The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-12
CITY NEWS.

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-Keokuk camp ID. w. A. No. 622
will hold its regular meeting tonight
at Woodman hall. All members are re-
quested to be present.
Miss Augusta Erdman, who under
went an operation for appendicitis at
st. Joseph's hospital yesterday after
noon, ia reported as doing nicely to-
day.
Action on the letting Of bids
covering the construction OF a sewer
/ in First street and the alley in block
ten, has been postponed for the pres
ent by the city council.
| &C. ]. Holbrook has returned 10
Keokuk from Oakdale, Ia, where he
has been residing for the past sew
eral months. He will resume his
business duties here now.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Bossler and
daughter. Gladys, recently left for
! Rochester. Mimi, where Miss Gladys,
who has been quite Ill for some time,
will undergo an operation for goitre.
| AT the meeting OF Iowa presby-
terry at Ottumwa yesterday, DR.. E. B.
Newcomb of Westminster church,
was elected commissioner to the gen.
eral assembly Of the Presbyterian
church, which will meet in Atlantic
City, in May.
The midweek meetings Of West
minister church will be resumed this
evening. All members Of the church
are invited to the service. Those who
have recently united with the church,
and those who are expecting to unite
should all be present
| The knights Of Columbus mem
bers OF Nauyoo are arranging for the
organization Of council there in
very short time. A committee Is at
present at work on the preliminary
work There are now about fifty X.
! C.'s in Nauvoo and vicinity.
The Waterloo Evening Courier
and Daily Reporter, two of the best
newspapers in the state which con-
solidated a few years ago. is enlarg-
| ing its equipment facilities to meet a
growing business. The new press
will be the largest in the state with
the exception of one press in Des
Moines and one in Davenport.
The Cedar Rapids Republican has
just announced an increase in it's adj
vertising rates. The Republican has
circulation of approximately 5000
net paid and the price per inch for
| for full position A cents and for spe-
cial position Al cents. The Gate City
with a circulation practically the
same as the Republican charges %
cents per inch contract rate and 40
cents per incn open rate.
Wiley Rankin. special counsel to
Attorney General Cosson, whose
death was told in The Gate City last
evening, was a cousin of Mrs. G. j.
Holbrook of this city and was known
to many friends here as he visited
! here at her home on number of oc-
casions in the past. Mr.. Rankin died
suddenly at his home in Des Moines
yesterday morning of hemmorhage of
! the brain. The remains were taken
to his old home in Mason City for
burial.
| e. L. Williams received mis- COM
mission today from the National En-
campment of United States War Vet
. Grams at st. Louis, authorizing him to
call a meeting and muster in the
local George V Jenkins camp of
Spanish War veterans. The meeting
will be held on next Monday evening
in the superior court room. The COM
pany will be mustered in, officers will
be elected, committees appointed and
plans made for the drawing up of a
constitution and bylaws.
/ EARLY last week The Gate City
told of the death of L. e. Garvin, a
former resident of Keokuk, which oc-
Cured at Los Angeles, Calf A
Carthage newspaper comments as
follows on Mr.. Garyin's demise: l..
E. Garvin died at Los Angeles, Cali
fornia, March 80, 1916. Mr.. Garvin
was a native of Hancock county, and
was born at Plymouth, June 6, 1916.
He married Era Cannon in Febru-
airy, 1870 and they were the parents
of three children, who survive. He
also leaves four daughters by a
later marriage. Mrs. c. w. Hull of
Burnside, half-sister, also survives.
Mr.. Garvin conducted general mer-
/ chandise store at Burnside mum Der
of years and afterward had dry goods
stores in LaHarpe and Carthage. He
moved from Carthage to Quincy, later
to Keokuk and mad been in Califor-
MIA four years. He served in the
union army during the civil war as
a member Of Co. /, 57th Illinois in
fantry.
/ The surveying of the drainage
district to be located along the shores