The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-19

meghI permanent SecreSaEy.
The Daily Gate City goes into
nine out OF every ten homes In the
city. 1t ought to be an easy matter
for the advertiser to decide where to
place his advertisements.
-Cigarmakers sixth annual blue
label bali at Woodman hall Monday.
Jan. %. Music by o'Farrell's 1o-piece
orchestra Dancing $50 to l:O0
o'cloQk. Tickets sl.00, ladies free;
Rights Of admission reserved.
Judge Martin J. Wade In an order
made Tuesday. names the Evening
Democrat OF Fort Madison~as the Of
fetal paper for this county for the
publication of notices and other mat
tiers In proceedings OF bankruptcy.
Commenting about the ice harvest
the Quincy Journal says: Railroads
here are confronted with a scarcity OF
fee cars. The Hutmacher ice ceEa pany
has a field plowed at Front and Elm
streets ready to load cars. but the COM
pany has been unable to furnish any
cars during the past two days. At
keokuk and Montrose, Ia, and other
cities q similar shortage has been re-
ported.
The following item from Thurs
days Quincy Herald ~. FIJI 81: BE et interest
| to readers of The Gate City: Edmund
Perkins and A. H Beitman were in
Fort Madison yesterday to stake on
the levees for the Green Bay drainage
district. This district OF 5000 acres is
under from three to nine feet OF water
and as this is frozen over now, 1t was
their only opportunity 10 do the pre-
Iliminary work. The land to be re-
claimed is flooded by Lake Keokuk
-
greater difficulties than that encoun-
tered In the construction Of the IA
nous dykes in Holland In Holland
| the water pressure has to be dealt
with during the time OF the tide, while
in the Green Bay district the ievees
must be built while the land Is flood
| ed. The supervisors OF the district
yesterday sold 1863 900 worth Of bonds
for the construction work.
The editor OF the Warsaw Buiis
tin, who was guest at the High Ten
sion club banquet Wednesday even
ing. writes as follows in the Bulletin
Of the event: Some 40 persons 50.
down To an elaborate dinner served
! at the Hotel IIS-SSrLeaknk y. con res.
| day evening at $50 O'Clock, under tho
auspices OF the High Tension Clue.
following which we're some interesting
BIZ Father Gillespie, Major w B. Cox
inns. III. /. Sawyer, Senator McManus
and others, preceded with happy In
trcductory remarks by Mr.. H. w.
Walker, the POSTMASTER. The ciIo IS
composed Of employees OF the Stone
e. webster holdings at Keokuk, IN
Guiding not only men who MAKE their
home In that city but likewise those
residing within the zone served Oy
the Mississippi River Power Co. And
they are a clean cut, fine appearing
bunch of fellows, with the very alert
ness their business exacts stamped
upon their features, while geniai
optimism permeates their social n.
tercourse. II was pleasure 10 meet
with them, and a double pleasure 20
look upon such gathering OF MANI
young men. Arthur Kuse, member
Of the club. and Mayor W. l. Hill ana
the writer, guests, represented war
saw.
Concerning the death Of Mrs
Margaret L. Burke, former heosuh
woman. a Kahoka newspaper has the
following: Mrs. Marga-t l.. Burke
died at her home in Kahoka, Mo-, sat
urday evening at O'Clock, aged
about eighty-fve years. The funera.
services were conducted at St MI
chaeTs Catholic church in this city,
Monday. at 10 O'Clock, by Rev. Father
r. x. Santarre- Interment was oy
the side Of her husband in Oakland
cemetery, Keokuk, Iowa Mrs. Mar
garet 1. Burke, nee Lynch, was born
in Scotland She came to America
with her parents when small girl
The family located at Pittsburgh, Pa,
where they resided for several years,
later moving to Carthage, Ill. then
TO Keckuk. Iowa She was united IN
marriage to James e Burke. OF Reo-
kuk. Following the death of her hus-
band. she moved to kahoka where
! she resided until her death. She was
the eldest of family OF six children.
four Sons and two daughters. The
sister and t-9 brothers praceded her
In death. Surviving are George w.
Lynch OF Oakland. Calf, and James
z. Lynch OF Illinois. She is also sur
Wired by seventeen nephews and
nieces, among the latter being Mrs.
Frank H Hardness, Mrs. A. c. Alex
ander and Mira. o. G. watson of this
city.
+ Concerning the knight electric
road. the La Belle Star OF La Belle,
10. has the following. The ques
ECl Is frequently asked, " nat las
become OF the proposed electric
roa6zo Many Wild rumors have been
circulated that are in reality simply
.okss The facts are that Mr.. Knight
e sorztng constantly on the protec
ard IL meeting with flattering suc-
cezs. "A letter from him reviewed by
tie Star man two weeks ago states
fsz. he has completed the survey to
Nor.a Jefferson, just across the Mis-
s1z-S -fyer from Jefferson City, where
re connect, with the Mckinley sys-
aeza tat rsns across the river from
ne 1zcs-oi. Ills next work is that OF
s.zzsnY a surrey for two spurs. one
70 cotezssGz and the other 10 Fulton,
- Ezlszg f. Impractical to place eitn-
~ s<gya rs the main line owing TO the
Sezgy zrz6es AID cuts that would be
se>ssszry, y ~ gsttes natural for peo-