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1 PAGE TWELVE •1 .O *VN I .1 i' ii!li!ll!llll^l Spring Suits that Suit every taste including yours A wide variety from the extra smart models to those of more conservative design. We have your idea of an Easter Suit. Come and see it for yourself—on yourself. A pleasure to show you.» Just the clothes that will make you. look your best. New wear* and fabrics Lines that spelt distinction And don't forget that hat A Royal Wilton Bug That will stand examination Fair comparison and criticism Favorably compared with Rugs That retail from $50 to $60 Dyed with the very best Dyes Our Price—9x12, $37.50. All other sizes in proportion By oar anticipating the rise iWe felt was surely to come We are prepared to show yon The very best line of Patterns Made of the very best Yarns' AXMINSTER WILTON VELVET FINE BRUSSELS Ewers-McCarthy Co, A»k Any Well-dressed Man The Right Thing to Do It Ought to Be Done Now Thepeopie who have not bought Their new rugs for the home Comeand see what we have la-our Bug Department. WOOL FIBRE VOGUE GRASS RUGS This offer is only good For a limited time. Take advantage of this offer For all Hugs will surely cost more When we buy again for next season We are offering all of our rugs At a saving of from 20 to 30 per cent Every quality. Nothing is withheld. Linquist Bros. Keoknk, Iowa 518 to 524 Main Street Don't Forget, we Pay the Freight. 2ASY TO SMOKE AND WOR^H SMOKING. T*»o aizes. S for 2Sc and T0o straight. '*t?\ I 1 L. AOP\-R:GHT.1916CO, DLEX a BKO9. & -fj 7—'^-HT •A. Wool Wall Brushes —754- Genuine sheep hide brushes with one short and one long handle Scott & O'Reilly DRUGGESTS 602 Main Street rafierioff Itching piles who anything Suppoat them Easy to apply. Price 25 cents and 50 cents. SOLD BY J. F. KIEDAISCH & SON 1028 Main St. W E E O HORSESHOEING AND GENERAL REPAIR WORK. All work given prompt and careful attention. 1227 MAIN STREET A. N. Rowan Successor to I* B, Fields Agency Old Line insurance' Real Estate. S3 N. Fifth street Phone 401 J. M. WRIGHT Gun and Locksmith Keys fitted, loc.ts repaired, knives aad siBsors ground, general repair ing. 908 Main Street. John Opstofton For Moring, Storage, Transfer Mortal] BILLIARDS AND BOWLING. FOR SALE—Billiard tables, brand new, carom and pocket, with complete outfit, $115 second hand tables at re duced prices. Easy payments. Cigar store, drug, delicatessen and soda fountain fixtures. The Brunswick Balke-Collender Co., Davenport, Iowa. I. C. Sanders, agent. Blackhawk hotel. New York Herald: Is the Joke on Henry Ford, William Alden Smith or the staterwlda «rlmaof THE DAILY GATE CITY AND CONSTITUTION-DEMOCRAT CITY NEWS. —A Grand .Leader sc. worth more. —Weather predictions failed this moraine. —Any name free on Master eggs at The Ross. —ODanoe at Rink,^fl|lght, 301 Main. Public Invited. Rights reserved —The Vlctrola is the recognized leader of all talking machines. F. W. Loewenstein Piano Co. —Keokuk's three factories—secur ed last year—are now in operation. The River Smelting and Refining Co., the Keokuk XSectro Metals Co., and Standard four Tire Co. —(Largest assortment of Eaater candles fit for children to eat At The Rose. —Don't wait until the rain comes. Have Dunn and Matheney fix your guttering not —The members of Trinity Metho-' dist Episcopal church will hold a re ception for the new metirhers, In the church auditorium, Monday evening at 8 o'clock. All members and their friends are most cordially Invited. —The Westminster Presbyterian Sunday school has made special pro visions for extra classes for the en larged enrollment in the Sunday school. It is hoped that there will be a very large aeten dance tomorrow morning. —Seed corn. Gate City Seed Co. 517 Johnson St. —EL P. Bracken, general manager of the Burlington lines east of the Mis-, sissippi, came in from Chicago last night on No. 5. He will go to Keokuk this morning with 39. P. Bustle, says this morning's Burlington Hawk-luye. —Best piano values. P. W. Loew enstein Piano Co. —An order has been issued by Judge Hamilton in the hearing in the matter of the International Dfcnk of •St. Louis vs. the Scott Madden Iron works, authorizing the receiver to sell to J. G. Delaplaine of St. Louis, cer tain assets, the amount of sale to be $521.55. This hearing was held yes terday afternoon before Judge Hamil ton in the district court here. —'Buy them by the box—©were' Grand Leader and Santa Mara. —(Lieutenant Governor Harding of Sioux City, one of the republican candidates for governor at the com ing June primary, will visit Keokufr probably some time next week and call on the members of his party with a view of enlisting support. Mr. Harding has visited Keokuk a num ber of times. —Smoke a Grand Leader and smile. —Give us your order early for chocolate Easter eggs, at The Rose. —'Interest is said to be growing in Clean-up week, being April 24 to May 1. And it is essential that this should be the case. It will be impossible to have a Clean-up week unless practical ly everybody co-operates. The idea Is an excellent one. Many other towns expect to carry the plan through. It has the backing of many societies, and the governor of Iowa has given it his approval. —'Baptist sale market and coffee. Thursday at 3 p. m. —Anent the reunion which the class of *97 Keokuk Medical college has planned, the Davenport Demo crat says: The members of the old school are preparing their remin iscences now and a long string will be ready for the meeting. Keokuk physicians are planning on attending in a body and a large number have already signified their intention of being here for the three daji session. —See Dunn & Matheney, 30 South Twelfth street for those leaky spouts. —Patronize the advertiser who says "Come." "Come," is the Invitation of every merchant who advertises In this newspaper. The men who put their advertisements in the newspaper have faith in themselves and in their products. They are catering to your wants. They can only succeed by serving you. The advertisements are cleverly written. They are interesting to read. They are thoroughly hu man. Let the advertising in this news paper help you when you need goods or service—it is a guide that leads to the pleasant road of satisfaction. ARRANGES SERIES OF PRAYER SERVICE Rev. Butler's Committee of Twelve Will Arrange for Meetings in Homes This Week. Rev. D. E. Butler, head of the re vival campaign among colored people which begins here Easter Sunday, has arranged a committee of twelve to do personal work in the homes, and conduct a week of prayer at several residential stations as follows: Monday, April 17, at 3 p. m.—A. M. E. parsonage, 415 North Seventh. Tuesday, April 18, at 3 p. m.—Mrs. Minnie B. Taylor, 1103 Main street. Wednesday, April 19. at 3 p. m.— Mrs. George Snoddy, Fourteenth and Orleans avenge. Thursday, April 20, at 3 p. m.—Mrs. Anna Alden, 1607 Morgan street. Friday, April 21, 10:30 a. m.—Mrs. Nellie M. Whittaker, 517 Morgan street. Saturday, April 22, 3 p. m.—Mrs. S. T. Goins, 1519 Franklin street. Palm Sunday, April 19, prayer meet ing will be held at the home of Mrs. Ritchie Johnson, 1614 Morgan street, at 4 p. m. Rev. Augustus will be in the city Wednesday or Thursday to rehearse the singers. Mr. Augustus will use the popular "He Surely Means Me" of the Scoville campaign. Leaders of Democracy Ruffled. Dubuque Times-Journal: Repre sentative Fitzgerald, democratic chairman of the house committee on appropriations, condemned the last congress for extravagance and is con demning this for slowness and gener al inefficiency. Senator Newlands, also a democrat, attributed the in dustrial depression of 1913-14 to tne unwise legislation of the democratic party. Several democratic congress men, apparently entertaining similar views, have announced that they will not be candidates for re-election. When democratic leaders condemn the party, how can the average voter be expected to support it? —Advertise in get resales. The Cats City and w# w*«nt (6 .•" SPICER Makes your watch keep time. 9G2 Main I IM»••••*••.»• ELECTROLYSIS For Superfluous Hair The only permanent cure knoiwri for superfluous hair, moles, warts, etc. 1 remove from 60 to 150 hairs per hour, according to your case. I positively guarantee my work to be permanent. No pain scars. I use the quickest and most reliable of all electric 1853. needle methods. Ptaona I. E. NUNN Second floor. S24M Main street POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS. I wis'n to announce that I am a candidate for the democratic nomina tion for county attorney. J. M. C. 'HAMILTON. CITY NEWS. —Read the classified columns. —Fresh home made chocolate candy Easter egg, at The Rose. —Villa is about all in, so are your shoes. Bring them to Sayller's shoe hospital, 1120 31aln. —Keokuk Lodge No. 13, I. O. O. F. meets regularly every Monday night at 7:30 o'clock. Geo. S. Merriam, N. G. F. M. Pugh, Rec. Sec'y. —The condition of Miss Margaret Ewers, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ewers who was operated on for appendicitis at St. Joseph's hos pital, is reported as satisfactory: —Dr. Rowena Morse Mann, form erly pastor of the First Unitarian church here, spoke recently at Quin cy on "Russian People as I Saw Them." Dr. Mann also talked on civics and pleaded for a city beau tiful, telling what had been accomp lished by Berlin and other European cities. —Through an unintentional mis take the name of the Overton Insur ance agency was omitted last night from the list of agencies who bid for the contract of bonding the city of ficials. Following is a complete list of the bids submitted, of which A. M. Wyllle's was the lowest: A. M. Wyllie, $77.40 L. B. Field, $96.90 Vernon McKay, $94 N. H. Pyle, $104.60 B. B. Hobbs, $12-1.20 John Tumelty. $&V75 the Overtoil In surance agency, 104.50. —According to the Fort Madison Democrat: E. C. Bishop of the state agricultural college at Ames, who spent Thursday evening in the city, appointed A. C. Evans of West Point, to act as county corn club leader. With Mr. Evans there will be appoint ed township leaders and in the course of a few days a representative of the college will arrive in the city to visit the townships in the county with Mr. Evans in making the ap pointments of sub-leaders. —Fine line of fancy EJasteT box candies, home made, at The (Rose. —Keokuk men who intend to trnve? this summer and who may be tempted to remove their coats in a dining car may be interested in ffte following from Clinton: Instructing the Jury in the case of George H. Cook against Chicago & Northwestern railway, in which the plaintiff askecj Judgment for damages against the railway com pany for ejection from a dining car when he refused to don a coat. Judge (Letts ruled that the company's ruleft requiring dining car patrons to wear coats, is an unreasonable one. The Jury, however, returned a verdict for ifcs datfuM, 4^9!^ You are certainly going to :buy the material for a summer wash dress.- ^Vhy not selects it .now. You know how hard it is to get. just what you want late in the season.-^ The very shade you want is sure to be sold out. The stock now is so large and varied, that any thing like a complete description would take too much space—so we invite you to come in and look at a collection of wash dress goods that we are proud to show. Special 45 inch colored linens at 85c. Sullivan & Auwerda food far better A ordinary refrigerator*. UATURDAY, APRIL 15, 19is |p|sj£ yi r"i "-»i if Moire than twice-as£ood ordinary^refrigCTators. has ike water 1W Built The Automatlo Refrigerator At its chief Job—preserving food the AUTOMATIC, with its constant circulation of cold, dry air, gives a ser vice that can't be surpassed. In addition, and without the use of any extra ice, it per fectly cools the drinking water in its odor-proof, built in, porcelaiqjined prater cooler. See the wonderful Refrigerator that means perfectly preserved food an# fold drinking water in abundance, Duncan-Schell Furniture Co. Cash 307—317 Main Street Payments We positively guarantee a saving of one-half your fuel gas bill by using a Chambers Fireless cooking gas stove or no sale. To close out our stock of Chicken Coops and Hog Troughs We are making the following very low prices Regular $2.40 brooder coops $2.00 Regular $1.75 common coops $1.45 Regular $1.75, 6 ft. seamless hog trough $1.55 Regular $2.00 8 ft. seamless hog trough $1-85 $ Regular $2.50 10 ft. seamless hog trough $2.20 Wm. Schaefer Coal Co. Phone 883 1111 Main Ours is the Ideal Bakery with Ideal Conditions, prove this to you. Try some of our Doughnuts, Crullers, Cinnamon Rolls, Tea Rolls and Cookies THE IDEAL BAKERY Phone 371 1324 Main READ THE GATE CITY WANT pOLXIMN TODAY, Let us