The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-01
CITY NEWS.

Buy harness at SheIWoou - 49, AZ =
New Year watch parties were
numerous last night.
Business men will soon begin
their annual inventory work
Auto blankets at Sherwood's. -
i Adv.
Human yanausdall, Keokuk, r f
\ d. No. 2. is assessor for the coming
year for jackson township outside
Il and S. H. Johnston for the city OF
h Keokuk.
4 Look. Best 1pringfeld lump coal
4 $3.50 per ton ]. c. McManns Con
1 strUction Co Phone 2l5.
4 "A large number Of automobile VS.
iiors came to Keokuk today to see
4 the dam. The fine condition OF the
roads makes automobile riding real
pleasure and now that the farmers
h have more time they are making fire.
1 Quent auto trips.
--Keokuli Camp NJ. ". A. No. 621
Will hold It's regular meeting tonight
at Woodman nall. All members are
requested to be present.-Advertise-
Iment.
Next week begin the special serv-
ices in the Trinity Methodist Episco-
pal church and the week OF prayer at
the other churches of the ministerial
|Iassociation in this city. The program
includes services for each night of the
week except Saturday.
Have harness repaired at Sher-
woods.-Adv.
Joe Martin OF Houston, Texas, who
has been in the city for q few days
visiting with relatives and friends,
will leave In short time for his
southwest home MI. Martin is one
of number of former Keokuk boys
living in Houston and he has promised
to look up the Keokuk colony in Hous-
ton and send The Gate City a letter.
giving interesting information about
our former citizens, 1t will be read
with interest
Regular meeting OF Hermann
Lodge No. 116, /. o. o. F. tonight, 8
o'clock. Visiting brothers cordially In
vited-Advertiieme
One good resolution to be adopt
ed and faithfully kept this year will
be for the business men to refrain
from sweeping waste paper or refuse
into the streets, and another good
move will be to enforce the city or
dinence against throwing handbills
and advertising matter promiscuously
about the city. It Is impossible to
have beautiful city unless it is a
clean one.
Regular meeting OF Keokuk Aerie.
4 No. $50. :. 0. e. tonight at Eagles
Hall, 523 Main at S o'clock Visit.
ifg brothers always welcome Chas
I A. Noekes, secretary.-Ady.
The troubles of the postofice of
1 hcials growing out OF the complicated
parcels post have already begun. a
I number Of people have asked for con
! signments of the stamps and wish tc
weigh the parcels themselves and
nail them This can not be done. Not
only must the packages be mailed al
the postofice but there are 80 many
zones in the graduate system OF
Il charging that It would be impossible
L for one who has not studied the mat
1 ter with great care to place the cor
II rect amount of postage on the pack.
II age.
A fifteen year old boy who gives
Il his name as Earnest Swanson was
found in rooming house in the city
suffering from a bad cold which
~ oc1- -
He was taken to the hospital and
III when he RECEIVERS some effort will be
y made to help him. He says he is ar
II orphan and has one sister who is a
II missionary in Australia. He left this
II home of his uncle at Eileric, Ia, TO,
what reason is not known, and came
II here to work in factory. He was
IN receiving S. week wages and coult
II barely support himself.
i There is less excuse for mar
: being out of work here in KeokuI
than in almost any other city in The
3 country. Yet the city is literally in
g tested with able bodied besgars
q They apply to the city and count,
q jails for shelter and beg food from
a homes. Many OF them come her,
81 cstensibly to work but soon tire OF tn,
D exertion and 60 back to begging. The,
n have number of cleTer schemes. On,
OF the best is to clean up little bi
4 and go around to kind hearted ladie
& and solicit money to help pay for thei
Il college education. They usually ex
& tract twenty-five Or fifty cents from
3 some kind hearted lady.and leave he
q a little slip of paper testifying to he
3 magnaminous spirit. More than on
b Keokuk lady has given money to som
tramp who had worked this scheme.