The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-09
CITY NEWS.
Buy fly nets at Sherwood's.

Buy lily nets at SHeTWoou ..
in a letter to The Gate City, G.
p. Dorsey, publisher of the Braymer
(Mo.) Bee, formerly a Keokuk news
paper man and we'll known in this
city. congratulates this paper on the
recent annual edition and says it was
an excellent number.
Royal Neighbors will change
their meetings to Thursday night, In
stead of Friday, beginning Sept. 10.
AT the city hall this morning it
was said that work on the paving OF
Lucas Avenue, between Sixth and Sew
enth streets, would begin today or to-
morrow. Seventh street, between
Main and Blondeau will also be paved
within the next few weeks.
Sherwood for harness and driv-
er's articles.
Harry Fenton, who has bean do
ing newspaper work in Keokuk for
several months, will leave in a short
time to enter college. He has made
manv friends IN this city who will e.,
tend hest wishes and who expect him
to risc to prominent place In news
paper making.
Have harness repaired at Sher-
woods.
Walter Garrison. while assisting
the fire department e3tinguish a
blaze a. the old Keppel packing house
near the Fifth street bridge, yester-
day, stumbled and in trying to save
himself thrust his arm into a kettle
OF boiling grease The arm from the
finger tips to the elbow was horribly
burned.
Best Springfield In. lump coal,
1928 per ton, in quantities of tons
or more. ]. c. McManus Construction
Co.
Henry Briear, who claimed to
have been slugged Saturday night in
the alley on South Eighth street,
between Main and Johnson streets,
was able to leave the police station
Saturday night under his own steam,
after being patched up by physician.
Tho police do not believe Briear's
story about being slugged by negro.
but think he simply had fight with
negro and got the worst of it.
Briear, 1t is said, has habit, when
drinking, of taking nap wherever he
happens to find himself, and occa-
sionally gets thrown out of places.
Tom F. Phelps, after twenty-five
years Of railroading. resigned as con
ductor on the X. & w. Saturday night
and this week will go to his farm at
Ashton, Mo-, and become an up to the
minute farmer. For the past eleven
years he has been conductor on the
train from Keokuk to Shenandoah,
and has hundreds of friends along
the line. His friends predict that If
he Is as successful farmer as he
was conductor, some of the existing
records In agriculture will be broken
and the high cost of living will be
reduced when he starts to market
with his crops.
The following patents were grant
4 ed Iowans for the week ending Sep
4 tember 5, 1912, as reported from the
office of Wilfred G, Lane, patent at
4 tcrney, sos Croker Building, Des
Moines, Iowa: No. 1,o37.72s spring,
R. ]. Collins. Sioux City; No 1885,
$40 can. w. F. Hellberg, McGregor;
No. 1,032,262 marble gun, g. G. Ken
nedy, Waterloo; No. 1,o37,2S1 road
grading machine, c. Maves. Daven-
port; No. 1,097,65o waist form and
skirt frame, Eta McMullen, Oska
| loosa; No. 1,0s7,52o safety rack, E.
J. Perley, Emerson; No. 1,o37,305 bed
or berth attachment, H F. Perkins,
Des Moines; No. 1,O37,336 support for
motor cars, G. w. Schubert. Cotton
wood; No. 1,037,3S2 curing and pre-.
serving seed corn. W. w. Wentworth,
Preston; No. 1,o37,s54 cultivator fend-
err, D. J. Orion, Sac City.