The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-09-30

What labor needs In Nauvoo t.
make 1t digniled IL an eight our law
applied to the mothers OF the girls
who roam u streets who work six.
teen hours q day.
The Nauvoo City council meets
again next Monday night. It's their
regular session.
Circuit court at the county seal
convenes in October. John Bertschi
OF Nauvoo is one of the grand Jurors
Nauvoo's old soldiers will be made
happy again the 4th of october. They
will receive their quarterly pension
vouchers.
Nauvoo has no telegraph wire and
no railroad. You a send 2 mes
sage, though. from our telephone sta.
ton and take . ride on a railroad by
going to Montrose. These things will
be changed during 1915, when 1t Is
expected that promoters will quit
building i%nterurban lines on ape
Usually Nauvoo parents are quite
Industrious in sending their sons and
daughters to college to equip them
for the battle OF life, but this year
the number sent away to school seems
much smaller than for several years
past.
At least thing may be said In
defense Of September Morn" 1t isn't
SO blooming hot as the afternoon.
Jos. Bossler of Keokuk spent a
number of days in Nauvoo recently,
manufacturing wine and now has his
cellar here well stocked with grape
Juice. Jos. has a fine trade for his
wines in Keokuk.
Nauvoo painters have been kept busy
this season here and ! n the country
adjacent to the city. This does not
indicate hard times.
The time is close at hand when
the frost is on the pumpkins n ths
fodder in the shock. There will not
be much corn around here.
The weather suits some people all
right now.
The season IL going fast toward
the "o~vercoatish and sore throatish"
stage. The ice mans face looks sad
and the coal dealers smiles grow lar
ger. Shirtwaists darker grow apace
and the straw hat now occupies a
place on the top shelf.
The announcements OF the last free
open air concerts and the last days
! OF swimming in Lake Cooper are the
first signs Of fall.
When a newspaper man gives you
a lot Of free advertising in order to
boom some church entertainment OF
Sunday school enterprise or various
other things you are interested in.
keep track Of the number OF lines
that are printed from time to time
and multiply that number by the reg
ular advertising rates charged by the
paper, then compare the results with
the actual value of any favor You
get from any other business Arm or
individual. Then consider the fact
that advertising and circulation are
the only two things the paper has to
s-ll and you will see that the news.
paper man is the most liberal giver
In your town. Instead Of this beins
known and acknowledged by people
who should know these things, they
are generally the first to kick against
the paper II it should happen to over
look some little matter they are in.
terested in.
Just a few weeks more and the fall
poems will set in again.
1t will be but a short time now be-
fore they'll start to putting the tur
key pictures on the magazine covers.
Thanksgiving IS coming.
BY assuring the donation of a sew
eral acre site and subscribing several
thousand dollars worth Of stock, Maui
VOC citizens could locate factory
plants in this city. The financial
end Of the enterprise could be placed
in the hands OF our business men. All
citizens could be approached to show
their civic patriotism by donating the