The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-02-07
The Nauvoo Gate Civ
Nauvoo, ILL.,, Feb. Z, 1913

tier caused by the Keokuk and Hamil.
ton dam, there will be the finest pond
OF Ice for skating by moonlight in
these United States
Fifteen years ago this month Keo-
/, kuk millers paid 90c for No. 2, OLD
wheat. $40 for No. and $50 for No.
4. Corn 22c and 24c; oats 10c and
15c. Hogs sold for $500 and 1920;
cattle $500 and $3.50; hay. Sc to 81;
butter loo and 12c per pound. Com
pare those prices with those of today.
Last year was not great one for
weddings In Nauvoo, or divorces
either.
| Many OF Nauvoo's people are ailing
and our doctors have all they can do
to answer calls.
Miss Lena Berger, our assistant
post mistress is i'll. She had slight
operation performed in Keokuk hos
pital and at this writing is getting
along splendidly. Chas. Hudson Is hold
| Ing the position in the postoffice dur
ing Miss Lena's absence.
This is good time Of the year.
/ right now. for the people to put their
heads together and determine whom
they will put forward for mayor and
aldermen at the spring election. We
want an enterprising mayor; not one
i who Is bluffed into office and sits
there two years and spends skads of
money and nothing to show for 1t but
/ HIGH
ence for the last two years on ac-
count OF a municipal stranger finding
Judgement in our council by accident.
| He is ordered by the voters to move
! on and there Is no uncertain tone in
/ the voice of the voter who will issue
/ the order These now enterprising
office holders are no longer welcome
! In Nauvoo. The people are through
with them. and never want return
engagement
The Nauvoo Industrial association
! held banquet In the Odd Fellows
hall to which all boosters were inyit-
led. There was a general time and
good feeling prevailed. This Is a good
way to bring farmers, citizens and
business men together. No town will
grow whose people are untrue to it.
It's citizens can either establish or
destroy confidence in it. Whoever de-
stroys 1t is an enemy to progress and
traitor to their community. II they
deny it, do not invest their money in
/ 1T, nor patronize It's business estab-
i lishments, they are surely killing It.
The prosperity OF a town depends
chiefly on the confidence the people
have in it.
An election bet, probably. Claude
yesterday, the popular barber in Jos.
/ w. Welters tonsorial parlors is rails
4 ing moustache.
Members of the I. o. O. F. lodge
gave their twenty-ffth annual mask
! ball In the Nauvoo opera house last
Monday night and one hundred and
fifteen couple tickets and eighty-two
lady tickets were sold The lodge
folks cleared about $50. The orches-
ira music was furnished by the fol-
4 lowing named musicians: Fred Salm,
i r. Leppert, Geo. Martzolf, Elmer
Fisher John Schmidt, Mrs. VIM. Ar
CAST, Misses Mayme Dachroth and Mil
dred equity.
The Nauvoo ice harvest is on in full
blast and every storer will have fin
ished his houses by the end Of the
week. The ice is Of a pretty fair
4 quality and from nine to ten inches
thick. So far no one had announced
that they will put up the CONCEALED
fluid for domestic use. II no one will
store the crystal blocks for retail to
our citizens for the coming summer it
will prove very inconvenient. The
parties who are harvesting Ice are
putting 1t UP for their own use and
will have none to spare for the retail
trade
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