The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-01

Fireworks hasn't got the Fourth OF
July In such bad repute as the Are
water some Of the celebrators .hAnk
has to be drunk up to whoop things
up right.
The Nauvoo ball team played with
q fast Burlington team in Nauvoo last
Sunday and were defeated by score
of 16 to 8. The home nine was badly
crippled and much changing about in
positions on the diamond was neces-
sary. Bum fingers were also in evil
dence.
AL Rain, Jr., found good watch
among some rubbish on the premises
of A. ]. Schneider. cashier Of Nauvoo's
state bank, while at work there last
week doing some plumbing. 1t was
the property OF Mr.. Schneider, who
lost The timepiece some time last
winter. It was highly priced by him
on account Of 1t being graduation
presentation.
Don't look at the thermometer.
Everybody else is doing It.
There IL no better chance to
study the many kinds of ways there
Is to character than to watch the dif-
ferent punches of fellows laying out
their plans for the fishing trip they
are going to take.
The Misses Edith Limberger and
Flora Plughe OF Ksokuk were in Nau-
VOC on the day Of the opening OF the
Consumers supply company's store
and assisted Manager Spencer to
wait on customers.
the heat wave was broken again
last Saturday. It can't be swatted
too hard or too often.
Our understanding is that several
ball players in .he Nauvoo team came
from Saskatchawaneeinawhile.
Baxter Bros, Thos. and Cecil, Will
soon have employees at work making
grape baskets for the shipment OF the
coming large crop. The boys are king
shippers In Nauyoo Of this luscious
fruit.
Il amt 50 hard to figure out. after
all, when you come to consider that
most OF .he talk against an interurban
running through Nauvoo or any other
institution is being done by the fell
lows with but little accent In their
speech.
Will Pitt, OF the Overland garage
company OF Keokuk, was business
visitor in Nauvoo Monday and Tues
day. VIII IL fine young gentleman.
a produc. Of Nauvoos vicinity. and Is
making rood in our sister city down
the creek.
We heard q Nauvoo young lady say
the sight OF fashionable clothes makes
her tired. gives her headache and
makes her wish there wasn't any
such thing ~ fashionable raiment.
And yet she wears all the fashionable
things to all the todos and seems to
enjoy herself.
Several OF Nauvoo's citizens have
been gathering, what are called, dew.
June, or early blackberries. In the
timber lands about the city. They
are nice large and juicy and far SUI
perior to the common blackberry.
TIE wheat crop In Nauvoo's vicin-
ity will average about 20 bushels to
the acre and is Of fine quality. 1t now
looks az though the corn crop Will be
a large one. 1. is looking fine but will
naed some moisture occasionally from
now on.
Emerson's Cotton Blossoms floating
theatre showed at the Nauvoo land
ing last Sunday evening and about
four hundred attended. 1t was pro-
nounced fine Monday night the COM
pany played at Montrose and the show
band played in Nauvoo In the after.
noon and the management announced
free ferriage to our sister city across
the lake to all who wished to attend
the show. Not many availed them
selves Of the opportunity.
Geo. A. Bruegger. Nauvoo attor-
ney, will deliver a Fourth of July
speech in Colusa next Saturday at
celebration there. Colusa Is a small
town about twelve miles east Of Nau-
VOC.
Fred Tanner, one Of Nauvoo's larg-
est wine manufacturers, shipped about
twenty barrels of the grape Juice to
st. Paul, Mimi, one day last week.
The steamer Quincy of the Streckfus
line, received the consignment to
transport it to its destination.
The chigger season has now opened
in Nauvoo.
The closing season for squirrels ex-
pired last Tuesday.
It will no doubt be a safe and sane
Fourth in Nauvoo next Saturday. No
celebration.
In our rankings about Nauvoo we
found ou. that the grape crop that is
70 com, never looked better than at