The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-12-03

and miss if it is stock. And above all
tell him to close the gates and not
accidently kill himself.
John Burmeister has a contract to
rebuild the fence along the Kimball
estate on the river road, north OF
the work in several more days.
Several Nauvoo teachers attended
the county meeting in Carthage last
Friday. The Nauvoo schools were
closed from last wednesday until last
Monday.
The First National bank Of Nauvoo
is in possession Of federal reserve new
bank notes of the IS denomination.
| Our farmers are bitterly complain
ing of scarcity of water. Many of
their wells have gone dry and makes
hauling of natures fluid necessity
for their stock.
/ Mother earth in Nauvoo and vicin.
ity got small dampening Tuesday.
Nauvoo people have been pretty
we'll supplied with fresh fish this far
and all caught in Lake Cooper at this
point.
A number Of Nauvoo young men
after the holidays. Their recent
dance was such great financial and
social success that they think rep
etition will prove a like result.
John Repplingers new garage build
ing will soon be completed.
! Our county superintendent seldom
inspects Nauvoo schools. but they
don't need inspection. They are pre-
sided over by corps of first class
instructors.
You can tell a newly married man
nearly always because he buys every
fool patent saving device for the
kitchen that comes along.
st. Rose society meet at the X. c.
hall Wednesday afternoon of this
week. They will enjoy tying comforts
and exchanging the gossip Of their
neighborhood
Next Tuesday occurs the feast OF
the Immaculate Conception, an obliga-
tory holiday in the Catholic church.
Miss Barbara Stoffel visited Keokuk
relatives for several days last week.
The Misses Amy Richtman and AL
ma Spring, two of keokuk's pleasant
and popular young ladies, ate Thanks
giving dinner with Mr.. and Mrs. Chas
Mulch and daughter, Miss Airline, in
Nauvoo. These young ladies' know
where to go to enjoy finely prepared
menu.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. G. Ochsner will
soon leave Nauvoo for Fort Madison,
where Theodore will enter his broth
er's implement and auto store. One
by one families leave Nauvoo and
hardly ever one comes here to live.
Four Or five families have left Nauvoo
or going to leave within the past sew
eral weeks and IL we don't get that
railroad and present conditions con.
tinue, will soon become depopulated.
Mrs. M NJ Morrill,, wife of one of
= the greatest attorneys this section of
the country ever produced, but who
died a number of years ago, while
living at the home of her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Louis Wallet, in. Seat
tie, Washington, died on Novem-
her II last. Sho was eighty-fve
years old and was the daughter
of one OF the frs. pioneers in lie
western part Of Illinois. Mrs. Morrill,
resided in Nauvoo for seventy-thrce
years Milton of Nauvoo, and Ernest
Morrill, of near Powallton, are two
children who survive. Three sons
and one daughter living in distant
cities, also survive her.
Nauvco was visited by no less than
half a dozen cigaS men from neigh
boring towns in the past week.
Miss Clara Bauer CT Spencer. Iowa,
who has been visiting her sister, Mrs.
j. F. Argast. has returned home.
Mr.. and Mrs Carl Blum of Nauvoo,
are in Chicago with their infant child,
which has sc:-;c serious complaint and
the parents went there to consult some
noted SPECIALIST Il regard to its all
ment 1t is hoped that the fond pa
rents will succeed in getting their
baby relief and that it will soon re-
gain the beet of health
Several Nauvoo girls are talking
about a broken engagement CT a Nau-
voo young lady. If the Nauvoo Keo.
kuk Gate City lady readers would have
us tell them. it would set them all
agog over the news. Well, we can't
tell, for we said we won't.
Just think CT it: only about four
weeks more left of 1914. Let's begin
practicing writing it 1916 now Sc as to
be prepared
But it is believed that gasoline can
stand good many operations before
they cut all the profits out of it.