The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-30

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Of the Nauvoo team and notice how
the rooters on the other side halloc
and shout to rattle the fielder while
the fly Is in the air and how instan
| eous this noise ceases as soon as the
ball Is safely judged in the hands Of
the fielder? How this play may be
compared with the life Of man! Sc
long as he Is In action, how he is ap
plauded by his fellows. At his death
there is great sorrow and grief ovel
his demise, but after his body is ten
DERBY laid away, how soon he is for
gotten except by the immediate mem
bers of his family. How instantane
Gus his name and deeds dropped from
the lips Of those who only SO short a
time before we're urging him On to
greater achievements. Like the ball
player, as soon as his play is made he
is soon forgotten. Isn't this clever
comparison and how well it fits some
OF Nauvoo's people?
More lawn mowers in Nauvoo have
rusted out than were worn out this
season on account Of the long drouth.
And now 1t looks like We never
will know who Is behind those inter-
urban lines that were to pass through
Nauvoo before the snow flies this win
ter.
plant about chiggers as from Nauvoo
people this season. And now fell
low asks US, chiggers or jiggers. which
do you call them? He means what
you get when you go berrying Or work
among the grass. Ever since we knew
anything about them we've called
them "chiggers." We've used the
word serenely, with calm, unbiased
mind, confident that no one could call
our English into question. But here
comes another fellow just as positive
and persistent and he says it's zig
gers" So we looked it up. 1t is
it's all of that and more. Webster
must have had 'em and have realized
that 1t takes lot Of words to do JUS
tice to some animals. You can call 'em
chigos, chigre, cighre, chigger or jig
ger, but, after all, the feeling is about
the same. We believe we'll stick to
"chiggers" for ours.
There is no getting around the fact
that the continued dry spell has cut
the fish worm crop pretty short.
The Nauvoo housewife has been
busy preserving and canning the april
cot crop.
All visitors speak well of this grand
old .Nauvoo town and say this region
never looked more beautiful than
now.
II one half of the people in this
town doesn't know how the other half
lives it isn't the fault of several wom-
en- we know of who live in Nauvoo.
Candidates are around shaking
hands with voters in Nauvoo. The pri-
maries take place on September 9.
In 1912 the women wore little or
no clothes, in 1913 it was even worse
and in 1914, this summer, still worse.
How many more seasons do you sup
pose the style originators are going
TO keep this up? They've got to call
\ halt soon. They've simply got to
Or there won't be anything left to
predicate style upon.
Just think OF it, sixteen years ago
this month Nauvoo had population
If 1851 souls. The school census was
taken at that time and was proved !
correct. The population now is less
han 1000 and no prospects for an In
crease unless Mr.. r. o. Marsh's or
9etsch and Paynes' interurban line is /
,uilt through Nauvoo this fall.
The big packets are passing up the
liver loaded to the guards. There are
low in the st. Louis and st. Paul .
rade the steamers Quincy and st. |
Paul People who patronize the Streck-
us palatial steamers go wild with en-
husiasm over the lovely scenery on
he northern trip.
A farmer near Nauvoo has simple
emedy for keeping flies off his cattle.
lea takes whale oil soap and mixes
of carbolic acid to a
uart, then takes an old broom and
ubs it on the backs and shoulders OF
is cattle. He says very little OF 1t
viii keep the flies away for two or
hree weeks.
The man who falsely swears to an
SCISSORS schedule is no less a per-
urer than he who lies under oath in
curt Of law. In seeking to evade his
hare Of taxes that some one else may
ay them, he is no less thief than
ne who picks a pocket This is the
pinon of learned jurists and the
bove fits several Narcotics.
Electric railway news is what our
eople will be looking for in the Maui
90 Keokuk Gate City after this week.
IT. Marsh promised that work would
e resumed August 1.
Those people representing Nauvoo
an official way will meet In regular
sssion next Monday evening.
Mrs. Fred Shoemaker died at her
ome in Appanoose township last Fri
,y morning at the age of 20 years.
ne was one of Nauvoo's popular
,ung ladies' and numbered her