The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-07
CITY NEWS.

PMS, MO-, are making trip from k.eO-
kuk to st. Paul by steamer.
Ladies' white and grey buck boots
pow $3.50 at Millers ADV.
1t took the fire department over
an hour to wet dump fire sufficiently
to put out the blaze, just before noon.
The alarm was turned in at 1880.
The supposition is that some one set
fire to the dump.
All ladies' oxfords now $3.50 at
Millers ADV.
w. 3. Albert Of Lansing, Ia, and
p. 1. Tubbs OF Burlington, Ia, fish
commissioners have been in the city
IN the last few days consulting Dep
uty Reichmann on conditions In the
Mississippi and Des Moines rivers.
Phone "a for case Of Leisy
beer when you're out.-Adv.
DEPUTY clerk OF the federal court,
Wahlgren was notified that the $4,000
bond required of the steamer G. w.
Fill while the damage suit against
the steamer OF 3. L. Edwards Is pend
ing, would be filed today with Mr..
Hutchinson as surety.
News dispatches this morning
announced that receiver would be
appointed today for the American Wat
or and Guarantee Co. of Pittsburgh,
Pa. a s24.00o.ooo company which owns
the local water works plant. 1t is
not expected that the appointment will
interfere with the construction work
now under way by the company here,
however.
II. A. Roberts and D. A. Young
have moved to 402 Main street. Phone
217.-Adv.
Copies OF the new laws OF the
state which went into effect Friday
were received is the city today. Be-
cause OF the delay in getting the
laws here by the time they went into
effect the officials were placed in
deep water as to just what was the
nature of the laws the, wished to
enforce
Drive your horse to Sherwood
buggy.-Adv.
The First Baptist church Sunday
school had an attendance OF 32o yes
terday and the First Christian church
an attendance of 30s This attend.
ance equalled the expectations OF the
leaders for the first Sunday after the
contest It is practically double the
attendance OF each school before the
contest.
Buy fly net for your horse at
Sherwood sAdv.
Oscar Pinion Of this city and his
friend Lee Brown OF Kansas City,
gave a swimming exhibition at the
K. & H. bridge yesterday afternoon
before large number of spectators
Brown dived from the very top OF the
bridge while Pinion dived from the
railing over the foot path. Both are
expert swimmers and remained In the
water good while entertaining the
spectators.
All mems oxfords now $500 at
Millers.-Adv.
Three steamboats,, the @. w. Hill,
Black Hawk and Keokuk brought
iabout fifteen hundred excursionists to
the city yesterday. The Hill had
about 800 aboard, the Black Hawk, 100.
and the Keokuk. 500. The excursion
business was not as heavy as the Sun
day before, when five steamers touch
ed port here with more than $500 ex-
Icursionists.
The new studio In the Estes
building is the only studio in the
city now making post cards. 3 for 25c.
finished while you wait.-Adv.
The steamer Dubuque took 100
excursionists to Burlington yesterday
morning at s:45 and returned last
night at 8. The steamer Quincy ar
rived at Keokuk about noon toda-.
!twenty-three hours late, something
having gone wrong in the wheel house
when the packet reached Quincy. Cap
tain Joe Streckfus was expected to
tcome as far as Keokuk ws,s1 the boat.
The ST. Paul will enter the trade next
Friday, running north from st. Louis
I on the initial trip. Nearly all Of the
staterooms have been booked.
The Upper Room Mission. Open
every evening at 81 North Fifth
street. This mission teaches the de-
liverance from sin. Paul asks the
question: Shall we continue in SIM"
A great many church peaople by doc
Urine and practice would answer the
question by saying: Eyes, we must
continue In sin" But Paul says:
God forbid" He says: sour old man
was crucified with Christ that the
body Of sin might be done away, that
so we should no longer be in bondage
to sim" "Sin shall not have doni-
nation over you" "This is the will
OF God even your santification." Jesus
said: BE We perfect even as your
heavenly father is perfect" F. A..
McGaw.