The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-29
CITY NEWS.

CITY NEWS.
Bny buggies at Sherwoods.
Miss Anna Howells is critically
PIN at st. Joseph's hospital.
! Lessons and dance at Hawkes.
hall. Friday night. Lessons at $50.
Primary election day. March l1th.
regular city election March 2oth.
For harness call at Sherwood's.
All trains were reported being on
time or only few minutes late at
the union depot this morning.
Ferndell prepared biscuit -four.
/ Immegart's.
Rivermen are talking about the
opening of the steamboat season and
the arrival of the first packet
Let Sherwood repair your harness.
The annual meeting of the Benev-
client Union will be held Friday, 10 a.
m, at the Home All members are
requested to be present.
The Gate City urges and requests
the merchants to place their advertis-
! ing copy in the hands of the printer
at the earliest possible hour.
fresh halibut and catfish at Jos.
Hauberts, 100 Main street
/ The southern air and rest is
proving very beneficial to Judge Will
liam Logan who is recuperating at
Biloxi, Miss Word from him is OF the
most encouraging kind and he is max
ling splendid improvement.
! O.
Burlington is agitating the cree
ton Of an auditorium. That city is
securing 80 many conventions that an
auditorium Is becoming necessity.
Keokuk should take some action along
the same line as this city will become
convention city whom the big dam
| Is completed.
| Subscribers who fail to receive
| their paper at the customary time are
urged to notify the business office
before 6 o'clock 30 that proper atten-
ton can be given to the complaint
If your paper has not been delivered
before 6 O'Clock please telephone In
the complaint.
/ DIR. Moorhead has returned from
Chicago and reports that an operation
was performed on J. M. Moorhead
Tuesday morning that afforded him
great relief from pain. Mr.. Moor
heads condition is still critical, but
he has fighting chance to get well
and will make the most of it.
] There were many rabbit hunters
yesterday and some of them reported
/ fair luck. 1t is noted that the man
who breaks down under shovel and
who cannot even clean the snow from
his walks. can tramp over the fields
and through the woods all day and
carry heavy gun and lot OF ammu-
milton and imagine that he is having
a good time and that he is not a bit
tired when he comes home with two
measly rabbits. And if he were to get
So per day for doing the same amount
of work he'd strike.
The Quincy Wing Is urging the
Chamber of Commerce Of that city to
get to work at once and employ an
industrial agent to boost the factory
getting In advance of the electrical
power to be furnished by the Keokuh
dam. The Wing in column editorial
closes It's appeal as follows: We
have assurances from Hugh L. Coop
er that our power will cost us al
least 33 1-3 per cent less after the
dam is completed that it does at pres
emit. Once more we want to say, gen
tlemen, that Opportunity is knocking
This is the last time that Opportunity
will knock at Quincy's door. Now is
the accepted time. Grasp 1t while
you may, because the other fellows
are not asleep. not by any means.
The first of series Of special
lenten lecture-sermons will be given
in st. Johns church Friday night al
s o'clock Believing as he does thai
christian people should realize more
deeply the relationship of the church
to the problems of human society Mr.
Sage has arranged for a series Of ad
dresses by eminent clergy. under the
general topic THE Church and HUI
man Society," These lectures viii
have to do with the larger field Of the
lchristians influence and what it means
TO present the gospel of Christ in re
j.
lationship to some Of the problems Of
today. Consideration of these prob
lens will interest thinking men and
women generally, and as a general in
vitation is extended to all residents o
our city, doubtless there will be man.
to hear the address. The opening ad
dress tomorrow evening will be "Th'
Church and Human Brotherhood" ant
the speaker announced Is the Rev
I Irving Johnson, of Minneapolis. MI
!. Johnson Is one OF the leading clerg.
T Of the Episcopal church in the middl
! west, and is most forcefuI and logica
: speaker
{ Division Superintendent w {
Welch, Trainmaster s. o. Wilkinson