The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-13
CITY NEWS.
The hotels are well patronized.

- ne nOLelS dIo We'll pdtioHiDcu.
Get Sherwood's prices on harness
and buggies. -Advertisement.
One car load of potatoes was sold
at the Des Moines city market Satur-
day at seventy cents per bushel.
Mrs. R. H. Starr of Keosauqua is
seriously i'll at the home of her daugh-
ter, Mrs. ]. F. Tweedy, 1000 Johnson
street.
Phone 81 for case of Leisy
beer when you're out.-Adv.
This is good time to begin
course in the savings bank practice.
The course is recommended especially
to young men.
The thirty-sixth annual conference
OF the Iowa Unitarian association will
convene in the Unitarian church at
Humboldt, Oct. 1917.
A party of Keokuk gentlemen
spent the day across the river trying
to induce the fish inhabitating thu
mississippi to allow themselves to
be hooked. The success of the trip
will be announced later. There can
be no failure.
A noticeable thing about the big
power house In the river is that the
flags are kent waving on top OF II
every day. They are taken down only
in the worst kind of weather. Most
of the time there is breeze which
keeps them flying in 1t. 1t Is GUS
tom which everyone will approve.
Bankers and merchants are warn,
ed to be on the lookout for smooth
swindler who Is expected to make his
next appearance in one OF the Iowa
cities. He has in turn successfully
worked Kansas, Missouri and Nebras
ka and he seems to be headed this
way. The stranger gives the name OF
F. A. Pendarvis and draws checks ION
the Farmers State bank of Canton
Kans. There are no funds in the bank
for such person.
Former Pennington and Van Bur
en- county residents who now make
their home in Keokuk will be interest
ed to learn that a deal has been closed
whereby George W. Neafle becomes
the owner of the Pennington Republi-
can. Mr.. Neafle proposes to convert
the Republican into democratic pa
per. making it the official organ Of the
democratic party In the county. Mr..
Neafle has been foreman in the News.
Republican office since its beginning
four years ago.
Phone "a for a case OF Leisy
beer when you're out.-Adv.
Property owners In Keokuk will
be interested in new law passed by
the last legislature changing some OF
the methods of assessing for street
paving. This new law, which be-
comes effective January /, 1914, pro
vides that the paving of street inter
sections hereafter shall be paid by
property owners within 300 feet OF
such intersection. Heretofore the In
tersections have been paid for out o.
the general fund.
The Burlington Hawk-Eye Of Sun
day says: The Stars and Stripes Chap
ter, D. A. R., will be represented al
the coming conference in keokuk, DC
tober 21-23, by the following members
Mrs. Cate Gilbert Wells, regent; Mrs
j. A. Uhler, Mrs N. ]. Burt, Mrs. o. E
Stewart, Mrs. G. A. Chilgren, and Miss
Abbie McFlynn. The principal bust
ness OF the meeting will be the dedica
ton Of monument erected to Chic
keokuk, In Rand Park, October %.
The suggestion made not once blu
often by L. A Hamill that Keokul
have get-together dinner monthly o
weekly as the wisdom Of the peopl
might determine seems to be accepte'
! in Red Oak as the proper idea. A get
/ together dinner was held in that cit.
last Saturday at which large mum
Der of farmers were present. g. A
! Wrightman, well known In Keokuk
was one of the speakers. The meetin
was profitable to all Of the partic
pants.
/ According to the Burlington
Hawk-Eye, Manager Walsh OF the Bul
I lington street railway company is yer
anxious to tie onto the Keokuk pow
er. The Hawk-Eye says: Mr.. Walls
and his staff are pushing the work O
the new line and the installation OF ms
chinery and transmission wires 70
the current from the Keokuk dam a
rapidly as possible. He has doubl
incentive for energetic effort, as III
der his contract with the MISSISSIPPI
River Power Co., he began paying &c
the current from October 1, althoug
he has not yet received one solitar
watt, to say nothing of the munit
cence OF kilowatt.