The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-07
CITY NEWS.

g. j. Mefster, piano and player
tuning Phone B 1881.
The o. II. club has adjourned
meeting until further notice.
Read Gate City advertisements
and make your shopping easy.
We have Royal nut coal sized for
base burner use. A. H. Evans & Co.
Public sale. Mrs. John Henke
will have their public sale Dec. 10th.
-Buehler Bros meat market will
close at o'clock tonight, and not at
:, as advertised.
Read the advertisements in this
issue of The Gate City and your gift
buying will be pleasure.
Main street Is being washed Off
today, not only the paving, but most
of the sidewalks by the merchants.
Interest is due on savings &C.
counts at Keokuk National bank on
December 1. Please present your
book for credit.
Miss Charlotte Brackelsberg re-
turned home Thursday afternoon
from st. Joseph's hospital, after an
operation on the throat.
| -Keokuk lodge No. 10, I. o. O. F.,
meets regularly every Monday night
at o'clock. Sam Russell, N. G.; F.
M. Pugh, recording secretary
| The Gate City co-operates with
] the merchants. Read their advertise
ments in this issue and your Christ
mas shopping will be easier.
The funeral of Harvey Hunter
was held this afternoon at Palmyra,
Mo-, the body having been taken
from Keokuk by train this morning.
M. Howard Montague left Thurs
day, for Seattle, Wash, to which
place he has been transferred with
the Puget Sound Electric company.
Mrs. Goldie Hoaglin and son of
| Pleasant Hill, ILL.,, are visiting at the
home Of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
]. H. Ewing of 721 Exchange street.
/ "A burning flue at the home OF
Thomas Kollmeyer, 1895 Johnson
street, caused still alarm of fire,
but no damage, just after noon to-
day.
Make this happy Christmas. 1t
should be one of the happiest. Make
your gifts as usual. This is the most
prosperous country in the world Shop
early.
The fuel shed of Mrs. Faharer at
421 South Sixth street burned last
Ievening about o'clock, but the fire.
men saved the coal and wood and
Ikindling in it.
The funeral Of Mrs. Alexander
j Tulley, who died >in ST. Louis was
held from the train this afternoon
with burial in Oakland cemetery In
the family lot.
When you are disconnected and
want to roam, order a case of soda
water and stay at home. 1t will help
to stamp out the flu. Phone TAI
Coca Cola Bottling Co.
Reports from Warsaw today are
that Mrs Thomas A Hartley's con
dition is slightly improved and thai
she is doing as well as could be ex
pected under the circumstances.
Mrs. Edwin Sherman Booth dice
last week in Camanche, Montana, o.
influenza. Her husband is a proml
nent Montana lawyer who studFed II
the office of James G. Davis th1rt!
years ago and is the son of Ed. Booth
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles S. Pont
have returned from Des Moines
where they spent week with Mr.
and Mrs. Sanford Drake. Mr.. Drake
has been mustered out of service
having been at the officers training
camp at Fortress Monroe.
Sergeant Clarence A. Nmper
formerly clerk at the Hotel Iowa, re
turned from Camp Pike last evening
! and expects to remain in Keokuk. Ht
: was assigned to the officers training
school but did not reach his commits
sion before the a,mistice was signed
He was one of the expert drill sers
eants of the cantonment and was pro
NOTED from private for his ability.
-Clyde Martin is at home agall
J after six weeks service as superln
tendent of the influenza emersenc.
hospital at Hibbing, Minnesota. ~
I quit playing for the movies, in Whici
: profession he stands at the top, 70
l the hospital work which seemed U
t he needed most. The hosIltal was
l base hospital, one of three m Tn
, state. under the national guard AM
! the Red Cross.
Mrs. NJ. Van Derzee. of Topeka
Kansas. is expected in the city IN
few DAYS to visit her daughter, MIS-
$ Sidney ]. Davis. During her stay
4 Mrs. Van Derzee will serve as matrol
of the Young Women's CHRISTIAN IL y,
t dustrial mission. at q North fourr
a street. The mission is affordlng
free reading room. bureau or ln1ol
= nation and place of christian recre
d alton for lone colored women an
4 sir,s and christian workers VINO ar
4 Strangers as we'll as rest room 10
!. +he citizens who may desire It's use.
"xMAs" MILLINERY BARGAINS.