The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-21
CITY NEWS.

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| Advertisement
Hugey Russell has accepted pos
| ition with the Mas Bode Co.
| Cleo. Baldock, one of The Gste
City linotype operators, IS on the SICK
| list and unable to work.
| Go to Sherwood's for harness,
horse blankets and auto robes, 703
Main street
Il Bridge inspectors for the BUR
lington' have completed a TIP over
the system. inspecting the bridges.
!. Six baskets coal 81. Eaton, Red-4ai.
Advertisement.
Help the girls, entertain yours ell
at the concert and play tani hit,
burlington Concert Co.-Advertise
meae.
| The recent cold snap has imp-ov-
ed retail business very perceptibly.
Merchants are reporting big in
crease In trade
keokuk never looked better re-
marked former citizen as he walked
down Main street last evening. The
beautifully illuminated street prompt
ed the remark.
With the advent Of cold weather
the local charity and benevolent or
ganization will begin to put their
machinery in motion to relieve the
arnfortunates.
Regular meeting Loyal Order
of Moose. Kenkuk lodge No 704. to-
night at 5 O'Clock in Moose hall. Visit
ing brothers cordially invited A. L.
Laubersheimer. dictator Ed. S. LOT
ten. secretary.-Adv.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. S. Halsey, resid-
ing at 22nd and Palean street, are re-
joicing over the arrival of girl
baby. born this morning, weighing
ten and one-half pounds.
TWENTY-FIVE cents for one OF the
eest entertainments ever given In
Keokuk- Burlington Concert Co, Y.
| w. C. a. tonight -Adye- tisement
The Apo AMI fleet which
has been working for some time BE-
tween Keokuk and Quincy Is mo-"
! working near the latter city and last
week removed bar about seven miles
north of Quincy
The sudden change in the wea her
has driven some people who wa ked
down town into the street cars AS
result there is an Improvement in
the street car traffic
/ The Imperator, on recent tip,
brought safely cross the Atlantic
1881 persons-the greatest human
cargo ever carried By any seago' ng
vessel. OF these s,649 were pa SEN
gers and 1882 were crew.
With the erection of the Mas nj,
temple and the Cameron, Joyce and
Schneider building on Blondeau sire 1T
the block between Sixth and Seventh
Is busy one and promises to remain
busy for the next several months.
Perhaps some OF the Keokuk
hunters share the Imagination Of the
Oquawka hunters, as expressed In the
journal which says: Our hunt rs
are feeling indignant that they Should
he shut off from all hunting privileges
IN the Mississippi while the big club
owners and others on the Illinois river
and similar streams are privileged to
kill the limit in ducks and geese.
It's tough luck but as 1t is the law
We suppose they will have to stand
| for It,"
j The factory number index OF auto
! mobiles registered prior to Jan. I,
1913, was completed yesterday by the
motor car license department Of the
Secretary Of states Office It required
! $4,000 cards to record all automobiles
! licensed before the first of the year.
A large number of these cars We're
minus factory numbers and as a re-
suit the index is not complete. Under
/ the old registration law the owner
was not required to give his factory
number. None OF the 1913 registra-
4 tons has been recorded IN the index
/ system yet. The last number Issued
yesterday was 74,o49, or a total OF
69,049 automobiles as the nrst 5000
numbers were set aside for motor
cycles.
Reporting the foot ball game at
Quincy last Saturday between the
4 Keokuk and Quincy high school teams
the Herald of the latter city says:
/ "outgeneraled but not outplayed,
/ Quincy High was again beaten on
4 the football field at Baldwin park.
Saturday afternoon, when jenkins.
I the speedy quarterback of tho Keo-
kuk team intercepted, forward pass
and ran forty yards for q touchdown.
Huiskalnp kicked goal. Final RESULT
/ Keokuk z, Quincy 0. The sore,
however, Goes not tell the story OF
the game. Quincy outp'ayed Keok Tx
in the first two periods, and The bali
was in Keoknk territpry nearly the
I entire time. Once Quincy forced the
/ oval To Keokuk's 4-yard line. but poor
Judgment by the local quarterback and
a tumble gave the bali to the oppon-
ents."
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