The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-05
CITY NEWS.


! for tomorrow, and it is very much de-
4 sired.
Big stock Of harness at sher-
i woods.
Ray Garrison has resigned his
! position as reporter for The Daily
Gate City.
/ James H. King and others have
conveyed to William Holland lot IL,
block 2, Kings addition.
Pretty new lap robes at sher-
woods.
Lorraine Whaley, little daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs Roy Whaley, is improv-
/ Ing after a very severe illness.
For choice turkeys and chickens.
we have them. Jos. Haubert, 7o9
Main.
I'm few days Fort Madison will
begin the work of collecting the
money recently subscribed for booster
purposes, amounting to $4,000.
Better have choice roast OF
beef veal, pork or mutton from Jos.
Haubert's market. Both phones.
Miss ida Human expects to start
1 for Washington, D. c., next week,
| where she will remain for sometime
Visiting relatives and looking after
business matters.
Regular meeting bartenders' union
Sunday. January I, $50 a. m. Nomi-
nation of officers. H. Blaisdell, Sec.
Our next horse and mule auction
at Hamilton, Illinois. will be January
i6 VIII have 200 head Of horses OF
all classes. Bring in your horses
and mules and we will sell them for
you at good prices. B. w. Elder.
-Puckechetuck lodge. No. As meets
every Friday night at o'clock. Frank
vollers. n e.; Geo. Immegart, sec
rotary. All members requested to be
present. Installation of officers.
The Keokuk friends of Arthur
Rthbins, Of the Quincy Herald repor-
torial staff, will regret to learn that he
is quite III at the home of his parents
in Burlington. la. Mr.. Robbins has a
rr,nher OF friends among the Keokuk
newspaper fraternity.
III G. Doolittle, Of Denver, special
agent for me Comanche Springs Land
company, with headquarters in Den
yer. was in the city yesterday visiting
with conlEsI. investors and making
arrangements for the sale of his land
/ through local agency.
I A petition for market ground is
/ being circulated in Burlington and
will be presented to the city council
as soon as enough signers have been
secured. The council is asked to
! designate certain streets for the pur-
pose of establishing market system,
The cold weather record for this
year for Keokuk was broken this
morning when the thermometer drop.
ped to 8 degrees below zero. The
telegraph reports record the zero
weather at Minneapolis at % below
I The local ice harvest is assured if suf
I ficent men can be secured to make
| it while the cold weather continues
and the indications are good for such
la inued condition.
Fraternal Order of Eagles. No
$50. held their annual installation oil
officers Wednesday evening and in
stalled the following officers: Worthy
president, Philip CHASER; vice presi
dent, James Tickle; chaplain, Henri,
PAXTON: secretary, C. A. Noakes
treasurer, c. II Henneman; trustee
William Butler: outside guard. Frit,
Glewe; inside guard. Adolph Gosse
aerie physician. Dr. c. a. Dimond.
a petition for the general consen
to sell intoxicating liquors in Ottum
wa for a period of FIVE years will b,
circulated the middle of next week O
on January Is. An effort on the par
of the citizens of Ottumwa who favo
licensed FALCONS In Ottumwa will b,
concentrated on securing 2,233 o
.. more valid signatures of electors be
. fore thirty days from the date of tn
beginning have elapsed
.. Keokuk liquor dealers will be in
, terested in the following statemea
. made by Senator Kenyon relative T.
. bill he recently introduced in tb
United States senate: The bill
. lave introduced does not prohibit Ii
shipment in interstate commerce @
. liquors to a person for his own pr
ate consumption. but prohibits tn
shipment of liquor into dry" teri
tory to be used for illegal purposes.
said Senator W. s. Kenyon. in disc,t'
sing the bill he recently introduce
in Washington. Senator Kenyon sta,
ed that the late Senator Dolliver ii
tioduced similar bill several year
ago but that the judiciary committe
considered the bin unconstitutional, i
that it sought to extend state juril
dicticn beyond the border OF the stat.
Il have tried to avoid the constit,
tional objections raised to other bill
and to strike at the contract itsei
and destroy property rights in liquor
SO shipped to be used for immofs
purposes" said the senator