The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-08-15
CITY NEWS.

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Hosiery sale tomorrow. Central.
ADV.
Send copy Of the special edition
| OF The Gate City to friend out-of-
town. Three cents in postage carries
| 1t.
Order spring chicken for Sunday
at Keokuk Market & Produce Com
lpany.-Adv.
The Gate City today issues It's
! special edition. Extra copies OF the
paper may be had for ten cents. The
postage necessary to carry them by
mail is three cents.
Special low prices on fly nets and
horse covers at Sherwood's, 70S Main
street. ADV.
Word was received by Thomas
Paul late last night that Attorney d.
F. Miller of Keokuk had won the fifty
yard dash in the sporting events at
the Mt Pleasant fair yesterday.
New dress gingham. 10 and 121sc
yard; large assortment The Central.
ADV.
The Quincy golf team will come
to Keokuk for match week from
Saturday. ]. p. Sheldon, captain OF
the Keokuk team, received word to
that effect today. and later will re-
ceived word as to the number OF play
ers Quincy viii bring up.
You buy choice spring chickens
at Jos. Haubert's, 700 Main street
| Adv.
Professor Hayden is especially
anxious that all girls who will take
part in the flower parade on August
l26 be at the Washington school on
Monday at 3 o'clock to hear announce
ments and plans. Mr.. Hayden will
tell OF the arrangements he is max
Ing In Chicago for the flowers.
! -Lelsy's bottle beer for home use
has no equal. Phone 81 for case
Adv
Members Of the Quincy Power
Boat club have given up their plan of
establishing camp on the Iowa shore
during the regatta. Jack Hase, com
modore Of the Quincy club will accept
an invitation to spend the week
aboard the launch RED Wingr with
officials of the Mississippi Valley Pow
er Boat association Other Quincy
people will probably live In private
tents during the carnival.
Miller's milwaukee beer for home
use. ]. F. Daugherty & Co.-Adv.
The melons received so far from
growers have shattered all predictions
as to scarcity of the crop this season.
Much has been said about the short
age of melons and it was predicted
that they would be few and high In
price. It is true that the melons Of
this years crop are not as large as
ithey were in former years but consid-
lering the prolonged draught better
crop could not be expected.
Puckechetuck lodge No. is meet.
every Friday night at o'clock. All
members requested to be present. BY
order OF noble grand. Geo. Tmmegart.
secretary. Initiation Work In third
ldegree.-Adv
-Jno. E. Craig returned this morn
ing from Des Monies where he at
tended the state convention OF the
Knights of Pythias as delegate of the
local lodge and as deputy Of the dir
trfct the local lodge is in. Rice Fl.
Bell also attended the sessions. he
being member OF the grand tribunal,
the body to which appeals from the
grand lodge are taken. Mr.. Bells
term expired with this convention
after service for several years.
Regular meeting KeoEuk Council
No. 536 tonight at o'clock, Tawke5'
hall. Eighth and Main. Visiting breth.
rem fraternally invited to attend. ].
NJ. Fulton. regent: J. l. Annable, sec
retary.-Ady.
The two excursions over the c..
B. & @. of yesterday is sure Indication
OF the number OF people who are look.
Ing forward to the celebration. The
two excursions were well patronized
by people within close radius OF
Keokuk but beyond seventy-five miles
the excursions were not so well nat
ronized. 1t is said that the reason
for the lack of patronage from dis.
lance was that the people in those
localities were waiting for the cele-
bration. Every day there is evidence
OF the wide spread interest the ceIe-
bration is creating.
-Leisy's bottle beer for Tome use
has no equal Phone "a for case
Adv.
The river is alive with parties
coming from the north to the south
this summer. The Muscatine Journal
| tells Of two parties on their wav to
Keokuk and lower river points: The
day before yesterday two young men
in sixteen foot canoe reached the
city from the northern waters bound
for st. Louis. They took on proyis.
ions and left here yesterday morning.
Yesterday afternoon two men from
Davenport stopped at the local wharf
on their way to Keokuk They we're
no dd1fnn a