The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-12-13

Year resolutions $3.50 -.
-Victrolas and records. Loewen
stein, 625 Main.
Pencil sets for children, Csc to
$1.00, at Golfers.
Xmas cigars in % and so boxes
J. J. Hitler, B. 1104.
-Handkerchiefs 21Sc to SOC each
at the Central store.
Read Gate City advertisements.
Make your shopping easy.
SILK dress goods. 81 to 81 yard,
at the Central store.
Order Grand Leader cigars for
Christmas. in 10. Is. so size boxes.
4 Your shopping will be easier If
you read Gate City advertisements.
Frank D. Haubert was taken to
a hospital this morning for an oper-
alton.
Howard, Hamilton, Elgin and
/ Waltham watches. H. S. Mills, 504
Main.
| Unitarian bazaar, market and
| afternoon tea, 2:30 p. M. Thursday.
Dec. IA.
No advance in price in mems
and boys underwear at Ewers-nic-
Carthy Co.
| prices. Black and colors, $3.50 each
!. Boxed stationery in fancy boxes,
Csc to slips. Nice for presents, at
Collier Stationery Co.
Trinity church bazaar and chick
en- pie supper tomorrow, sale at 2:30,
supper s: 80 to z. 35c
! Christmas seals. tissue and holly
wrapping. post cards, empty boxes,
etc. Collier Stationery Co.
The Central store is headquar-
/ tiers for useful holiday gifts.
Ada Hill and others have decided
to Andrew J. Hill the rear 40 feet of
lot / in block Sc, city Of Keokuk.
Trinity church bazaar and chick
en- pie supper tomorrow, Thursday.
Sale at 2:30; supper, $50 to Z; $50.
The almost zero weather arrived
during the night. With the snow and
cold weather the holidays seem more
real.
Write Mrs. II. H. Schenk, Mem
phis, Mo-, for a beautiful Angora kit
/ ten for your daughters Christmas
/ present
! For ladies' silk and fibre silk hose
at 35c to $3.50 pair, see the Central's
4 large assortment.
| Some Of the stores are beginning
to keep theft places open evenings
in order to accommodate the holiday
shoppers.
The December meeting OF the
board Of education will be held this
!! evening in the Office of the board, at
1870 o'clock.
Let the Keokuk business men
furnish your Christmas wants. The
merchandise is of the holiday quality
and very desirable.
Abe Martin says: REV. Wiley
Tanger has had trouble with his
arches ever since he came out fiat
footed for Wilson"
1 Many useful items for holiday
gifts at the Central store.
| Why not get hubby Corona for
Christmas. Only $50. Collier Sta
tionery Co., agents.
If you wish to contribute to the
Co. l.. soldiers Christmas fund, leave
your offering with Manager Williams
| of the Iowa Telephone Co.. L. A.
! Hamiii of the S. Hamiii Co., or with
/ The Gate City.
/ Employees OF the Burlington"
will regret to learn of the death Of
William C. Johns Of Quincy. wno,s
4 demise took place Tuesday afterno n.
ton" for forty-elght years.
Special holiday prices and terms
on pianos. Loewenstein's.
See our furs, sets or separate
pieces, at the Central store.
Read the advertisements of the
Keokuk retail merchants in issues of
| The Gate City. 1t is TO your ad.
vantage TO do SO. Their proposition
4 to out of town shoppers Is interest
ing. 1t is also profitable to you
KEY G.. E. Ferguson Of Des Moines
I Iowa will deliver temperance lecture
entitled A Saloonless Nation at the
First Christian church this evening at
t7:45 o'clock. No admission is charged
and the public is cordially invited to
attend.
| Linens at reasonable prices for
I the Christmas shoppers at the Cen
/ trail store.
Several special days will be OBJ
| served in most communities in which
Red Cross seats are sold in Iowa .h,S
year. These SPECIAL days are for the
purpose of calling widest attention TO
the seals and the various ways in
which they may be used to spread
| their message, and also for the pur-
! pose of enlisting the active interest
of greater number of people.
-Keokult citizens evidently take
stock in the "do your Christmas shop
ping early" phrase for Main street on
the afternoons Of this week, has been
crowded with Christmas shoppers.
The cold weather after the warm days
of early December, has brought
Christmas look and feeling with it.
Evidently the high prices are not keep
ing Keokuk residents from remember
ing their friends this year for business
appears to be booming.
In the last two years local merch-
ants have shown their faith in keokuk
by putting new store fronts In their
buildings. In this short time about
forty new fronts have been put in
along Main street and this has helped
the appearance of the city greatly.
There are two blocks in Keokuk where
every store front with the exception
Of one Or two, has been recently i'm
proved The new fronts give Keokuk
merchants a chance to make better