The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-13
CITY NEWS.

f1dVS your u0tdl WodIuc1 otA iPS
installed now. Phone 674.
A marriage license was issued to
Spence E. Raney, age 80 years and LII
lie B. Hand, age 80 years by the coun-
ty clerk Monday. Both live in st.
Louis.
"A report was filed In the estate
OF Edward NJ. Hanson and approved by
the district court. Monday. The re-
port was submitted by Caroline g.
Hanson as administrative.
Frequent complaints that auto
mobile drivers are using parking
between Nineteenth and Twentieth on
M ain street as a speedway, are reach
ing the city council.
&c. w. Danielson, physical director
at the Y. M. G. A. has received word
from the exemption board in Minnea-
polls that he has been reclassified. He
now is in Glass 2 G.
John (Scaley) Wheatley has es-
capped from the asylum at Mt. Pleas
ant Ia, the police have been notified
Wheatley, who is the son OF John
(Peg) Wheatley. was taken to the in
stitution some time ago.
Report was made to the police to-
day that small boys are interTuptlng
the Holiness meetings. in Kilbourne
park. A policeman will be detailed 70
keep the disturbers away.
Examination of the city dumping
ground, known as the city pasture at
the rear of Oakland cemetery. was
made today by Mayor Ed. S. Lotion.
The place Is in good order, the mayor
said.
Regular melting Of Morning Star
lodge No. s. K Of P, at Castle hall
Fifth and Blondeau. Business OF Inn
portance. Don't fail to attend. O. w.
Rowe, G. c.; J. A. Burgess, K of r..
and s.
Regular meeting Loyal Order OF
Moose, Keokuk lodge No. 704. tonight
ct 8 o'clock, in Moose hall. Business
of Importance. Initiation. Social
session. Visiting brothers cordially
invited. Ed. G. Vaughan. dictator
The front of an automobile owned
by A. P. Quick, living near Warsaw,
was slightly damaged, Monday after
noon when the car and a Sinton truck
colltded at Second and Main street.
Quick's seventen-year-old daughter
was driving the car.
The artesian well outside the
Young Mems Christian association
building is being overhauled. The
pipes ueCduc ClOSSSu. "a WSAA Va iiiiAio
machine was put to work and most OF
the old pipe was dislodged and taken
out The we'll which is 735 feet deep,
was drilled in the winter OF 1s02-O3.
On account of the Illinois state
fair at Springfield, mr.; Aug Is to %.
Wabash train No 9, scheduled to
leave Springfield at 1905 p. m. and
arrive in Keokuk at 5:45 p. m, will
be discontinued. On the five dates a
special train will be operated, leaving
Bluffs at Cos, arriving Keokuk 9:15
10. m. Connection with this special
train from points east Of Bluffs will be
made by train No. Is, leaving Spring
field 3:45 D. m and Jacksonville $40
In. m. There are no other changes in
Wabash train service to or from keo-
kuk during this period, officials OF the
railroad announce.
Mrs. Elizabeth King was granted
a divorce from her husband, Ernest =.
King, by Judge Henry Bank jr in dis
trict court Monday. Judge Bank de-
creed that Mrs. King be allowed to re
marry at any time after the signing
of the decree. She was given the GUS
tody of a minor child, Marciene b.
King. The court further ordered that
King pay alimony for the care OF the
child in the sum of $75 month to
Mrs. King. The alimony for plaintiff S
support is to be paid only for per
iod of one year. Mrs. King named
cruel and inhuman treatment as
grounds for the divorce.