee is at 7161s Main street
While Main street merchants are
, painting up their building fronts and
remodeling their store interiors into
modern establishments, citizens in the
| residence district are not slow in do
, ing likewise in repairing, adding to
| their homes and building new ones
All over the city new houses begun
when the first warm weather came
are nearing completion and some fine
and model residences are taking their
places among the comfortable dwell
ings of the city.
Harem skirt bathing suits will be
unrestricted at the Iowa great lakes
, this summer Sheriff Fred Jones at
Spirit Lake, to whom the question has
!, been propounded from several quar-
tiers, says he will not undertake to
pass upon the propriety of feminine
attire in this age of hobble skirts
harem skirts, etc, and will prevent nc
woman despite the particular cut OF
her bathing suit, from enjoying the
bathing in the lakes. II don't know
/ much about these harem Skirts said
r the sheriff when asked if he would
prevent them ''All bathing suits look
good deal the same to me when
: they are wet
, AT the seventy-ninth convention
OF the University of Chicago, held yes
( terday morning, Miss Ora Belle Cole
of Keokuk, was awarded scholar
, ship in the senior college for excel
) lence in history The Bachelors de
gree was conferred with honors upon
Miss Garnet Emma Trott Miss
Trott also received honors for exec
lence in the following particular de
partments of the senior colleges
Philosophy, Latin and German Miss
Trott takes her bachelors degree in
the college of philosophy. Miss Ora
Belle Cole and Mr. Frederic cha hor