The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-11-21
!. CITY NEWS.

+, st. Mary's bazaar starts Nov. 80.
Keep acquainted with the classi-
fed columns.
Reliable news and plenty Of 1t in
The Gate City.
Eastern Star card party Masonic
hall, Friday, Nov. 26. 2bc.
The Trinity ladies' bazaar and
chicken pie supper. Dec. Ia.
| Buy shelled popcorn at the pop
corn car, Seventh and Main streets.
l3 lbs. for 26c.
Merchants get the largest circu-
lation for their advertisements by
placing them in The Daily Gate City.
| The Seventh Day Adventists will
| open series Of revival meetings at
the church. Seventeenth and Elk
change streets, this evening at 7:45s
| o'clock
| 81. Louis has been engaged for
several weeks Investigating electric
light rates. The power comes from
the Keokuk dam. The criticism Is not
against the local power company but
against subsidiary corporations which
pass the power on to the st. Louis
utilities.
1T might be information worth
while to local merchants to learn that
The Gate City goes to press at $3.50.
This statement is made in order to
further impress upon the business
men the necessity of placing adver-
Using copy in the hands OF the printer
early The printers work day is
| eight hours.
| The special preacher Sunday
morning at st. Johns viii be the Rev.
DR.. Rollit of Minneapolis. DR.. Rollit
lis always a welcome guest at ST.
Johns His vigorous manhood and
manly presentation of the gospel
draws all hearts through him to our
Lord and Master.
| Yesterday. the goth of November,
was the anniversary of the birth OF
Mt. Robert A. Kayser. veteran OF the
civil war, and for many years resi-
dent of Keokuk. He was on duty az
usual yesterday on the mail wagon tc
and from the union station and the
postofice. Mr.. Kayser's many friends
lin the city wish him many returns OF
his natal day.
health Officer Richard Evans has
filed an Information against Lem Sand
ers and "Slim" Brown, charging them
with not burying dead horse more
than three feet under ground at the
city dump below Tabers mill. Sew
eral com plaints have been received
lately and as a result the city has
appointed G. W. Watson a special Of
ftcer at the dump.
EARLY shopping is not only a con-
venience but an advantage The
clerks have more time to wait upon
you and you have more time to make
your selections. Therefore early shop /
ping for Christmas is recommended
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convenient you are urged to watch i
City from which you can receive great |
assistance in making up your shopping I
list.
This evening at 1880 o'clock, at |
the First Christian church, w NJ.
Baker, the pastor, will give an H.
Illustrated lecture on Christianity in /
China" This lecture will be illustrated !
by a large number of stereopticon
slides showing the temples. idols,
cities, customs, and the home-life OF
the Chinese. It will be shown in the
lecture what christianity has done for /
the greatest republic among the ma
TONS The eyes of the world are now
turning to China to see If she will i
become monarchy again. The ques- !
ton, as christianity losing ground in |
China" will be discussed
The Keosauqua State Line Demo
crat makes the following comment |
about the recent visit of KeolSuk bust.
ness men to that city: About seventy
Keokuk merchants and other business
men or their representatives visited
Pennington, Bonaparte, Bentonsport,
and Keosauqua Wednesday on q sort
OF get-acquainted trip. They came in
fourteen autos, taking dinner at Farm
ington The delegation included some
of the brightest business men of Keo-
kuk, and made fine impression here.
one thing they made prominent was
that Keokuk pays the railroad fare OF
its out of town customers. KeokuR
stores have improved with the i'm
rrovement and growth of the city the
past four years. There is no better
place in southern Iowa to trade than
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