The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-26

You can take down your storm
doors now.
Spring was to have made Its official
entry late last Thursday night. but It
was scarcely worth while to sit up
and wait for it.
Did you see the eclipse OF the moon
last Saturday morning?
The new nickel has evoked much
unfriendly criticism, yet the coin
might have been q great deal worse
The weather spoiled the Easter
parade in Nauvoo but did not spoil
the church attendance.
The chickenpox Is abating in Nau-
VOC. No new cases Azve been report
ed and those young 'uns afflicted are
well again.
Work on Wesley Schenider's new
residence has commenced. This is
number one and about half dozen
more will be built in Nauvoo before
the snow falls again in the end Of
1918.
The high school pupils are enjoying
vacation this week on account of the
principal. Prof. Ten Pas being in Chi
| cago for treatment OF his eyes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Schenk who
have been spending the winter in Cali
fornia with their children will soon re,
turn to their home In grand old Nau-
yoo
Captain Reimbold Of the Montrose
Inf hot h. ma q
able to bring the boat out by next
week or the week following at the
very latest. If travelling men will
watch the columns OF the Nauvoo
Daily Gate City they will find due ant
nouncement of her beginning in thi6
trade.
1t is said that q citizen in neigh
boring town cured his rheumatism by
wearing a thin insole of copper in one
shoe and of zinc in the other. Now he
is thoroughly over his ailment.
We heard two of Nauyoo's bachelors
make this observation: Our women
here are the very finest on earth.
They don't and neither do the women
care a rap whether Lillian Russell
publishes her health and beauty hints
or not. They are just naturally beauti-
| full, like the lily or the rose, and as
modest and as shy as the violet hid.
den beneath It's leaves az dewy morn!
Good! A nice little boost from Nau-
voo's bachelors.
Our farmers say the country roads
are very bad at present. This affects
Nauyoo trade considerable.
Theo. Gross is housed with bad
case of inflammatory rheumatism. His
many young friends hope to see him
speedily cured.
An old citizen said when he was a
hoy they used to spell whiskey, whis-
key. Nowadays whisky is whisky
What this Nauyoo citizen wants to
know is not SO much who the guy is
that put the this or that in the some
thing or other we are always reading
about, but he wants to know who the
guy was that knocked the sc" out of
whisky
The wedding bells are sure to ring
lful maidens to us. Guess who is going
4 to be the first after Easter bride In
this city?
q Our hardware and other dealers IN
stead of putting bunch of fishpoles
] out on the sidewalk put out stove
pipe elbows instead. They are wait
ling to say goodbye to winter.
Last week a Nauvoo widow out
These agents beat hasty retreat
when she said she turned down pat
ent churn fellow and she wasn't II
extra good form, either.
The season for Easter festivities
has opened in Nauvoo, and with LEM
a memory of the past, numerous en-
tertainments, social affairs, etc. vii
be held this and next month.
The Nauvoo township election oc
ours April FOOLS day, next Tuesday
Nauvoo saloons will be closed on &C
, count of It, Not much interest will BIZ
manifested on account Of only fou
! Offices to be filed The vote will be &
: small one.
= The Nauvoo library association hal
/ received its charter ard will soon b
j doing business. Miss Yetta Jung ha,
| been selected as librarian and ths
Nicaise building on the corner o
Twelfth and Mulholland streets ha.
been leased for the library.
! al Rain, Nauvoo's plumber vii