The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-08
CITY NEWS.

Ol1 NEWS.
Coming, Rice & Dore water circus.
Garbage wanted. Phone Black-922.
The Peoria Elks have purchased
two valuable lots and will erect q new
home Of their own.
Mat Hogan and Sammy Mills were
arrested last night. charged with dis
turbing the peace OF Rag Alley.
Miss Ester Lane was operated on
for appendicitis at local hospital
Saturday morning. Her condition is
reported as being favorable.
Keokuk lodge No. Is, /. o. o. F.,
meets every Monday night. at 7:30
O'Clock. Visiting brothers invited to
attend. Work in third degree.
&c. Myers, who farms in the Des
Moines bottoms in Clark county, re-
ports that he has some corn 14.7 feet
high with four ears OF corn on the
stalk.
Mrs. Edward Laubersheimer was
operated on at ST. Joseph's hospital
yesterday. Her many friends will
hope for speedy and complete re-
covery.
Mrs. Andy Raglan Of Canton. Mo-.
was taken to Graham hospital Satur-
day where she will submit to an op-
Grafton Monday morning. Mrs. Raglan
is sister of Mrs. Cordelia Galloway.
The Edmund T. Perkins engineer
ing company announces that branch
office will be opened in Quincy, in the
Illinois State bank building, under the
supervision of A. H. Beitman. The
company is the one which is in charge
of the Green Bay drainage district
work.
The seventh installment Of "The
Goddess" appears in this issue Of The
Gate City. Are you reading it? Are
you seeing it in moving pictures? It
is great in both cases. The story is,
intensely interesting and exciting and
the moving picture production Is
beautifully presented.
y. G.. Carter, an employe at the
substation of the Mississippi River
Power company at Fort Madison, slip
ped and fell through a window at the
station Thursday afternoon, cutting q
deep cash in his arm. A surgeon at
tended the young man. Six stitches
were necessary to close the wound.
The following is from the Friday
Issue OF the Quincy Journal: Mr.. and
Mrs. Mitchell, prominent colored resi-
dents OF Keokuk, where they conduct
"a restaurant on Main street, left for
their home last night. They wero
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Emmett john
son, 1924 Vermont street, over Eman-
|cipation day.
Hay fever time Is near at hand
and the weilder of the festive handker-
chief is completing his plans to hike
ito the northern cline that has ozone
Iclear from the sneeze-producing par
ticles so plentiful in this locality. The
coming of rag weed time" brings the
sufferer to the realization that COM
fort for him In this locality is some
thing that is extremely limited, and
the thoughts of the cool clear air OF
the north or west crowds out the ideas
of me better way to make a few 'extra
sheckels this season.
-Keokuk friends Of c.. N. Levey,
vice president and general manager OF
the Western Pacific railroad, will re-
greet to learn that he was compelled
to submit to an operation for appendf-
citis. He is reported to be resting
comfortably. The attack developed
while he was returning to San Fran
cisco from trip to Salt Lake City.
Mr.. Levey was for many years con-
,,nected with the Burlington road, later
with the Northern Pacific and more
recently with the Western Pacific. He
formerly resided in this city and has
many Keokuk and Iowa friends who
will wish for his speedy recovery.
Rev E. Leroy Steffey will leave
the city Monday morning for Law.
lrencevflle, Illinois, going from here to
ST. Louis on the steamer Dubuque
Before returning to resume his pas
torate, MT. Steffey will visit home
folks IN Lawrenceville, spend two days
on his first charge near Paris. Illinois,
attend the sessions Of the Indiana
iannual conference of the Methodist
Protestant church. in Jonesboro. In
diana, August 1923, and also the Iowa
annual conference of the Methodist
Protestant church at New London.
Iowa, August $3.50. Mr.. Steffey VIII
lecture four times during his vaca-
ton on the subject "The Social Mes
sage of Jesus" and will deliver ser
mon at each Of the conferences named.
He will resume his pastorate the first
Of September.
Liner st. Louis Sails.
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