The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-11-16
CITY NEWS.

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! Only few weeks until Christina
The early advertiser gets the business
Use The Gate City.
The Potters. merry makers. song.
story. sketch. ST. Peters hall, Nov
20. Tickets so cents.
| Regular meeting Colfax Rebekah
No. tonight. 1880. N G.. Mrs. Ida
Meador; recording secretary. Eliza
beth Pemberton.
The real joy Of life is in having
a good bank account. Make 1t habit
to save some part Of your salary every
week Keokuk banks are good banks.
| The Pilgrims Rest Baptist church,
Fourteenth and Exchange streets. will
hold memorial services Sunday after
noon, November 81, 1915. In honor OF
the late Booker T. Washington.
Regular meeting of Morning Star
lodge No. 5. Knights of Pythias. at
X. P. hall, Tuesday at p. m. Visit
ling knight, invited. r. s. Ulrich, C..
&C.; ]. A Burgess. X. Of r. & 8.
| A warranty deed has been filed in
which Frank Vollers, ct al, convey to
4Asaph Buck, lots /, and 9 in block
81. Kilbourne's addition. The consid-
GRAFTON given in the deed was $1,000.
| Regular meeting Loyal Order Of
Moose. Keokuk lodge No. 7o4. tonight
at O'Clock. In Moose hall. Visiting
brothers cordially invited. John q.
Stadler. dictator. Ed. 8. Lotion. sec
rotary,
Rev. Bernard Decker, assistant at
st. Mary's at Fort Madison and the
priest who took Father Gfglinger's
charge during his absence this sum
mer. has been assigned to Clear Creek
by Bishop Davis.
I'm the court Of John Leindecker,
Justice OF the peace, Jess Ray was
discharged this morning. He was
charged with assault and battery in an
information filed by W. v. Martin.
Ray pleaded not guilty and after a
hearing, Justice Leindecker discharged
him.
Fort Madison Gem City: In the
case Of Schouten's bakery VS.. B. F.
Gray, s. B. Mardine, James Fl. Crump
and E. H. Tincher. the court found
for the plaintn and awarded said
plaintiff $273.9S Action was based
upon rent alleged to be due from a
building owned by plaintiff and cacu-
pied by defendants.
Yesterday brought reminder OF
the fact that christmas Is near. II
you have not made up your lists, dc
so at once. and then get busy and dc
your holiday shopping before the rush
begins By shopping early, You get
what you want. II You get into the
game at the last minute, you have to
be content with what you can grab.
| "A verdict was reached in ten min
utes in the district court at FIT. Madi.
son yesterday. Here is how it hap.
Ipened. according to the Gem City:
The defendant failing to appear in
person or by attorney, Judge Hanlil.
ton, presiding In the district court
this afternoon instructed the jury in
the case of the Citizens Mutual bank
of Donnellson against j. r. Beck to
bring in verdict for the complain
ant company. Judgment Inc the sum
of $426 In favor Of the bank was en-
tered.
&C. P. Dorsey, formerly OF this
city but later proprietor OF the Bray
liner (Mo.) Bee, has disposed of his
Braymer paper and purchased an in
i terest in the Trenton (Mo.) Republi
can, becoming editor and manager
The Keokuk friends Of Mr.. Dorsey viii
be interested to learn of the change
land to wish him abundant success II
his new field. Mr.. Dorsey was asso
i ciated with Keokuk newspapers 4:
manager and he Is not only goof
newspaper man out a good citizen
The Gate City extends best wishes t.
him in his new endeavor and has onl,
one prediction to make Of his venture
success.
Solicitors for The Daily Gate Cit,
are soliciting subscriptions on ths
basis Of merit only This paper be
lieves it is giving its patrons a pro
duct that IS worth the subscription
price without any premiums attached
as an inducement. A newspaper moi
more than a hundred miles from here
solicits most of its advertising on the
basis that it appeared in another
paper. Some argument. The Gate
City solicits advertising on the same
. basis that it solicits subscriptions
that the merchandise is worth tn.
price. And not because it appeared
in some other newspaper. Sympath,
solicitation is a very weak salesman
The Daily Gate City as a newspaper
and as an advertising medium II
growing because 1t deserves to grow
That is the view the people OF Keo
kuk and surrounding country are TAX
ing OF it and the best evidence Is tina
the circulation has more than doubles
under the present management an,
the advertising this year with excee,
by about 1900 columns that Of an,
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