The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-04-05

| will hold the regular meeting mex
Monday evening.
Nauvoo's Ladies' Priscilla club viii
not meet next week on account OF II
being holy weak in the church calen
dar.
Geo Baumert, senior editor OF the
Nauvoo Independent is i'll with cry
/ sipelas of the face. 1t Is hoped he
will soon be about again and as we'll
as ever.
There was a social ball in the Maui
VOC opera house last Thursday even
! ing and which large number from
ksokuk attended.
The kids will soon be heard on
the banks Of Lake Cooper here in Nau-
! WOO. saying: Come on out, boys; the
water is fine"
There isn't anybody ever going to
whip Old John Barleycorn until the
! majority gets together on the propc-
| sition to stop the manufacture.
/ C. o. Starr OF the Keokuk Daily
Gate City was among our people We'd
| ssday, soliciting new names for the
best paper in this section. When the
interurban passes through Nauvco. it
will keep The Gate City people hust-
ling to take care Of their subscription
| list hera.
Miss Emma Hauptman Of Davsn-
| port, Iowa, was a visitor in Nauvoo
the forepart OF the week, among reia'
tives. She returned Friday, accom-
panied by her mother who viii visit
for a short time in the up-rysr city.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. G. Schneider who
have been visiting in the south for
about two months, returned to tau-
VOC last Tuesday. This popular
! couple enjoyed their visit and lock
much ben sfited in health.
| Nauvoo authorities have had the
mud scraped from the street in our
! business section.
! The long period Of unseasonably
| are all wishing for the real article OF
| spring.
! A Nauvoo fellow tolG us that we
| should write the honorable records
/ along with the bum ones, just as oft
en- as We run across tn I'm. So now
look out and be good.
/ We have noticed that in some sec
! tons you can get all the publicity
you want by raising something and
taking little bundle Of it to the
editor.
| Louis Schoell returned his col
lector's books to Carthage last Mon
day
James Farrep was a Chicago bust
ness visitor for a few days recently.
Miss Helen Wolley OF keokuh has
been visiting with Mrs. j. ". Bert
schi during tls week.
Mrs. Car Pfaffe of Keokuk has been
visiting Nauvoo relatives during the
week and while here she took sick at
| the home of her sister Mrs. John NJ.
| B echtold.
/ We will omit the name OF the par
ty'' for obvious reasons: One evening
the forepart of the week, Miss ---
gave a party in celebration OF her
tw nty-ninth birthday. The evening
was spent with delicious refreshments
and playing old-fashioned games. Lots
OF young people were present, who
before departing for their homes
wished Miss - many more returns
OF the day
Not much news to send il at pres
emit Everything very quie:. April
fool day went of her9 spleniidly. not
an 2cc;de nt Of any sort happened here
this year. such as finding pocket
books with real &oin or kicking hat
with q brick under it from off our &C.
ment sidewalks.
It locks like a first class photogra-
pher ought to maxi a gallery a pay
ing venture in Nauvoo. There is
fine opening here. Who wants to
come and try IT.
Nauvoos electric light ccmpsny has
sold its large Foos gas engine to
some zfferscnville, Ohio. parties. The
weight Of the engine is ABOUT twenty
tons and c. r. Montgomery of this
city has the contract to move and
place it on cars in Niota, opposite
Fl Madison.
Well. the weather man may make
good anyway. after Easte-
farmer in the southeast part OF
the state has figured out, and proves
it, too, that the raising OF pop corn
is a prosperous industry. He has
raised over 500 bushels. On the mar
ket pop corn is quoted at about $500
pr bushel. shelled, and ordinary corn
at about 20 cents. Pop corn VIII
yield nearly as many bushels to the
acre IS the regular corn does. This |
farmer grows the white rice variety, /
which brings the highest market /!
prices. His venture has proved 80 |
successful last season that this spring |
he intends to double his acreage Why /
not try It IN and about Nauvoo Every |
thing growable grows in old Nauvoo. !
Thu Keokuk Consumers Supply com |
pany's wagon was in Nauvoo last Fri
day, delivering goods among custom |