The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-09
CITY NEWS.

at O'CLOCK at the Eecker Mfg. Co
office.
Catfish and Sealshipt oysters at
Jos. Haubert's, 700 Main street.-Ad-
vertisement
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Yocklin of 17oS
Johnson street. are the parents Of an
eight pound baby girl born Wednesday
night,
Sherwood for everything in the
harness ne.-AdEertisenent
Elder S. A. Cook of this city,
will preach at Golden's Point church
north of Hamilton. next Sunday morn
ing and evening.
Fresh fish today and tomorrow.
Echle & Fleisbach, 1928 Main. Phone
239.-Advertisement
The annual meeting OF the First
evening, 7:S0. at the church. Light
refreshments will be served. Reports
from all societies ana from every de-
llartment OF the church. Every member
should be present.
-Ferndell buckwheat. immigrants.
Advertisement.
Workmen this morning began put
ting electric lights In the vaults of
the county clerks. office and a new
light will also be put in the county
recorders office. Putting lights In the
vaults was suggested several months,
ago but not done.
Buy auto robes at Sherwood s.
Advertisement
The girls at the Keohul Canning
factory this morning were given a
raise of one cent per bucket on to-
Ematoes. following conference be-
tween the managers and some of the
girls In which the girls presented
their reasons for asking raise.
Sherwood sells auto robes-Ad-
vertisement.
M E. Bannon, county engineer,
has arrived here with a large force OF
surveyors and large gang of men to
start improving the Keokuk-Donnell
son road. Mr.. Beeser, road expert
is also assisting and aiding in the
work. The large grading machine
one of the best made, will be used in
the work.
Fresh fish at Keokuk Market
Produce Co., 1900 Main. Phone 90
Advertisement
The county construction of tbs
Elevee in sections 80 and SO of Wash
ington township bordering the Def
Moines river which was completed
some time ago, was brought before tbs
county supervisors yesterday and the
twentieth of this month set for the
time of hearing objections to assess
nents. The district is known as this
La. L. Parsons levee district. The
cost Of the river wall was $1,000.
AN automobile loaded with higf
school seniors pulled up at the house
where the members of the junior elias.
were holding a party last night ant
Kidnapped three of the guests. The
seniors took their captives out In the
country and dumped them out of ths
machine at Prices creek, where the.
left them and returned to town. 4
Junior sherlock Holmes who had start
his marooned class mates. and re
turned them to the scene of the fes
Etivities.
AT the senri-monthly meeting O
1.-THE officers and teachers of the FRS
Christian churchtSunday school at tbs
Christian church, a debate was heart
on the foilowingitopic: Resolved tina
an inefficient teacher may lead t.
truth The debate was won by thu
negative which was argued by MIR
johnson Angle,.a young lawyer of thi
city, while the. affirmative was hand
lied by DR.. H. H Stafford Thes'
semi-monthly meetings are. becominl
matters of much interest to tn
teachers and officers of the Christian
church Sunday, school
|. A large mail order house in re
] cent advertisement printed a pictur
!, of their immense building and unde
1t was the line'"The house You built
! This may have been good advertiser,
and it may not, only time can tell
but just the same It might set peopl,
to thinking how they sent their mon
. ey thousands of miles away to bnil'
. up an establishment of that kind, ant
;. to wonder If It'll wouldn't be Just a
we'll to purchase their supplies near
!. er home and keep the money circulat
. ing and paying taxes in their owl
neighborhoods If the local dealers
. go about it right this advertisement
may prove disastrous boomerang
/ But that is Just the trouble. The loca
dealers do not give enough attention
. to advertising and thus they los
out