The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-05-29

the road in like line. He numbers
his friends by the score in grand old
| Nauvoo.
The Keokuk Consumers Supply
company's wagon was in Nauvoo
again Thursday and unloaded a top
heavy amount of goods. It caused our
merchants to wear wry face.
/ Nauvoo may have band concerts
soon. The management Of the Nau-
VOC band may begin operations the
coming week II our business men re-
s2ond literally. Nothing but first
class concerts will be inaugurated and
| it takes monay to do that. 1t is said
our sister city gives two concerts a
week and draws immense crowds.
Nauvo will be filed with visitors
should the band concerts become q
reality.
| The Ladies' Priscillas met at the
comfortable home OF Mrs. Adolph
Amsl en- Thursday afternoon and en-
joyed themselves greatly. After talk
| ing over this, that and the other and
doing fancy needle work, the popular
hostess distributed delicious refresh
/ ments that only a Nauvoo housewife
can prepare. 1t was an interesting
meeting for the ladies and will not
/ soon be forgotten.
/ It is strawberry short-cake time in
Nauvoo and the kind that only the
Nauvoo berry and housewife car
make and we can now hear those Eel
lows that left this section to find some
new Eldorado In other parts say
ooh, why was tempted to roam
please do let me come back home"
The numerous makes Of automobiles
| coming to Nauvoo these Gays gfvoA
one a pretty good accurate idea OF
what kind of machine he would
like to posses.
opened the Nauvoo opera house with
a brand sw picture show and is CIV
! ing excellent satisfaction. His movies
are the best seen thrown on the can
vass, proving that he is an exper-
/ fenced man at the business. 1t is
| hoped that our people will patronize
his movie show literally so as to in
sure it permanent fixture for Maui
VOC, for if any town needs an amuse-
ment place it Is Nauvoo. By lending
helping hand to MIR. Lyons he will
be successful in pres snting the best
of moving pictures and providing q
place where you can enjoy yourself
! for an hour or two in the evenings.
He will give matinees on Saturday
and Sunday afternoons at $3.50 o'clock.
Victor walgore was kicked by his
horss last Tuesday evening and re-
ceived several cracked ribs.
Five surveyors Of the Marsh inter
urban line were in Nauvoo last Thurs
day and began work in the Kimball
] fields north of Nauvoo on the right
! of-way.
| When George Hart, popular dsmo-
crat of Nauvoo gets the nomination
and is elected sheriff of Hancock
county, both of our local papers ought
I to dig out Of their dustry store room
all the cuts of boosters they used to
| print when their favorite republican
and democratic candidates for presi-
dent were elected If they haven't
enough they might borrow few
more high-combst chickens from the
Keokuk Daily Gate City to join in
the celebration. George is going to
get the nomination and be elected
this fall.
R. o. Marsh, the interurban pro-
moter has purchased some mora tim
Der in Sonora township which will be
used for railroad ties and placed on
the line that will pass through Maui
VOC. John Koehler Of Nauvoo has the
contract to convert the timber into
ties and has plenty Of work to keep
him and his employees busy until late
fall
| A Nauvoo woman who raises many
chickens is in opposition to the use
Of the incubator. ''1t always seems
wrong to me-" says she, ito beat an
old hen out Of job with tin box
and a coal-oil lamp" She stands up
for tbs old hen.
Some of our farmers say the wheat
crop is damaged beyond repair and
what the drouth DIDN'T hurt the Hes
sian fly completed. Some acres have
been plowed up for corn. The Maui
!! COO pea crop is suffering for rain as
! well as all other crops here.
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