The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-05

announcement Is accorded them by
citizens and business men. Nauvoo
/ people ought to be proud of this SPLEEN
!. did organization and do all in their
power to retain it.
! The new meat market proprietor has
/ taken possession OF John Hudson's
} stand. and 1t is believed that he will
make success of the business. The
! old proprietors have now retired after
making a comfortable fortune to carry
them through their declining years.
i Quite number OF Nauvoo people
went to Powellton to attend the ball
game last Sunday and others went to
i Keokuk to visit the dam. making our
city very quiet during the day.
E. K. Parker went to Keokuk last
Monday on a business mission.
i There will be few cold days during
the summer, of course, but if you have
some coal, or wood brought over from
the islands in your shed, you will be
able to get along now.
! The scene that will be chosen soon
by picnic parties will be the cathed-
raj of nature on the east banks of the
| Mississippi river above Nauvoo where
pleasure seekers love to roam, with
the blue canopy of heaven above, in
the shade of stately trees and abund-
ant green grass for carpet Singing
birds and ripplying water will furnish
delightful music for all occasions.
/ There is baseball enthusiast in
Nauvoo who. when you open the door
of the business place where he is en-
gagged, begins unloading his wisdom
with, now let me tell you" He then
plays every inning over again. There
is not thing about the big leagues or
the players he doesn't know.
i A number of s'buttins' got left again
last Monday on account of election
day and the saloons being closed. They
tried the doors of the wet goods houses
but the ever welcome latch failed to
yield to their touch.
/ Several automobiles in Nauvoo came
near being placed out of commission
recently by owners losing control OF
the machine. All the events happen
ed up town near the Taber lumber
yards
4 Herman Jaeger of Peoria. ILL.,, visit
Led relatives in Nauvoo last Monday.
! Miss Nora Dachroth who has been
engaged in a millinery house in Bur-
llingtcn during the season, has return
led to her parents home in Nauvoo.
The election for supreme Judge of
/ this district was held here last Mon
day and fair vote polled. Cook,
dem, received majority of over one
!. hundred votes over Grier, rep. The
, democratic candidate had two automo-
biles out hauling voters to the polls.
: while the republican candidate had no
, vehicle al work
: Many of our people intend going to
. Burlington on the steamer Dubuque,
, Thursday. These 25c rate excursions
are quite popular among Nauvoo PEG
: pie.
= Some OF our housewives are can
D ming the delicious pineapple which are
s selling at $3.50 per crate and the fruit
runs from thirty to thirty-six apples
2 to the crate.
:. E. T. Williams, representing Ayres
t jewelry house of Keokuk, was bust
r ness visitor in Nauyoo last Monday.
r The members of the Nauvoo bant
will hold social soon to be participat
n ed in by the band boys only.
Il Mrs. Fred Tanner of the first war,
has been suffering by rheumatic raw
ages for several weeks, but she ha
obtained some relief now
Keokuk people who in former seas
ions visited in Nauyoo on Sundays
coming up on the little packet. wi
have to seek some other mode OF ira,
ell this season for the Black Hawk ha
switched her Sunday trips. runnin
from Burlington to Keokuk on tn
Sabbath on account of many peopl
who go to visit the water power dan
A number of our people went up
Lomax, the coming big city abov
Dallas City. inaugurated by Mr.. Low,
last TUESDAY They went up on tn
steamer Black Hawk to Dallas an
then by vehicle and train to the futur
metropolis of this section Tuesda
was one OF the big days advertise
by Love.
BY actual count Nauvoo has owe
seventy widows who live within i
borders and that number out of DO
ulation OF little over 1000 inhabi
ants The widowers only reach tt
number of about thirty.
Nauyoo winners are busy sprayir
their vineyards to preserve the crop
The Nauvoo ladies' Priscilla clu
will meet at the home of Mrs. Cha
Mulch in the first ward Thursday a
ternoon
The Modern woodmen and the
auxiliary, the Royal Neighbors ougl
to hold public observance of the
Memorial day and make It an ever
long to be remembered in Nauyoo. G
account of the high rate assessmel
it might he the last Memorial da
held by this order.
If nearly all the plants set out
Nauvoo bear there will be an enorr