The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-13


the Nauyoo peach crop is going to De
a failure. We're waiting for him with
our shift-key poised ready for reply
1t is an interesting fact that me
market value of Nauvoo State bank
stock is over double its par value.
But the most interesting facs in Nau-
VOC finance is that no depositor mas
ever lost cent There have been bank
losses In Nauvoo, of course. but they
have fallen on the stockholders, not
on the depositors and in all instances
were small. And that is where bank
losses ought to fall. Bank stock rep
resents an investment. 1t is an Ell
fort OF the holder to make money a
bank account is not an investment
is trust No city in the country mas
a cleaner financial sheet as regards
the relationship of its bank to their
depositore than has Nauyoo. No man
or woman in Nauvoo has the savings
of years swept away by any OF Nau-
woes banks incompetency or rascal
ity. The spectacle of people crowded
about the doors Of a looted bank has
never been etched into the story OF
Nauvoo. Nauvoo knows by heart its
lesson OF self-depreciation. But Nan
VOC also has lesson OF self-apprecia-
ton which II would do well to mem
orize and occasionally recite.
1t is now time for our dealers to
get out a bunch OF fishing poles In
1 front Of their business places.
The lid was supposed to be on In
| Nauvoo Tuesday, election day. 1t is
supposed to be on two more days mex
month when the annual elections oc-
cur.
Nauvoo's collector, Louis schell
/, has closed his books and reports q
very small delinquency.
i st. Mary's academy received eighty
one wagon loads of coal by the Wagon
route from Niota to Nauvoo during
the winter. Another item for inter
urban people to ponder over for linz
through Nauvoo.
) Miss Bertha Cook. the popular mil
, liner at ]. N. Fishers big department
! store, came up from Quincy last FIR
| day and took charge Of the ladies
E head gear department.
The funeral Of Mrs. Geo. Bush, tn
i. lady who committed suicide in hol
8 rible manner last week was he'll
Z from the NJ. E. church in Nauvoo an
9 was largely attended by sympashizin
u friends.
2 Circuit court convenes at Carthas
l. next Monday and we have not hear
1t of any criminal cases from Nauvo
u There are one or two civil suits doc
y eted from here.
ie The board OF supervisors of Ha
% cock county are meeting in Cartha,
this week Jos. Nelson OF Nauvoo
= representing Nauvoo township.
= One of Nauvoo's citizens informs
s that he intends operating huckster
:, wagon for experience and profit tn
spring and summer
Nausoo will sire be on the m;
/ again in a few weeks. The stea
boats and the Nauyoo ferry "
sound the warning.
A chariyari was in prospect Ia
Saturday or Sunday. One of Nauyot
popular young men donned his S,
, day clothes and departed for mel;
boring town. A certain Nanyoo la
? was also missing at the time. Nea
everybody expected that they We
going to get married. A know-it-
. person on Mulholland street sound
The warnings Here's a 60. fello'
Get out your bells, pop guns and
pans and make ready, boys. Mono
:. they found out there was moth
doing.
Mr.. Russell Lorenz, the jewe
has placed a fine new awning on
new building.
. Thos. Baxter returned recer
from a bushes trip to st. Paul ;
Minneapolis.
1Ss Quill Daugherty spent last Sum
with his parents In Warsaw.
Geo. Schmidt and VIM. aeimt
OF Keokuk were Nauyoo visitors
Monday.
Some Missouri editors may rest
June. s. ]. Roy WHO delivered
raa of the most interesting addresses {
- listened to in Nauvoo last winter
-, promised 20 bring number Of tt
- Missouri editors to visit this his
~ cal town. Our citizens will give Il
- cordial welcome.
haa With st. Patrick's day only s
r,o. time of. a deluge OF mementoes
tho exhibited in Nauvoo shop window
ulIi- The Bossler building consistin'
and eleven rooms on Tenth street betV
ant. Mulholland and knight, is offered
Mr.. sale. It Is one-half Of building
fed gtructed out Of stone that was II
.ern out Of the million dollar Nor
lem temple that was burned in the 80
The Ernest Burster Of TT. Madison
that Nauvoo business visitor last
ap- nesday.
Oh This looks like fairy yarn