The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-12-17
CITY NEWS

| Live cnlchens loo. u - L. Sou0
try Store.
Satin boomers, $500; extra
sizes, $500. EwersO'Brien Co.
Last chance to buy gifts tomor
row at the Y. ". c. A. gift shop.
Christmas one week from tonor'
row. How about that Christmas
shopping?
make it seem more like Xmas
City Seed Co.
A large number Of ont of town
buyers were in the city yesterday
and holiday trading was lively.
EVERYBODY welcome, q. c. T.
Country Store. 609611 Main.
Gate City powdered ammonia
will help you get your washing out
quicker this cold weather.
Masonic: Special meeting Eagle
lodge No. u, A F. & A. M, Saturday
afternoon at $50, Dec. is, 1920.
Second degrees
/ Clearance sale On all bungalow
aprons and house dresses, s1.65 to
s475. EweH-O'Brien Co.
! Hugh S. Bell, the infant son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh S. Bell, died this
morning at the home Of its parents,
2I2S Johnson street
| U. c. T. Country store open Fri
day and Saturday nights.
The Mexican village" Fort
| Madison's most picturesque and in
past days most troublesome colony,
! is losing in population probably
| faster than any other section Of the
city. The inhabitants are packing UP
| their belongings and departing for
! the land of Mexico where recent
events have brought about peace and
apparent prosperity.
Satin boomers, $500; extra
sizes. $500. EwersO'Brien Co.
City Attorney E. H. Pollard Of
Fort Madison, has been appointed
chairman Of the franchise committee
of the League Of Iowa Municipalities,
according to an announcement re-
ceiyed from the president OF the
league. His appointment TO the Office
takes effect at once. The franchise
committee is probably the most i'm
portant Of the league.
Toys cheaper at Lowitz's.
u. c. T. Country store open Fri
day and Saturday nights.
A general change in the parking
rules and regulations for automobiles
in Burlington was formally decided
upon by the city council in regular
session yesterday morning with the
adoption of an ordinance which calls
for diagonal parking throughout the
business district of the city except
where there is a car line, and in that
case parallel to the curb parking.
Big dolls 11c Country Store.
Holly and mistletoe at the Gate
City Seed Co.
The Fort Madison police are
looking for two well dressed
strangers about 35 years of age who
passed eight bogus ten dollar bills at
different business houses in the city
Wednesday night. Each Of the bills
which were passed. excepting one,
we're one dollar federal reserve notes
upon which naught clipped from a
ten dollar reserve note had been
pasted, making it apper to be a ten
dollar bill.
-Keokuk merchants are planning
to keep their store buildings open
next week in the evenings. Several
OF the merchants have suggested
that this be done and have an
nounced their intentions Of thus &C
conmodating the shoppers 1t is ex-
pected that all Of the merchants will
keep their stores open as is the
custom the last week before Christ
mas.
Everybody welcome, U. c. T.
Country Store, GO3611 Main.
-Keokuk friends of Miss Loretta
Smith of Fort Madison, will be inter
ested in knowing that she has been
appointed TO the position of night
superintendent Of Mercy hospital in
Chicago, and that she will assume
her duties January I. She graduated
from Mercy in June this year. Miss
Smith is a niece OF M. E. Bannon of
Fort Madison, and she frequently
visited in Keokuk at the F'inigan
home.
Clearance sale ON all bungalow
aprons and house dresses, s165 TO
S4.75. Ewers-O Brien Co.
William Rose who is looking for
his father whom he has not seen for
twelve years, learned last night be-
fore he left Keokuk that his parent
was living in Peoria. Roses story
was published in The Gate City last
night and before he left Keokuk for
Stronghurst, he was in possession Of
that may lead to his find
ing his father. A woman who knew
the family cdlleQ 1l1H ponce SIa1fCn
to tell Of the VIII erea bouts of Julius
Rose, who lived in Keokuk at one
time in a boat house on the river
front.
Large baskets Of groceries 10c.
Country Store.
The Phyllis Wheatly Rescue and
Charity club met Wednesday at the
home OF Mrs. Selby Johnson and
their plans for the pre-
pairing and distributing OF the twenty
or more Christmas charity baskets
which Will be given to the poor.
These baskets will be filled and sent
from the home of Mrs. Naomi G.
Fields, next Wednesday afternoon
Any donation to this work or infor-
nation concerning needy colored
people in the city to whom help
should be given will be gladly re.
ceived by members of the club
MEN! MEN. MEN!