The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-25
CITY NEWS.

One application for conscription
! registration blank has been received
by Albert vollers, county clerk.
/ Mrs. Geo. ]. Fader who was oper
ated on Monday morning at St
Joseph's hospital, is recovering
nicely.
Special for Saturday: Granulated
sugar, 10c h.; oranges, loo "a doz.;
granite dishpans, 10c. Woolworths
| S and 10 cent store.
-Puckechetuck lodge No. 43 meets
every Friday evening at $500 O'CLOCK.
s. Pemberton. N, G.; George w. I'M
megart. permanent secretary.
A marriage license was issued
yesterday to Paul Harrison Maple,
%, Of wyoming, Iowa, and Antoln-
cite F. LeFaivre, %, of Keokuk.
Ladies' free ticket for Community
band excursion, will be given with
each pair of ladies' shoes sold at
Peterson's shoe store, 712 Main street:
The business mems volleyball
league will banquet at the Y. M. ..
A. Monday evening at $3.50 O'Clock
in honor OF the winning volleybaIt
teams.
The annual meeting Of the Iowa
E1ks' association, scheduled to De neid
in Dubuque in June, has been post
poned until after the national meeuns
to be held in Boston.
Arguments in the case of Sylvia
A Boone and d. A. Fesler vs.. James
McCarty were finished in the superior
court at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon
and the case has been taken under
adyisement by Judge Mcnamara
That registration day should not
be regarded as a holiday, but rather
as day of conservation to patriotic
service. will be the thought of the
special CONSUMPTION day proclamation
to be issued by Governor Harding
this week.
IN. L. Howard, superintendent OF
the Hannibal division of the Burling-
ton. has resigned his position in or
der to fight for the United States.
He probably will go to France. he
is a graduate of West Point and PROB
ably will be enrolled with the railroad
engineers.
The Y. M. G. A. glee club, which
was organized early in the winter,
Will give it's first recital at Trinity
M. E. church, Thursday, May 81. The
club will be assisted by the choir
boys Of ST. Johns church. The glee
club has been under the direction OF
George w. Barnes, choir master of
St. Johns, and will close Its sea
sons work with this recital.
First Streckfus packet leaves
Keokuk for St. Paul on May 81.
Anyone desiring to avail themselves
of our special proposition as to round
trip rates during May and June should
order reservations at once. We have
only a limited number of tickets tot
dispose of this season. The Gate
City CO.., IS North Sixth street.
Phone 35
Warsaw Bulletin: A couple of
Keokuk negroes lit here Wednesday
night and one of them named Berry,
who cut up Keokuk policeman some
time ago, got on more of load OF
booze than he could comfortably
carry. Marshal Bennett landed him
in the boose and put him to break
ing rock The other, named Mitchell.
was the chap from whom the mar
shall took gun some time ago. He
was given minutes to leave town, but
it only required secondsA
Hamilton Press: The foundation
work at the smelter is practically
complete and the steel for further
will probably be unload
ed this week Mr.. Smith expects to.i
see the work move forward rapidly
now and thinks the plant will be
ready for work in ninety days. 1t
certainly is good to hear Mr.. Smith
describe the buildings which he says
wiz soon be started On ground ad-
jacent to that on which building Is
now being done. Blue prints for the
dolomite plant are complete and work
Will start on that building next week.
Quincy Wing: Edward S. REIN
bold of Nauvoo, captured in San Fran
cisco several months ago, just as he
was about to leave for Australia, and
brought to Quincy by Sheriff Coens
on the charge of enbezzling some
$500 or $500 belonging to the A.
Urban company, and also charged
with embezzling money of the Dick
Brewing company, will not be held
for trial in the June term of the cir
cult court. The grand jury, when the
matter came before that body Thurs !
day, failed to find true bill against |
him Previous to this the money had
been paid back 10 the liquor com
panies here. Hartzell, Green & Cav
anaugh, attorneys, had reached a.
basis of settlement for Reimbo1d with |
the companies Reimbold ran a truck |
line from Nauyoo to TT. Madison, !
Iowa, which is about ten miles above
town on the river. Hell
was agent for the liquor companies
j p Ingle was one of the speak
ers at the last meeting of the Hamil !
ton Retailers association. The Ham |
ilton Press contains the following,
account of this meeting: The Hamil- |
ton Retailers association varied |
their usual meeting arrangement last
Tuesday evening when they went to
the Lakeview club house. The Bust /
ness Mems club had been invited to
90 with them as had also the city /
In all there were about forty
present and, az the object was to
make the event something of an out
ing, business did not have an impor-
tant place on the program. A mum
Der of talks were made, j. P Ingle ,