The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-29
interesting Leaf From the History Of
keokuk as Written Over For
ty-Two Years
Ago.
SHOWS FINE BUSINESS
Sunshine and Shadows Of Life-Talks
OF Tariff Reform-LocaI
News scarce-Gold
112Ia.

Old times come again no more" A
stray copy of The Gate City. dated
morning. November %, 1870,
over forty-two years ago, has found
It's way into the editorial rooms OF
This paper and will recall many mem
Dries Of the olden days which could
not have been revived in any other
way than by going through musty
files.
There is not much local news III
this old tome, preserved through |
many changing years. This old pa
per wa. accidentally referred to |
Tuesday in story about the old |
service given here over sixty
years ago, and was sent to Maj Dav d
B. Hamill hy George W. Potter of !
Burlington with the program of the
long ago social event. The program
Of the old service was in the form of
an invitation and was addressed to
William Potter .nG l2dy. This INV.
tation with the copy of The Gate
City had been preserved in the fam
lily, precious relics linking the veneer
able past with the nurrring and prom
Using present. 1t would seem from
this old paper that the social affairs
of life We're as active as at the pres
ent day. There appears in the adver-
Using columns of the old paper an
nouncement of ball to be given by
the Mechanics and Blacksmith's union
which reads as follows, shorn of its
display lines:
I'm union there is strength First
annual ball of the M. & B. U. No. 2,
of Iowa will be held at Gibbons
opera house Wednesday evening, Nov.
90.
| Committee OF Arrangements Ed
win smedley, John Ruse, Joseph Cor
don. John McGrayel, Robert Lamb,
John Cook, J. III. Justice, William
Shaw, Tom Hartley.
Committee of eception-Morris
Sellers, Sam Wakefield, Frank Jones,
Charles Taylor, Jake Coulter. D. B.
Drummond, Henry Hummer. R. e.
4 Smith r. l.. Parker, Pat Gibbons, NJ
Id. Kearney, Henry L4eming, William
i Gonthoff James Gallagher. Jacob
4 Lamb, James Wilson, John Hawkins
John Jones, Tom Evans. Tom Stat
ford, William Meeks
Floor Managers-Robe Lamb
John Ruse,, Tom Swift, Charles Fore
man, John Finnerty, Edwin Smedley
Jack Hardin.
Music by Prof. Wittich's quadrille
band. Tickets $3.50 Supper included
Clothing checked free of charge
Probably all the persons named in
the above list Of committees still liv
ing could be counted on the fingers Of
one hand, though there are a long
list of their descendants still livlns
in Keokuk to many of whom remem
bering the old event will have theil
memories quickened by reading
copy of the above invitation.
There were sad happenings in those
DAYS as we'll as now, as will be eyi
dnced from the announcement of thu
passing away OF the bright little
3 household pride at Keokuk home
4 the parents still being honored ant
! prominent residents of the city. Thi
is the brief story:
"Miller-On Sunday, Goth inst. a
. the residence of d. Mooar, Daniel NJ
: infant son of H. R and Lizzie B. Mil
er. aged 15 months and 5 days.
= Funeral services at the residenc
of its grandfather, d. Mooar, on Tues
: day ed inst, at 1912 O'Clock a. nj
: Friends Of the family are invited t
:, attend"
At the mast head appeared tn
firm name of Howell & Clark, editor
and proprietors, and its columns il
dicsted prosperous business TIL
Daily Gate City then was four-pag
paper, eight columns to the page
carving advertisements on ever
! mage. Even the broad eight colum
first page bore its burden of displa
advertisements and it is interesting I
go down each column scanning tn
| names of the old firms that e&lste
/ then. now only a revered memory
9 This number contained about elgf
!, and one-half columns of reading ma
|. ter and about twenty-three and ha
. columns of advertisements, an exec
/ lent business showing The ads, hoy
/ ever, have quaint appearance con
q pared with the progressive mode
s advertising at the present day.
: On the first or telegraph page, ther
are two scare" heads at the top
t as many columns The first reads
$ Photographic No Abatement OF tn
h war Feeling in Europe. Chief IN
/ tice Chase Will Soon Resume II
9 Duties on the Bench George Franc
d Train in Jail at Lyons, France ID
i NAL of General Butler in Regard
e the Alabama Matter. Senator Draf
!, ond the T,1dppshjp of the Court