The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-02-19
CITY NEWS.

A marriage license has been Is
sued to Wencil F. Douda %, or keo-
kuk and Grace Gay, %. kahoka.
e. r. Taft grocery store for iresh
country eggs and butter, vegetables,
fruits and choice groceries. SO Main
street. Phone 1914.
When you buy chickens OF GUYS
Of meat at JOS. Haubert's, you can
rely that they are the choicest, fresh
est and best. 700 Main.
w. J. Pilkington Of Des MONIES,
will deliver an address to the men ol
the Christian church and others VINO
may be Invited. Tuesday evening"
March 2, Isl SCI
every Friday night at s o'clock. All
members requested to be present. By
order Of noble grand, Geo. 1mmegart.
secretary. Work in the first degree.
r. ocular meeting Keokuk council
No. 536 tonight at o'clock. Hawkes.
hall, Eighth and Main. Visiting breth-
rem fraternally invited to attend. 9.
NJ Kingman, regent; ]. |. Annable,
secretary.
The fire department this morning
answered an alarm at zoos Reid ST.
where a. small fire had started In the
roof of house occupied by w. n.
Stice. The house is own by Mrs. 9.
Keppel. There was no damage.
The many friends OF Frank
spring will be pleased to learn thar
he is recovering from his automobile
accident which took place several
DAYS ago near Bluff Park when the
car being driven by Mr.. Corsipeus Or
Fort Madison, skidded.
Burlington Gazette: The first
steamboat will land at Burlington on
March IS and the first excursion out.
will be on May IA. according to Cap
tain Kinnear, who is very busy at
the preesnt time getting everything
in shipshape for the opening of navi-
cation. ~
FIT. Madison Democrat: Rev. J.
Nuesch of Los Angeles Calf former
pastor OF the German Evangelical
church at Keokuk. spent Wednesday
with Rev. P. C. Ke.nath on his way
home from ST. Louis. Dr.. ii.
A. Gray of Keokuk was business
visitor in the city yesterday.
An appeal from the judgment of
tbs cCurc or John Leindecaer, justice
OF the peace, in the case of Frank
Price VS.. the Chicago, Rock Island q
Pacific railway has been filed in the
district court. Price claimed the rail
way company struck and injured his
horse He asked damages OF $95 and I
was given same in the justice court. .
The conviction is growing strong
er and stronger every day that the
circulation of The Gate City is not
only extensive but effective. A patron
of the classified column reports TO
this office that for one insertion of
fifteen cent want ad, he sold a
typewriter and cornet. He received
more than twenty replies. There are
few homes in the city that The Gate
City fails to reach. These facts are
worth careful Investigation and CON
sideration by business men
The Linotype or Two raShE-ln
OF the Chicago Tribune yesterday IN
dulged in some profanity al the tHz-
pense OF Keokuk, as the following
shows: We have no more information
of the intentions OF Germany and
England than. probably, Harper's
Weekly has, but we are willing TO lay
the stereotyped odds Of s to that
neither nation cares keokuk dam
how much American commerce suf-
fers because of blockades and ship
seizures. Neutrality, like virtue, is it's
own reward.
y. s. Morrison, engineer under the
state commission in charge Of road
and bridge work in southeastern Iowa
has just finished an inspection trip
through Lee county. he found road
and ether work in satisfactory con-
dition. Some gravel work in this
county that was begun last fall If
now under way. Bridges and grading
probably will continue to take first
mace for time in improvement work
in this district OF course, grading
has to precede permanent improve.
rent of the roads. Whether or how
SON permanent Improvement will
follow grading in this district is
Crestion that cannot be answered at
the preesnt time. +
Fort Madison Democrat: Work
VII soon commenced on a pretty
Cub house at Mormon Springs to be
e-acted on the Schultz property over
boxing the Miesissirri Tho brild-
ing will have two rooms and large
rorch around the sides so as to af-
f0~d open air quarters. The club will
he owned by 4. B. Schultz, William
Fergman. Joe Doering. Fen SchuItze
end c. V. Lantz. 1t is their intention
to have nurlber of camping trips
end week ends during the coming
sSsSti, duu dS lne Spot where the
bidding is to be erected is an ideal
C"e. the owners and their man.
friends are loking forward to many
pleasant outings down the river
Fort Madison Democrat: Wednes-
day two representatives of a largo
manufacturing enterprise were at
Fort Madison Investigating local con
ditions with a view to location here
They were favOrably IMPRESSED with
the situation and have taken up with
the Fort Madison First association
the matter of establishing a factory
that will be the largest acquisition in
its line fer the CITY in years. The
visitors REPRESENTED interests which
are going to start a rubber and rub
Der tire manufacturing plant. It will
require ten acres of land. a buildina
TO cost in the neishhorhnod of SAC.