The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-06
CITY NEWS.

Masonic: Hardin lodge. special,
Monday. May S, o'clock: 3rd degree.
-Keokuk Lodge No. Is. i. o. 0. f.
meets regularly every Monday night
at 500 o'clock. Geo. S. Merriam, n.
| G.: F. NJ. Pugh, Rec. Sec'y.
Victor E. Solari is seriously ILL
at his home 26 Johnson street.
Judge William Logan. who has
been spending the winter in Califor-
mia. is expected to return to Keokuk
sometime next week.
Closing out floor veneer remnants,
cheap. Strickler's, PIG Johnson.
The Ladies Auxiliary of the A. o..
H will entertain their friends on
Tuesday. May 8. afternoon and even
ing. at the residence of the Very Rev.
Jas Gillespie.
Report from the bedside OF D.
W. Haggerty who has been seriously
Ill at his home, 1925 Carroll street,
for several weeks, indicate that he is
on the road to recovery. His many
friends will be glad to see him out
again.
If the weather continues to be-
have itself the Keokuk retailers hope
to visit Carthage soon. A large num-
Der of the members are planning to
make the trip.
When you write your friends give
them the dates of the keokuk fall
celebration and invite them to be
present during the week of October
81.
Postmaster E. P McManus has
returned from Des Noines where he
attended the convention of the Il
second and third class pos tnasters of
Iowa The 1917 meeting goes to OF
tumwa.
The city council has ordered a
warrant for s25 drawn in favor Of
Frank Wahlgren for payment of any
damages resulting from the opening
of a street through blocks 176, 1T,
179 and 1SS in the city of Keokuk.
The settlement Is for that part of the
feet of lots and s. block $50.
Federal Judge NJ j. Wade. who
holds sessions of the federal court in
keokuk, in passing on the case of
George Swallow of BoonviIle, who
was accused Of padding his acc jui'ls,
said that hereafter such violations
would receive the maximum penalty.
Swallow was charged with padding
his cancellations and inducing Mis-
souri, merchants to send their mail to
the Boonville office.
The Gazette says that the steam
er Helen Blair will be in Burlington
on the Davenport Quincy run on May
81 A Sunday excursion to Keokuk
win be a feature during the summer.
Captain Mckenzie, Of the Keo-
kuk, reports that the citizens Of Dali
las have constructed a rock wall in
the tarbor as protection from flood
damage. and the buffer was started
and completed in two days
The three day convention OF the
Iowa Dental society held in Des
Moines, closed Thursday. The 1917
meeting is to be held in the capital
city. The society recommended the
following to the governor for appoint
ment on the state board of dental
examiners: DR.. F. R. Brooks of Green
field, DIR. ]. W. Marsh of Keokuk, DIR.
j. Meshinger of Dubuque, DR.. F. E.
Boone Of Ottumwa and DR.. c. r.
Baker Of Davenport.
a reaSonab BILE number OF warm,
clear days in the next two weeks to
com plete fertilization will insure a
fair crop of all fruits in Iowa except
peaches" says Wesley Greene in his
summary on the condition of the fruit
crop May /. He says: THE average
condition of ali fruit bearing plants is
6s percent, or two points below the
estimate on May 1 last year and for
April this year." he declares. Trees
are now in full bloom in the southern
tier of counties"
Andrew Carmichal, forrerlv re-
porter for the observation-disclosures
now in Sapulpa, Oklahoma, sends to
The Gate City notification printed
in the Sapulpa Argus, to the effect
that on July list the subscription
rates will be increased to IS per year
and the advertising rate will be fifty
cents per inch. The Argus has cir
culation of 1900 papers. In this con-
nection The Gate City takes occasion
to state that the subscription rate of
this paper is ten cents per week and
the advertising rate on contract %
cents per inch and The Gate City has
a circulation of more than double that
OF the Oklahoma paper.