The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-27
CITY NEWS.

on getting it.
| Automobile larties who We're driv.
ing IN the vicinity of Montrose yester
day report heavy rain in that sec
ition.
Sarah Jane Long, an old resident
of Clark county, near Alexandria, died
at her home in Centralia, Washington
| last night OF heart failure. Funeral
win be held Tuesday morning at ten
o'clock from her home in Centralia.
The retail grocers will close Wed
nesday, July 20, at II a. m. on &C
count of excursion to Bluff Park. Pat
rons are requested to have their ord
ers In not later than 9 a. m.
-Puritas beer should be the beer
for Keokuk people. Phone 1879.
Application was made in the dis
trict court today by Mrs. Lillian e.
Whitney for the appointment OF a
temporary administrator for the es-
tate Of the late Howard Whitney.
The time for probating the will was
set for the September term OF court
Mrs. Whitney was appointed temper
airy Administrative.
DIR. G. H. Sumner, secretary Of
the state board of health. has issuec'
a booklet advising residents OF Iowa
to wage war on rats to protect the
state from the bubonic plague. The
state official fears that rats may carry
the disease up the river from New
Orleans, where the plague has ap-
peared.
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beer when you're ont.
-Nauyoo Independ ent: The new
Nauvoo steamboat landing has been
completed. Mayor Hobbs notified the
steamboat lines to that effect, and q
letter from Capt. Blair OF the White
Collar line states that his boats will
begin to land there in few days.
The Streckfus line steamboats, are ex-
pected to land, there, too.
Order today that case Of Puritas
dark lager or pale beer. Phone 139.
Arthur L. Barkey of the United
States department Of justice was In
Shenandoah Thursday taking deposit
tions preparatory to starting suit to
divorce the Keokuk & Western rail
way from the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy. 1t is charged that the Keo.
kuk & Western was acquired by the
Burlington in restraint Of trade in
violation OF the Sherman law.
Phone "a for case OF Leisy
beer when you're out.
"A reader of The Gate City who
is visiting in northern city missed
a few copies OF the paper and re-
quested the missing copies be sent.
In closing a letter the subscriber
took occasion to say that The Gate
City for good news beats tho pagers
lh the city where she is visiting and
that she was proud OF the Keokuk'
product.
Drink Puritas beer If you want q
good, pure and wholesome beverage.
Dark lager or pale. Phone 139 for
case today.
There is positively a water fam
inc in this section Of the country,
says the Nauvoo Independent Many
farmers are out Of water and the
watering OF stock is a problem. OF
course we have the river handy here,
and many are hauling water from
there, but farther away farmers are
up against hard proposition. Many
wells have gone dry. We know Of
several instances where parties hav-
ing good wells are selling water to
their neighbors.
"A brief conception OF the vast
number of automobiles now owned
this section OF Illinois
may be obtained by the statement OF
attendance at the circus IN Quincy
The trains into that city
which usually haul a circus crowd OF
5, 900 to 5000 took in only about 1.100.
yet the attendance at both perform
ances Of the show was normal. The
people got there just the same, but
many Of them went in their automo-
biles. Dozens upon dozens OF cars
through Camp Point, show
lay, enroute to Quincy, and, those
who were on the road that day say
he automobiles we're thicker than
lies.-Camp Point Journal
Sundays Register and Leader con- |.
aims a two column picture Of Frank |
Sagel, dean OF the college OF music /
t Highland Park College. Dean Nagel /
, a former resident and teacher OF /
his city. He has seen fifteen classes !
-raduate at Highland Park, and the
register and Leader comments on this
act in the following: Fifteen classes
ave graduated under Dean Nagel
fnce he became q member OF the
aculty Of the college, so next Wednes-
ay evening when the annual alumni
anquet will be held there will be
resent representatives from each OF
be fifteen classes to do honor to the
ean.s years OF effective service not
My in his own department, but on be- !,
alf Of the college as a whole. Il
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