The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-12
The Nauvoo Gate CITY
Nauvoo, ILL.,, December IL, 1913.

She was Miss Catherine Zeis OF Phfla-
delphia, Pa, before entering the Maui
VOC convent. The funeral occurred
from the Catholic church in Nauvoo
and interment was made in the Cath
ole cemetery.
The open season for quail closed in
this territory last Tuesday. Strange to
say that there were not SO many Bob
Whites killed in this vicinity as in for
mer years.
A number OF youngsters took time
several nights few days ago to shoot
reyolvers. canon crackers, ringing the
Presbyterian church bell and playing
! other pranks in the north end of
town. Those Nauvoo boys who partici-
| pated in these acts had better lay
| low, as number of people on the
north side are making still hunt to
! find the guilty parties and bring them
to justice.
Wedding bells will ring in Nauvoo
after the holidays, a lady friend IN
forms your reporter. The bride-to-be
is wearing the ring with a diamond
set.
| A Nauvoo father says: Amt it fun
ny that it don't take as long to name
dog as It does to name the baby?"
Nauvoo had no mail service last
1 Sunday, caused by the high winds on
Lake Cooper, which prevented mail
carriers from attempting to cross over
to Montrose. 1t Is believed that Maui
VOC will miss many mails this winter
on account Of high winds and danger
GUS crossing on this fine lake. Arrange
hments ought to be made to bring the
4 Nauvoo mails from Fort Madison on
stormy days. Here is another argu-
mont in favor OF the needs of Mr..
Marsil's interurban railway line.
i The corn shucking season In Nau-
VOC and vicinity is about over. We
have not heard the first champion
J corn shocking story Of the year yet.
Doubtless the shortage OF the crop
|, prevented
!. Last Saturday was pleasant and
profitable business day in Nauvoo,
many farmers coming to town to do
their shopping.
i G. O. Starr of the Keokuk Gate City
was Nauvoo business visitor last
Monday and piled up some more new
names and retained the old ones on
his papers subscription list in Maui
VOC and her two rural routes.
There are large number of Maui
VOC. people living in Keokuk and we
are informed that nearly If not all of
them take the Gate City on account
of the Nauvoo news appearing every
u week.
. 1t seems that there is lap-robe
thief in Nauvoo. On several occasions
our farmer boys while visiting In the
city have had robes taken from their
: buggies while their vehicles were
8 hitched to the rack. The penitentiary
4 is staring some fellow in the face for
, sooner or later he will be caught.
) Now we know why some are justifi-
: ed in calling them automobiles"
Down in Missouri some one recalled
/ the fact that just thirty years ago
MT. OIlo invented tue gasoline en-
: CINE.
Mother Ottilia entered st. Mary
academy just fifty years ago last Mon
! day, and thirty-nine of them she spent
} in Nauvoo as head of the institution
: known over large part Of the United
; States. st. Mary's academy was es-
, tablished in Nauvoo in 1874. This
good and noble sister received cable
gram from his holiness, Pope Plus X,
7 sending his blessing and congratula.
8 lions to her in honor of her golden
jubilee.
Messrs. George Gillian and Klein
!. of Burlington were in Nauvoo the first