The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-05
The Nauvoo Gate CITY
Nauvoo, ILL.,, October S, 1913.

This will be a great Accommodation
10 our citizens. ms nustlng fruit,
shipping tirm will ship seyeral hun
dreu Larrels OF apples anu pears De-
fore the winter season arrives.
The Third Degree" an excepttan-
ally good play, will appear in the Maui
VOC opera house Thursday, Oct. 3. Our
theatre loving people will greet this
fine production with crowded house
ana Manager Elmer Fisher is to be
congratulated upon securing such
splendid metropolitan companies as
he is furnishing us at the opera house
this season and at such a tremen-
dous lot of work and expense.
Virgil Nicaise, former rural route
carrier, has position In A. ]. Beger's
drug store and postofice. Donald.
son Of Mr.. Beger is employed in the
Nauyoo State bank.
Many gallons of wine are being
manufactured from the grapes lett IN
Nauvoo by some dozen or more peo-
pie. The squeezing of the grape juice
will be finished by the latter part OF
the week.
Nearly every housewife in Nauvoo
has her cellar filled with jams, jel-
lies, preserves and canned fruit for
the winter. 1t takes the Nauvoo house
wife to prepare fruit and vegetables
for the table to last during the long
seige of cold weather.
The Presbyterian ladies will give
a harvest social in the Nauvoo opera
house on Friday and Saturday. Oct.
II and 18. An interesting little drama
will also be presented each night. 1t
takes the ladies OF the Presbyterian
church to entertain and they will be.
rewarded for their efforts by large
! attendance.
| John Reimbold, our mail carrier
and proprietor of the Nauvoo ferry
bnat has purchased Montrose but
ton factory and intends locating 1t In
Nauvoo. Good for John and here Is
hoping he will meet with financial
success.
Nauvoos canning factory is still
busy preparing tomatoes for the mar
ket. The company has had a pretty
good season considering the drouth
! and other drawbacks. 1t is the in
tention to place other machinery in
the factory SO as to be able to can
other fruits and vegetables. Should
this be done, the name grown in
Nauvoo' on the labels would make
everything prepared sell rapidly.
The black bird is still with us and
4 by the way does anyone here know
that by shooting blackbird one is
i liable to a fine of $500? The next
4 time blackbirds roost in your. trees
better hammer on the trunk Of the
u tree with stick. This is the hes
I way, but don't shoot them.
The Nauyoo First National bank In
tends occupying its new building by
November /. The fixtures are now
being placed in position. These bank
people will have a splendid new home
I in Nauvoo.
Did people around Nauvoo ever no
ltice what one good rain can DO 10 al
, average Hancock county road?
!, Several Nauvoo people will go te
st. Louis Monday to be there in time
to see the Yelled Prophets parade.
i A number of towns have started
!, crusade for better health conditions
Z most worthy example that might bf
followed, by Nauvoo. Nothing cuts
down the death rate like sanitar,
measures Disease terminates II
/, | filth; death therefrom virtual.
: amounts to crime of the municipal
ity as whole. While Nauvoo is ye
free from disease you cannot tel
: how soon it may strike us and w
should look out for our sanitary con
ditions.
All of our farmers are through SOW
ing wheat.
The fruit Jar and tin can dealers II
Nauvoo had very busy season thi
year.
The first broom corn crop of 191
has been sold for $3.50 ton. ST
tons of the brush figured in the trans
action The product represented
yield from twenty-four acres. 1t !
also stated that by Christmas-tid
broom corn will be selling as high a
5000 ton. The top figure OF las
years product was S125 ton, tn
average price for the selling sseaso
being about 500 ton. Buy You
brooms now.
Work on digging the holes for pole
for changing our electric light syster
and connecting with the water powe
transmission line will begin this weel
The poles will arrive In few days
The lights on Mulholland street, on
business section, will be changed frs
SO as not to inconvenience our me-
chants but short time.
John w. Reimbold wants to sell hi
ferry boat and place larger an
more powerful boat in the Nauvo
trade on account of the formation c
Lake Cooper between this city an
Montrose. This trim little craft woul