The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-09-07
CITY NEWS.

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day, Dec. 5th.-Advertisement.
Masonic: Regular meeting OF
Hardin lodge No. 20, A. f. and A. NJ,
Monday evening, September s, at s
O'Clock. Visiting brethren fraternally
invited to attend. BY order of the
IW. NJ. c. G. Meister. secretary.
To-day is ladies day at the Eagles
camp across the river. A chicken din
ner win be enjoyed and many of the
ladies are expected to spend the day
on the cool bluffs OF Illinois.
Prompt and careful auto livery.
Call Loewenstein. Phone red 2SS.-
Adv.
Karl Sauers, John Morris and I.
Carlson have returned from battle
with the mosquitoes few miles above
the city The three eamped out for
week along Lake Cooper and their
chief diversion was keeping off the
mosquitoes.
Mrs. Perry. formerly with the
Royal. has accepted a position with
Lowitz. the fashion shop. VIII be
glad to meet her friends and Gus
toners. -Advertisement
The advertisements appearing in
/ this issue contain Information about
merchandise that you want. The Keo-
| kuk merchant offers good goods 1T
reasonable prices. Make the retail
/ dealer prosperous and you will have
| a live city.
4 d E. Reeves, car load distributor,
high grade coal and coke-Advertise-
ment.
A retail merchant inquiries If the
recent ordinance calling for the re,
moval of hitching posts on Main
street meant to call for the removal
of all the posts or just in certain
blocks. From the appearance Of things
this inquirer is of the opinion that
some class legislation WIS enacted
Special big Csc dinner every day.
Il Baltimore Cafe, 10 South Third.-Ad
/ Tertisement
The funeral of Miss Margaret
Bruce Draine was held at 10 o'clock
Saturday morning at the parental
home, No. 1914 Blondeau street, Rev.
Sims of the A. NJ. e. church, conduct
ling the services. The following pail
bearers oficiated: Homer Jones,
Darrell Harris, George snoddy, Mark
Johnson. Arthur Crowson and Rich
lard Holt.
Let ]. C. McManus & Co, fiji
your coal bins with best Springfield
lump coal, 1926 per ton during the
month of September. Phone 215. Of
fee Ninth and Johnson streets Ad-
vertisement
i u. NJ. Alberts of 1T17 Johnson
street has sent The Gate City a
branch from a plum tree which he
believes is a record for bearing.
! There are twelve plums On six inch
branch and all are nice. He reports
the entire tree loaded with plums.
This year is said to be one of the
best for plums in a long time.
-R. V. McCutchan has fled suit
against j. S. Tdiller in the district
court, the outgrowth of a horse deal
The former says he purchased two
horses represented by Miller to be
sound but that he found both were
wind broken, one totally blind and
one partially blind. He claims the
horses are not worth over $3.50 and he
has suffered $3.50 loss.
-Keokuk bids fair to ecape the
high prices for Ice which many sur.
rounding cities will suffer from be-
cause of the extreme hot and dry
weather. Most wholesalers In this
section have sent out notices to the
retailers that the price will not only
be raised but that theix, allowance
will be cut in half The artificial ice
company here announces that II will
not raise the price here and other
companies probably Will make no
change.
Suits made In Keokuk for men
and women. Wilbat, the tailor. 11o5
Main NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
The annual edition of The Gate
City contains vast amount of infor-
nation about Keokuk, the water now.
er and the advantages of this city
created by virtue of the big dam.
Extra copies OF this edition can be
purchased at this Office for ten cents
per copy, tie amount Of postage re.
CURED to send the issue through the
mall being three cents. Don't fail to
send this number to your friends or
relatives Or those who you believe
would be interested In this city.
Mrs. Bence begins her work in
voice culture, art of singing and all
kindred study in pne placing, voice
building, tone colorature and special
study of oratorios and grand operas
Wednesday Sept. 10, at her studio
9th and Concert streeta Kenl,nL