The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-04
CITY NEWS.

Auto robes at Sherwood's.
Read Sullivan & Auwerda's ad If
| interested in suits or coats.
! u. P. bazaar and supper Friday.
Dec. 5. Sale, O'clock; supper, $3.50
to 7:30. Csc.
Buy your wood, coal and fuel OF
VIM. Mullikin, successor to c. Schaef.
ier, I'LL Main street.
The regular monthly meeting OF
the Benevolent Union will be held
! Friday morning at 10 o'clock at the
home
Read Sullivan & Auwerda's ad II
interested In suits or coats.
Every day is good shopping day
now-the crowds are not what they
i will be next week. Why not do your
shopping early?
Best Springfield lump coal 1925
/ & Co. Phone 215.
The Christmas rush is beginning
to show itself at the express and
postoffices. You can avoid the crowd
iby sending your packages early.
Best Springfield lump coal 1925
per ton in load lots. j. G. McManus
& Co. Phone 215.
Last year you swore by all that
! was holy that you would. And that's
! why the wife and the kids and you
will do your Christmas shopping
early.
u. P. Reynard, the veterinarian,
will attend the annual state veterinary
meeting at Chicago. Will be home
Saturday.
Remember that when you make
your Christmas investments get
something for the poor children who
will not be remembered unless
| through your thoughtfulness and gen.
crosby.
Read Sullivan & Auwerda's ad If
! interested in suits or coats.
Forty-nine new banks, organized
under the state laws, is the record
| for year in Iowa. The capital stock
OF these banks was larger by $685.
| 500 on November IS, 1913, than It
was on November 26, 1912. Keokuk
furnished one Of the forty-nine. in
the new Security State bank.
DO not fail to attend the Edison
concert at 7:3O tonight at the Edison
/ shop, SIP Main street.
/ There will be meeting OF MEM
| bers and, all interested In the United
| Charities Association at the Y. w. c..
A Tburc5or o,yopip0 nao ar NJ
! s o'clock, to hear the report of the
nominating committee, elect directors
and perfect organization and plan of
/ work.
Regular meeting of Puckechetuck
encampment No. Z. /. o. O. F. at
Odd Fellows hall at o'clock tonight
Visiting brethren fraternally invited
tc -ttend- Advertisement.
4 Burlington may ask for the next
meeting of the regatta OF the Missis-
sippi Valley Power Boat Association.
The last regatta was held in Keokuk.
The meeting at Clinton on December
18th, will select the time and place
for holding the next regatta. Keokuk
has been asked to send a delegate to
this meeting.
Regular meeting OF Keokuk
lodge. No. 1o6, B. P. o. E.. tonight at
Is o'clock, Elks' hall, Sixth and Blon-
deau streets Initiation and social
session. Visitors invited
The amount of advertising until
after the holidays will be large. Copy
for all advertisements should be IN
the hands of the printer the day be
fore it is to appear, and this is es
pecially true of large advertising
copy.
IT is the impression among poll
ticians that Dan Hamilton of Sigour
ney will get the appointment for dis
trict United States attorney for the
southern district OF Iowa, the place
for which John e. Craig of this city
Claude Porter of Centerville, and l.
T. Richmond Of Abba have bean as
pirants.
DIR. P. D. Gaunt has located in
this city with Office rooms Nos. 2 and
3 in the Hawkes. building, corner
Eighth and Main street Dr.. Gaunt
comes from Kechi. Kansas. where he
has practiced his profession for sew
eral years. He is gradual, of Her
ing medical college of Chicago and
just last fall took a six months post
graduate course In the Hahnemanu
hospital of Rochester, New York. He
makes a specially of diseases OF
women and children.
Deposits in Iowa state and saw
fings banks and trust companies show
an increase OF s21.593,722.12 in the
last fiscal year This is given In tbs
statement of the state banking de
partment for the business closing No
vember 10. 1913, compared with the
statement of November IS, 1912. TIE
only item that shows a decreess i
that of credits subject to sight draf
under the head of assets, whcl
shows s2,oS5,f44e6 less than Las
year. Total increase, assets and la
lti+,oe is so7 150 900 al