The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-11
CITY NEWS.
1t pays to buy harness at Sher-

~ pays ~ hdlACoS at 6hCi-
wood s.-Advs
Born this morning to Mr.. and
Mrs. William Kilgus, a baby boy.
Office boy wanted. Keokuk Elec-
trio Co.-Adv.
If the old saying is true that:
April showers bring May flowers
there should be plenty of flowers In
keokuk next month.
; Save dollars when you buy har-
ness or buggies at Sherwood s-Ady
florence Post No. 2, G. A. R has
given $40 to the relief fund being
raised by Keokuk for the Ohio and
Indiana flood sufferers.
You'll get a choice chicken or a
/ tender roast of meat a. Markley's.-
/ Adv.
A freak OF the recent tornado at
Council Bluffs, Iowa, has been receiv
! ed at the Iowa State Insurance COM
pany in policy which was found
several hundred feet from the owners
| wrecked house, pinned to the ground
| with a stick through the center of it.
Congregations market at the
Home Tea Co. Saturday afternoon
Adv.
(, Reports emanating from Des
| Moines say that the Rock Island is
planning to electrify the Keokuk- Des
| Moines branch OF that road in the
!: near future. The report is to the
| effect that power will be secured from
the big dam.
| Let JOS Haubert take your order
for a choice roast of beef, lamb, veal
/ or pork for your Sunday dinner
] ADV.
Orders have been received at the
postofice to keep record Of the
number of parcel post packages de-
4 livered in the city for period Of one
week, beginning Monday. and the
manner in which delivered, whether
| by carrier on foot or with vehicle.
This information is for congress bear
! ing on future regulations and changes
of the system.
Buy feed, coal and wood OF VIM
Mullikin. Successor to c. Schaffer
| Phone 1s6D.-Adv.
i A mass meeting OF citizens was
held in Muscatine Wednesday evening
to protest against the lowering of the
tariff on buttons, declaring it will ruin
the industry. They ask the rate as
/ demanded by local button workers,
per cent per line specific and fifteen
per cent ad valorem. Muscatine viii
probably send delegation to Wash
ington.
1t is the finishing touches Of fash
Ion detail that make Ewers Mccarthy
Co.'S clothes so remarkably attrac
tive to the good dresser.-Adv.
Rev. E. B. Newcomb is the retir
ing president of the Iowa state society
of the Sons Of the American Revolu
ton and his successor will be elected
at the annual state meeting at De.
Moines on April 49, Many prominen
speakers are on the program and ;
number OF people from this vicinit.
will attend the meeting.
Every boy who cares abou
clothes that are good and keep thei
looks long knows Ewers McCarth.
Co.'S store-Adv.
On Friday. April 25. Prof. P.
Hayden will take four of his musi
pupils to Kahoka 10 demonstrate Ii
the public schools there some OF hi
principles of teaching. The fou
pupils who will demonstrate are chos
en- from Miss Bindel's room of tn
l Garfield school: Katherine Elder. Coz
rine Weber, Florence Alling and Dol
otily Norton. Mrs Frank Weber vii
accompany the children.
BY attending the Hippodrome MAJ
inees, ladies may secure a beautiful
~ piece dinner set.
The bill for protecting the fla
against dissertation In Iowa passe
( the senate Yesterday, SO will becom
law. The bill was introduced !,
the house by Representative Grout {
/ Waterloo. The plan for having thi
/ bill become law originated in tn
: local D. A. r. chapter some four O
= five years ago and has been worke
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