The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-03-02
CITY NEWS.
ask for Piritas beer.
Have harness repaired at Shel

Always ask for Plritas beer.
Have harness repaired at Sher
woods.
do not delay. Begin using Ham
ills Steel-Cut Coffee"
When you are tired and need
rest you should drink a bottle OF Puri-
tas beer It's a great tonic.
The Burlington road was unable
to get all the ice wanted from this
locality but secured a very fine crop
from the northern lakes.
Auction sale all this week OF the
Elgin Jewelry Co.'s stock. Auction
sales, 2:3O and 1880 p. m. Daily. 5O2
Main street.
The Burlington Hawk-Eye says
that one OF the things Burlington can
be thankful for this month is the re-
duction in electric light rates.
"A marriage license was issued
late Saturday afternoon to George
Brammer. Al, Of Kahoka, and Miss
Rebecca Lsntzinger, "a, Of st. Louis,
Mo.
The discussion of building code
will be taken UP by the housing COM
mittee of the Industrial Association
at meeting called for five o'clock
| this afternoon
"A warranty deed was fled with
the recorder today in which Lulu B.
McGrath conveys to Elmer Reed OF
Montross Ia. the McGrath homestead
at Sixth and Concert streets. The con-
sideration was not given.
Still going on. Elgin Jewelry Co.'S
auction sale. Daily 2:S0 and 1880 p. M.
at 500 Main street
| Mrs. ]. Albert Miller, until re-
Gently engaged in active mission work
| in China made an address before the
| Womans Missionary society praise
/ meeting at the Westminster Presby-
1 terrain church, last night.
e. NJ. Warner, a Muscatine attor-
ney, in an address delivered recently
/ in that city, declared that the cells OF
! the prison at Fort Madison are too
\ small and insanitary for human be
! ings. Mr. Warner also deplored the
use OF contract labor systems In the
state prison at Fort Madison.
i Phone 81 for a case of Leisy
beer when you're out.
-Iowa's death rate per 1000 popu
4 lation during 1913 was 1.o0S. These
Figures are based on report of the
n1lrnbsr Of deaths in the state during
the past year, according to the re
4 port OF DR.. G. H. Sumner, secretary
OF the state board Of health, which
was issued Saturday The total mum
Der of deaths during the year wers
22,44S. OF these $3.50 were under one
year of age.
]. Keokuk friends of Attorney join
B. Sullivan will be interested to Learn
! that he has decided not to be can
didate again for senator from Poll
! county. He has served eight year
and his refusal to become candidat
again is due to thu removal of hi
partner, jerry B. Sullivan, to Ney
York City, thereby requiring Mr.. Sui
livan's time to look after his Law
business.
Burlington high school students
composing the physics class and thu
science club, we're the guests of thu
Peoples Gas and Electric Co. las
Saturday, visiting the West Burling
ton sub-station where electricity /
transmitted from the Keolluk dam. W
IT,. Kyle, the Burlington representa-
! tive of Stone 6 Webster, accompanie
the classes to the sub-station. Tn
: man in charge of the plant showed
!, the different pieces Of apparatus an
: explained the function Of each. HI
: showed how the two feeders" tn
wires from Keokuk, entered the built
: ing and how the power carried b
: them was put to use by means of til
: transformers. Only one of these feet
ers is used at time, the second on
: being for an emergency. The wa
! meter which marked off zigzag lin
= in red ink on a chart showing til
amount of power used every instar
- by the entire street car system (
: Burlington, was especially interestin
The wooden poles with which /
> turned on or off certain parts of til
apparatus, also were of interest tt
feeders from Keokuk carry 1l,0t
. volts each. Asked If 1t wasn't live
. there during thunderstorm, he sa
= it was rather. but also that it vi
. considered the safest kind OF pla
> to be under those conditions.