The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-04-17
CITY NEWS.

correct.
Trimmed hats at half price Satur-
day at La Vogue.
Get the refrigerator ready Tne
ice man will call on you.
Don't fail to see our $3.50 line OF
hats this week. Karll's, TIA Main.
There's true economy in Ewers
Mccarthy Co.'S boys suits. A base
ball suit free.
--AEbor day. Brighten Up day
opening game day; looks Ike busy
times for Keokuk. .
Choicest veal. beef. pork and
lamb at JOS Haubert's reliable meat
market, 7Oe Main street.
w. c.. WEIGH. superintendent OF
the Hannibal division OF the O." was
in the city today looking after COM
pany business
Mrs. Collingwood Tucker and
Miss Cora Parsons will give concert
for children and their grown up reia-
tiyes Y. w. C.. A., Sat. Apr Is at p. m
-Puckechetuck lodge No. 43 meets
every Friday night at 8 o'clock All
members requested to be pres BY
order OF noble grand. Geo. lmmeeart.
secregatry. Initiation.
Regular meeting Keokuk council
No. 536 tonight at s O'Clock. Hawkes.
hall, Eighth and Main. Visiting breth'
rem fraternally invited to attend. J.
NJ. Fulton, regent; J. I. Annable. sec
tary.
Nomination papers for Clifford
Thorne, who aspires to the once OF
railroad commissioner. we're being
circulated in Keokuk today. Mr..
Thorne is at present chairman OF the
board OF Iowa commissioners and
well known in this city,
Julius Rosenwald, president OF
Sears, Roebuck Co., In q sworn stats
ment says his income is 100000 q
year, or about $500 . day. which
causes the Donnellson Review to re-
mark: Most OF this money comes from
the people OF the west. to the detr1-
ment OF the local stores, as well IS
to the detriment of the people them
selves, for upon the prosperity OF your
business men rests the prosperity OF
.ha whole community.
Everybody who has been out re-
9orts that the country roads arc IN
,erfect condition and the people IN
The country, who have an auto, ana
here are comparatively few who have
none, regret the fact that they are
so busy that they are unable to get
out as often as they would Ike.
H. 8. Payne, who is promoting
the interurban railroad between Fort
Madison and Keokuk, was In the city
Yesterday, soliciting funds for the
new road. No money subscribed for
this road is to be paid until cars are
actually in operation over the lin 2.
Mr.. Payne's proposition looks like .
perfectly safe one and it is absolutely
certain that the road proposed would
e Of inestimable value to this city.
It is to BE- hoped that Mr.. Payne VIII
succeed.
Don't fail to see our $3.50 line Of
Eats this week. Karll's. TIA Main.
-Remorseless Rainey, says the
Donnellson Review, wants to recal
the Keokuk dam, as it were. He says
the power company have "hornswog
sled" St. Louis into SO year con
tract. and that it isn't doing anyone
in the Mississippi valley any good
The congressman has another CUES:
coming. II he were below the dan
next summer with a ten cent nsnlns
role and a can of worms, and hauies
IN the finny denizens Of the deep 10
few hours, he would realize tina
the people Of this section know goo
thing when they see it. The idea Q
spoiling a good fishing place just 10
a little $4,000, 900 dam is prepostel
GUS.
Phone 81 for case OF Leis
. beer when you're out.
Burlington is wrestling with IN
heating problem. 1t is one OF the rev
:. cities having a central heating plant
!. It appears that the building OF tn
Keokuk dam has had something
do with putting thu system on tn
blink. After reciting number Q
r trails through which the plant ha
.passed the Hawk-Eye says: NOV
k comes another change In the hfstor
of this enterprise. The great wats
: mower at Keokuk threatens to win
0 up the central heating supply bus
/. ness. The electric curr snt from Tn
!. gigantic dynamos at Keokuk make
" the steam power in the Burl1nsto
Il plant no longer necessary, except a
A a res srye force in case OF accident 9
!. the power dam or to the transmlss1o
g lines. No steam power In use ner
t means no exhaust steam, no by prt
duct" and that spells no profit fror
]. a central steam supply system. Th
e Peoples Gas & Electric company
e puzzled to know what to do about !
i. 1t cannot afford to operate the plan
n at a loss: on the other hand the con
II pany has a large amount of capita
II invested in the plant. TO cease
n onerate the system would CONVEX