The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-04-15
The Nauvoo Gate City
Nauvoo, ILL.,, April IS, 1914

/ Looks as If it would be an early
summer.
Fred Pitt who lives east OF Powell
| ton, met with painful and very near
! ly fatal accident last Friday night
while returning home from NauVoo.
He was driving his Ford auto ana
when a short distance from Powell
| ton, he ran off c,llvert and upset his
car. His scalp was badly torn and MS
nose broken. A doctor was hastily
summoned and Fred was patched up
with some twenty stitches. He is get
ting along as we'll as can be expected
Some one-we've forgotten ms
name-says when the present style IN
hairdressing changes, Nauvoo girls
will have to go back to washing their
ears.
Ed Printy will give social ball IN
his Powellton hall next Saturday
night and Agnes orchestra of keokuk
will furnish the music.
Miss Mildred Datin who held the
position of stenographer in the Maui
VOC state bank for considerable
length OF time, has returned from an
extended stay in the west.
Mark Hudson is Nauvoo visitor
this week. Mark is travelling for the
Edison talking machines and is max
ing good.
A river engineer predicts there Will
be no flood this year, but about
March of last year anybody In Day
ton, Ohio, would have made the same
prediction.
Mrs. Ed Gott and child OF Fort
Madison are visiting Mr.. and Mrs. c.
]. Baxter, parents of the lady.
Mrs. Julia Boquet and sister, MISS
Annie Baumert of Keokuk were in
Nauvoo for several days, summoned
here by the serious sickness OF their
brother, George Baumert, who is still
very ill Wit, chances Of his recovery
very doubtful and his many friends
here hope for the best.
Nauvoo may get veterinary sur
geon before long to locate here. los
name is Dr. E. Sailor and graduate
of Chicago college.
Mr.. Bisshopp of Keokuk is red hot
after that splendid Nauvoo quarry,
and was in Nauvoo Monday, coming
on business connected with this enter
prise. 1t will be a valuable piece OF
property il the interurbans go
through. The Petch people will have
to build stub to this quarry if they
go FIVE miles east Of Nauvoo. in order
| to get the best rock and ballast in the
! Mississippi valley.
! Nauyoo was overrun with autos
! last Saturday and Sunday and many
/ motorcycles were also noticed in the
| city.
Who said Nauvoo women wouldn'i
vote? said the Nauvoo Rustler. Give
them something interesting to vots
for and they will vote. But they had
an instrument the .'drys" couldn't
use. The sweet-toned voices that
pleaded before and on the day Of the
election with nearly one-half OF the
women voters to do their duty, and as
| a result Nauvoo went wet.
/ Our people should not forget the
library entertainment next Friday
evening. Mrs. Helen Reinsberg viii
be the star attraction The opera
house will be crowded
Are we going to get pleasant Sun
DAYS for some time to come? 1t didn'i
rain on Easter Sunday and the wealth
er clerk did not interfere with the
Easter parade. Had it rained, sever
consecutive Sundays would have beer
as wet as Nauvoo went last election
day.
Nauvoo has several old houses tina
ought to be preserved. One or two o
them were built long before anybod!
ever heard of stove or heatint
furnace
1t now looks as though Nauvot
ladies would organize civic fedora
ton. Constitution and bylaws hay'
been adopted and are ready for sigma
lures.
j II is not yet too late to do your gar
idening. but time will soon be scorch
ing.
Ochsner and Weber have recentl
thrown out 5000 circulars which the
sent through the mails for thei
rural customers.
Namvoo business man and Nat
VOC school ma'am will soon be unite
in marriage.
Many bon fires can be seen abot
the city these evenings. Our peopi
|. are burning up brush and all other al
combinations. thereby identifying Nat
VOC.
. There are two parties after the "Ol
. Winslow House" a building used 70
, a hotel many years ago and which
. number OF old Keokukians will we
. remember. 1t is just opposite tn
/ city park and the building Is bein
placed in firstciass condition for b.
: tel purposes. The parties VINO al
negotiating for 1t will use it for
t first-class hotel.
:. All OF our saloon Keepers and POI
3 hall men have applied FOR city hcenf
> and Nav / will enrich the city trea
{ ury to the amount OF $1,000