The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-05-07

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ing the things witch matches.
Nothing looks SO unsfghtly as q
frs. class business house with de-
lapidated awning hanging to Its iron
Frame 1t gives 1t the appearance OF
IA Junk house. Postmaster Beger has
a fine new awning on his building and
more should follow his example or
discard the awning altogether.
Selwn Wyles has resigned as direc-
tor OF the canning company and Jas.
Farren selected in his place until the
annual meeting OF the stockholders.
Memorial day will be here only
three weeks from next Saturday.
Honor the dead heroes by giving pub
lie demonstration in Nauvoo. There
never was better time in which to
observe Memorial day in Nauvoo than
this year. The day falls on Saturday
and on account OF a legal holiday In
Iowa. many business houses will close
land our city would be filed with Wis
li.ors. Also, the ranks OF the old sol.
diers are getting very thin in grand
old Nauvoo. John Reimbold has part
!Iy promised to run q free passenger
ferry from Montrose and return on
THAT day, which will insure good
crowd from across the creek. 1t Will
mot take much money and little work
Ito get up a fine celebration In honor
LOT the hero dead.
Last Saturday a good crowd OF rural
brethren and citizens were attracted
ito Hudson's livery barn where pub
lie sale was in progress. All articles,
such as horses, harness, buggies and
business good in Nauvoo for while,
which shows what any attraction will
do to bring people out and boom
business among our merchants.
DR.. G. w. Fegers, one time ply
sician and surgeon of Nauvoo, was in
town day of last weeks end.
| Hack 20 all parts Of the city. may
/ be the cry of Ellis Daugherty, our
popular meat chopper. He bid $3.50
on hack at last Saturdays sale OF
livery goods and it was Knocked
down. to him. Ellis sonorious voice
and complete hack outfit would be
we'll patronized should he run his
outfit to all parts of Nauvoo, steam
boa. and ferry landing. but he would
not like the idea OF calls at all hours
OF the day or night.
! The gay after-Easter season that
everybody OF gossip mind talked
about during Lent, seems to have end
| ed in talk as far as individual affairs
are concerned, for with the exception
of Mr.. and Mrs. Melvin Beger's mar
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ance has occurred. The sweet girl
graduate" will not lake the center OF
the stage in our high school, but may
in st. Mary's academy next month.
| The gossips now have 1t that the half
dozen marriages tina. are promised in
Nauvoo will occur before the month
Of June, 1914, expires.
Jake Boyer was Warsaw visitor
last Wednesday afternoon.
The wife OF Thos. Sheridan who re-
turned some time ago from northern
sanitarium, has again become very Ill
and her relatives were compelled to
take her again to hospital for treat
ment. She was conveyed to an fnsti
tuition last Wednesday. 1t IS hoped
that the lady will soon gain her usual
good health.
And now a naughty physician pre-
diets that the modern style of woEl-
ems headgear will produce an cpl
demic Of female badness as the sim
liar style did in ancient Egypt. Nau-
VOC girls. beware.
Messrs. Oscar Klein and D. E. Lyons
of Burlington, have leased the Nat
VOC opera house and will book some
first class attractions. among them a
fine picture show. The gentlemen will
take charge about the frs. OF next
week and Mr.pLyons will be resident
manager 1t is hoped they will meet
with success
Nauvoo's Priscilla club will meet
next Thursday afternoon -
There were four young ladies who
assisted in the grape harvest last
fall that go. married and all OF them
were employees in Thomas and Cecil
Bakers vineyards. This popular