The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-30
The Nauvoo Gate Civ
Nauvoo, ILL.,, April 1913.

Hawkes. and Fred Wieseman of Keo-
kuk were in Nauvoo last Friday.
Mrs. w. NJ. Haggett was in Jackson
vile, HI. few days ago to visit her
daughter Miss Leila. This popular
Nauvoo young lady is attending col
llege in that city.
Our new canning factory will be
equipped with the best machinery and
| will supply Nauvoo consumers as well
as ship its products to various large
markets. The management and stock
holders ought to install machinery to
make all surplus fruit into jellies and
/ preserves that is raised in Nauvoo
and which heretofore has had no def
mite market. 1t will be a paying ven
ture
Congressman over the United
States have got in their work sending
out garden seeds. One OF our vege-
table growers says the trouble with
most of these seeds Is that they
won't grow. Sometimes he wonders
where they originally came from and
what Is the sense of it all and for his
part he would just at leave have a
congressman send him chewing gum
than growless seeds. 1t would be a
more senseless fad, would weigh down
the postal carriers near so much and
save an abundance of disappointment
Taber Lumber company Of Keokuk
sent up four car loads of lumber for
their yards in Nauvoo last Friday.
j. NJ. Fisher has placed new
the one recently broken by high
wind storm
Strawberries were on sale in our
grocery stores and sold at the straight
price of Is cents per pint, but did not
find rapid sales.
Nauvoo merchants now learn the
value of freight packet between
Keokuk, Nauvoo and Burlington since
we have none. But they find 1t keeps
our traders at home. However, one
will enter the trade this week between
Burlington and Nauvoo twice a week
which will be big accommodation &c
shippers and receivers of freight In
Nauyoo.
at work on the boulevard in the south
end of Nauvoo for some time has
been moved to the north end Of town
! and will build the lake shore drive
along the big creek into Niota. This
| will give us fine driveway to FIT.
Madison and much shorter route.
| Fifteen or twenty years ago saloons
were intrenched in many towns in
! Hancock county, and the man who OBJ
/ iected to them was regarded as a
crank. Today the wet towns are con-
fined to two towns where German in
I fluence is strong They are Warsaw
! and Nauvoo. 1t is an impressive show
1 ing, and Is due to two things-to the
/ revolt against the control of local
! government by the saloon interests
and to the growing feeling that the
!, man who drinks to excess is at dis
advantage in the field of business and
1 industry.
4 Our carpenter and painter folks are
! having gay time in our busy midst
doing this and that. These Nauyoo
gentry are world heaters at running
things.
| There isn't anybody that can save
money like the Nauvoo fellows who
! haven't got any capacity for enjoy
ment and Nauvoo has lots of them
/ which accounts for so much richness
/ deposited in the Nauyoo State bank
Marshal Berger has been on the
sick list with badly sore throat
The Nauvoo city council members
will meet in regular session next
Monday evening when the newly cleo
! ted members will be sworn In and
take up the city business. A marshal,
street superintendent and sexton will
be selected.
Thursday our city treasury will be
enriched by $1,000 by our saloons and
pool table operators paying their an
nual license.
When one OF Nauvoo's popular
young ladies gets married to a gen
/ tleman from a neighboring town It