The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-26
CITY NEWS.

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Graduation Dresses. Lowitz.
Attend the hat sale at La Vogue.
Eat them now! Strawberries 10c
per box at your grocers.
L "A marriage license was issued
yesterday to Frederick l.. Lemon and
Miss Nellie Petrie, both OF Keokuk.
Wonderful suits $40, So. Lowitz.
Strawberries are daily becoming
more plentiful. Local growers are pre-
dicating fair crop Of homegrown ber-
ries.
Newer spring coats So UP. 1owitz.
The Business Girls league will
meet tomorrow from IL until l
to'cfock. Last week ninety girls were
present
Attend the hat sale at La Vogue.
"A citizen of Carthage in Keokuk
yesterday stated that the people Of his
city would be pleased to welcome the
Keokuk retail merchants on their visit
Ito Carthage. The next trip by the re-
tailers Is scheduled for the Hancock
county seat.
Linotype composition. Book work.
briefs, etc A L. Hemenway, linotype
list, Leake Printing Co., sol Main.
A contract was made with the
Keokuk Quarry and Construction COM
pany for the removal of the dirt from
Santa Fe avenue along the excava-
ton being made for the construction
of the concrete paving at thirty cents
a cubic yard. says the Fit. Madison
Democrat The contract is to be re-
newed every month.
-Keokuk camp IL W. A. No 622
win hold its regular meeting tonight
at Woodman hall All members are re-
squested to be present
FIT. Madison Democrat: A letter
was read from c. w. Kellogg Of the
power company in which Mr.. Kellogg
Iobjected to the contract submitted by
Mr.. Pollard, but agreed to repair the
rip-rap as though the matter had
been settled and papers signed be-
tween the company and the city.
Party, street dress sale. LowitZ.
/ Clifford T1orne, chairman of the
Iowa Railroad Commission. will give
an address in Keokuk on the evening
iof April %, under the auspices OF the
Civic league OF Keokuk. In keeping
with the work of the Civic league, Mr.
iThorne will include in his address the
live issue Of the day, by no means for
getting equal suffrage.
The old fashioned slate, with its
binding Of soft wool and red Irvine,
come into vogue again in the opinion
of some Of the state school officials.
The scarcity OF paper, due to the war.
lis making the cost of students note
books prohibitive. school officials as
sert. while the conflict in Europe has
had no effect on the price Of slate.
Nice strawberries on sale at all
grocery stores at 10c per box.
Members OF the Quincy Y. NJ. c. A.
volley ball team will visit Keokuk Sat
urday to engage in tournament with
teams from Keokuk and Burlington.
The first game of the tourney will be
staged at 4 O'Clock in the afternoon.
Two will be engaged In the afternoon
and one at night. Keckuk. Hannibal
and Quincy held a tournament in Quin-
icy several weeks ago, which resulted
lin a tie
A big line OF hats to close out
Thursday at $50. La Vogue.
. The Pilgrim Rest Baptist church
under the pastorate of Rev ]. II. Helm,
! is holding revival services this week.
Last night prayer meeting was con-
Quoted Tonight Rev. G. D. Saunders
of Bowling Green, Mo-, who is assist
ing in the services. will deliver the
sermon. The meetings will continue
each night through the week, with the
exception of Saturday night. A cordial
invitation is extended to the public to
attend these services.
Let Sigmund Bros. do your car
pet cleaning.
What they thought of railroads
and telegraph in 1923 is shown in
the following from Railway Engi-
neering:" You are welcome to use
the school house to debate all proper
questions in. but such things as rail-
roads and telegraphs are imDossibiit-
ties and rank inffdelities. There ia
nothing in the word Of God about
them. II God has designed that His
intelligent creatures should travel at
the frightful speed of fifteen miles
an hour by steam, He would have
clearly foretold through His holy
prophets 1t is a device of Satan to
lead immortal souls down to hell
-Sigmunds vacuum cleaner does
your house cleaning. Phone $50.
The Mississippi river, which has
for years been yielding a fertile har-
vest to the clam manufacturers is
now turning traitor to the industry
which is fostered So high has the
water stage been for the past two
seasons that it has been difficult to
harvest the uussels. First grade
shells are now bringing from $50 to
s32 per ton, a price which is regard
ed as prohibitive by the button manu-
facturers of Davenport and Musca-
tine. 1t is predicted that a compare
tive high stage in the Mississippi this
wear will bring the price up to s35 at
least. This is a figure that has not
been reached in years. Davenport
manufacturers are now in the mar
ket for from $4,000 to $4,000 worth
of shells this season. The tonna ge
8 on this order would be approximately
|. $500 Two years ago the industry