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I: I 4- .»' •a* PAGE TEK %*y •v w» 7 3 I! 9 it TRIM LOOKING FOOTWEAR YOU HAVE TRIED THE REST TRY NOW THE BEST ROYAL TURIN Ice Cream THE FINEST MADE. THE LATEST DISH Also Vanilla, Chocolate, Fresh Strawberry and Maple Nut Send Us Your Order Now for Your Easter Sunday Dinner BUFFALO CANDY CO. 718 Main St. Phone 1636 WRIST WATCHES —always practical First a novelty, now most practical—wrist waitch.es for men and women. RenaucTs stock is complete, and con tains not only modest on finest grades of these popular watches. RENAUD, JEWELER, Don't worry and work in a hot kitchen when we $ Try our 'A can do your baking for you. I'M I'll I 1 Maltine, Cottage Potato and Homemade Bread I POLLARD'S QUALITY BAKERY 1 Phone 1559 20 South Fourth E E A f.5*®u\whos« Incomparable distinctiveness of quality has won it more friends in leas time than any other cigar offered the public. GIVE THEM A TWAL. Your boy should be made ready for the Easter parade and tomorrow is the only day left -—Ours is the best display in Keokuk of crisp spring apparel for toys of every age in all the newest models and styles. i. Tommy Tucker Suits for boys, 2/z to 6 Middy and Junior Norfolk Suits 5 to 8, and a most elaborate showing of Suits, 7 to 18 years. All are distinctive and from the best makers of .Boys* Clothes, $3 to $8.50 is not necessarily a matter of size, but a correct fit is absolutely essen tial. We have a style adapted to your particular type of foot, which will make it look trim and smart If you are thinking of shoes, come in and let us demonstrate that we know how to fit the new Spring and Summer footwear. "The Store of Service" Snappv, classy styles and fabrics and greatest variety than you would see if all the other stores in town were combined in one. Hart Sehaffner & Marx Varsity Fifty-Five Society Brand and Fashion Park Styles for Young Men and High School Chaps—good too, for older men who like young styles. And beautiful blouses, shirts, neckwear, caps, etc.—just what the boy wants for the budding season. BASE BALL SUIT3 FREE with purchases of $5 in our Boys' Department. WBfe&ED. McVSsears'oamrTE'm BAUR-MULLARKY CO. $2.50 to to $40 Always Dependable E I 704 Main St. a 414 Mam Keokuk Savings to You 1 Hare your cleaning and pressing done at the Star Cleaners, the most complete outfit of steam and French dry- 4. cleaning plant In the city. Suit of clothes sanitarily cleaned and pressed 60c Straw, Panama, and all other kind of hats cleaned to per fection. Star Cleaners & Shoe Repairing Company 1 824 Main St. Phone 483 House Wiring Electrical Supplies Gould Storage Battery Serv.ee Station We rent Vacuum Cleaners by the day 419 MAIN mv THE DAILY GATE CITY AND CONSTITUTION-DEMOCRAT iff CITY NEWS. -"M —W. R. C. market. Benner's, to morrow. —Any name free on Easter eggs at The Rose. —Let Sigmund Bros, do your car pet cleaning. Phone 388. —Special sale tomorrow on Easter shoes at Ludwig*s, 1004 Main. —(Monday, April 24. is designated as "Clean-Up" day in Montrose. —Easter programs will be a fear ture in the churches next Sunday. —St. Mary's market, Home Tea Co., Saturday, April 22. —rFresh home made chocolate candy Easter eggs, at The Rose. —Aluminum ware given away free on Saturday only. Fred DeYong. —The necessity for a coliseum in Keokuk is growing and the agitation is also growing. —We have many attractive ladies' pumps and oxfords at $2.50 and $3.50 per pair. Ludwig's, 1004 Main. —There is, at least from the fem inine class, quite an anxiety being manifest over the question of weather for next Sunday. —Largest assortment of Easter candies fit for children to eat. At The Rose. —California is advertising for east ern tourists the year round, present ing the advantages of a cool summer and a warm winter. —Coffee demonstration Saturday. Fred DeYong. —'Patrons of the classified column are urged to send cash with their ad vertisements as this class of busi ness is on a cash basis. —Second Presbyterian market, Keo kuk Electric Co., Saturday, 2 p. m., Sth and Main. —The council has ordered $3 paid to W. B. Barney, state food inspector, for a license to operate the city coal weighing scales at 320 Bank street. —Give us your order early for chocolate Easter eggs, at The Rose. —Port Madison expects to have its Perfection Tire plant in operation within the next two weeks. Keokuk's tire factory is now a going concern. —The Moose beach, co-operating with a hot summer, ought to be an attractive place. Last year weather conditions retarded the activities and pleasures of this resort. —Pucketchetuck lodge No. 43 meets every Friday evening at 8:00 o'clock. C. W. Randall, N. G.y George W. Im megart, permanent secretary- Tonight work in the first degree. —The Kahoka newspapers are urg ing Clark county, Mo., residents to Join the corn clubs, baby pork clubs and canning clubs that are being! promoted by the Keokuk Retailers' league. —Regular meeting Keokuk council No. 536 tonisht at 8 o'clock, Hawkes' hall, El'hth and Main. "Visiting breth ren fraternally invited to attend. C. B. Powell, regent J. I. Annable. secretary. —In an information filed in the superior court this morning, Mrs. Nancy Horn of 938 Des Moines street, charges that four bulldogs owned by J. W. Chambers of 91'6 Palean street, attacked a cow belonging to her. —Free aluminum ware, coffee dem onstration Saturday. Fred DeYong. —Did you know that it snowed last night? Well, it did, according to the testimony of the firemen who were out late fighting a Are. They say that about 11 o'clock, flakes of snow fell. Of course, as everybody else in the city was in bed at that hour of the night, the story must stand on the! firemen's word. —Sigmund's vacuum cleaner does your house cleaning. Phone 383. —The Y. W. C. A. will hold a spec ial Easter service on Sunday morning at 7: CM) o'clock. Miss Harriet Solomon will be the leader. On the program will be a violin duet by Misses Dor othy and Margaret Aldrich a solo by Miss Amanda Clemant and a vocal duet by Miss Ethel Irsborn and Miss Helen Whetstone. —Curtis M. Hart filed his nomina tion papers yesterday for the office of county clerk. Mr. Hart will be a can didate on the democratic ticket at the primaries. Through an error in last night's Gate City, Mr. Hart was said to be a candidate for recorder. He is after the clerkship, the position which he held a couple of years ago., —Christian church Easter apron sale and market Saturday, April 22. —The Ienten season at the Evan gelical church will close this evening with a preparatory service for holy 1 A bell's communion on Easter Sunday. The service will open at 7:30. it will be conducted in English and will be largely liturgical. A meditation on scripture will take the place of the sermon. Friends and strangers are welcome. —The volley ball team of the Qjiincy Business Men's class will journey to Keokuk April 29, to engage in the four team tournament there and are going with blood in their cyt-s, for they went to Hannibal not long' ago and were defeated. Hanni bal, Burlington, Keokuk and Qulney will compete in the meet. —Speaking of the city council's order to bootleggers to get out, the Warsaw Bulletin makes the following caustic comment: If the Keokuk authorities are really in earnest (and there are people who doubt it very greatly) they can get a line on some of their bootleggers if they will send a spotter to Warsaw almost any day, or watch the home coming of chaps who get off the interurban laboring under the weight of well loaded grips or suit oases. —The political announcement of C. M. Hart appears In this issue of The 1 CRIMMIMS & CHAjE REGISTERED UNDERTAKERS Telephone 304. 815 Main. —«E&— John Opstelten Far Moving, Storage, Transfer Special attention given to moving Pianos, Bell phew Wad 1923 MWSaa Aiii. Gate City. Mr. Hart is a candidate for county clerk and not for county recorder as was incorrectly stated la3t evening. His selection as the candidate for this place is up to the democrats of the county at the pri mary election to be held next .Tune. Mr. Hart served in this capacity and nave good satisfaction. He is widely 1 known over the county and his friends will work enthusiastically for lliis nomination. FUNERAL NOTICE. SMITH—The funeral for the late Samuel Smith will be held at 2:30 Saturday afternoon at Pilgrim Rest Friends invited. jk 9 Jr Shoe Repairing The bert materials and ex pert workmanship used In our *hoe repairing. 1 make a spe cialty of ladies and gentlemen's •ewed work, don* neatly and carefully. GOODYEAR SHOE REPAIR 8HOP. Mull Adams \2 s. 4TH ST. KEOKUK, IA. J. P. Cruikshank Farm Loans and Abstracts of Title Fair to the borrower aa wen aa the leader. 80 years experience without the loaa of a dollar te a client. FORT MADISON, IOWA. Automobile ...Insurance... New Rate 85c per $100 N. H. PYLE Ptwne 1280 402 Blendeau GEO. WEIL 505 Johnson St. General Blacksmithing and Horseshoeing Ail Work Guaranteed. BILLIARDS AND BOWLING. FOR SALE—Billiard tables, brand new, carom and pocket, with complete outfit, $115 second h&nd tables at re duced prices. Easy payments. Cigar store, drug, delicatessen and soda fountain fixtures. The Brunswlch Balke-Collender Co., Davenport, Iowa. I. C. Sanders, agent, Blackhawk hotel. NOTICE. Order your beer, wines and liquors from Leisy Brewing- Co., Warsaw, 111. Phone No. 115 or address P. O. Bor 433. Prompt delivery service. CITY NEWS. —A huge elephant was shipped through Keokuk yesterday en route to Lancaster, Mo., to the animal farm 4f "Col." Billy Hall. The pachyderm was accompanied by a brother of Colonel Hall who has crossed the Atantic forty-six times with ship ments of animals. He made the last trip from Capetown, South Africa. —Paffer used la many commercial iT-fr^ri kg Spring Suits that Suit every taste including yours /, A wide variety from the extra smart models to those of more conservatiye design.. We have your idea of an Easter Suit. Come and see it for yourself—on yourself. A pleasure to show you. New weaves and fabricm Lines that spell distinction And don't forget that hat „If •«.. a make you look your best. Ewers-McCarthy Co. Ask Any Well-dressed Man 1 ill ill in in in 11 ill 1 MM ill I III lllllUiUIUIUtUlUlUMUMUM^uMUJMlutUlUlUHJIJIUlUlLH^ Special Sale For Saturday BUEHLER BROS 700 Main Street Breakfast bacon (half or whole side) 18c Godel's Royal hams (for Easter) 18c Choice beef pot roasts (young and tender) 12Vic Prime rib roasts 14c Pork loin roasts 17c Pork butts (lean) 16c 1Bn 11c Pure pork sausage .15c izy2c Round and loin steak Veal steak ..18c, 20c Smoked bacon 18c veal loaf .110 ....12'/ac 18c A cake that is a pleasant surprise for everyone—Always fresh in sanitary boxes. COTTAGE CHEESE A real treat. Something very choice for your table. IMMEGART Phone 43 The Grocer. 706 Main Street ways is scarce in Keokuk. Thotisands of pounds are used and the buyer Is fortunate if he can secure the paper he needs. Wra-pping paper has be come so scarce that the suggestion of one man that merchants use muslin to wrap their sales Is becoming more of a reality than a Joke. —Keokuk win be Interested to learn that Hie "Burlington" road has \r FRIDAY, APRIL 21, ig16 :V- Camnnrr.lSK V. & Co. Welnera and franks 11c Bologna 11c Mettwurst 15c Minced and pressed ham and 15e Corned beef 1 ?4C Cream cheese -22° Brick cheeae 20c Llmburger (per cake) 20c Creamery butter Oleomargarine Coffee (high grade 23. 25, 40c CANNED GOODS. Com and peas 3 for 25c Tomatoe8 and salmon 2 for 25c Our Meats Are All U. 8. Inspected WARD'S CAKES decided to enlarge the West ton shops, making them the in America. One million five thousand dollars has for the enlargement. The ann ment was made Thursday intendent of Motive Power F. 3 rey. who, by the wa^' 1 -^jy Burlingtonian and has DiaD'- qualntances in this city, 4