The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-12
CITY NEWS.

Parcel delivery. Phone 955.
Fresh rabbits. Tigue's, 922 Main.
Clean and complete stock Of Vic
tor records. Loewenstein Piano Co.
The library Of the Young Mems
Christian association Is being re-
painted and redecorated.
William G. Brown, the ven
known e1-railroad man, has gone to
California to spend the winter.
I'm the district court Mary Nal
10y has been appointed administra-
trix of the estate of ]. H. Maloy.
Abe Martin says: "Th' all alb
sorbin' question that is rocktn' so
ciety t'day Is: How can be it,"
! Try Cur fuii wagon load OF dry
hard wood, sawed stove lengths, for
one dollar. Phone 294.
The fire department responded
to two fue fires this morning. No
damage was reported. The first.
came from GIG Morgan street at $50
o'cock amid the second from 427
Franklin street at 7:10 o'clock
The Irwin Overland company
CT Quincy, Of which the local agency
is one of four branches, recently ac-
quired the Quincy water commits
sicn's office, giving the company
practically an entire block. The
sale was approved by the city coun-
Gil The plans include the erection
of a fine new building there this
spring, Keokuk, Macomb and Hanni-
bal are branches of the Quincy COM
pany. In speaking before the coun-
ell to urge them to sell the offices,
the man who represented Mr.. Irwin
spoke of the new quarters recently
acquired by the keokuk branch.
An echo of the past is found in
a. column in the Clark County
Courier of Kahoka, headed Twenty
Years Ago. from which the follow
ing. dated October 9. 1896. is taken:
"The Lewis rally was held In Ka-
hoka October 9, with several thou
sand in attendance. Music was fur.
nished by the Hess band, the Way
land band and the Luray Martial
band. The parade of footmen was
seven blocks long, three and four
abreast and close together. The
procession was headed by the Ka-
hoka Mckinley G Hobart club with
gold" colored coats and hats anG
red, white and blue umbrellas. The
Keokuk flambeau clubs of three to
four hundred came on a special
train in the evening TO help paint
.hs town red" This sort of thing
is thing Oh tne past HoW. ohtAS1L
rallies have gone by the boards.
The editor of the Montrcse
Journal makes this comment on the
coming visit of the Greater Iowa
association to Keokuk: About the f1f-
teenth of this month there will start
a train of PRONUNCIATION. 1t will leave
Davenport and visit number OF
cities. amongst those named on the
itinerary. is the city of KeokGk.
This. seems to those of us. interest
Ell in the advancement Of that city,
al, opportune time to get into the big
swing for better Iowa, for the SOUTH
east corner of Iowa. 1t occurred to
us that severy business house in keo-
kuk should be represented in the
meeting, which will be held in that
city. This is real business, and the
promoters OF this widely extended
scheme, of calling attention to Iowa
and her resources, should have
large increase of membership from
the city of the big dam. There is no
need to sit down and complain, for
that does not bring results. but up
and at 'em, men, should be the
slogan.
"A new issue of the one and two
dollar greenbacks of civil war days,
discontinued more than thirty years
ago, will be put into circulation
probably about February l. displac-