The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-02
CITY NEWS.


lager today.
Phone S4 for case OF Leisy
beer when you're out.
classified liners are money max
ers. Read them carefully.
Puritas dark lager, pleasant
drink. Order a case today.
| 1914. We're off, Not of the
wagon but off for prosperous year.
Dressed and live chickens, Keo-
kuk Market & Produce Co. Phone 80.
| Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Herman
Weinberg. New Years day, at $3.50 p.
NJ, son.
Resolve to do your part to make
Keokuk's 1914 the best in its history.
United effort will do it.
The business streets presented a
liveler appearance today. New Year
was a quiet one on Main. practically.
all OF the business houses being
closed.
&C. E. Lock is pleased to announce
that he has opened the Hotel Iowa
bar and invites his friends to call on
him the same as before. Always the
Ebest liquors dispensed.
/ Since the death Of Congressman
Pepper, Iowa Office seekers have cen
tered their attention on Representa-
tive Connelley. Mr.. Connelley recent
Ily visited Keokuk to see the dam.
-Puckechetucl lodge No. 43 meets
every Friday night at s o'clock. Elec-
ton OF officers and initiation All
members requested to be present. By
torder of noble grand. Geo. Immegart.
secretary.
(. The mfdwinter vacation season is
\ drawing to a close-much too soon for
the young people who have been hav-
ing the time Of their lives. They are
getting ready to return to the schools
and colleges.
Regular meeting Keokuk Council
No. $50 tonight at s o'clock, Tawkei'
hall. Eighth and Main. Visiting breth-
rem fraternally i.vited to attend. ].
NJ. Fulton, regent; ]. l. Annable. sec
retary-Ady.
The New Year has been properly
iushered in and social festivities for
THAT event observed. Business has
been resumed and plans are being laid
for the years work. If you want to
see Keokuk grow-trade with the
merchants
1T is hoped both in Hamilton and
Keokuk as well as Warsaw that R. O.
Marsh will be successful In his move
tnnent to build an interurban line from
Burlington. to Quincy, running
through Hamilton Interurban lines
are very efficient modes of transpor
tation.
/ Phone 81 for case OF Leisy
beer when you're out.
The Burlington Hawk-Eye says
that Iowa has more fowls than any
state In the union. The latest census
reports show that there are 23,4S2,SSf
fowls In this state and about three
,fourths of them are egg producers
The annual production is 09,760.4Si
dozen eggs, with farm value OF 81.
235,s00. The yearly poultry produc
ton is 2e.ss0,147 fowls. valued al
s13,914,9S5.
Maybe your Christmas gift IS
among this bunch. Because Of illeg
fb1e or incorrect addresses, more
than $4,000 pieces Of mail are piled
up in the Chicago postoffice' awaitins
delivery According to postofice Of
fcials the packages contain mos
Everything from skunk hides to diam
lond rings and other articles intended
for Christmas gifts. Forty clerks ar,
engaged day and night in trying II
decipher the addresses and get tn,
mail to its proper destination.
The report of the postofFice busi
ness appearing elsewhere IN this is
sue for last year indicates that bust
ness In this city was good. 1t wa
supposed that 1925 record coul,
hardly be equalled yet the figures 70
. 1913 show that the business of tn
. postoffice increased during the las
; month of the year, the last quartz
anu LOT the eHLlre year. mere is ~
better business barometer than tn
) postoffice and the figures for the yea
. just closed Indicate healthy cond
: ton for Keokuk.
On New Years-the day Of ney
. resolves suggestions are of course Il
!. order Here is the best one you hav
. heard yet: Begin turning over you
. new leaf right now while you hav
this newspaper in your hands. To b
. specific, turn over to the pages tina
contain the advertising. Glanc
/ through 1t. If 1t does not interes
you. don't read 1t. But begin tn
habit now and start yourself on tn
: road to new and better things Thi
advertising is the news OF the world