The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-19
CITY NEWS

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Moving. J. Opstelten. phone R-64S.
Next week the Donnells0n fair.
KeolSuk will send large delegation.
ALBERT Nefer has been appointed
administrator OF the estate or Mrs.
Mary Kiefer.
duplicate auction score pads, soc.
Something new. Obtainable only from
Gate City Co.. 10 North Sixth street.
Electrical contracting. and repair
ing. Formerly with King Plumbing
company. F. II. Wills. Phone Red
1868.
day. to make his usual Saturday pA-
grimaxe to Keokuk. GIe Is still ''Un-
der the weather
Hunting licenses have been Is
sued to John Naylor, Rolley 9. Glas-
gov. Frank J. Weber, Chris 1owen.
stein and Oliver Loving.
4 -Keokuk Lodge No. 10. ]. o. O. F.
meets regularly every Monday night
at $500 o'clock Geo.. S. Merriam. N.
G.: F. NJ. Pugh. Rec. Sec'y.
4 Members Of Keokuk council No.
400, u. G. T., are arranging for 9
basket picnic to be held at Wild Cat
springs Saturday, August rs.
4 According to Scouting, the boy
1 SCOuL MdS0AAA0l C49ASy SSONAS -
/ ficials have been called to the colors
| by the mobilization Of the national
/ guard.
Hancock county people can now
come to Keokuk without any further
bridge delay. And 1t Is q great con-
venience. The new bridge across the
! Mississippi is completed and ready
for use.
/ The Burlington Fawk-Eye makes
the following comment concerning the
4 death OF ]. Y. B. Wood. q former
| Keokuk citizen: ]. Y. 3. Wood. sing
ing evangelist of Keokuk, -aged TWEEN
ty-six, died in hospital at Oska-
loosa. the cause of death being APP
4 pendicitis. He was the son Of one OF
! the oldest newspaper men In south
. eastern Iowa, Nj. R. B. B. Wood.
The young man was possessed OF
great gifts and there seems little
doubt that he would have won place
of prominence il he had been spared.
The Brighton (Colo.) Blade has
the following Of interest: Last week
Herman A Willer was surprised by
visit from his nephew, Pascal L.
Bozeman, OF Las Vegas, N. NJ, whom
he had not seen for twenty years.
The last time Mr.. Willer had seen
his nephew was at Keokuk. Iowa,
where he resided before coming to
Colorado fifteen years ago. Her
man A. willer. il, will probably be
remembered by many Of the old
timers OF Keokuk. as the man who
succeeded his father at the old
Greentree House on Second and
IJohneon streets. His father had been
i a successful hotel man in Keoknk for
many years and when he retired, in
1896. he turned the business over to
his son who ran the hotel for about
two years longer.
a number OF automobiles that
were parked in the grounds OF the
tri-state fair at Burlington expert.
enced trouble Thursday evening
which seemed to Indicate that some
vandal had drained the gasoline
tanks. Thirty or forty Fort Madison
people and number OF Keokuk citi-
zens expected to return south on the
IL 20 train but there were no accom-
modations as the train had been an
nulled because Of the condition OF
the track below Hannibal. A pas
senRer bus was sent for and the peo-
ple carried down in it and several
Fords from the garage. The people
conxregated at the station were very
indignant about the service as they
l claimed that round trip tickets had
been sold for the trip to the fair.
Book lovers will have to pay
] from 10 to rs cents more for current
j qualifications. Publishers and re-
taiIers already have increased the
/ price. Books formerly selling from
| so cents to 81 now>are rated 10 cents
| higher. Those in the past priced
/ from 81 to 50 are sold at an increase
Of Ok cents each. The publishers
L claim that there has been an in
| crease in the price OF paper, leather
1 cloth and ink amounting to from 5U
\ to 100 per cent, during the past
4 twelve months, and 1t Is Impossible
/ to produce books at old prices. The
i consensus OF opinion among them Is
\ that under the present serious con
\ ditions a further increase OF from ~
\ tn 20 per cent, may be necessary
They say their only hope is IN the
ending of the European war 1t Is
claimed there is also shortage o.
: chemicals which must be obtained
), from Europe for the manufacture 81
/. their particular grade OF paper Inc
: surplus supply of this class OF ma
;. terial is exhausted and the pupilsn
ers will have to depend upon a new
supply. The charge now on new
implications which formerly whole
sailed from so cents to 81 Is an IN
) crease OF five cents; books recent!
, selling from 81 to 2, an increase OF
ten cents. Publishers dealing II
y school books only will not accept any
new contracts for some time to come
They claim that their contracts arr
~ long standing and that they vii
a i.avo oil +bey can do to meet the de