The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-21
CITY NEWS.

Sherrcod.sS
Phone 81 for case 0s Leisy
beer vixen yOusre cut
The Thanksgsriag surksy prob
lem approaches . crisis
Congregational market, Home
Tea Co. SATURDAY. afternoon
Best IN chickens and the choicest
Of meats 81 Markseys. 10 Main
There is = temptation TO bring
from the storage places the straw
hat
Read the advertisements and
then your Christmas shopping viii be
easier
Poultry. lire or dressed. Keckuk
Market = Produce Co, 1900 Main.
Phone IS.
Turkeys. ducks and chickens at
Jos. Hauoer's meat market, T0s
Main street
Best Springfield lump coal 1925
per ton In load lots. J. C. McManus
& Co. Phone 2I5.
~ few hints are being dropped
Just now as to what is most desired
as Christmas present.
When you rant a cigar stop where
its handy. City Drug Store cigar count
or. All l0c cigars for CSC.
Plenty OF red seal and an entire
stock OF double faced yIctrola rec
ords at Piggott's music house
The brevity OF delinquent tax
lists in Iowa is indicative of general
! prosperity in this state. Some coun-
ties report clear list.
DrE. George F. jenkins and C. r.
| Armentrout were in Burlington yes
terday attending meeting of the
Southwestern Iowa Medical society.
For that tired feeling bottle of
Purftas beer Is just the thing. It's
good with the meals or at bed time. Or
der case Of Puritas today and have
! 1t In the house.
-Puckechetuck lodge No. 43 meet.
/ every Friday night at O'Clock. Ali
members requested to be present. By
order OF noble grand. Geo. Immegart
secretary. Initiation. Advertisement
Marriage licences were issued last
night to Clarence E. Kirkland of Lusk,
Wyoming and Miss Lelah NJ. Belts,
OF Keokuk; Ray E. Garrison, 20, and
Miss Alma J Touhey, 1s, of Keokuk.
Regular meeting Keokuk Council
No. 536 tonight at s O'Clock, Tawke3'
hail, Eighth and Main. Visiting breth-
rem fraternally invited to attend. j.
n. Fulton, regent; J. l. Annable. sec
rotary ADV.
If the inter-city bridge bill be
comes law it will go long way
toward making new interurban lines
possible for Keokuk. The bridge will
be used for interurban as well as for
steam lines.
The thoughts of the children turn
to Santa Claus, accentuated by the
display OF toys that have appeared In
the display windows. From now un
til Christmas time the conduct Of tht
| average boy will probably show ar
improvement.
The remains of Miss Lind, whose
lGeath was announced in The Gait
, City yesterday afternoon, arrived il
the city on the midnight train, ant
will be taken to the vicinity of he
old home in the country where tn.
burial viii occur
Many Keokuk people are plan
ming their Christmas shopping an,
not few have already executes
some OF it. The early Christmas SOP
] ping campaign is bearing fruit an
while some may object to the move
ment it is better to buy too earl
than to shop too late and wreck tn
nerves Of both buyer and the worr
out clerk. Santa Claus used to com
in sleigh drawn by RENDERS, bu
now he rides in an airship an
Christmas shopping has changed 1
the same proportion.
The Keokuk and Mt. Pleasar
limited train arrived in Donuellso
] about s:i5 last Wednesday night owe
: three hours late, says the Review
that place. The officials are very r
: ticent about the matter and we al
unable to ascertain whether the
lay was caused by stopping for su
per or whether they were waiting Il
the moon to come up so they cou
see where they were going There
bare possibility that they were G
the track, but we hardly think tn
could happen.
Twenty million dollars will
spent for toys in the United Stat
10 hric And
be some children who will not kno
there is a Santa Claus. Along wi
the advice of early Christmas she
ping and early Christmas mailing al
other Christmas hints, 1t would be
good idea to make an early selecti
OF some child or children who W
not otherwise be remembered