The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-05-21
The Nauvoo Gate City
Nauvoo, ILL.,, May Fl, 1914

the rellOW tuning tne Sioan dAu SoAAo
to the women folks trying on hats In
/ our millinery stores.
VIM. Pitt came up to Nauyoo last
| Friday from Keokuk with an odd look
i ing machine which created consider
able interest in the Nauvoo automo-
bile world. Will and q friend con,
etructed the car out Of an old Ford
machine and called it Dan Patch.
after the famous old race horse and
/ it could go some il you were fortunate
/ to see Willie flying up and down our
/ busin ass streets. Will and his friend
j should apply for patent on the car.
1t is shaped that it can cut the wind
! at both ends
Comm and goin' one day last week,
two rural boys traded horses twice.
! Both were pleased after the trading
was over with.
Hey there" yelled Nauvoo clti-
zen to us the other day, talk about
! news items-if you will go through
some Of the canning factory's pea
patches and look at the numerous gar
dens, vim eyards and orchards and
around some, you can find more than
you can write about in a week. So,
good-by till next time" That's tip
! ping OF some scoops.
| Miss Ida, small daughter OF MI.
and Mrs. Fred Walther, while swing
| ing, fell out and onto cement walk
last Sunday morning and alighted on
ths back OF her head, cutting quite
sever cash. The doctor closed the
| gap with one stitch and little Ida will
! soon be ready for the swing again.
Memorial services will be held In
| the NJ E. church next Sunday morn
ing at 1890. Special sermon and
,, splendid choir. Visitors are welcome.
Thursday is Ascension day and ser
vices in Nauvoo's Catholic church Will
be the same as on Sabbath day.
The Nauvoo Rustler is running
guess if you can matrimonial inclln-
| ed peoples initials in its columns.
Your reporter ran this guess-if-you-can
| idea in the Keokuk Daily Gate City
several years ago and which had all
/ Nauyoo with their thinking caps on.
Your reporter never lets anything
nsw slip by
Billy Siegrist jumped on Ollie Kach-
ley Of this city while the latter was
in Fl. Madison last Sunday evening
, and attempted to give him severe
heating on account OF an ina ginary
wrong. ssigrist was fined IS and
costs in the up-river town court Tues
day and Ollie has fled several other
charges against him which will be
/ tried later
Mrs. Hazel Hudson contemplates a
/ visit to Chicago and Detroit some time
1 n sxt week
Two of Nauvoo's citizens had set
/ to in the rear OF one of our saloons
last Tuesday afternoon and blood was
flowing quite freely when an omcer
of the law parted them.
A Nauvoo fellow who thinks women
should reform tn cir dress before they
ask for the ballot. leaves himself open
to a challenge from some Nauvoo
women that he appear next July ana
August in low-necked, short-sleeved
muslin waists in ord sr to prove tnas
he dare dress as sensibly for hot
weather as she does.
Our home ball team met the Way
land. Mo. nine in Nauyoo last Sunday
Afternoon and were defeated. the score
standing 6 to 2. Well show you Mis-
souri, BOYS we're too much for the
Mormonites, although the game was
,-ettv one with the exc option OF the
second inning. Next Sunday after
noon the fast bunch from Lomax. H.
vii, come to Nauvoo for game with
the home team and the fans will be
out In large numbers.
DR. Sailor. the horse doctor who In
tended to locate in Nauvoo perma-
neutly. has left the city anG may not
return.
John Repplinger. our auto repair
man will build one-story garage on
his home place. In size 1T will be 3bx
As and constructed OF cement.
In .matrimony handicap. three OF
Nauvoo's young men are running nose
and nose with another good third.
Persons who fancy that the automo-
biles are putting the horse on the
discard would better revise, or at
least. withhold their judgment. JUST
90 out and try to purchase good stock
and matched pairs and you VIII DE-
surprised at the price asked for them.
The horse is still in the running.
Our FRIEND Geo. Rut1edge Of keokuk
was Nauvoo business vfistor last
Saturday.
Mrs. JOS. Nelson and daughter
VILLA will go to Idaho IN SNORT
time for visit with her daugnt Fl
Lee who is living there.
Mrs. G.. Congor OF Berkeley. CALI.
is in Nauvoo for a visit, the guest OF
Mrs. Fred Gehring. She likes this
grand. beautiful old city for 1t Is her
third visit here.
Nrs James Farren was called to