The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-20
Cutting of of PlstaIls In China is
Followed by Wholesale Cutting
Of Hair at the
Institute.
MARRIED FOLKS BALL
Great Social Success at Leap Year
Affair Given "Wednesday
Night at the Opera
House.

NAUvOO, Ill, Feb. 19.-J. M.
Fisher will go to Chicago this week
to purchase spring goods. The entire
store force, and Nauvoo and vicinity
will rejoice to see him home again
and will throb from top to bottom
with renewed life and activity his
buying trips always lend.
Some seem to know that Nauvoos
peach crop will be entirely ruined,
but do they know that we still repre-
sent the worlds most luscious
hes"--Nauvoo's beautiful daugh-
ters.
Owing to the lack of our mails at
times now, some of those valentines
that were mailed last Wednesday and
later, may be day or two late in
reaching their destination. Uncle
Sam got his in time because he con
sidered Arizona his valentine this
year.
Only 81 days till spring.
What chumps some Nauvoo men
are They will sit around and kick
about their taxes and let our city
council put things over them without
u iuul uucT.
There just remains two more days
In which to do you social duties and
then you Nauvoo people should abstain
from social entertainments for forty
days. The Lenten season begins next
Wednesday. 1t will almost be strictly
observed in religious Nauvoo.
Nauvoo's married folks gave de-
tOl$ f,,I loo. L., h.
house last Wednesday night, to
which about sixty couples attended.
1t was one of the most elaborate and
+. brilliant In the history OF Nauvoo 80,
ciety functions. 1t was not elaborate
in decorations, but in the daintiness
and exquisite service in the menu at
Benson Sisters confectionery store,
in the creations Of the nlodiste's art,
all the ladies' wearing calico cos
like material, and In the swelling
notes of Salm's orchestra Also In the
magnificence OF the hospitality which
typified the time, place and occasion.
Many from the rural districts were
present who said the affair, although
not carried out on an elaborate scale,
was marked by cordially which
dispelled the formality which IRE.
quently characterizes society's offer
ings.
Jos. Weller, our tonsorial artist,
cut and clipped nearly fifty heads OF
hair for the pupils at the Spaulding
Institute the fore part of the week.
1T was quite a hair cutting event
The walking fever has taken hold of
some of Nauvoo's men folks. Some
OF them walked to Niota and to Fort
Madison on the ice during the week
and seemed to enjoy the exercise.
The cast of characters that pre-
scented "A Dangerous Game" in our
opera house last Tuesday evening OF
last week, for the benefit of the Royal
Neighbors OF Nauvoo, went to Dallas
City last Thursday night to treat our
neighbors to the same play They
produced the play in professional
manner.
Many Montroseites can be seen in
our city nearly every day since the
solid Ice bridge went into effect.
George Egan whose home Is in Ka-
hoka and who now travels for Chi
cago wholesale liquor house, was a
business visitor in Nauvoo last Tues
day. George is one of the most wei
come business visitors who comes to
our city.
Travelling men in Nauvoo are as
numerous as flees in the spring time
now. The splendid crossing over the
big creek on the ice is the cause of
It. When the Ice begins to make Its
southern journey they will become
scarce again.
And now comes the news that
bread will be cheaper What's the diff
erence? When 1t is higher we eat less
and lower we eat more.
e. K. Parker, our very sick man, is