The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-09-16
The Nauvoo Gate City
Nauvoo, ILL.,, Sept. 16, 1914

iept. 16, 1914
Nauvoo business visitor last Monday.
He came here to advertise the fall
celebration to be held in the county
seat Thursday, Friday and Saturday
OF this week.
1t won't be long now until the big
pumpkins can be seen in our store
windows unless the summers drouth
retarded their growth
It Is not too much to say that Bert
Gales watermelons are just as lus-
cious as any raised in the United
States. Bert lives just above Mont
rose and while in Nauvoo recently he
the writer with one of them
and IL you think we are over-praising
him you ought to have tried one. He
is as equally good in raising sweet
potatoes.
The chances are that as a result OF
this years drouth two silos will bloom
where only one bloomed before IN
this section of Hancock county. Evil
tutions OF education have no superior,
conqueror in the future and every
IDENTIFY the silo Is to be the drouth
thrifty farmer will lay his plans &C
cordingly. We can't overcome the Gle
ments, but It lies within mans power
to circumvent them.
It Is about time for some OF those
marriages that were to occur last
June to be pulled OF before the holi-
days. Cupid has q number on the list
in Nauvoo.
One of our hunters has discovered
the fact that music is great help IN
attracting squirrels. We may now
expect to hear OF the hunters carry
ing a piano player around with them
when pursuing the fuzzy tails.
The Lord has been pretty good to
us in Nauvoo and blessed us with 2
fine fruit crop. Nauvoo's housewives
have put up cherries, plums, apricots,
blackberries, raspberries and straw
berries, peaches, grapes and plenty OF
pears to come. Nearly every Nauvoo
cellar is well stocked for this winter'a
.use., 81
some men In Nauvoo are 50 close
that If they went fishing they would
hold the hook way out OF the water
for fear the fish would nibble the
bait
One can form but a faint concep-
lion Of the amount Of freight coming
TO and going from NauvooA II q ran-
road would pass through this beautl-
full soity IN the course OF very short
time It would be one OF the busiest
towns in this section.
Autumn begins next Tuesday, &C
cording to the almanac.
Apple butter will be at q premium
in Nauvo this fall. 1t will be deli
cacy. And very little, II eny cid'er VIII
be made.
Mr.. Ed. T. Bartrun Of Keokuk has
opened a "Must Go" clothing and
gents furnishing goods sale In the
old building OF the Nauvoo Rustler
which adioins Robt. Kuhn's furniture
store He claims to have a $4,000
stock which he Is offering at great
sacrificing prices and will give Nau.
WOO and vicinity people the Sbenefit OF
the reduction. We have known MT.
Bartruff for good many years and
are pleased to meet him In Nauvoo
business circles. Mr.. Bartruff VIII
no doubt be well received here.
Morris Seiglemeyer will soon leave
for Highland Park college. Des
Moines, Iowa, to take up studies IN
machinery and automobile work.
Morris is the son of Mr.. and Mrs.
John seiglemeyer OF Nauvoo ana
promises to be one OF our rising
young men and by close application
To the studies he has chosen, VIII
make good.
Conditions have been most favor
able in this vicinity this season to
prepare ground for fall wheat and .
larger acreage than usual may be
sown.
u We welcome outside capital to Nau-
WOO, regardless Of where 1t comes
from or who gets 1t when 1t does
come.
What has become OF the Nauvoo
Ladies' Priscilla club? It has not
held a meeting for number OF
weeks. Their meetings were apan-
doned on account Of the extreme heat
but now that the weather is getting
cooler they should take up the good
work OF the club again.
The old way of loading your per
sonal effects and family in q covered
wagon to go out west and return In
the same prairie schooner Is gone.
Here is the way they do things In
Nauvoo and other towns about this
section: Hamilton, Warsaw, Carthage.
LaHarpe, Basco, Fl. Madison and
Keokuk all had and will have day
or more celebrations this season.
Every town engaged It's homo band
to furnish music for the occasion and
did not ask for a lowest bid or you
can't play. Nauvoo had celebration
on Labor day and an outside band
was engaged because the committee
said the price was too high. Discour-