The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-19
Sunday morning and enjoyed the trip

III IS S2lu Cnal Hsn Is a line OTaln (
food. If this is true, said Nauvoo
man, my advice to some of Nauvoo's
boys is to go out to some water and
catch whale.
Mr.. and Mrs. Miller of Champaign,
H., were in Nauvoo on Friday of last
week on real estate purchasing
tour. They want to buy suitable
piece of property and make Nauyoo
their future home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jas Foster became
the parents of fine boy baby last
Sunday evening. This makes their
fourth child but the first boy, and the
parents are happy. James has been
| in Chicago but came home to Nauvoo
to be present at the storks visit.
No matter just where you happen
to read, you can always run across
some town raising Ned with the IN
| terurban company But such will not
be the case in Nauvoo with R. o.
Marsh's interurban line when com
pleted--for while at least.
| Among other good things on sale
in Nauvoo is the rabbit. And, con-
sistently enough, this news note con
lveying the information may wind up.
advertising hassen pfeffer as lead
| ing delicacy by one of our stores, as
the season is on.
Last Saturday was a fine business
day in Nauvoo.
John Johnson and family now oc-
lcupy the Clark home out in the third
ward, having vacated the Childres
residence in the second ward.
!. Travelling men coming into Nauvoo
now bid their customers goodbye;
| will see you again next year, which
puts their friends and patrons guess
ing why they are going to remain
away from Nauvoo so long.
This is the time of year that big
pumpkins could be seen in the show
windows and in the funny columns.
On account OF the drouth this year
we can notice the absence of the big
and little pumpkin and little is said
about that grand old pumpkin pie
that grandma and mother used to
make.
Our tonsorial artists are doing a
3 harvest in the hair moving line al
this time, just before the holidays
: the weather being favorable for this
loss of the hair crop. If the weather
s turns cold after the holidays unit
9 spring, there will be many bushy
heads to be sheared when balm.
!: weather sets in.
= e. J. Baxter has been in Champaign
8 ILL.,, to attend horticultural societ.
meet.
: Beef is now SO high that nobody cal
= afford to buy but once In while
= unless blessed with large amour
:. of wealth, and If there is small 10
= sold the price will fall, won't it?
, An arrest was made last Saturda,
: night in Nauvoo. The fellow wa
.. placed In the Nauvoo city jail for fas
driving. After remaining in Jail TO
several hours he was brought befor
our judge and fined S. and costs.
Frank Pitt Of Tulsa, Okla, visite
| relatives in Nauvoo and vicinity 70
| several hours last Tuesday
Good day Have you done you
Christmas shopping yet?
\ The weather in and around Nauvo
\ has certainly been fine this white
\ and the roads most always in fai
\ condition, allowing numerous aut
4 owners to visit Nauyoo almost dali,
| Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Boyer invited
! few friends to their comfortable HON
\ on South Seventeenth street last SUI
| day evening Card games were Ii
4 dulged in and at a proper hou
l oysters and other splendid refresl
/ ments we're served. The guests vote
\ this popular couple capital enterta
\ ers, and said the evening passed onl
Il too quickly.
/ The pleasant weather so far wa
\ assuredly bad for Christmas trad
but cheer up; 1t was fine for the fu,
pile
These are the days when the chi
L
are beginning to see the near approac
of Christmas.
Nauvoo's canning factory Peep
are at this early season asking fl
contracts to raise tomatoes and pea
for 1914.
The laws we're made for the goc
and the bad, and somehow the goo
never find anything wrong with ther
One great drawback with bushes
in Nauvoo is that there is no mark
for our farmers. When they Sc
!, grain or hay or live stock they mu
!, take the order before delivery al
|, then it is always in small quantitie
|, for there are no regular buyers
|. Nauvoo. These things will all chan,
II when Mr.. r. O. Marsh's nterurb;
II line passes through Nauvoo for TIL,
II we will have river and railway shi
II ping facilities as good as any town
II the Mississippi river. As It is no
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