The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-16
CITY NEWS.


Attend Ludwig's ten day shoe sale
now going on 1904 Main
Epworth used upright piano bar
gain. call at AS Main st.
Oranges are plentiful They are
cheaper than apples The sunkist is
Plentiful.
Hear Rev. H. T. jackson at the U.
p church next Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday evening.
The newspaper men of the city
will be given banquet this evening
at the Y. NJ. G. A.
Come and bring your friends to
the Edison concert tonight. E. U.
Thomas, at Westcott's.
BY product coke Is a good substi-
tute for anthracite coal. costs 500
per ton less. We have it under cover.
Chisholm & Evans.
-Puckechetuck lodge No. 43 meets
every Friday night at O'Clock. Ali
members requested to be present By
order OF noble grand. Geo. Immegart.
secretary. advertisement
Secretary of State w. S. Allen
has taken out nomination papers pre-
sraratory to entering the primary cam
paign for denomination to the position
he now holds. AS the secretary has
many personal friends in Keokuk his
nomination blanks will no doubt be
circulated in this city and signed
readily.
e. A. Howard, real estate and in
sdustrial agent for the Burlington and
known to number of teokuk ciIi-
zens, appeared before the Aurora city
council "Wednesday and announced
that the railroad company will begin
actual work of elevating the tracks
through Aurora early in the spring
and the cost will be sS,0Oo,o0O.
The pro and con of the commits
sion form Of government was discuss
ed at mass meeting held in Quincy
last Tuesday evening. The promoters
OF the change from the aldermanic to
the commission form admit their cam
i'aign needs help or it will fail The
proposition to change the municipal
form Of government is being opposed
Ey the Journal and Wing.
Chris Trump of Fort Madison,
was in the city today and announced
his candidacy for the office of sheriff
on the republican ticket. His an
nouncement appears elsewhere in this
issue. Mr.. Trump Is one OF the we'll
known republicans and citizens or
Lee county and has on former occa-
sions filed the Office of sheriff with
credit to himself and his party.
COMMITTEES from the Iowa Retail
Druggists Association, sne State
Pharmaceutical Association and the
Burlington druggists held a meeting
in Burlington yesterday to make ar
rangements for the state convention
that meets in Burlington June 8, 10,
and IL. G. A. Kiedaisch Of Keokuk
was present and invited the conven-
tion to spend day at the dam and
in the Gate City of Iowa. The invita-
ton was accepted and the river trip
to Keokuk will be made one of the
big social features of the convention.
-Keokuk members of the Iowa
National Guard will be interested in
the efforts of Adjutant General Logan
of Des Moines and Colonel Smith
Brookhart, who with other National
Guard officers are in Washington con-
ferring with Secretary of War Gar
rison on federal pay legislation The
war department has acceded to the de-
mand of the National Guard that in
case of war guard organizations shall
re mustered into service entire This
IS what the guard has insisted on.
General Logan has completed arrange
ments with the war department for
the organization of the first National
Guard battery in Iowa. 1t will be
organized at Clinton January 26.
Just at present, the inside of the
Lee county courthouse at Fort Mad.
ison is alive with people hurry ng
! about and discussing the affairs of
the county and particularly the state
vs. Hammer trial which is starting
out rather slowly, says the Fort Ma1i-
son Gem City. me new deputy clsrk
w. G. Young, with the help OF his
predecessor, o. R. Johnson, is getting
onto his official duties at rapid
rate. Deputy County Auditor Fred G.
Chambers continues to record deeds,
chattels, mortgages. etc, and Casper
Mohrfeld, abstractor continues to
search the records. H. ]. Kennedy,
the county treasurer, has moe or
less routine work to do although the
big 1919 rush is over. County Auditor
Meyer is busy, and particularly so
I just now while the supervisors ere
/ in session Upstairs. the district
court with the state VS.. Hammer case
is the main thing. The office Of She--
ifs Dadn, Groves and Kammerer,
west of the court house is center OF
activity.