The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-08
CITY NEWS.
--Buggies buy of Sherwood.
krauf at Tmmegart'S.

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Holland kraut at Immegarts.
| -Aspirants for the Keokuk post
office are expected to hear something
coon.
-Keokuk friends are receiving. sou
venir post cards from DR.. W. P. Sher-
lock, who is visiting in Silver City,
New Mexico.
The Iowa State Poultry Associa,
tons twanty-second annual show has
closed at Des Moines. Davenport gets
the 1914 convention.
The hotel registers are beginning
/, to show an Improvement after the
holiday slump. Travelling men are on
the road again and hotel registers
show the improvement.
Regular meeting OF keoknh
lodge. No. 100, B. P. o. E.. tonight al
I S o'clock, Elks' hall, Sixth and Blon
deau streets Initiation and social
session. Visitors invited.
Regular meeting OF Puckechetuca
encampment No. z, /. O. O. F. al
Odd Fellows hall at s o'clock tonigh;
tc .ttend,-Advertiseme
Annual midwinter numbers Of Cali
fornia papers are being received by
Keokuk people who have friends and
relatives in California. The publica-
lions are very attractive and have the
pulling power.
The fellow who makes the wheels
go round is the fellow who is doing
something even when business hest
tates. There is no better business
power than the daily newspaper. Get
your advertisements in it and bring
good times.
The Burlington Gazette makes the
prediction that the Iowa federal APP
pointments will be made next week
and ventures the prediction that
Nick Reed will be the marshal.
Claude Porter, the attorney and E. r.
Moore, the marshal.
Seal Shipt oysters at Immegart's.
Quincy is wrestling with the
proposition as to whether it is best to
adopt the commission form of city
government or continue under the old
aldermanic way. The vote will be
taken this spring and both sides are
active.
Masonic: Special meeting Of Har
din Lodge No. 80. A. F. & a. NJ. Friday
evening, January 9, 1914 at 7:30
o'clock. Work on second degree. Wis
iting brethren fraternally invited to at
tend. BY order of the w. NJ. G. G.
Meister. secretary.
-Harness-buy of Sherwood
The adjourned session Of tie an
nual meeting Of the Central Associa-
ton will be held either on the fifteenth
or on the nineteenth of this month
was the announcement made by Presi
dent Justice this morning A definite
decision on the date will be made
within few days. Mr. Justice return
ed last night from Cincinnati where he
attended the annual gathering OF the
National Commission as a member of
a committee from the national board.
Auto robes-buy of Sherwood.
One Of the handsomest, as well as
one of the most instructive calendars
we have seen for this year, is that
sent out by the White & Wyckoff
Company, makers Of w.
& w. fine stationery. Holyoke, Mass.
The large type, the featuring of holt
days and notable days of the year, in
three-color process printing, makes the
col Hnr Al
will be mailed upon receipt of 10
cents in coin or U. S. stamps. or for 10
bands taken from W. G. w. stationery.
--Keokuk soldiers VIII be Interested
in bill that Representative Towner
will introduce in the house next week
providing for the monthly payment OF
pensions. He finds much demand for
such legislation and believes 1t
would benefit Old soldiers. Another
bill Judge Towner will introduce pre-.
vents postmasters who are soldiers
of the civil or Spanish wars from be.
ing discharged without cause or on
account of age and exempts them
from civil service examinations.
aoi James SoiinotdH, WHO mas
been resident of Keokuk for many
years, will on next Saturday celebrate
his eightieth birthday. He begun
preaching the gospel fifty-elght years
ago in his own school room in Winter
set, Iowa, and since that time has
served Christian churches in Iowa,
Nebraska, Colorado, Missouri and Hin
OILS. He has been an active man all his
life, saw active service in the civil
war and is proud of his country and
his religious record. Elder Connoran
has decided to keep open house next
Saturday at his home, 1908 Blondeau
street, and will be pleased to have his
friends call on him.