The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-10-09


section have to rake up all the leaves
on the front lawn and sidewalks and
in the back yard.
Right about now there are as many
wishing they owned automobiles as
there are those wishing they could
see the worlds series.
Frank Moeller, Keokuk's Power
City" cigar man, was Nauvoo bust
ness visitor last weeks end. Friend
Frank has many friends in Nauvoo,
Not just because they like him, but
because they enjoy good smoke
when they buy his smokers that every
dealer in Nauvoo. handles.
The high cost of living may not
subside Immediately in Nauyoo, but
just the same, one Of its staunchest
props could be knocked from under it
IL we could buy home products in
Nauvoo as cheap as they sell in Chi
cago and ST. Louis after they are
shipped there.
This weather does not carry an in
definite guarantee. Buy your coal be-
fore you need it.
Less than four weeks until the No
vember election in the state of ILL
nois. There will be but one public
speaking in Nauvoo and that will oc-
cur on Tuesday afternoon, October 10.
The election occurs on November 8.
The season for corn husking is not
far of. 1t will take but short time
to crib and husk all the corn in the
vicinity of Nauvoo this season.
Our police courts are very quiet
and it is hoped they will remain so.
From all reports the accident list
for 1914 is going to be something
fearful. And the limit hasn't been
reached yet Just think Of the num-
bers of people still to be run over
in November and December by the
1914 model automobiles. There has
been no serious accident by these
machines in Nauvoo so far but it is
coming sure.
Last Monday was pension day In
Nauvoo. The old soldiers and widows
had their vouchers filed.
Quite a number Of Nauvoo's people
have been on the II don't feel well
list" the past few weeks. Severe
colds was the complaint.
September passed without frost,
but look out for October.
Are the readers of the Nauvoo Gate
City ready for winter? If you are not,
you had better get move on your
selves.
The rustic Of the tinted leaves
through the branches as they descend
to litter the ground is evidence that
summer has lied and that fall wealth
Ter is here to announce soon with its
frosty breath that winter is close al
hand.
There have been no dealings in dirt
in Nauvoo for long time and per
haps won't be until we get an inter
urban line through this beautiful city
Nauvoo's school children headed by
every one of our teachers, should or.
ganize a literary society. Nothing is
so elevating and instructive as So
ciety of this kind for young people.
The open season for quail is only
about five weeks off and Nauvoo and
vicinity hunters are anticipating
splendid sport. The birds are more
plentiful than usual this year.
Those who SO gracefully shoveled
dirt in gardens, roads and at other
things, can put their acquired shovel
knowledge to use this winter lifting
the snow off the sidewalks and throw
ing the bituminous into the furnace.
Now that the evenings are getting
longer 1t is a good plan to provide
the family with reading matter. The
Keokuk Daily Gate City has room for
a few more Nauvoo people on it's
books yet Try it and get all the
Nauvoo news as well as general and
press reports from everywhere.
If Nauvoo's city council should ap-
point a committee or the board Of
health should make the rounds of the
city they certainly would declare sew
eral places a nuisance and a menace
to health.
1t is SO old it is frayed around the
edges that building of an electric in
terurban railroad through Nauvoo,
but we hope that this grand old town
will get the road promised her during
1915. Railroad talk is cheap as dirt,
but Nauvoo people aren't satisfied
any longer with mere talk.
The man who lives in Illinois long
enough to become imbued with its
ideas and principles, who learns its
true greatness, is never satisfied with
residence elsewhere. We never find
all Illinoisian dwelling in another
state who was not eager to hear from
the sucker state, and most Of them
speak regretfully of circumstances
which called them away This spirit
OF loyalty is fine thing; it is a char
acteristic of the American people,
but peculiarly of Illinoisians, and es-
pecially the rural class. There is
such thing as misplaced loyalty,
but in this instance it is deserving.
The Nauvoo Rustler says that War
saw has a beautiful park and that
Nauvoo could have one equally as
attractive If our city dads would but
start the ball rolling and that we