The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-26
The Nauvoo Gate City
Nauvoo, I'LL, Feb. 26, 1914

! Last Wednesday was the beginning
lof Lent and the time for forty days
of fast and abstinence of members OF
the Nauvoo Catholic church. Ash Wed
nesday is the goodby season of gayety
/ Our rural mail carriers delivered no
mail last Monday, 1t being allowed by
the government as holiday and on
account Of the big snow storm, no
doubt were glad of it.
Mr.. Jacob Richtman will hold a
public sale next Saturday to dispose
Iof his general store stock down in the
first ward He will make his home
with his sons up In Wisconsin. Cap,
tain Richtman is one of the best
known pioneer pilots on the Missis-
/ sipi river. In the last several years
he has conducted small store in
Nauvoo until illness compelled him to
retire.
| Some Nauvoo people complain that
their fuel pile is rapidly diminishing
although they had an equal supply Of
that of last winter and the weather of
this winter for great part has been
mild.
All of Nauyoo's ice dealers have
finished storing the crystal blocks for
i the coming summers use and it is
thought there will be no ice famine
In our city this season.
Mrs. James Farren has been nursing
broken bone in one of her hands
which injury she received recently
when she stepped on an icy walk at
her nome In the first ward and slippeu,
falling on that member short time
ago.
Charles Mulch and Jacob Fisher
were Keokuk visitors last Monday.
! We are seldom called on to report
a quiet or any other kind of wedding
/ in Nauyoo. We do hope that the next
/ young couple who seek the life tie
until divorce do us part" will change
this thread-bare program and let us
report at least one hilarious, rip-roar-
| ing joy feast of the regular charavari
variety.
Quite a number of Fast Nacht So
Gals were held in Nauvoo last Tues
day evening. the last social evening
before Lent. They were all of priv.
ate nature.
| The Hancock county board of SUI
pervisors will meet in Carthage next
week.
Nauvoos city council members will
meet in regular session next Monday
evening.
! There will be German services in
Nauvoos Lutheran church every Wed
nesday evening during the lenten
season.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Marzolf were
remembered last Monday evening by
a number of friends in honor Of theil
]. thirteenth wedding anniversary.
social good time was had by those
who were so fortunate as to belons
i to the party invading the Marzol
home
/ A rural editor gets off this good ons
on the tango: Tango valentines anl
tango plays, tango dances in mad re
lays, everything, everywhere is tango
now, most people wonder what's tan
go anyhow? Tango this and tango
that, who'll be the first with tango
hat? The tango shoe is out of date
SO now we read of the tango skate. So
Iciety teas and formal dinners have t.
be tango to class with the winners
Here's fond hope and an earnes
prayer that when we go to heaven til
tango isn't there"
Mr.. Frank Spinauger of Warsay
was a Nauvoo business visitor las
Saturday. Frank is one of the mos
genial gentlemen we ever met an
s who readily makes friends with a
with whom he comes in contact Fl
has the utmost confidence in the f
o. Mars.5 interurban line from Quinc
through Warsaw and Nauvoo to Bul
lington and we all In Nauyoo hope hi
predictions come true.
Mrs Nina Rheinberger will repr,
. sent Nauvoo Camp Royal Neighbors q
|, a delegate at the annual Illinois stat
! convention in Bloomington on Marc
II and IS.
The first annual election Of boar
: of FIVE directors for the Nauvoo pull
lie library will be held next Saturda
afternoon. 1t is probable that th
! present board Of ladies will be re
tanned.
! Mrs Louis Hudson entertained he
!. Sunday school class at her comfor
able home last Monday evening an
: showed the young people royal geo
: time. The young folks. to the numbe
OF twenty, were loud in their prais
for their teacher and voted this fin
lady capital entertainer. Dainty r
freshments were served during I'll
: evening
u Women are running for office
nearly every county in Illinois, an
mostly for the office OF township &C
lector. Making the men give UP the
money was ever passion among tn
fair sex
g Monday afternoon Mrs. George Ha
= entertained the Kensington club