The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-16
CITY NEWS

Linquist's Saturday, July II.
Dance at Glasers beach Sunday
night Rights of admission reserved.
Special Saturday: Sugar cured
bacon by the half or whole side, SAC.
Larsen & Roost, 140S Main.
Muscatine will vote on school
bonds to the amount of $425.o00 The
board has issued call for an cleo
ttion In August.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. r. Billings have
received word from their son Francis
e. Billings, that he joined the navy
IN San Francisco, Calf, May %. He
has joined for two years.
"A letter has been received at the
office of the Keokuk Industrial asso-
iciation from Colusa, Calf, asking for
information about the building of the
government lock here.
Leave kodak films for developing
lat Wilkinson's Drug store. 422 Main.
where you will get the best work and
viii. get your prints the next day.
Marriage licenses have been
issued to William Wilson Robinson IF
! Waldonville, and Ruby Smith Of Keo-
kuk; to Hobert Lewis and Neva
Wade. both Of Downing, Mo-
! Louis Klein, a former resident Of
keokuk, was prominent in the picnic
and outing given by Burlington post
of the American Legion yesterday.
/ He was master of ceremonies at the
dinner at noon. .-S 43iU
I! If you are in the market for a
NEW truck, investigate the Republic.
IF your truck is too light for your
hauling, see the Republic. We can
handle few used trucks. Weber
Bros, dealers, Warsaw, Ill. Phone
I'LL.
Now is the time to get your furs
REPAIRED or made over into the new
fall styles so they will be ready for
you as soon as the crisp fall winds
begin to blow. Bring them to Sulii-
van & Co. remodeling shop, 504h
Main street.
Fred Glasgow, who lives on Iowa
street, reported to the police that
thirty-six hens were stolen from his
chicken yard last night about 1885
O'Clock. The police secured an auto
mobile and searched the west side
Thoroughly, but failed to find any
trace of the thieves.
Mrs. Prices canning compound at
Wilkinsons Drug store, 422 Main.
Short funeral services were held
late yesterday afternoon for the late
Mrs. D. A. Settler from the home near
ISummitville. with Evangelist George
~. Settler OF Dallas, Texas, officiating.
The body was later sent to Muscatine
where services and interment will be
held today.
Special Saturday: Sugar cured
bacon by the half or whole side, SAC.
Larsen & Roost, 14O8 Main.
A bort touring car driven by an
ont of ca1o
this morning as the machine turned
around the traffic cop at Twelfth and
! Main streets. Something happened
f, to the steering wheel and the driver
was unable to guide the car when it
ran into the curb. The broken
spindles in the wheel which came off
was the only damage done. The two
passengers in the automobile were
not injured.
The Allegretti, Cranes, Mary
Garden, Spoehrs and Holly Brand
chocolates which we sell are kept in
low temperature refHgerators and we
guarantee them to be perfect. Will
kinson & Co., druggists, 422 Main
! Iowa license plates will be
secured Immediately for his automo-
bile by L. F. Rollins, Mr.. Rollins told
Judge Mcnamara yesterday. He had
ibis car licensed in Illinois when he
! thought he was going to work there.
Since coming back here, he has had
/ the matter up with the police, and an
arrangement was pending upon the
receipt of some correspondence from
the state officials. However, Mr.. Ral-
jlins agreed to secure Iowa plates at
once. He paid fine of s7.95 for the
charge against his wife of speeding,
pleading guilty to the charge for her
| Mary Garden talcum powder 35c,
at Wilkinson's Drug store. 422 Main.
| When Uncle Sam issued census
figures for the city of Los Angeles,
he unwittingly spoiled story with
which the Californians long have
loved to twit loyal Iowans, tu-wit,
| that nearly the entire population of
southern California moved there from
Iowa The cold figures show that INST
I21,O71 natives of the Hawkeye state
are residents of Los Angeles. The
census also showed that several OTTER
states have furnished more popula-
, ton TO the California metropolis than
Iowa, thus exploding another belief
long current over the United States.
| FIT Madison Democrat: A move
ment which will make Fort Madison
the biggest manufacturing center IN
the Mississippi was disclosed last
night when Oscar NJ. Olson, vice pres
ident of the Shuman Advertising com
pany of Chicago, visited here and held
a long conference with Joseph Negus,
president of the Fort Madison cham
Der of commerce. According to Mr..
Olsons assertions, he has plan
whereby Fort Madison can within
two years be the principal manufac-
turing point on the northern ,fissis-
sippi and within a decade race ahead
OF all of the Mississippi cities in manu-
featuring.
FOR SATURDAY CROWDS: LOWITZ
Keokuk's greatest IS and $40 ready
to-wear sale of garments worth So to