The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-10
CITY NEWS.

. Word has been received here of
the death of Eloise knowles, the eld-
est daughter of Judge Hiram Knowles,
former well known resident of
Keokuk, which occurred at Los An
geles, Calf, on Sunday. The death
was a sudden one and will be mucn
regretted by the friends of the de-
decedent here. The parents survive
with other relatives.
I'm a resolution passed this morn
ing the city council announces that
on the seventeenth of April at 10
o clock an adjourned meeting of the
board of equalization and review will
be held in the city council chamber.
'The board will continue to meet from
then on until May /. Oral or written
complaint can be made to the board
at that time by those who are dis
satisfied with their assessments. An
nouncement of same will be found in
a paid notice from the city in another
column of this newspaper this even
ing.
In the superior court this morn.
ing, E. Lewis, Earl Cox and n. Bres-
nahan paid costs for being intox-
icated
The regular weekly pay roll of the
city, amounting to 1887, was allow
ed this morning.
There will be a meeting of Her
mann lodge, l. O. o. F. to discuss the
proposed consolidation Of the three
/ local lodges into one, on Wednesday
night of this week The members of
Hermann lodge are receiving notices
OF the meeting. 1t is understood that
the proposed consolidation does not
meet with much favor so far as mem
bers of the other lodges are concern
ed
The city council is DESTROYS that
| it be understood that the board of
equalization and review which is sit
ting in the city hall, is only consid-
ering at the present time, taxes on
personal property and such real
estate as has not been assessed here
tofore The assessed real estate will
not be equalized until next ear.
Mr.. Henry Krichel left this morn
ing for Chicago to attend the com
mencement exercises of the Chicago
Veterinary college, which will be held
! Tuesday evening, April II. Mr..
Krichers son, Joseph, is a graduate of
the class OF 1916 of this college.
Mrs. G. l.. Tebeau is recovering
from an operation performed last
week at local hospital.
The twenty-ifth anniversary of
Father A. j. Zaiser will be observed
by the three rort Madison parishes in
June All of the Catholics in this
community will be invited to partici-
pate in the observance, according to
the Fort Madison Democrat: Father
Zaiser after first taking W his
duties as a priest in Fort Madison,
was pastor of ST. Mary's church for
period of three months and since that
time has been in charge of the parish
of St Joseph's church, which position
he has filled for nearly third of the
churchs existence as the seventy
fifth anniversary was observed last
fall.
Jean Espy chapter, Fort Madison,
d. A. R, decided not 20 sell Belgian
flags for relief funds The Gem City
says: Believing in keeping the money
at home, the Jean Espy chapter of
the D. A. r. has decided not to enter
the tag day which will be observed
nationally throughout the country on
flag day by the members of the D.
A R. The money to be secured from
the event will be sent to Belgium as
a part of the relief fund. The action
of the local chapter is in keeping with
the belief that the money could be
spent to a better advantage right at
home. There are hundreds of poor
destitute families throughout our own