The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-05

The directors and stock holders OF
the Nauvoo canning company will
hold their annual meeting next We'd
nesday afternoon.
Eggs would be cheaper If people
bought them in larger quantities.
Never order less than three soft boil
ed.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Brant of Bush
nell, ILL.,, were guests Of their daught
ter, Mrs. Ethan Kimball. for a few
days last week.
James Farren and family of Nau-
VOC ate turkey with relatives near
Dallas City, Thanksgiving day.
Rudy Leppert of the firm of Datin
& Leppert In Nauvoo, has been quite
| Ill at his home in this city.
| Jacob and Fred Walter intend open
ing the meat market formerly conduct
ed by them, some time IN January or
February.
A Nauvoo father says II you begin
right with a boy at the age of two
years you won't have to thresh him
4 at sixteen years.
Some Of Nauvoo's dramatically in
4 clined young people expect to treat
our neighbor city of Hamilton to ar
interesting play soon.
/ One of Nauvoo's popular house
wives says It's funny that the hens
ilay the most eggs when they are the
cheapest.
Il Nauvoo's fruit growers and ship
pers' union will hold a meeting ir
the council rooms Saturday at LOO
clock p. m.
Nauvoo's main business street Is II
a deplorable condition at the presen
time. Mud several inches deep or
this thoroughfare for several blocks
principally caused by poor drainage
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Berger, Jr.
were Keokuk visitors last Wednesda.
afternoon.
The Ladies' Priscilla club met at tn,
home of Mrs. JOS Carroll Thursda.
afternoon. The club is one Of thu
most up-to-date Of its kind In thi
part of Illinois and even il 1t has
high sounding title 1t has been con
sistently chosen.
BY going at 1t now you will be abb
to finish your Christmas shopping be
fore the twenty-fourth.
| Big ripe strawberries from Florid
are selling at 75 cents a quart. The
are almost as expensive breallfas
food as eggs and bacon.
| The ball boys dance in the Nauvo
opera house on hriday evening Of las
J week was attended by flfty-one coupl
and was fine social event Agne'
orchestra of Keokuk furnished tn
music.
Mr.. Andrew Boyer Of near Carthag
was visitor in Nauvoo during tn
week, the guest of his sons, Jacob an
Guy.
Mr.. Ralph Jibben of Pekin, III
visited with his daughter, Mrs. Jaco
Boyer for few days during the weel
Dolores" four act drama, will b
presented in the Nauvoo opera hous
on Friday evening, December II. Mis-
Anita Baxter will take the part {
Dolores in this beautiful drama an
the balance Of the cast has been car
fully selected and promises to be on
of the best all-home talent plays eve
placed on a"Nauvoo stage. The pr
ceeds will be used for the benefit {
the Nauvoo baseball club.
Our hunters are still after the qua
and a good number of them are bein
killed.
Many of our citizens will soon begi
Strengthening porkers Of their ow
raising. This is an annual custol
with many Narcotics and partl
solves the high cost of living.
Some people ask what makes
, town? Not schools and churches an
: miles of streets and handsome res
r dences. A town--a prosperous one
!. the midst of prosperous agricultur;
5 community such as is the fashio
: here in old Illinois-4is not worth
S kick If the men behind THAI town don
, hustle The live business man is til
blood, bones and gristle Of a commul