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SrF'rV, f\ 1 'i •A'. PAGE EIGHT 1? afr I j®': Idea 1. :'.r •j'C i-. S I* 1 'J 4- 1/ r) i-' i* •a .'I il Some of our Trade Mark Lines Quick Meal coal oil stoves and ranges Buck's cast stoves and ranges Bridge & Beach stoves and ranges Greencastle fine kitchen cabinets Hasting's improved extension tables Stickney fine fumed leather rockers Smith's Axminster and WiltonRugs HavUand & Co. 's fine dinnerware North Star cork filled refrigerators SilQAnSl KMVmOK OLAMCS THE WEATHER LINQUIST BROS. Rain or snow and colder tonight Tuesday general ly fair fresh to strong northwest winds. 518-524 Main Street ignore ]p j| If THE INVISIBLE BIFOCALS whsm**. oow^MwcrriicLCS \TIte Improvement We strongly recommend and prescribe these wonderful lenses. 1 Two Registered Optometrists at Your Service Bulk Garden Seeds of all kinds. Blue Grass Seed for lawns. Red and White Onion Sets. Sweet Pea Seeds. Nasturtium Seed s. I O W A E E O Phone 1243. Corner 12th and Main IMPERIAL is the oil stove you will buy Burns 400 gallons of air to one gallon of coal oil. We have tliem in 1, 2 and 3 burner. A. Weber Co. TRY REAL CLOTHES THIS SEASON Made in Keokuk by a Real Tailoring House and see how far superior in every respect they are to any other There's a world of comfort in "Real Clothes," that really fit you and give you individual style. Real Clothes that are DISTINCT, INDIVIDUAL, SNAPPY, without being loud. That look as though they belonged told^of comfort in 'Real too. Our specialty is in making Clothes for Real Men who know the value of being well groomed—Men who appreciate the quiet correctness and individual Style we put into our Clothes. That's what makes our Clothes so desirable and so economical. You will wear a LOWITZ GARMENT twice as long as ordi nary Clothes because you'll enjoy its comfortable fit and good Style. Here you have the advantage of making your selection out of a large stock o5 Real Woolens and not imitations. LOWITZ & SONS MANY 1 Dependable K6I121I1(I Optometrist If Judged by Results REAL TAILORING HOUSE OF KEOKUK TO HEAR TALK Lecture on Troubles of Storekeeper Illustrated With Motion Films, Will be Given-Tomorrow Night. IS OF MUCH INTEREST I Talk Will Include Not Only Evolution of Business, But Will Also Show Gardening Plans. Tuesday evening at the Elks hall, the lecture on The Troubles of a Storekeeper, and the city beautiful pictures ot Dayton will he given be fore the Keokuk Retailers' league, and the clerks- and employes of the league members. The lecture and pictures are sent out toy the National Cash Register company, and -wherever shown have been given the highest compliment. Garden planting, beau tifying a'city, and other kindred topics are Included in the reels shown, although the principal topic of of the evening will deal with the storekeeper, his troubles and how to remedy them. The lecture will be under auspices of the league, and admission will be by invitation and special cards to the members of the league and their employes and clerks. The garden contest committee of the Civic league has been invited to attend the lec ture. being interested in the garden ing features to be touched upon. R. C. Routsong who will give the lecture, will arrive here tomorrow from Burlington. He will bring witli him a message of interest to every retailer, every store keeper, and to the clerks as well. The film is In no sense an advertising feature, but shows in a general way the troubles Of the store keeper and the way to rectify them. The evolution of mod ern business is depicted in the films which were taken for the cash Great Weather for spring overcoats —Great showing 0 'em here— Pinchback, belted back or conservative styles and raincoats. -Styles in harmony with this store's reputation for smartness new fabrics and great values—Spring overcoats $12.00 to $22.50 raincoats $4.00 to $22.50. Why be un comfort coat when able in a heavy you can choose from so many styles in spring coats for so little money? Let us show 'em to you. WBfe&ED. 1CNSR BO K5 OUrf/rTFP.r Best by Test THE DAILY GATE CITY AND CONSTITUTION-DEMOCRAT register company by the Essanay company. Besides the lecture there will be music by Kindig's band. CITY NEWS. —Country butter, 32 cents. Tigue's. —Mrs. J. N. Whetstone and family have moved to 9X4 Franklin. —Dr. Farmer has removed his of fice to Alton's livery. Phone 20. —Bulk garden seeds, onion sets, lawn grass, etc., at Schaefer Coal Co., feed dealers, 1111 Mqln. Phone 883. —A marriage license was issued to day to Herman O. Johnson, 21, of Keokuk, and Lola May Brown. 19. of Keokuk. —Born to Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Best of 1925 Des Moines street, a daugh ter, Odella May, March 24, 1917, at Graham hospital. —Charles E. Whitmarsh of 110 North Ninth street, is convalescing from an operation, which was per formed at Graham hospital last Thursday. —The sixth room of the Jefferson school made a fine record for attend ance during the last month. In the room are seventeen boys and twelve girls and during the month there were only three cases of tardiness and two and one-half days of absence. The attendance of the boys was perfect. The per cent of attendance for the entire room was 99.65. —June Wood, the two year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Wood, 524 Morgan street, died Sun day morning at 7:30 o'clock. The child had Just recently recovered from dlphtiieria when erysipelas de veloped and then pneumnola, the lat ter being the cause of her death. Smallpox was also developing. The father is under quarantine for small pox. The body was taken to a cem etery near Wayland, and placed in a family vault. Besides the survilvng parents there are two sisters and a brother. The sympathy of the com munity has been extended to the bereaved family in the loss of their little daughter. START STREET WORK EARLY Concrete Alleys to be Put in This Week—Bids Asked for Paving of Jackson-Avenue in Keokuk Heights. Work on ity Improvements will start this week. The Keokuk Quarry and Construction company expects to start on some concrete alleys which were ordered in by the city last fall, but which could not be put in be cause of-the lateness of the season. These alleys are bounded as fol lows: Tenth, Eleventh, Blondeau and Concert streets Ninth, Tenth, Frank lin and Orleans Sixth, Seventh, Or leans and Grand. The city council has passed a notice of intention of paving with brick the alley between First, Sec ond, Main and Johnson streets. Bids have been asked for the pav ing with concrete of Jackson avenue from Thirty-first to Thirty-Third street in Keokuk Heights. The street will be thirty feet wide and will run in front of the Standard Four Tire company plant. These bids will be opened by the council the twenty eighth of March. An early start is expected on street work ordered by the council this spring. SMALL BLAZE THIS MORNING Fire Department Called to Home of John King for Roof Fire— Call. Sunday Afternoon. The fire department was called to the home of John King, 315 Blondeau street at 8:20 o'clock this morning for a roof fire. The blaze, which was started by falling sparks, was put out with hand extinguishers. The loss is about $5. Burning weeds on the bluff in the rear of the home of Cyrus P. Eber sole. Nineteenth and Grand avenue, was responsible for a Are call Sunday (morning about 10:46 o'clock. fence 1 .* Many of the Best Dressed Men in Keo kuk are smartly and correctly attired in Ewer s-Mc a Co.'s clothes— $12, $15 up to $25 Our suits are the best for all occa on because they are all wool, finely tail ored, and illus trate the very latest fasions. Better select one today. EWERS- McCARTHY CO. Ask any well dressed man. Testimonial from Mrs. O. M. Smith, 1928 Pa lean, Rela tive to VINOL The modern tonic reconstruc tor, containing the medicinal extractives of fresh cod liver3 with peptonate of iron. "About three months ago I began to lose flesh and got In to a badly run down condition. Appetite failed me and I be came weak and nervous. I could not partake of solid food with out distress in stomach. After taking one bottle of VIXOL appetite returned, my digestion improved and I feel like an other person." ON SALE ONLY AT McGRATH BROS. DRUG COMPANY 500 Main Street on the bluff was burned but the dam age was slight. The department bad some difficulty here in getting water pressure. It later developed that the gamewell did not ring at the water works when the Are alarm was turned in and it is said that the telephone office also neglected to notify the water company of the Are. It was necessary to at tach the engine pump to secure ade quate pressure. £'t r- Now or never next MarcK prices. Only five more buying days of Duncan-Schell Furniture Co's 29th Annual March Sale Prices will not be duplicated later. Phone TRACK MAR* INDIAN HEAD Where oneperipn gets rich through specu lation, hundreds get poor. Choose the better way and deposit, your mon ey where It will be safe and psy you a liberal Interest rats. This Is net speculation —The— Keokuk Savings Bank Pays 3% per annum on Savings Aocounts Transfer, General Hauling and Storage Care** hauling of merchan dise, machinery, furniture, mus ical Instruments and heavy truck work. Our storage and warehouse Is largs, dean and safs. SIHTON'S Stsrifs and Tramfar Phone 18. 528 Blondeau MT0 LIVERY and TAXI SERVICE Reasonsble Rates on Country Drives OPEN DAY AND NIQHT PHONES 252 or 300. F. L. COX Ninth and Johnson Streets. Mrs. G. W. Eaton returned yester day from a two week's visit with Mra. John Cole, la Ceaterrille. ~2L. MONDAY, MARCH 26,1917 *b -M? 1. SPRING HOUSE CLEANING LITTLE POLLY CLEANER for ol caning rugs, draperies, woodwork, «te. SEMDAC LIQUID GLOSS, cleans woodwork and furniture better than soap and water. Borax Soap Chips, Qold Dust, Household Ammonia, Ben Ami, Sotfx, I 8crub Brushes, Brooms, Lewis Lye, Sal Soda, Dutch Cleanser, Mops. IMMEGART 43. GROCERY 706 Main To Farmers and Gardeners: We solicit your owtiacts te «raw for us, In 1917, TOMATOES, and PICKLES for delivery at Keokuk, or at our other plants mere convenient te you. These eiepe ean be planted and harvested at a ttme net intsft feeing wMh cereal wops. They have been usually profit* bl# t* the a rawer, and are excellent change craps te prepare the sod for a better yield In ether thlnga. Particulars given upon request Seed free. Keokuk Canning Co. ESTABLISHED 1856 Que of the largest Wholesale Dry Goo4s, Notioa Underwear and Hosiery Honsea In the Middle W«t Ikaautectnrerers of Indfen Hen Drees Shirts, Work Hiuts, Overalls, eta. •ale Agent fer Tom KibIIocM*Ho£«n*Bey* New York Prices Dupif Irwin-Phillips Co., factories la. Hamilton, I1L Hfenceabout OW some for around yard, or vacant lot, or] for a front fence? SQUARE DEAL FIELD FENCE 26 inch, 39 inch. SQUARE DEAL POULTRY FENCE 36, 48, 60 inch. POULTRY NETTING! 1 and 2 inch mesh 12 inch to 72 inch. LAWN FENCE 36 inch and 42 inch. merriam's HARDWARE STORE) Phone 1547 And we will deliver it. BILLIARDS AND iL-i. B0WLlN®' I FOR SALE—Billiard tables^br^ I new, carom and pocket, *ltl? re- outfit, $150 second hand tables duced pricss. Easy payment-• £, store, fixtures a specialty, send alogue. Brunswick Balke-CoHen I Davenport, la. I. C. Sander^a*^ P, a tax «W. Phone Davenport