The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-25


the Ford autos and quite few are In
use here
A Nauvoo citizen has just discover
ed that there is plenty of money in
! selling liquor, but there isn't any in
drinking it. Reaching this conclus-
ion, without fear of being contra
| dicted Or drawn into debate, he gives
the benefit of it's research to knowl-
edge thirsty world.
Nauvoo's ball team will 60 to FIT.
Madison next Sunday to meet the
Santa Fe club in their first game of
! the season. A number of fans will go
4 up with them to help root them to
victory
If nothing interferes from now on
Nauvoo will have bumper fruit crop.
Nauvoo entertained a tramp printer
a day last week. These gentry are
becoming almost as scarce as hens
teeth and when one hobs up he looks
like curiosity and is piked off by the
i inhabitants.
4 Nauyoo's Hancock County Mutual
i will hold special meeting next Mon
day evening. Several candidates will
then apply for admission.
The early swatter is the one that's
going to get the most flies.
4 In Nauvoo at social dances the
waltz, two-step and other common
I dances are still used. The different
new-fangled trots and wiggles and the
Texas Tommy and the Postum Glide
are still unknown here. While view.
ing the rest of the country with
. alarm, we take this occasion to point
with pride to Nauvoo with the request
that she continue to maintain so good
an example already SO we'll set.
Chas. Hagberg who lives in the Rit
: ter house on South Thirteenth street
| found his housekeeper dead in bed last
Thursday morning. The woman's
! name is Mrs Graham and formerl!
lived in Niota Heart failure was the
l cause of her death She was sixty
eight years of age.
: Nauvoo's ferry is now in commits
sion between Nauvoo and Montrose
! The high winds of the past severa
t days interfered greatly in her regula
trips
n Roy Jemison of Montrose took
S load of empty beer kegs and case
0 and other freight to Burlington an
/ TT. Madison the fore part OF tn
2 week for some of our business men
n The freight was loaded on barge an
8 towed up river with launch.
e Commercial clubs are budding fort
in every town in this section And w
It notice that usually they are the lif
e Of the community Our Nauvoo clu
a must get busy and keep UP with tn
n procession. We cannot afford to 81
r in idleness and watch our neighbor
d hustle by. If our club does not ST
itself, in time these towns will be $
IS far ahead of US we won't be able
p see them at all.
Several Nauvoo Odd Fellows a
'e tended Fred Herold's funeral at Han
" ilton on Thursday of last week.
track meet was held in Nauvo
~ last Saturday afternoon between tn
20 Colusa and Nauvoo high school pupil
The event was pulled off on Mai
st street down in the first ward an
of proved an interesting event for II
il, participants. Nauvoo high scho
is pupils are now circulating petite
n TO raise funds to buy track paraphe
IN MALTA SO as to qualify them to ent'
at meets in the neighboring towns.
es Our farmers are pretty we'll throus
n sowing oats and will soon turn the
,n attention to corn planting.
y. In the two local banks in Nauve
SIS the deposits amount to over OF
at million dollars Commenting on II
ne fact we can say that this is only OF
in. of the many signs to prove that Ma
cd 700 is holding her own and 'goil
nd some, too
1t There is no better musician thi
is the Young lady that gets married, n
he a couple of kids and keeps on WI
lid her piano playing, and Nauvoo n
many OF them.
he A gentleman from Quincy was
Nauvoo last Sunday and in the aft'
se. moon spoke to large number
Ell knights of Columbus members on
adyisibility Of organizing a lodge me-
lot II is said his talk will bear fruit a
his In the near future knights OF Colu
err. bus order will be installed IN Ns
ON VOC.
ed To some of Nauvoo automobile ON
, ers the speed limit is something
are tween a dog trot and base walk
to What has become OF the old III
how who got up at O'Clock IN
Tx. morning and played until he was
,on tired he could hardly wait for supPe
70 HAS our transformed system OF ma
The try brought in new type OF boy
low rr.nkly. it seems that 1t has. me
time boy used to play wolf, blackm
,av and more strenuous games. ne W.
IN swimming and STAYED all afterno,
md He went fishing and he never ta1
nc - catch two or three fish an men 10
viii and "lot of little ones he 70
,th- the dogs and hunted. he clinipeu
.. r,r birds nests, He y