The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-01-30
MIR. and Mrs. Andrew sandmeyer VIII
Celebrate Half Century Of
Married Life This
Week.
IS A GRAND OLD TOWN
Pipe Dream From Niota Is Creating
Much Interest Among the cIti-
zens Of the Com
munlty.

NAUvOO, ILL.,, Jan. 2s.-The Nauyoo
Military band will give mask ball in
the city hall in this city next Thurs
day evening. The date will be re-
membered because it is ground hog
day. Several cash prizes will be
is on the program.
married folks ball was given at
the city hall last Friday night.
The Odd Fellows of Nauvoo will
give a mask ball at the city hall on
the night of Feb. 18th.
Nauvoo's young people will dance
to the strains OF Agnes orchestra at
our hall next Tuesday night. When
they want something good in the way
of music they go to Keokuk to get
it.
Little Miss Leota, daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. Ed. Walther, while playing
| at school in the Second ward, last
Thursday, fell and broke bone in her
left arm. The fracture is set and she
is getting along nicely.
One may send letter to Siberia for
two cents. Let's see. To whom shall
we write in Siberia??
George Jibben, who was formerly
connected with the saloon firm of
/ Boyer & Jibben, will go to farming
4 this spring, having rented the Outhier
4 farm, five miles south Of Powellton.
Nauvoo hates to lose Mr.. Jibben and
his excellent family, but then they
will occasionally make Nauvoo a
visit
Marshal Louis Hudson was Car
thage official business visitor the fore
part of the week.
Looking ahead to our city election
in this spring Of 1911-begins boost
er prognosticator; but let US not
strain our eyesight
4 Manager Elmer Fisher is trying to
book good show or two for Nauvoo's
opera house before the Lenten sea-
son arrives.
. The Forester's drill team of the NJ.
w. A. of this city is getting well up
in its work and by the time summer
arrives, and perhaps sooner, the lodge
will have one of the best teams in
this vicinity. They are under an able
management and are bound to sue
coed.
One observing Nauvoo lady said in
our hearing that lots of women &c
with women they talk about and what
terrible time they have trying to
have a good time.
Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Sandmeyer
! will have been married fifty years
: next Thursday. ground hog day. This
: venerable couple may be given rous
ing reception by their relatives They
: have lived in Nauvoo for many years
;. The Industrial organization which
: was formed in Nauvoo a short time
: ago ought to get into communication
with manufacturers of the countr!
and learn if some of them cannot b.
secured. The Keokuk and Hamilton
U water power dam Is the great DRAWN.
8 card, and eventually will make Nauvo'
the central manufacturing city of thi
: section. Manufacturers locating o
wanting to relocate plants or branche
should carefully look over Nauvoo an
also estimate what this grand oil
y town is to be. The best results TO
themselves, Just with their own int
ligence and foresight. And all citizen
n, of Nauvoo have share in the Wig
ID liant labors to make the most of tn
" Industrial situation here.
Ill Game Warden Hudson has bee
IN feeding the starved quail hereabout!
ct Lyman Beecher of this. city is yer
k sick man and his recovery is unlooke
III for. He may pass away before thi
gets into print.
re A great big pipe dream is goin
err through the press in this vicinity
lg that Niota, Ill.,, across from Fort Ma
n ison. can get population of 1906
a or 10000 inhabitants in sixty day
Lc- and in several years become city {
ia. about 100000 Shades of creatio
X think of it: small hamlet of one {
h two hundred souls to become eli
ey OF the magnitude and multitude ar
is here right on the banks of the gre;
Is Mississippi river lies this grand, bea
M tiful and historic little city of Ma
ID VOC. with about 1920 partly aslee
,e- souls. and not thought OF. Several
"a Nauvoo's citizens are getting real e
en- tate crazy and are looking for sa
en- investment I'm this-to-come fiourishir
ii. CITY Of East TT. Madison. 1t is sa
m parties are endeavoring to get optiol
ot on ten thousand acres OF land
ey there and when this all comes abo
tx that 1t is claimed we will have tw
eyl cities In our midst like st. Paul al
tie Minneapolis.
as Nauvoo is promised lumber va
by a Keokuk gentleman II suitab
12 location can be secured, and a de
is. for choice site is partly effecte
lily so It's said.
fc- There has been some city park ia
for Nauyoo this winter, but 1t n