The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-12
CITY NEWS.

iCdl operation OF this paper Dy SenE-
ing in their advertising copy earlier.
Willis Golliher. the Warsaw mail
carrier, purchased big skiff OF Geo.
Redeforth and had it equipped with
an engine, giving him neat launch
for transferring the mails and passen-
gers between Warsaw and Alexandria.
See our contest window display OIL
new Mary Jane" pumps j. M. Huis-
kamp & Son.
For your Sunday dinner let us
send you a select roast of lamb, veal.
beef or pork Jos. Haubert, TOO Main
street.
Warm weather will have the eff
feet Of improving the roads which at
the present time are not in very goo
condition for automobiles.
All the latest effect in millinery
shown at Moore & Morgan's tomor-
row. 507 Main street.
-Puckechetuck lodge No. 43 meets
every Friday night at O'Clock. All
members requested to be present. BY
order Of noble grand, Geo. Immegart.
secretary. Initiation.
1t Is the hope among the business
men that the weather will be on its
good behavior tomorrow. Saturday
lis not only the heaviest trading day.
but 1t is the first day Of the window
display contest
Call and see Mrs. Carriers millin-
cry display at 1922 Bluff street.
Regular meeting of Keokuk Tenn
pie Pythian Sisters at K. p hall Fri
day evening at 1880. Visiting members
invited. Mrs. N. J. Montague, NJ. E. c.
Mrs. O. w. Rowe, NJ. of r. and-C. Bust
ness of Importance.
Regular meeting Of Evening Star
temple No 254, Pythian Sisters, at
K. P. hall, Friday evening at 7:30.
Visiting members invited Mrs. Ida
Mass, NJ. E. c.; Miss Anna King, M.
of r. & G. Business Of importance.
The fire department answered
still alarm at $50 yesterday evening
when small shed on the blur at
T nth and Grand avenue, used as
playhouse, was set on fire by some
children. 1t was allowed to burn to
the ground, it being of no value.
All the new creations in spring
footwear just arrived. ]. M. Huiskanp
& Son.
William Terrell. passenger con-
ductor on the 7. P. & w. railroad, who
for several years has made regular
trips between Peoria and Keokuk is re-
ported very i'll at his home in Peoria.
Mr. Terrell is a courteous and well
liked railroad man and is one of the
oldest men in the employ OF the T.
r. & w. company
The Office of the county recorder
will be closed tomorrow afternoon,
as Recorder Vaughan will go to Fo.t
d adison to draw the jury for the term
Of court commencing there on April
) Auditor A. p. Meyer and Clerk o.
K. Johnston together with the record
er comprise the board which draws
the jurors.
"A bottle thrown into the Illinois
river at Havana last August. with
slip of paper in it containing the name
M. Schneider, Bloomington, Ill.," was
recently picked up at Palm Beach,
florida. and a letter sent back to NJ
Schneider. It had Travelled 1000
miles in the four months, going down
the Illinois and Mississippi rivers AMI
across the Gulf OF Mexico.
This window is entered in the
display contest is a sign quite prom
inently displayed in the windows Of
the Main street merchants. Tomorrow
the windows will be shown and some
very pretty effects are sure to be
brought forth out Of the efforts Of
those merchants Who entered the dis
cfay contest under the auspices of the
Retailers league. So be sure and
come down town tomorrow and look
'em over. The display will be worth
seeing.
-Randalls Review, a magazine pub.
ifshed at Quincy. predicts that the
Mississippi valley will become the
stage for motion pictures. The art
icle points out the Keokuk dam as one
of the backgrounds on which a play
could be written. The Indian mounds
at Quincy and the Mark Twain cave
and surroundings at Hannibal, togeth.
er with other features are said to
make this IN ideal location for photo
plays.
Carthage Republican,: George
VanDyke is displaying a curious for
nation he found near the Burnside
bridge on Long Creek, and gave ds
1t appears to be a fine variety Of dark
red coral, but he has been told that
it is a genuine mad stone'' It Is
claimed that the so-called mad stones
grow in the head of deer and are very
rarely found The SPOT where this
curiosity was found was in a hole
near the creek, known as deer lick.
Mr. vanDyke dug around the hole looi,-
ing for more of the coral formation
and found deer antler. He will show
the formation to scientists to try -
determine what it is.
The road commissioners of Ham
ilton have been sued for $1,000 dam
ages The Hamilton pre,Sc aays.