The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-10
CITY NEWS.

&C. B. Lake, clerk of the dis
trict court. was in Fort Madison yes
terday making his report.
Be comfortable. Buy lap robe
for yourself, blanket for your horse
at Sherwood's.
Regular meeting of Hermann
lodge, No. 116, l. O. o. F., tonight t
7:3O o'clock. Visiting brethren cor.
daily invited.
| Regular meeting of Loyal Order
of Moose, Keokuk lodge No. 704, to-
night at o'clock in Hawkes. hall.
Visiting brothers cordially invited.
Ed. G. Vaughn, dictator. Roy M.
Martin, secretary.
Judge Henry Bank will go to
Fort Madison this evening to be on
hand in court tomorrow for the pur-
pose of hearing the Lightfoot case,
having to do with litigation over
property in the we'll known Light
| foot estate.
30 per cent reduction on any over
coat in Ewers-McC arthy Co. store.
| Chief Henry Schevers of the po-
lice department was summoned to
, Fort Madison yesterday to testify be-
fore the grand jury in the Satterly
case, the defendant being bound to
the grand jury from Keokuk on the
charge of stealing horse out near
Donnellson. The story was reported
at the time, Slatterly, young man
about twenty-five years Of age, coming
to Keokuk to dispose of the animal.
Have harness repaired while you
wait at Sherwood's.
Some of the attractive features OF
the program for the annual union mis-
sionary meeting to be held on Satur-
day afternoon are an address by Rev
John c. Sage of st. Johns church. A
solo by Mrs. H. S. Butler, and duet
by Mrs. Hughes and Miss Hughes.
Miss Martha Hornish will give brief
summary of the work done by the var
ious missionary societies of the city;
Mrs. j. NJ. Brown will conduct the de-
votionals and Mrs. Lee Daughrity will
preside. The meeting will open
promptly at 8 o'clock in the parlors
of the First Baptist church.
| -Ew ers-McCarthy Co.'s semi-annual
20 per cent reduction now on including
AL mems and boys suits and over
coats.
| Eight million tons of coal was
mined in Iowa last year, according to
the estimate just made by l.. E.
stamm, secretary in the state mine
! inspectors office. Mr.. Stamm based
| his estimate on reports made from
the three Iowa districts. The output
during 1911 was 100000 greater than
that of the preceding year. The pro.
duction this year is expected to ex
coed that of 1911 owing to the tapping
OF one of the best coal fields in the
state, by the extension of the Rock
Island railroad to Allerton through
Marion county The Rock Island has
launched the Indiana Consolidated
/ Coal company at Dallas. The mine
will be in operation next month, and
will be the largest in the state, with a
hosting capacity of 10000 tons daily.
Iowa mines furnished work for nearly
two thousand men last year.
1T is extremely interesting and
profitable to note some of the results
of the recently undertaken Men and
Religion Forward Movement in those
centers where the work now being un.
dertaken in Keokulz has been under
way for several months. In Detroit,
| Mich, an exemplification OF the re.
| suits SO far has shown that twenty
mems Bible classes have been organ
lied as a result Of the movement and
that one delegate from each of ninety.
three churches is pledged to meet reg.
ularly with the social service com
mittee weekly for study and the
lremedying of conditions that are OF
no credit to the city. In Des Moines
the establishment of municipal
lodging house and an employment
bureau are credited to the movement,
with the establishment of an inter.
church council that brings the various
/ churches into active touch with each
other. One of the features OF the
movement that has most pleased
those religious people who have
watched it is that it has brought to.
gether all of the different church
bodies into active sympathy for re.
form work even when they were not
able to give it direct support, and this
direct support has come from sur
prisingly large number Of the churches
who have heretofore not been able to
agree upon a basis of cooperation
The movement asks no church to give
up anything it holds to, but seeks te
gain first a greater activity among
the men of the churches, and then g
greater cooperation among these
churches in doing the work needed
it not only points out the mans job