The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-21

didate to fill the vacancy How about
this, you people of Nauvoo?
We overheard gentleman remark
about what he had seen while driving
from Carthage to Nauvoo. While on
his way to this city he saw two
hounds chasing an animal which prov
ed to be fox. This was Tuesday
and the hounds had the fox about all
in at about near the east of the
Elliott school house, about five miles
east of Nauvoo 1t is not learned
hereabouts whether the fox had been
captured.
The .Nauvoo band was in Hamilton
one day last week to play for
an auction sale. The band was also
scheduled to play for concert in
Nauvoo on Thursday evening of last
week but the elements interfered.
Monte Sellers of Nauvoo is proving
to be first class fisherman. He
has only trot line and succeeds in
hooking quite number of them and
finds ready market for his valuable
catches. He recently caught a TWEEN
ty pound cat fish and shipped it to
Burlington.
At the school election in the diff
ferent wards last Saturday there was
little or no interest manifested. The
polling o. votes was ridiculous in all
of the three different wards
The welcome whistle of the steam
boats at the Nauvoo landing now is
indeed welcome and we know now we
are connected with the outside world.
Freight and passenger traffic has an
other outlet from Nauvoo.
Pat MCGUIRE has purchased livery
stable in West Point, Iowa. He con-
Quoted livery and sales stable in
Nauvoo for the past two years.
This may look long way ahead but
one of our citizens says that Nauvoo
will be the greatest on earth as soon
as the water power is completed at
Keokuk and he further says this
town looks good to him.
Miss Anna Rose and Mr.. Clyde
Daily were married in Nauyoos Luth-
eran church last Tuesday. The bride
is from Ferris and the groom from
Bowen in this county.
John Fenton, an old and respected
resident of Nauvoo, died last Satur-
day night at the home of Mrs. AIDA
Hummel in the southeast part of
town in the ripe old age of rs years.
The funeral took place Tuesday from
the residence in which he died and
Rev. Eismann officiated.
Ed Leach who was convicted for
being implicated with the Maybray
swindling gang and who resides in
| Montrose, was in Nauvoo Monday.
Ed is Montrosite and is well known
| in Nauvoo. He was sentenced to the
Leavenworth prison for two years and
fine, but was released on bond,
pending an appeal
Those jolly fellows who constituted
a quorum or more in minstrel show
in Keokuk for the benefit of the base
ball association some time ago, were
induced by Nauvoo's st. Rose society
of the Catholic church to- give
an entertainment here They showed
to our people in the auditorium OF
st. Mary's academy last Tuesday
evening and were greeted with a
crowded house and gave excellent sat
isfaction
The cold and disagreeable weather
of recent date did an immense
amount of damage in Nauvoo to the
grape crop. the acreage amounting
to about COO acres, as well as peaches,
plums, pears and other fruits. Opin-
ions differ as to the amount of dam
age done right here in Nauvoo, but
this grand old town was hit harder
than any other town in Hancock
county, because it relies entirely upon
it's fruit crop for trade center.
Some of our winners claim we will
get from one-fourth to one.half
crop, weather permitting from this
on. The opinions of the following
persons who are we'll posted and of
large experience in fruit culture may
be of interest to those who do nor
know what freeze and snow will do
to crops of fruit SO far advanced as it
was this season: Mr.. Rudolph Anton
says that the grape crop is almost
entirely gone as we'll as many of the
| small fruits. Mr. Herman Berger says
there will be small amount of grapes
shipped from here, but that peaches
may not be entirely gone Mr.. Andy
Gross thinks that all grapes will
amount to but little and the gallons
of wine manufactured will be small
and the shipping grapes not worth
mentioning. Mr.. Edward Argast be
lieves there will be no crop.
e. J. Baxter says the grape is al
most If not entirely ruined. There
are number of other opinions re-
garding the grape crop in Nauvoo.
4 the loss of which will be estimated at