The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-02
CITY NEWS.

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Masonic Special meeting of
Eagle Lodge No. IL. A. F.. & A. NJ. at /,
100 o'clock Friday evening. March ),
1911. Work on Third degree. Visiting
brethren fraternally invited BY order
or W. NJ. S. H. Johnston, Sec'y.
The minstrel troupe of Al. G.
Fields arrived in their three cars
during the night. A street parade was
given by the company of black-face
artists at noon today, and the lunch
hour was enlivened with music by the
brass band.
See sherwood-s new line of har-
ness.
Several skiffs dotted the river to-
day, parties of early fishermen being
out with their flat boats and punts,
angling for "messes'' The river is
we'll up in the sloughs and good fish,
ing places on the other side of the
river. and though early in the season
have been visited for week or more
by devotees of the reel art
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vices and leadership in conducting
the campaign that cleared the 100000.
Methodist church property of Center
I vile of the last cent OF debt, one of
I the prominent members of that church
i has presented Rev. and Mrs. J. R. Han
/ ley with a six weeks trip to Cuba,
/ Porto Rico. South America and Pana-
! ma
l Mrs. J. " Steiger returned home
l this morning from the Royal Neighbor
/ convention held at Cedar Rapids yes
/ terday and today. Mrs Steiger was
accompanied by Mrs. John Scott of
I Montrose. to this city. Both We're cleo
/ ted supreme delegates to the National
Convention of Royal Neighbors which
will be held the first week in May at
| Denver, Colo. Both Mrs. SSeiger and
/ Mrs. Scott expect to attend
| Unable to talk for eight months
! because of paralysis of the throat.
/ John Calder of Denver, Colo. unex-
/ pectedly had his power of speech re-
stored in Des Moines barber shop
Y
I. operating the massage machine he
/ pressed unusually hard ON the side
i of Callers throat, causing the man to
Jump. When asked if it hurt him Cal
der. to his surprise, replied in clear
Arm voice that it did hurt some The
JOYFUL man tossed the barber five dol
lar golc piece.
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-Des Moines is to advertise its adj
vantage through Wealth, publication
| that will soon appear. OF it the Des
Moines News says: Thirty-two pages
thick and full magazine size, the first
Issue of Wealth for the year 1911 will
be ready for distribution by the Great
(! er Des Moines committee within fort
night. It's feature story is to be writ
ten by Wilbur Nesbit, who writes the
1 Des Moines ads for the Saturday Eve
ming Post and other periodicals.. 1t
and successes in Des Moines, realiza-
lions that are matter of history.
There will be other stories about the
especially fine certainties here for the
young man. Pictures will be numerous.
4 On March 10, Rev. G. C. Williams
of the First Congregational church
/ will deliver lecture ir the assembly
room of the high school on London,
4 Old and New. The total proceeds Of
the lecture will go towards defraying
the expenses of the Athletic Meet.
There ought TO be full room on that
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last summer. and has brought back
some views with him that will be
shown in keokuk for the first time.
He has views of the new boulevards,
some OF the pictures of the old pal
aces. the cathedrals and many of the
buildings and localities of public in
terest Mr.. Williams has lectured
many times in this city. and the
4 members of the Athletic Association
of the high school are hoping that
the crowd will be as large as on for.
mer occasions. This year the members
OF the high school athletic association
will try and raise money for the
spring track work and meet by them.
selves instead OF calling on the mer-
chants individually to raise funds. A
Z Thorough canvass of the city will be
made in a short while.
Only few were permitted to
witness the spectacular run made by
the fire department last night at $40
when the reels were called to the
Reimers property between Nineteenth
and Twentieth on Franklin, and occu-
pied by a colored man. On reaching
Sixteenth and Fulton streets all three
Iof the reels became fast in the mud,
which Eas of that sticky, doughy kind
and held the apparatus securely until
the @donble-up' process was used to
extricate the fire teams and wagons.
Chief Anderson, true 10 old western
style and prairie schooner days,
mounted the back OF one of the fire
horses and drove one team while the
driver drove the wheel horses 1t only
took about two minutes TO make the
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