The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-15
CITY NEWS.

The front Of the Stone & Webster
Mechanics hotel at Third and Main
streets is completed. Aside from the
managers office the large space is to
be made into reading and lounging
room.
We have choice chickens, hne
roasts Of beef, lamb and pork. Jos.
Hauber.. TOO Main Street. ADV.
LIN Keokuk the main CRY against
automobile speeding is that they go
! too fast down the main thoroughfares,
but in Chicago judge says that In
the busy streets there man is Just
as liable to punishment for going too
slow and blockading traffic as the man
who goes too fast.
Young men like the graceful lines
and sweeping style OF Ewers-Mc-
! Carthy Co. overcoats.-Adv.
/ ~. A. Nj. Collins OF Denver, Colo.
/ who has been spending few days In
the old home town. having come to
vote and visit relatives and friends,
has returned to his western location,
going via Clarinda to visit for
short time.
Regular meeting Keokuk Council
No. $50 tonight at s o'clock, Hawkes.
hall, Eighth and Main. Visiting breth-
rem fraternally invited to attend. G.
NJ vogler. regent; J. !. Annable. sec,
ADV.
4 Am in London, Frisco or Keo-
l1uk was the first thought Of the man
who struck out to work through the
early morning fog today. Several
collisions were narrowly averted on
Main street by people going opposite
directions on the same side Of the
street.
Puckechetuck Lodge No. 4S meets
every Friday night Ut 8 o'clock. All
members requested to be present. By
order Of Noble Grand. Geo. Immegart,
secretary Work In the initiatory de-
gree.-Adv.
Mrs. H. G. Wiesemann and daugh-
ter. Margaret, have returned from st.
Louis, where they have been for the
pasl seven months. The child has
been under the care OF physicians at
McLain hospital there, undergoing
treatment for infantile paralysis, and
shows marked Improvement as re
suit OF the excellent care she receiv-
ed. The treatment at the hospital
was of such nature that the ultimate
recovery OF the little sufferer is
assured.
Roller skating tonight.-Adv.
Upper Room Mission, meeting
levery evening at 7:30, room 5, Estes
building. It is place OF prayer
Jesus says: "If two OF you shall
agree on earth as touching anything
that they shall ask, 1t shall be done
for them OF my Father which is In
sheaven." Gods people may see great
things in Keokuk on the basis OF suct
a promise. And Keokuk is in grea
need OF spiritual blessings. F. A. Nc
lGaw.
--Wilbat, the Ladies Tailor. ITO;
Main street. Bell phone. 1D41.-Adv.
Over four hundred hunting Il
censes have been issued by tn
deputy county auditor and many NOR
= by other authorities. This exceed
the number issued at this time las
s year. The oldest man to take out
license from the deputy auditor Is ]
H. Engler, who gives his age as sfxt,
wears. Last year the oldest nimro
was man by the name Of Durphy
. who gave his age as eighty-two Dul
Q rhy lived in houseboat about tn
= mouth Of the Des Moines river an
was married when he was eight
years OF age.
The following patents we're gran
1 ed to Iowans for the week ending Nc
n vember IL, 1912, as reported from tn
office of Wilfred C. Lane, patent a
l. torney, sos Croker building, De
J Moines, Iowa: No. 1,044,381, displa
= rack, J. l.. Harr, Nora Springs: M
It t1.044.1 1876, draftsman's table, F.
!. Land, Des Moines; No. 1,o44,25-
u knockdown shipping crate, VIM. Z
n Shafley, Bedford; NO. 1,044,273, raj
way rail joint, A. J. Shurtz, De
MONIES; No. ! 044,sTs. meat stacke
la. M. Stiles, Mount Pleasant; No. ]
q 044. 3a4, carbureter, F. C. Watson, De
Moines.
Take your harness LOT repairs
% Sherwood.-Adv.
-Nauvoo Independent: Louis J
Hudson. who has been keeping guar
on his pecan island this fall, has mad
lit paying proposition. This is th
only island on which there are peca
trees, and as usual many people hav
been going over there the past thre
. weeks gathering the nuts. Lou Ia
made all divide up"-giving him hal
e In this way and with what he ha
gathered himself he has gotten abo,
20 33 bushels of pecans. There are sti
q more to gather. The pecans al
2 worth SIS per bushel. The Water Pos
err Company has not yet purchase
this island, which it appears, is MOI
:. valuable than the ordinary island.