The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-23
CITY NEWS.

4 Silks dry cleaned G. &
Go to Sherwood for harness.
Tho warm weather helps the poor
and increases the coal surplus.
Hat feathers cleaned and dyed
/ G. & j., 914 Main. Phone 274
You should worry. Winter Will
be here. Get in your coal supply.
will not pay any more bills con
tracted by my wife, Phoebe Wahrer.
III. J. Wahrer.
/ Mr.. r. ]. Lamb is i'll at his home.
VIII not be able to resume business
ifor few days.
Ladies: You are invited to call
and inspect our latest patterns for
made-toorder suits. Wilbat. 1l05
| Main.
| There goes your hat. That was
the admonition received by many ped
estrians last Friday during the pre-
vailing high wind.
II you are undecided where to
worship on the Sabbath, why not go
to the United Presbyterian church
corner of Blondeau and Ninth?
/ "A special Thanksgiving program
will be presented in Westminster
Sabbath school this morning, under
the arrangement of Mrs. Leonard
Matless.
Il. B. Boswell, of Quincy. we'll
known in this city. has been appoin-
ted by Governor Dunno as a delegate
to the National Rivers and I5arbors
convention that meets in Washington
next month.
"A change In the weather so that
the kind furnished will be of much
colder kind will be appreciated. not
only BY the coal men but by the mer-
chants who deal in furs and overcoats
and winter apparel
a nice photograph would make a
very appropriate gift and be very
much appreciated by your family and
friends. It is only FIVE weeks until
Christmas. Anschutz has all the lat
est styles and finishes now.
The Quincy merchants are GER
tainly striving for business and try
ling to make that city big trading
point. One of the daily papers OF
that city last Friday carried forr full
page advertisements for Quincy NOR
Ichants.
The keokuk acauaintances of D..
iL. Heinsheimer, of Glenwood, presi-
detn of the Iowa Bankers Associa-
ltion, will be pleased to learn that he
Is recovering rapidly from a serious
surgical operation He is in Chi
cago hospital.
-Buggies Sherwood sells them
Some holiday shopping has start.
ed on what may be termed the install
ment plan. That is occasional pur
chases are being made from time to
time and this method will certainly
reduce the rush always prevalent dur
ling the few days preceding Christmas.
s Phone 274 We call for your gar
i ments for cleaning and dyeing. G.
& J.
4 Splendid progress is being made
by the contractors on the new Masonic
temple. The stone for the Blondeau
street side is in place for the hrst
story and enough has developed to
j Indicate that the building is going to
be one OF the most handsome in the
city.
i Governor Clarke has named dele
gates to the national rivers and har-
bors congress to be held in Wash ng
ton December 8 to 5. w. c. Cross
is the delegate named for Burlington
John Downs for Fort Madison, 2. E.
Egan for Burlington and John De
Witt for Keokuk.
New passenger equipment order.
ed by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa
Fe includes twenty-four chair cars
thirty smoking cars, thirty-f1v
coaches. ten baggage cars, fifteen jim
Crow cars. fifteen diners, ten parlor
cars and the same number of com
posite cars. The Pullman company Is
constructing ffty-eight all-steel sleep
: ing cars for the Santa Fe.
Henry J. Cusick, of the Burling
ton bridge, in making up his annual
report, says among other things: The
water has been very favorable the
past season for the passage of boats
due to the influence exerted by the
Keokuk dam. and according to river
men, the water is as low now as II
will get The reason assigned fol
the slight difference in the stage Of
the water from day to day at this
point is that the men at the loci
close the turbines at night and this
opens the gates. They have not as
yet become well enough used to the
working of these gates to open then
just far enough to keep the stage O
the water at one level, but this viii
be the case during the coming year
At times the past few months ths
gates have been opened too wide o.
not wide enough, and this caused
| fluctuations almost daily in thu