The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-06-25
CITY NEWS

*. p. excursion tomorrow, p. m.
Special sale at Miss Kings. All
hats one-half price.
st. Johns Guild market Saturday
Afternoon, Lanbersheimer's.
Dance at Glaser's beach Sunday
might. Rights of admission reserved.
i A marriage license has been
issued to Max Cecil Veith and Mabel
Claire Brown.
Call w. Van Ausdan for brick
work, pointing, plasterdng and small
cement Jobs. Phone Black 924.
John Leisy is agent for the cele-
brated Borch malt syrup in ID. cans,
the best out for home use. Phone 81.
| Unitarian social, Roberts lawn,
Eighth and Orleans, Friday evening.
Homemade ice cream and cake, Csc.
| Eddie Brown left today for North
Platte, Nebr., where he is entered in
| a $4,000 purse race with his Dusen-
berg racer.
Mr.. and Mrs. e. C. Mcpherson
announce the birth Of son born
Thursday morning. Mr.. Mcpherson is
the city plumbing and housing in
spector.
| All hats one-half price at Miss
Kings, 322 Main
The fire department was called
ito the Thomas home, lila Exchange
street last night A short circuit in
electric wires in the ceiling burned
the insulation off of the wires. The
small blaze was extinguished with
chemical extinguishers.
*. P. excursion tomorrow. Come
and enjoy dancing on new dance floor
of steamer Hill.
The board of supervisors have
received word from the highway com.
missioners recommending the road
from Montrose 10 Fort Madison for
Improvement The state highway en-
gineers will be here soon to make
the plans for an early beginning of
the work.
County Agent Miner says that
Farm Bureau members shipped four
carloads of wool last week. A car
was shipped from Argyle Monday;
Tuesday car was shipped from Don
nelson and one from West Point;
Wednesday one was shipped from
Houghton.
Saturday, p. M, X. P. excursion.
burlington Gazette: Former Con-
gresham Thomas Hedge is receiving
the congratulations OF his friends to-
day. the occasion being his seventy
sixth birthday. Mr.. Hedge was born
in building which stood on the
present site Of Schramms store in
1874, two years before Iowa was ad-
mitted into statehood
President r. A. Montgomery of
Parsons college, Fairfield, will occupy
Westminster church pulpit next Sun
day. His morning theme will be "The
Challenge of Tomorrow" and the
evening. The Call for Moral Leader
Ship" Dr. Montgomery is speaker
of universal interest and power.
Young people who are considering the
question OF a college course are
especially invited to hear these ad-
dresses.
Quincy Herald: The wedding Of
Miss Kathryn Pearl Lahan, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. John ]. Lahan, to
Burdett G. Turner took place Tues
day in Keokuk. The couple were very
quietly married and have returned to
Quincy where they are making their
home with the brides parents for
the present. Mr.. Turner is with the
Quincy Gate and Elevator company.
His home was formerly in Edna.
Texas, but he has been in Quincy for
a number of years
-Keokuk friends of DR.. Hubert p.
Neeper will be interested in the fol.
lowing from the Clark County
Courier: Hubert Neeper, brother OF
the Misses Neeper, of Kahoka, and
who is dentist under the British
government in India, writes that he
is III with walking typhoid and has
been ordered out Of India by his
physician. He was to sail June 1.
which date Is now past one month. !
He contemplated coming home via
Italy If the state of his health per-
mitted.