The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-08

pet properly.
The millinery and dress parade
along Mulholland street Sunday In
Nauvoo was we'll worth seeing. 1t
was beautiful day and the little folks
had their inning with the beautifully
colored eggs.
/ There are bushels of campaign lit
erature circulated in Nauvoo this year
announcing the candidates for the
coming primaries next Tuesday.
The first street railway was laid IN
| New York in 1882. and the last rail-
way to be laid in these parts will be
from Hamilton. through Nauvoo to
| Niota.
| Fort Madison wants the lake to be
formed on account of the dam to be
named Potowonok. Nauvoo would
prefer their name and easier pro
nounced Too much Indian In the
former.
Fishermen around Nauyoo have
opened their spring campaign on the
finny tribe. Not any great catches
have as yet been made on account Of
the high water.
| The Ladies Priscilla club will be
entertained at the home Of Mrs. Lou
Argast next Thursday afternoon.
| Two new residences and two work
shops SO far constitute the building
boom in Nauvoo for 1919.
We are reliably informed that
Nauvoo citizen and business man is
now buslly engaged in securing plans
and specifications for an amusement
park to be placed In the first ward
near the steamboat landing. He has
already expended considerable
amount of money to get things IN
shape for this enterprise and may
have everything In readiness for the
parks completion before the summer
is half spent
| There is nothing in our police court
calendar that we know Of
/ Lots of oats will be planted In this
vicinity this month and plenty Of time
for rich harvest.
/ Now that the weather has COM
menced behaving itself we Narcotics
would like Mr.. Hugh l.. Cooper
to make US that long delayed visit and
talk some business sense into the
minds of our people. A standing room
only house awaits him, for verybody
in Nauvoo and vicinity awaits his
visit here. II the weather Is such as
to permit it. the little park would be
a fine place in which to deliver his
lecture.
There will not be an application
for initiation into the Woodman lodge
in Nauvoo for some time to come, If
ever. on account of the high rates
Thirty-eight years ago next June St
Mary's academy was started in Nau.
VOC and is now one of the finest
schools in the United States.
Nauyoo people should wake up. It
seems to us that there is no escape
from such a plain lesson as here
stated. Why can not we escape
/ through the thick shell that has en-.
{ veloped us and see the truth and then
act for our own good and for the good
of humanity living in Nauvoo? If we
: cannot do this now when opportunity
3 is knocking at our door. when can
: We? This is an appeal to the heart
and common sense Of every intelligent
: man or woman in this grand old
, town. The lesson we refer to Is to
! let us improve Nauyoo. We plead with
: our people to think and act for their
, own good We know of no truer serv,
!. i've that we can render Why can't
Nauvoo people open their eyes and
see it and then act. The near compile
ton of the keokuk water power dam
: presents all kinds of splendid oppor
tunities for our people to make Nau
:, VOC grow We cannot expect outsid
. ers to do the work and our people si
idly by and profit by others labors
Now is the time for Nauyoo citizens
to wake up, open their eyes and theil
pocketbooks.
We advise our people not to take
3 EN- off yet.
Spring was a long time coming, bu
it is now here, the front end of 1t
and soon it will be in all it's glory. a,
" beautiful as Nauvoo maiden in /;
= spring hat and tailor made suit.
: Editor George Baumert of the Nau
VOC Independent will have been mar
ried twenty-eight years on the 9th o
next month His many friends ough
to arrange rousiug charivari for tn,
event. The many friends Of this popu
lar couple<ssish that they live twenty
two more years at least so they CA
observe their golden wedding annivel
sary.
The thing that for 80 many of US
makes Nauvoo the most interesting o
towns. which impresses the stranger
within our gates and the man VIII
has returned to Nauvoo after fey
years in the east or west, is the fac
that the people OF this town interes
themselves in only one thing, that G
money. You can start lively argt
ment on that topic before any othe
at the drop of a napkin.
Gone, gone, and may go-the LAX