The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-07
CITY NEWS.


Persistent advertising is the kind
that wins.
Order a case of Puritas beer to-
day for the home.
All ready-to.wear u price, See
windows daily. Lowitz.
~. C. Karie for that tango sole.
He knows how to put them on.
Have a case of Puritss. the home
brewed beer in your home. eithar
dark lager or pale.
For auto livery and city calls
phone 767. Good tires and prompt
service. Auto Sales co.
1t Will be but short time until
candidates for county Offices will be
circulating primary nomination papers.
Miss katherine Matles, eli Frank
lin street. who suffered q stroke OF
apopiexy last Sunday morning, is I'M
proving today.
Il marriage license was issued to-
day to Daniel Grover Syroup. 25. OF
Adrian. III. and Dora Madeline Davis,
II. OF Montrose.
There are not so many calendars
for distribution as In former years. AT
least that is the report made by the
calendar hunters.
"A certain keokuk merchant re-
ports his business exceptionally good
since the holidays. 1t might be peril
nent to add that this certain msr-
chant is liberal user OF newspaper
space. 1t gets the business.
What has become OF the move
ment to hold monthly luncheons at
which matters affecting the welfare
of the city could be discussed? 1t is
too good proposition to permit to
fail. Closer acquaintance will obtain
larger benefits for Keokuk
There are few sidewalks about
the city where sprinkle of ashes
would insure the safety OF pedestrians.
And 1t is a very economic way of pre-
venting accidents and rendering serv-
ice to the public. 1t requires just
little energy and no expense.
The experience of the Keokuk Re-
tail Merchants Association with trade
excursions revealed lot of benefit to
this city provided train schedules
were different. The Retail Associa-
ton would do no better thing than to
take UP the matter of train service on
some Of the lines entering the city.
There is certainly vast room for i'm
proFement.
The Iowa Telephone Company yes
terday delivered new directory to
subscribers. The new edition was vel
come. especially to those patrons
whose old book has lost some of the
sheets and very much of its tidy APP
pearance. The new directory Is very
neatly printed and contains consider
able information other than the mere
names of subscribers and phone num-
bers.
Regular meeting OF Keokuk Aerie.
No. 633, =. o. E. tonight at Eagles
Hall, 523 Main at o'clock. Visit
ng brothers always welcome. Chas.
A. Noekes. secretary.-Adv.
The following from the Burling-
ton Hawk-Eye is applicable to Keo-
kuk: The time of the year is at hand
when horses left standing In the
streets should be carefully blanketed.
II you do not do this because you have
humane principles, then do 1t from
the most selfish of motives. Horses
cost money, and they are subject to
pneumonia and other troubles. It is
also In order to have the horses shod
with care. It is pitiful. sight to
note pair of willing, faithful ANIMALS
trying to drag load when they can
get no secure foothold on the slippery
pavement, because the owner has neg
lected TO have them properly shod.
The humane society has not been
making much noise OF late, but 1t is
still in existence, and Is apt to get af-
ter you, II you do not heed this gentle
warning.
Phone 81 for case Of Leisy
beer when you're out
In the biography of James Harlan,
published By the State Historical So
cfety of Iowa, there is the following
description OF the building of a pioneer
log cabin which will be interesting to
the readers OF The Gate City: The
building OF the cabin was watched
with great interest By the boy James,
and the event seems to have been
firmly impressed on his memory. He
tells how his father cut the great
house-logs from the forest and hewed
out rafters, joist and flooring punch.
cons. When the materials were all in
readiness the six neighbors assembled
early in the morning and by night the
I cabin was raised. Then for several
days the father was busted in complet
ing the details; filing the chinks be
tween the logs. laying floors. building
fireplace and constructing rude
stairway to the loft This house was
completed in about six or eight days
from the date Of their arrival, with nc