The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-04

large consignment of egg case mater
ial which is being made into cases.
Mark handles the egg crop in Nauvoo
| all right.
A rural lady has rooster that Is
setting" 1t was up to her husband
! to explain this mild phenomenon and
he did 1t by way of suggesting that
perhaps the poultry yard has it's quota
of suffragists.
The Nauvoo ladies' Priscilla club
did not meet last Thursday, their reg
iular date, on account of it being a
holiday and the funeral of Geo. H.
schmidt taking place.
Theo. Gross, who has had a long
seige Of the inflammatory rheumatism,
| is able to be out on our streets again.
Much of the machinery for our can
ming factory has arrived and will soon
be placed in position.
Applications for teachers for Nau-
voo's No. 2 school district will be re-
ceived until May 9, when the board
will meet to make selections.
Frank Reimbold Is attempting to
break the will of his father who con-
Quoted a general store In Nauvoo for
many years and accumulated for
tune OF many thousand dollars Frank
| is now In Chicago and is son of his
| fathers first wife and was left only
$4,000 His fathers second wife bore
him several children.
| The steamer Black Hawk made her
first trip of the season last Thursday
to Burlington from Nauvoo and had
a big cargo of freight and fair list
of passengers. She returned to Maui
VOC in the evening and laid at our
bank until Saturday morning when
she made her second trip with anoth-
er large cargo.
| The foundation is now being laid
for our new bank block and will take
several weeks to complete. The
drainage ditch is also being dug and
will take several days to finish
We want every one to understand
that Egyptian hustlers of Sonora
township are going to celebrate again
| by holding home Corners convention
! down in Sonora below Nauvoo from
! August / to II. We call these get up
land do something Sonora township
people Egyptian hustlers because they
do do something to attract people to
their locality. Arrangements are now
being made for one of the best times
in the history of the home comers'
Organization.
H. S. Payne of FIT. Madison who so
faithfully worked to secure sub
scription of 100000 for an interurban
line through Nauvoo by July /, 1913,
but his company having failed to
make good, was Nauvoo visitor
Thursday.
| The high cost of living in Nauvoo
4 is becoming unbearable Now it is
said ice cream and sodas will no
doubt be advanced to ten cents
Spring greens, however, helped solve
the question some in scores of Nauvoo
homes in the past few weeks; the
dandelion diet was INDUCED In. Hot
house varieties were abandoned for
/ their more humble brothers of the
back yard pastures and roadside.
| A couple of auto loads of Nauvoo
business men went to Lomax for 2
confab with Promoter Love of that
place regarding an inteurban line
Through Nauvoo. This enterprise is
on tap up in Lomax These Nauyoo
business men were told to go home
and secure 100000 In cash and the
road would be built for which they
would receive 100000 in bonds and
| Lomax real estate. Just think of it
Receive 100000 more than they are
asked to subscribe for an interurban
line through Nauvoo. First of all
Nauvoo knows she's punk In the mat
ter of a railroad -punkier than punk
and is going to stay punk and to raise
100000 is a matter out of the ques
4 ton Next.
j So this is Nauvoo, Ell? And may
ask what is Nauvoos particular claim
to fame? inquired visitor here of one
of our citizens a few days ago. Maybe
you think Nauvoo hasn't got any
Mister, replies the Nauvooite. a
i bunch of our boys some time ago pro
posed commercial club to whooI
things UP bit, but they talked
things over and decided it would no
be square to send out lot of liter
ature lying about the place and tn
Idea fell through. Mainly, Mister