The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-05
rom Burlington to St. Louis in few

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years.
I Police Magistrate Chas. Young re-
!, ports ffty-nine cases In the last three
months, with fines amounting to
$22S.5O and not one case came to
i trial. All offenders pleaded guilty at
! time Of arrest; nearly all strangers.
/ Miss Mary Hammond has returned
/ from Chicago, accompanied by Richard
Hammond, son Of w. p. Hammond.
Jr.
! Mrs. ]. A. White has returned from
Nashville. Tenn. and Mobile. Ala.
where she has spent nearly three
months.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robt. B. Hoffman are
enjoying visit from their daughter
+. Hilda, now Mrs. Herbert 8. Ferguson.
who with her husband and little son
arrived Sunday from their home IN
Lynn, Mass. This is her first visit
since her marriage.
Tom Hill and Robt. Hopkins are In
Des Moines, having left here Thurs
day in Toms auto.
Mrs. C. B. Hill Is entertaining her
granddaughter Mrs. Cora Mcfarland
OF Webster Groves, Mo-. who with her
daughter jeanette arrived last week.
Mrs. Helen S. Bardens and family
and Miss Mary Marsh are now domi-
ciled in their new home on Clark
street between Eighth and Ninth
streets.
Warsaw baseball club went to
Bowen Saturday.
There were many auto parties made
up the morning OF the Fourth and by
noon they had started out in all d.
rections, seeking the days pleasures.
Friday evening the street was full OF
autos, shopping was the order as dry
goods and shoe stores were closed all
day OF the Fourth and grocers closed
at noon. Business houses were more
profusely decorated with the national
colors than they have been for years.
| The next free band concert will be
on corner on Sixth and Main streets
Wednesday, July 8.
Albert H. Eymann OF San Antonio,
Texas, was Warsaw visitor for
day last week He was formerly en-
| gagged here in the drug business at
! the corner OF Fourth and Main streets.
Our banks closed all day Saturday,
the 4th.
Oklahoma oil men are examining
the Plymouth oil field and favorably
comment. and also say that territory
within an area of 100 miles of Quincy
should receive careful examination by
the national and state geological sur
veys.
r. o. Marsh, T. F. Patterson and
Chauffeur Stevens made business
trip Saturday.
Two babies born In Warsaw last
week, and two the week before: MI
and Mrs. Frank Buckert. eight pound
girl, Tuesday; Mr.. and Mrs. Ernst
Jensen, 101s pound boy, Wednesday;
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Ramp, boy. Fri
day, June 26; Mr.. and Mrs. Warren
Egbsrs, girl, Friday, June 26.
The button factory has received
twenty cars OF shells In few days
over one month.
The Wythe w. C. T. U. meets with
Mrs. NJ. 8. Cammond, July Z.
Mr.. Henry Holman Of st. Louis Is
the guest of Walter Giller.
The packing Of the Fifth and Main
street artesian well recently which
increased the flow and quality OF the
water So much, only cost little over
500 90 and the recent packing of the
shoe factory artesian well cost less
than $4,000, money we'll spent.
The book committee OF the library
board has ordered 100 new books, his
tory, fiction, travel and science.
Geo. d. Spite brought in the first
tomatoes of the season July LIST.
Alderman Will Swartz Is reported
as slowly improving.
Geo. A. Wemhauer is assisting Man
ager Meyer at the Farmers Elevator
and supply company. Nearly 300 hogs
were shipped the past week to St
Louis on the steamer Dubuque.
Warsaw friends were recently sur
prised at the news that Capt. Fred
S. Ratterman had resigned his posi-
ton as purser of the steamer Morn
ing Star and excursion agent OF the
Blair line, and would remove from |
Davenport to Denver, Colo. where he |
would engage in business. His War
saw friends wish him unbounded sue
cess in whatever he may engage In
for his business capacity is bound
less.
A science instructor has not yet
been secured for the high school.
Mrs. E. J. Mossr, son and daughter
of st. Louis are visiting her parents
Mr.. and Mrs. s. P. Wallace. Robt, P.
Uollaco ne st TOMS the latter'S SON /
is also here.
l.. A. Wehner had header in oper-
alton in his wheat field in the Hunt
drainage district, the week just closed.
common in dry countries and
In the far west, 1t Is a novelty here.
Long auto tours are becoming COM
mon about here, one OF the most en-
xhn& lion Siaxad11r Last l