The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-06-14

SsSNAA eA0 WEE SooAA1S WSI oAs t4S
etments didn't dampen their ardor
for they were singing. There is no
place like home on the return trip.
Nauvoo Is becoming the center of
trashy signs in the business ssction.
Most of the phone poles are plas-
tered up with posters and no matter
which way ron look something ugly
and unsightly is to be seen. Some
thing should be done and at oncs, to
put stop to this making Nauvoo
look like the inside pages OF last
years almanac.
The Misses Emma and Theresa Lep-
pert have been spending the week
with their sister in Burlington.
II anyone in Nauvoo or vicinity is
going away for several months for
the summer on their vacation they
should see to it that the Kaokuk
Daily Gate City follows them each
day. They viii get all the general
news, local news and the Nauvoo
news
Mr.. and Mrs. John Kraus and wife
have bsen visiting in Keokuk.
Mrs. Chas. Van Sittert and mother
who have been making their home in
California during the winter, returned
to Keokuk again. The ladies were
residents OF Nauvoo for many years
and with Mr.. Val. Laubersheimer con-
Quoted one of the finest hotels in the
United States in this city They sell
dom come up here to see their old,
Nauvoo friends. but when they com ,
will receive the glad hand Of welcome.
One week from next Sunday summer
bagins, according to the almanac but
with the thermometer dancing around
the 100 mark almost every day for
some time it looks like 1t arrived con-
siderable ahead Of time.
Seventy years ago on the 9th day
of this month, Jos. Smith, president
of the Mormon church in Nauvoo was
shot and killed in Carthage, our coun
his old mansion house which was
used for hotel purposes are still stand
ing down along Main street near the
banks OF Lake Cooper and very near
the Mormon Smiths cemetery. Many
visitors to Nauvoo are shown these
places OF interest.
June could make a hit by putting
on a rsal old fashioned January thaw.
The cherry crop in Nauyoo is quite
a large one and many crates are
being shipped to the different mar
kets. Buyers are paying s100 per
crate OF sixteen quarts for them. The
crop will be exhausted by the first
OF next week.
Evidences OF summer on every hand
are with US. In every town around
hsre You hear of local moonlight so
cials. hay rides, excursions, etc. AS
long as the heart stays young, SO win
the world stay young, so goes an old
saying, and nothing exemplffies sum
mer, nor amplifes it, too, mere than
these summer friyolities out In thu
rural communities or river towns,
where somehow there appears to be
more freedom, less cara and less to
worry about than in the cities.
An excursion on the steamer sgd
ney with a crowd from Hamilton,
stopped at the Nauvoo landing Thurs
day, bound FOR Burlington. Quite a
from here JOINED the throng.
The old settlers committee viii
meet IN Carthage next Thursday TO
appoint a time and place TO hold the
next annual reunion. Nauyoo could
attract a larger crowd than any other
town in the country and could easily
secure the attraction by merely ask
ing for it. But VIII she7
And now the Marsh tnterur5an rail
road may be transferred TO the Pow
elton route to run parallel with the
Petch and Payne Inc. Wh1n Man
zoos suburb gets all these railroads
t will keep the inhabitants ont there
busy lodging the CAFE and make y
dangerous hauling grain ~ crossing
50 many tracks. The Marsh people
give for their reason ia running q
half dozen miles east III Easypo, f:as 4
to secure the rfsat o. way (
through the Kfnlb2a ss3ss aooye
own 1t seems that s7eryfttaz tASt &
wants to run through s@syoo azId il
compelled to pass tbrosgfs these faasS
meets with blockade thsss ~ ~
4 sort CT Huerta proS>ostasqg sseyr
erai Of Nauvoo's cftfzess, ssses Epsaslt,
h1r- of tho defunct sfzrps4ef%1E1 g3J2.