The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-19
CITY NEWS.
-Finnan haddie at Immegart's.

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Buggies that ride easy and Tor q
little money. Sherwood's.
Mrs. Fred Beard of Warsaw Is
very low with typhoid fever.
III the thing you want is good col
!, fee, buy "Hamill's Steel-C Cut" sz
Miss Olive Wells is very sick at
her home, 1920 Missouri avenue.
Fresh catflsh at Keokuk Market
& Produce Co. Phone SO.
Harness, you buy it right at
Sherwood's, 7o3 Main street.
III you are looking for the best,
you are looking for "Hamill's Steel
/ Cut"
1 Fresh halibut, catfish and smelts
at Jos. Haubert's meat market, 709
Main street.
Walter O'Dell, who is seriously III
l at his home with pneumonia, is slight
lly improved.
Attend auction sale OF tho Elg1n
Jewelry Co, 5O2 Main street. Auc-
ton daily at 500 and 1880 p. m.
Its an I'll wind that blows mo-
body pleasure and the ooys have
made good use of their sleds.
"A Great Northern car exhibiting
the products OF Minnesota, will make
tour Of the Burlington lines soon.
Auction sale entire stock OF the
Elgin Jewelry Co. Going out of busl
ness. Sales 800 and 1880 p. m. 502
Main street
Income taxes are due March :
and payable before July /. Those fair
ing to report before the end of June
must pay penalty.
Regular meeting OF Keokuk
lodge. No. log. B. P. o. E., tonight at
o'clock, Elks' hall. Sixth and Blon-
dsau streets. Visitors invited.
Regular meeting OF PuckechetucA
encamrment No. Z, l. o. o. F. at
Odd Fellows hall at s o'clock tonight.
Visiting brethren fraternally invited
to attend.
When the ground hog went back
into his hol5 on the End inst he IN
doubtedly knew what he was doing.
That little animal is certainly wise
,prognosticator.
The. Quincy Ice men got the
same dose delivered to Ni, Keokuk
harvesters by the weather man and
as result ice cutting in Quincy bay
has been temporarily abandoned.
Masonic: Special meeting OF
Eagle lodge No. IL, A. F. & A. NJ Z
i7:3O O'Clock, Friday evening, Feb. 20
/ 1914. Work on End degree Visiting
brethren fraternally invited. BY or
der Of w. NJ S. h. Johnston, secre
tary
A shortage of water along til
main line of the c., B. & @. between
Quincy and Galesburg, and also OF
the o. K. between Quincy and Mis-
souri, points is causing much trouble
and water is shipped to certain points
Ito supply the locomotives.
The Burlington Hawk-Eye, car
tioning an article in this morning
/ Issue An Untiring Worker" says 81
4 a Ksokuk citizen: Mr.. G. Walter Bar.
of Keokuk, one Of the men who never
grow weary, passed through the city
/ last evening. enroute to Council
Bluffs, where he is to address gait
ering of civil engineers ON the BIZ
4 plant at Keokuk and its effect upor
the upper Mississippi valley.
4 Persons hurt while travelling o.
streets being repaired, are not en-
titled to damages from the city, tbs
supreme court decided yesterday in re
Iversing the opinion of the lower cour,
in the case of Elena O'Connell againsi
the city OF Davenport. Henry Vol
!1ner, city attorney. recently elected
congressman in the second district
fought the case for the city. Elem
IO'Connell fell over lcSse brick /,
a sidewalk along street where re
pairs were being made. She claimed
damages The court held she is no
entitled to anything.
The Burlington Gazette print!
the following about the Keokuk watei
power plant: Keokuk, icwa, nov
possesses the largest electric powe1
plant in the world. It was finished
several months ago, and is chuggins
away every day on its avowed missiei
of Harvesting the mighty Mississippi
The generators are the largest O
their kind ever built. Esch has s
normal capacity of 10000 horse power
measures thirty-two feet in diameter
and weighs over 100000 pounds. AL
Iternating three-phase curren, is gen
Grated at 1000 volts At the pres
ent time there is no necessity for
running the plant at even IT'S approx
innate maximum, but eventually its
full capacity OF 100000 hyrse power
will be developed from the Mississippi
at Keokuk and sent over a web Of
/ transmission circuits for radius Of
$50 miles. When that time comes
several water cooled transformers
each with voltage Of 10000, will
accelerate the voltage for the higf
/ tension transmission lines to distant