The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-11-29
CITY NEWS.

Moving. J. opstelten. phone R.64s.
-Four weeks until Christmas. Bet-
ter shop early
Abe Martin says an aviator lives
tust long enough to get famous.
Shop with the Keokuk merchants
and get satisfactory merchandise.
The banks and courts viii be clos
ed tomorrow ON accout OF ThanksgiT-
Ing.
There win be no issue OF The
Daily Gate City tomorrow-Thanks-
giving day.
The prophecy Of a mild winter Is
worth something provided the prom
ecy Is fulfilled.
Quite q number OF Keokukans
have left the city TO spend the Thanks
giving day with relatives or friends.
A marriage license was issued to
Rufugio Fernandez Fl, and Mary
Clark, Is. both of Quincy, here last
night
The Y. n. C A. win be closed
on Thanksgiving afternoon and even
ing, but win Re open in the morn
ing.
Don't forget to be thankful tomor-
row. With all OF your troubles you
can surely find much to be thankful
for.
-Keokuk merchants are displaying
appropriate holiday goods, and doing
SO in plenty OF time to avoid late
Christmas shopping.
The editor OF the dippy directory
defines a diplomat ss = fellow who
sends twenty roses to a woman on her
thirty-first birthday.
First Church OF Christ Scientist,
726-72s Main street, second floor. Ser
vices Thursday at 1o:45 g. n, sub
iect Thanksgiving"
-Keokuk camp a. W. A. No. 622
will hold its regular meeting tonight
at woodman hall Ill members are re-
quested to be present
Thanksgiving service viii be held
at the Swedish Lutheran church,
Twelfth and Morgan streets Thanks
giving evening at 500 o'clock.
If the wheat market continues to
drop, it may get down to the original
Ave cent loaf Of bread. There is a sus-
picion that the high price idol is due
for fall.
&C. r. Montgomery will start
freight service between Sauvoo and
keokuk at the close Of navigation.
when two or three trips will be made
each week, as the business jusdfies.
Eastern S.ar: Special meeting u
Elmira chapter No. 40. o. E. s., Fri
day evening, Dec. l. 1916, 1880
o'clock. Refreshments. BY order OF
the W. NJ. Louie P. Hahn, secretary.
There will be Thanksgiving ser
vices at the Redeemer English Luth-
eran church tomorrow evening at
1880 O'Clock. The place of worship is
the Baker Mission chapel on Twelfth
between Timsa and Des Moines
street.
Frank Wahlgren, deputy clerk u.
S. court, is in Des Moines. He was
called there to bring some records in
case pending before the federal
court, which convened yesterday. D.
tC. Crowley, deputy U. S. marshal, is
! in charge of both offices in Mr..
Wahlgren's absence.
! p. H. Morrissey, assistant to the
vice president Of the Chicago. Buriing-
| ton & Quincy railroad, and former
head OF the Brotherhood OF Railway
lTrainmen, died at his home in Gales
burg yesterday. after a prolonged III
ness. The funeral will be held in
IGaIesburg tomorrow. Mr.. Morrissey
was well known all over the "Burling-
tom system.
| The William n. Wagner habeas
corpus case was dismissed from the
superior court today at the request
of counsel and Wagner returned to
the state hospital at Mount Pleasant.
Wagner escaped from that institution
in September and came to Keokuk
and was locked up here at the re-
quest of counsel. A habeas cor nus
was filed on September % in the
superior court in which the superin-
tendent of the Mount Pleasant hos
pital was asked to give cause for
holding Wagner. The man has been
| in Jail here since that time and a
number of legal skirmishes have been
fought, ending finally in the dismissal
of the tabeas corpus.