The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-30
CITY NEWS.

Bloater paste at Immega t's.-Ad-
vertisement.
John Nagel has returned from a
business trip to Davenport.
Blooms soap. Take some home
Advertisement.
About time to take In the summer
porch furniture. pull off the screen
doors and put up the storm entrances.
Coal. wood, kindling delivered in
any quantity. Eaton. Red477. Adver-
tisement.
We are getting our first t2uch OF
winter. It's only touch The real
thing will be here later but 1t will be
here.
Dill pickles at Immegart's .-Ad-
vertisement.
After tomorrow you can take the
October sheet off the calendar. Enter
the month OF turkey and cranberry
sauce.
What has become OF that move
ment to get better train service on
the roads running into Keokuk? The
movement was good enough to fight
1 for.
/ Herman H. Bentzinger, rs, and
Hazel B. Shafer, IS, and Sherman T.
Horner, %, and Barbara M. Bentzing-
er, of Keokuk, have secured licenses
to marry.
] Cleo Baldock, linotype operat5r
for The Gate City, who underwent an
operation at Graham hospital, has re-
lowered sufficiently to be able to re.
sume his duties.
| The college students are looking
! forward to the holiday vacation and
the homecoming incident thereto
There is nothing like being home at
4 Christmas time.
There is nothing that builds city
SO quickly and so permanently as In.
terurbans. So 1t behcoves Keokuk to
get in on the interurban movement
that is developing in this section
An important change in the auto
mobile tax law will be urged before
the next legislature. 1t relates to
dealers numbers. 1t will be proposed
that this bothersome matter be abol
ished entirely County cfficials and
the state departments have more
trouble over the dealers numher idea
than anything else The alers' mum
Der does not protect the car owner
from ordinary taxation, but cars with
these numbers on them are subject
to assessment as other personal prop
4 erty. But this fact is ignored in many
places and dealers number is &C
4 cepted In lieu Of taxes.
Iowa papers are taking consider
able delight in reproducing editorial
from the Los Angeles Record whfcl
tells the truth about that city TIL,
Record does not criticise the countr.
but critfcises the methods OF certain
people who are exploiting the city ia
beyond its legitimate limits The sun
shine and flower stuff is all right bu
the "suckers'' from the east get al
eye opener. 1t is safe bet that tn,
Record will be unpopular in Los An
geles In certain influential quarter
but it ought to be supported fer cour
age required to take such a position
The Des Moines City Federated
Clubs at recent meeting placed them
selves decidedly feminist" the lat
Christmas shopper and her selfish
lack of consideration for the over
worked girls in the stores. The fol
lowing resolution introduced by Mis-
Laura Bass was the way the womel
unanimously expressed themselves
Whereas, the Christmas shopping
season is one of exhausting toll t,
women clerks in the stores, the lont
hours of continuous work producin,
extreme fatigue, and sometimes caus
ing permanent injury to health. b,
1T resolved, that we as members o
the Des Moines City Federation O
Women's Clubs, will endeavor to d,
our Christmas shopping early In thu
season, early in the day. and not a
all in the evening"