The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-29
CITY NEWS.
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| Judge Hughes has returned from
q vacation trip through the east.
Sherwood Is headquarters in Keo-
kuk for harness. buggies and harness
repairs. 703 Main street. ADV.
Leo Carbon. %, and Elsie Ruth
Ttamke, 10. both OF Burlington, secur-
ed license to marry here.
| Have case OF Puritas beer In
| your home. Nothing better this warm
weather. Puritas, you know, Is made
In Keokuk. Adv.
William NJ Young has been made
deputy to Clerk @. NJ. Hart in the
district court here. The position had
been vacant for some time.
Place orders for coal, wood and
feed with VIM. Mullikin, successor to
c. Shaefer. Phone 1S60.-Adv.
| The usual complaints are being
made about the Seventh street sewer
this year. The sewer empties into
Bloody Rum which is practically
dry because OF the extreme dry wealth
er we have had. The board of health
has taken remedial steps but they
are Intellectual
r. b. Perrin OF Siou1 City, Ia,
president OF the district council Inter
national Brotherhood OF Electrical
| Workers Is IN the city In the inter
ests OF the organization. Mr.. Perrin
Is well known to union men here as
he spent some time here last winter
-
mass meetings to foster the union
1 spirit.
Regular meeting Morning Star
ledge No. s, Knights Of Pythias to-
night. at 800 o'clock at Castle hall,
Fifth and Blondeau. Visiting knights
invited. John P. Hornish. c. C.-Ady
Lloyd B. Chute who has been In
Chicago for the last ten days on a
business trip, left Monday evening
for Davenport to establish typewrit-
Ter business In that city The local
young man will attempt his business
venture alone, carrying a line of
typewriters, supplies and appliances.
An effort is being made by the
Burlington railroad to induce the P.
Fl. M. A. A. of the Morrell packing
house Of Ottumwa to hold It's picnic
this year in Keokuk The committee
of the employers association have re,
ceived communication from the
agent presenting a plan to go to FIT.
Madison by rail and by boat to Keo-
kuk.
Regular meeting Loyal Order
OF Moose, Keokuk lodge No. 704, to-
night at 8 O'Clock in Moose hall. Visit
ing brothers cordially invited. A. L.
Laubersheimer, dictator. Ed. s. Lof-
ton. secretary.-Adv.
There Is stretch OF road sev.
eral miles from Keokuk reached from
the Hilton road here which is a ter.
ror to automobiles. There is a sandy
stretch where the road is narrow
which has never been passed by an
automobile, 1t Is claimed. Autoists
have tried time and again to go
through the sand there but no car
has yet been found which can do 1t.
John De Jong, the grocer. has
taken over the stock OF Reiner Broth
ers. 1926 Main street. Everything the
best In goods and treatment. He so
licits your patronage. Phones 81 and
631.-Adv.
-Keokuk has been visited today
by noted gunner and holder of sew
eral shooting titles In the country in
the parsonage Of j. Landon Head,
district manager of the u. M. c..
Remington Arms Co. Mr.. Head who
is a native of Moberly, Mo-, has held
several championships for shot gun
craftsmanship and has taken honors
in international shoots The gun
man was an interested spectator at
this afternoons ball game and the
guest Of Ralph B. Ross while in the
city.
An American automobile that
George Lock had just purchased sec
ond hand from ali eastern owner,
was badly damaged along the left
running board and had the wind shield
smashed Monday evening in Rand
park. Joe Burk was running the ma
chine and in rounding one of the
| SOlnSIS Lie pain, 5IItlCh
a tree. The machinery was not dam
aged but the frame work and dash
on the front of the auto were SO bad
ly wrenched and torn loose that the
crippled machine had to be towed to
the Lock garage at Third and Johnson.
The Iowa weather crop bulletin
for the week ending July 81 has just
been issued as follows: The past weeh
has been moderately cool and pleas
ant, with marked deficiency of rain
fall over the southern half Of the
state, where the average amount or
precipitation was only .04 inch. Ere
quent and well distributed showers
prevailed over the northern half OF
the state, with an average of 81 inca
for the week. Haying is practically
finished and the bulk of the small
grain is in the shock. ThTeshing if,
being rushed and early reDorts indi.