The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-03
CITY NEWS.

Grapes for sale. Phone 1921 F IL
u. G.. T. excursion Sept. 7, steam.
er Sidney.
Regular meeting Gee. v. Jenkins
Camp U. y. w. ", TONIGHT. o'clock
! ]. X. Foulkes, Adjt.
St johns guild lawn fete Thurs
day evening, Sept. 9Th, at residence
Mr.. and Mrs. J. J. A. :cs, No. Park
place Program.
Mrs. l.. B. Smith OF st. Francis
Vile, Mo-, has received word that her
husband, Private Lawrence Berl
Smith, has arrived safely in France.
Harold Gallagher, twelve year
old boy. had his blue Crown boys BIZ
cycle trimmed in black stolen from the
home, 300 Blondeau street Sunday
night
u. C. T. excursion p. m. satur-
day, Sept. 7.
Mrs. e. H Barrier. of PHI Des
Moines street, received word from her
son. Sergeant F. o. Barber of Co. B.
313th engineers that he has arrived
safely in France.
Sergeant L. z. Riser, formerly
clerk at the Hotel rowa for several
years and now in the medical corps of
the army. has arrived in France
friends here are informed in letters.
Regular melting of Morning Star
lodge No. 5. K Of P, at Castle hall
Fifth and Blondeau Business of i'm
portance. Don't fail to attend o. w.
, Rowe, c. c.; j. A. Burgess, K. of r.
and S.
A gang of youths playing craps
and disturbing the peace of the neigh
bors Sunday night scattered and es-
capped when the police arrived in re
Spouse to call from somebody in the
neigh borhood.
Sidney leaves p. M, U. C. T. ex-
cursion. FIT Madison.
Mrs w. A. S. Mills, Mrs Fred
Holmes and Mrs. Edna n. Albert, have
returned from the sixteenth annual
session of the G. U. o. o. F. and H. II.
of R.. held in Cedar Rapids. At this
session Mrs. Albert was elected 20
tne highest office in the district, d. G.
Ernest Humphrey. who drew
thirty days for vagraLcy last April
and was released to leave town and
stay away, returned to keokuk and
was picked up early this morning and
jailed as a gentle reminder that tie
police want him TO reside elsewhere.
Ambrose Hunt an early day set
tier in the San Bernardina valley,
died Sunday morning at his ranch
home in East Coolton. The obituary
says he emigrated from England in
1852 on the American ship, Golconda,
and arrived at New Orleans after a
voyage of eleven weeks. With his
wife and others he travelled up the
river TO Keokuk. Iowa, and aided in
leveling the precipitous bluffs and lay
ing the foundation Of the city.
The Fort Madison Democrat is one
of the recent papers to increase the
subscription price of its daily edition
10 city subscribers, the increase being
from ten to twelve cents per week
The Democrat held off longer than
most papers, but had to admit that the
increase was necessary to meet the in
creased cost of publishing news
paper The Democrats increase is
very reasonable taking into consider
alton the tremendous increases under
which newspapers are being published
-Muscatine has become one news
paper town by the recent absorption
of the News-Tribune by the Journal
The Journal is a Lee Syndicate news
paper and one of the best dailies in the
state Both papers have been losing
money since the war began owing to
the increased cost of production. The
consolidation should be welcomed nv
the merchants of Muscatine as It will
give them a much better advertising
value for a little increase in cost