The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-07-24
CITY NEWS.

st. Peters moonlight tonight.
The absence Of rain is injuring
the late berry crop.
Forest Corners has returned from
a trip to Mt. Sterling, III.
Many remnants going at less than
half prices at the Central.
Fishing trips are frequent and
those indulging in this sort OF sport
are meeting with good success.
Tonight, ST. Peters moonlight.
Not only the farmer but the auto
mobilist want rain. Auto trips are
having considerable joy taken out OF
them by the clouds of dust that arise
from every passing machine
Big remnant sale all this week at
the Central store.
Judge Bank has granted divorce
to Bird Harris from j. r. Harris. and
Effie Ray Ivers from Andrew ]. Ivers.
The plaintiffs in both cases were
awarded the custody of the children.
DIR. G.. Walter Barr and wife and
daughter left today for Des Moines,
going via Mt. Pleasant where they
will remain over night, resuming their
journey to the capital in the morning.
Sunday morning train of twen-
ty-six Pullmans passed through Bur
lington en- route to Des Moines to
carry the First Iowa regiment to the
Mexican border.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. NJ Mcmillan,
Miss Ella Lee and Ralph Winger
have returned from three weeks
automobile trip into Tennessee, Ken
tucky, Indiana and other eastern
states.
-Ottumwa will be the mecca for
the members of the Modern Woodmen
of America Tuesday, July 25, for on
that, date hundreds of the NJ. w. A.
will be there to attend the big dis
| trict class adoption and meeting.
Tonight, ST. Peters moonlight.
| The following item is from the
Burlington Hawk-Eye: G. F. McFar-
land, president of the Keokuk Indus
trial association, has been named by
i that body as a national councillor to
represent it in the Chamber of Conl-
merce of the United States. Mr.. Nc
Farland is cousin of Nh. w. f. Nc
Farland of Burlington.
| An auto truck driven by George
u. Dinond of 603 South Thirteenth
Istreet. plunged into street excava
ton near Eighth and Main street, on
Saturday afternoon about 200 o'clock
Mr.. Dimond was not injured and the
machine was but slightly damaged
ment and the front wheels fell into
the hole several feet deep.
The CentraTs big remnant SALE
begins tomorrow, Tuesday.
The late opening and the early
closing movement prevalent in al
, cities during the summer months /.
decided change from the old Gus
tom of the merchant when the stor'
opened about o'clock in the morn
ing and remained open about as lon,
as there was any chance to get bust
ness. The closing hour was arount
IL o'clock.
Newspaper publishers Throughout
the country were invited today by thu
federal trade commission to be REP
resented at a hearing in Wash
ington on August l, at Il
a. M. on whether there ha
; been an undue increase in the prize
of news print paper. The commission
will conduct an exhaustive investiga
ton, of which the public hearing will
, be the first step.
A statement given out Saturda,
by the state pharmacy commission fol
the biennial period from June 80
, 1914, to July 1. 1916. shows a gall
in receipts of S1,135 as compared Il
the two years previous. In the pas
, two years the receipts have totalet
, S77,566.1S as compared to SIC, 431 N
for the years 1912 and 1913 Ven.l
, ers' license fees constitute the larg 81
single item, amounting N the pas
, two years to s65,200.
Quincy Journal: Harry r. Derby
son of Mr.. and Mrs. H. c. Derby, o.
1858 Broadway, Quincy, was injured
in an encounter with shark Will.
Tho and four other members Of thu