The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-31
CITY NEWS.

AT the present time Iowa Is dis
counting California weather
Sherman Williams Floorlac makes
old floors look like new. For sale by
Sbith Hdw Co.
If you intend to mail copy OF
this issue to friend 1t will take three
cents postage.
New fall dress goods now on dis
play. SOC to $1.50 per yard, at the
Central Store.
Rev. !. H. Angew will preach at
1919 Main St. this evening at 7:45
o'clock. All are welcome
If you want the best, use Sherman
Williams paint. For sale by Smith
Hdw. Co.
A marriage license was issued
late yesterday to Jesse R. Fowler and
Emma D. Groth of Moline.
For metal ceilings, skylights, gut
tering, spouting and all kinds of tin
work see US. Our prices the lowest.
Settler & Cherry Co.
This forty-eight page special edi-
ton will be sent into all parts of the
United States and thereby do its
share toward distributing water pow
er information.
Call Lenling for painting and wall
papering 904 Main street.
Mrs. Elizabeth Howard, the old
est woman in Nauvoo, and perhaps
the oldest in Hancock county, died at
her home in Nauvoo Sunday at the
age of ninety-nine years. She was i'll
only a week, taking sick the day
following her birthday.
The Gate City regrets that the
architects were unable to furnish the
perspective for the new Elks Club
and st. Mary's church SO illustrations
of these two new buildings for Keo-
| kuk could accompany the articles
that appear in this issue.
-Nauvoo Independent: Elder Eph-
riam White, president of the East
ern Iowa conference of the Utah
Mormon church, has been in the city
the past few days making arrange
! ments for conference of Mormon
elders and Saints to be held here on
| September 16, IL and IS.
Let Sherwood repair your har
ness.
Burlington Gazette: Mrs. Lucy
Palmer, who lives on Washington
| street, filed novel action in the dis
/ trict court today. She seeks damages
in the sum of $500 from Boniface
Suffer for her 1O-year-year son, al
leging that Mr.. Suffer sold the boy d
| toy pistol that exploded and injured
his hand
The expenditures for buildings in
Keokuk this year will total up hand
somely. Adding the water power in
vestment, the street railway expen-
ditures, new hotel, Elks building, st.
Mary's church, Decker building, Meg
elschen building, private residences,
ETC., the amount will go into more
! than q score of millions
Insure your property with Hobbs.
Keokuk's Industrial Association Is
doing things. They are preceding
carefully and intend to make as few
errors as possible The latest i'm
/ portant action is the employment of a
i secretary. With Mr.. Dewitt in place
4 the campaign for a Greater Keokuk
will go forward with added zeal.
Exclusive insurance agency.
Hobbs.
Extra copies of this issue of The
i Daily Gate City will be sold for five
cents per copy. Extra copies will be
saved for those sending in orders but
purchaser must call for the papers
and must also mail them as the post.
office rules prohibit a newspaper from
mailing papers to others than the reg,
ular subscribers.
Subscribers to The Gate City who
reside in Illinois will endorse the fol.
lowing statement which appeared re.
Gently in the Bushnell Record: God
Is good to Illinois. 1t is one of His
garden spots. In the hundred years
since the first settlers broke the vir.
gin sod there has never been a crop
failure. The farmers always have
enough to eat and wear, and also
grain to sell for money wherwith to
acquire more s200-an-acre land
i General insurance. See Hobbs.
The Quincy Power Boat club, an
organization which has been needed
for many years to develop and arouse
interest in the sport In Quincy, was
formed last evening, when 25 enthu.
siastic motor boat owLers of the city
met at the boat house of j A. Moritz
Front and Oak streets, and effected a
permanent organization by the cleo.
ton of the following officers Com
modore, ]. L. Hase; vice-commodore
B. W. Bartlett; secretary, George Fl
Timmerwilke; treasurer, Harry Whip
pie; board of directors, J. A. Moritz
A. w. vanDoorn. G. B. Horton, Ray
Stewart, c. v. Andrews and Billy
Eyers