The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-01
CITY NEWS

Moving. J. Opstelten. phone R-64s.
Let Colvin & Schmidt do your
cement work
-Ferry to Ohute's beach. From
$3.50 .. M. every half hour. Last trip
FRANK Mullen OF COL South Sec.
ond street, has been taken home from
Graham hospital
-Miss Minnie Bandle's Sunday
school class OF the q. P. church enjoy
ed picnic this afternoon at Seldom
Inn
Subscribers should notify the
business office Of The Gate City be-
fore O'Clock If they fail to receive
their paper on time.
--Infantile paralysis II attacking
grown ups as well as children. &C
cording to reports from some OF the
affected states.
Regular meeting Loyal Order OF
Moose. Keokuk lodge No. 7o4, tonight
at 6 O'Clock. In Moose hall Visiting
brothers cordially invited. John g.
Stadler. dictator. A. q. Moore. sec-
Rotary.
-Four girls hiked from XIII Time
camp at Bluff Park to Keokuk yes
terday afternoon, making the trip in
four and a half hours. Those In the
party were Hazel Schneider. Larraine
siegrist. Mabel Miller and Vera
Schneider. They returned to camp
on the train.
Regular meeting Of Morning Star
lodge No. 5, knights Of Pythias. at
Castle Hall, Fifth and Blondeau
| streets, Tuesday evening at s o'clock.
| J. NJ Skinner, G. c.; J. A. Burgess,
Tx of RI & 6. Work IN Esquire and
knight ranks.
Joe A. Map1ethorpe, 20, and
Clara Roberts, %, couple from
Peoria, were granted a marriage IL
cense yesterday afternoon and were
married by James s. Burrows, justice
OF the peace. This was the sixteenth
license which was issued during the
month Of July.
! Miss Ruby Green, cafeteria di-
rector of the Y. w. G. a., left this
morning for Chicago for her vacation.
She will return to Keokuk about
August 20 and will leave for her new
position with the Fort Dodge associa-
! ton the first of September. Miss
| Green's mother from Kansas City,
came to Keokuk to bid her good bye.
| The new Wabash railway almost
! earned its full years fixed and other
charges in the six months period from
| January l to June 80. Including
other income available net after
| deduction of operating expenses and
taxes was about $1,000, 900 short of
the full years requirements for In
| terest, rentals, hire OF equipment and
| all miscellaneous charges.
| -Rev. E. B. Newcomb, ID. D.. left
| this morning for an August vacation.
He will spend part OF the time with
| friends in Chicago, going also to La
Porte and Winona Lake, Ind, and
| Lake Forest, Ill. During his alb
sence the Westminster church serv-
| ices will be continued as usual except
| that the Sunday evening service will
be omitted.
| 1t is also likely that some final
ARRANGEMENTS will be made for the
claying of the Sand Prairie road, as
contemplated for some time, says the
FIT. Madison Democrat Reuben Con-
ley, who owns the land near the road
| wherein suitable clay can be pro-
cured, has made a proposition to fur
nish the clay and deliver it on the
road where needed. In the case OF
no agreement with Conley, other
stretches of clay are now available.
! Yesterday was the day for the
first. excursion to Green Bay of con-
tractors desiring to bid Ga the drain
age work. Arrangements had been
made to take any contractors or rep
resentatives who might arrive to the
scene of the work, but none arrived
The time was rather short for them
| to get there after the publication OF
the embellishments, and it is expect
ed that the next day set. next Mon
/ day, will see several there.