The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-17
CITY NEWS.
st. Paul's picnic Kilb. park We,

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nounce the birth of an eight pound
baby girl born Friday, June 13.
Enjoy a pleasant evening at 1908
Blondeau, lawn social 10c. Come
Adv.
Thomas v. Hodges arrived from
Portsmouth, Va. this morning to as.
sumo his new duties as superintend-
ent Of the Keokuk Water Works.
/ II. G. McManus & Co, will deliver
pure Ice In a few days. Watch for
the wagons.-Adv.
u. ]. Ayers, lieutenant In the Mol
Zen city planning fund campaign, has
] reported ten dollars has been contrib
Iuted by residents of Park Place.
/ DIR. E. M. Hanson Is out of the
city. will return next Monday. Adv.
DRINKS who come into the police
court have a brand new excuse with
the coming of the terrible hot wealth
er. About one-half of them give the
weather as their excuse.
st. Mary's lawn social, Wed. eve,
June Is, Ed Ewers, 1922 Bank. Music.
ADV.
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Marriage licenses have been grant
| ed to John q. N. Butler, 25, and Lulu
NJ. Black, 30, both of Canton, Mo-;
and Paul Kropp, 81, and Freda NC
Clelland, II. both of Mendon, III.
Phone 215 for pure Ice. Delivery
Will be made In few days. J.. G..
McManus & Co.--Adv.
The will OF Mrs. Sarah ]. Rick
ards, who made two requests to the
Baptist church totalling $1,000, was
admitted to probate In the district
yesterday. Thomas H. Pond was an
pointed executor.
-Keokuk pure ice will be delivered
by ]. G. McManus & Co. soon as the
plant is ready. Wait for the big
white sanitary wagons. -Aav.
"A magazine issued by the streck-
fus Steamboat line entitled along
the Mississippi has been received
here. 1t contains descriptive material
of all of the cities on the upper Mis-
sissippi, including Keokuk.
See our line of buggies and other
vehicles. Sherwood ADV.
Ella Elias, the Austrian from
whom several cases OF beer and sew
eral gallons of wine was taken, has
skipped town. An information has
been filed against her, but If she will
stay out OF town it is quite agreeable
to the officers.
Sherwood. the leading harness
man OF Keokuk. Adv.
Mrs. Susan O'Brien, who died Eat
urday afternoon in Hamilton. was
buried in Burton near Quincy on Mon
day. Mrs. O'Brien was seventy-efght
years old and well known about this
city and Hamilton. Two sons, Elmer
and Charles. survive her Nephritis
was the cause of her death.
Tonight, s O'Clock sharp, Mrs.
Marder's ninth annual pupils concert,
at ST. Francis de Sales assembly hall,
corner Fourth and High streets.-Adv.
u. H. Coleman, charged with forg-
cry in the local district court, is now
being tried in Paris. ILL.,. on similar
charge, according to a report from
that city. 1t is charged there that
he swindled a man out OF $4,000 in
plantation deal in Mississippi. Ed
Braun. of Warsaw. who caused Cole
man to be indicted here, has gone to
Paris to testify.
Miller's High Life beer on draught
at Brady's No. A No. Water st.--Adv.
The steamer Keokuk came up
from Quincy last night and left this
morning for Burlington. The Black
Hawk, which came down from Bur
lington, went on to Quincy This Is
the first time these sister boats have
run straight through between their
two terminal cities. When the old
lock and canal was here 1t was found
best to transfer freight at this point
and turn the steamers back. With
the new lock and lake they can run
straight through, passing here. The
new arrangement means great saw
ing to the company.
Regular meeting Loyal Order
of Moose, Keokuk lodge No. 704, to-
night at O'Clock in Moose hall. Visit
ing brothers cordially invited. A. L.
Laubersheimer, dictator. Ed. S. Lof-
ton, secretary.-Adv.
The following summary by the
secretary of the state horticultural
society shows the average condition
of fruit on June 1st: apples. 70 per
cent; pears, 4S; American plums, 81;
domestic plums, 4S; cherries. 81;
peaches. II; red raspberries. "a;
black raspberries, 80; blackberries,
s5; grapes, SO: currants, rs; goose
berries, 10; strawberries, rs per cent
of full crop.
The Iowa weather crop bulletin
for the week ending June Is has just
been issued as follows: With the ex'
ception of light local showers over
the northern half of the state on Fri'
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