The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-15
The Warsaw Gate City
Warsaw, ILL.,, Aug. Is, 1915.

Hon. o. F. Berry OF Carthage was
in Warsaw for few hours, inspect
ing the new central of the Mississippi
(. Valley Telephone Co., of which he Is
the president,
Next Sunday, Aug. Is. will be COM
munion Sunday at the Lutheran
church. Services in English in the
evening.
! Mr. and Mrs. T. A Phillips and
party of Gilead. Ohio, registered az
the Adams house. They came through
In their touring car and report most
delightful trip. They were much
pleased with our beautiful little city.
Only FIVE days to get out petitions
for the primary. Several candidates
are talked OF, but none have consent
ed to run.
! Mail boxes and house numbers are
oil ready for our citizens to take ad-
vantage of the postoftice departments
offer OF free delivery. Postmaster
Hunt. with Professors Fairfax and
Erdmann, were assigning numbers to
the Main street business houses; odd
numbers are on one side Of the street
and even on the other. Going east
every numeral street raises the num-
hers 100, as for instance, between
Second and Third streets, numbers
are 200 and up between Third and
| Fourth. 800 and up, and so on.
i The Warsaw volunteer fire depart
ment is figuring on motor fire truck
and a committee has been appointed
to visit other cities and also to get
| prices.
On Sunday, Sept 5, the Lutheran
/ church will celebrate the flftieth an
/ niversary of its organization. by three
| special services. with special music
Inv the choir. Rev. George Metzger
of st. Louis, will preach in German IN
the morning. The afternoon and even
ing services will be In English. Inc
public is cordially invited.
Mrs. Chas. Larson who has been III
for some time, is now quite improved.
Sunday, Aug. ID, the Warsaw Fats
NAV baseball with the Warsaw
Leans" at the fair grounds at 2i3o
D. m. There will be lively game
and lots OF fun.
The following speakers have kindly
| consented to take an active part IN
the celebration Of the double jubilee
of the Evangelical church in connec-
| ton with the annual mission rest:
Rev ]. Baltzer Of st. Louis, president
Of the Evangelical synod OF North
America: Rev. w. Dickmann OF
Quincy. H.; Rev. B. Matzke OF war
saw: Rev. l.. Hagen of Ttoga Rev:
G. Brunn of Suffer. The jubilee Will
take place September IL. The pubic
is invited. ~
| Warsaw's band made quite hit at
Lima's big picnic Saturday week.
Everybody was delighted with the
music rendered.
Mrs. ]. S. Prosser and daughter
Nancy. are visiting in her old home,
Favette, Mo.
The new theatre building, corner
4 of Fourth and Webster streets, IS
shining beautiful and white In coat
OF pebbles and white cement. me
walls are of Hamilton hollow tile. "A
coat of sand and cement Is applied
first and then while the coat is soft,
the pebbles and white cement are
dashed on with trowel 1t makes a
most beautiful wall. better and strong
err than stone. Externally this build
! ing-one Of the best and strongest In
Warsaw-is nearing completion and
work will soon begin on the floor and
interior finish The theatre will prob
ably be thrown open some time this
=. fall!
Miss Emma Herberts will leave
Monday for Winchester, Mo-, where
she will visit her sister Mrs. Judge
Kennedy. She expects to be away
about week.
The sidewalk on east side of Fourth
street from Main to Webster STREETS,
gets in fearful condition in rainy
weather. and should be replaced with
a cement walk eighteen or twenty
inches wider than the present one be-
cause II Is a great thoroughfare, serv-
ing two churches Presbyterian and
TpiscoDal, and will be used more than
ever soon. for Il leads right into the
new theatre The present walk is
brick and so low that mud and water
stand in puddles on it in places
when the weather Is rainy. Other
cement walks have been put down
that were not needed one tenth as
much as this one.
Miss Minnie Hartmann has resign
ed as bookkeeper at Huiskamp's shoe
factory and will leave for keokuk
/ Monday where she will enter st.
Joseph's hospital to prepare herself
for the position of trained nurse.
The subject of the first evangeltstic
and social service mems meeting at
the Evangelical hall will be, THE
Safeguards OF Our Country 1t Is the
fifth wear that these meetings have
been held and the interest is steadily
increasing. These gatherings have
Iibecome a social center in the winter
months to discuss the vital religious
and social problems OF our time.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Mussetter spent
Thursday and Friday with Judge and
Mrs Kennedy at Winchester. Mo.
Mrs. Kennedy is sister of Mrs. Mus
setter. The trip was made in Franks
auto.
| Rev. A. Schauer of the Church OF
the Scared Heart, attended the fun
eral at Nauvoo Of the late Father
Reimbold. Tuesday. There were thir-
tv.two members Of the clergy there,
Including Bishop Dunno.
! Mrs. Cohen has gone to Chicago TO
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