The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-12-14

would De as pretty anu atIdcl'S -
the finest stocked millinery store.
/ Rabbits are getting little more
plentiful in Nauvoo's market since the
slight snowfall. The cottontails are
not SO very numerous on farms ad-
jacent to Nauvoo.
| You can take fifty faces OF Nauvoo
young men, look at them good and tell
which OF them likes to go to church
and which of them says rotation pool
liz q great game.
Nearly all OF the sick In Nauvoo are
on the road to recovery and there ara
but few OF a serious nature.
+! Somebody is predicting that eggs
win be fifty cents Per dozen after
christmas. Merry, merry Christmas.
Nauyoo, with population OF about
900 souls, is without an under
taker OF photo gallery. It had both
once The latter ought to be made
paying venture, but we can vouch for
the former.
John KoebIer. Nauvoo's saw mill
artist, is now engaged In converting
timber into lumber. He has disposed
of a large lot of sawdust to Ice pre-
servers around here
! Those Nauvoo marriages that were
ito have taken place before the holi-
days seem to have been postponed to
an indefinite date. At least none OF
them have occurred In this town that
we have heard OF.
That prohib law over in Iowa IS
making many fellows shop early and
often. After January l they VIII come
to Nauyoo to shop.
Miss Edith McGregor, chief OF the
Nauvoo telephone exchange. was In
Chicago last week attending the ma
ttonal telephone convention which
met there.
The one thing Nauvoo needs worse
than anything else is city hall. This
town has paid enough rent for a meet
ing place for city officials, to erect
one OF the handsomest buildings In
Nauvoo.
John D. win spend about $50 900
!. this Christmas. 1t is going to cost us
more for oil than we figured on.
The Nauvoo N. E. church ladies
: grocery store last Saturday which
was literally patronized.
II the male sex follow the custom
of changeable fashion as colsely as
the women, it will not be long de-
{ cIares fellow. when men VIII wear
J knickerbockers and long hair. He may
say it without Boosting that the
l average man will tell you he Is not
afraid Of kntckerbockers.
, The basketball game In the Nauvoo
, opera house last Friday night was at
tended by very small crowd The
game played by the Nauvoo and Co
; lusa, Ill teams was won by our neigh
! bors and the score was 10 to "a. The
> receipts OF the game was short over
81 for paying expenses.
Now that the saloons are voted out
of Keokuk at this time, 1t cannot pc
said that she will lose all her business
I get-up and general wide-awakeness
: and will have to reinstate the saloons
I in the end to keep herself industria1ly
! on the map. 1t is hoped the first re-
! port coming from Keokuk at the end
a OF 1915, that the town has so much
3 prosperity that it is virtually impos-
Q sible for the "wets" OF the state to
D obtain 4 resubmission Of allowing sa-
| looms to operate. This Is citing keo-
kuk as a case in point.
This is where our turkeys go. Ac-
:. cording to report, turkeys are rolling
l into large city markets. Foultryme1
= are busy gathering up the Christmas
= stock to be shipped to the large mar
kats.
:, These December days are not going
= to last always, but they are prizes to
0 be thankful for while they do last.
> Business is picking up sharply In
g Nauyoo this week, a condition long
y waited for and most thankfully re
J. ceivad when It came. 1t looks like
e there win be big rush in all lines OF
d business from now until Christmas.
n A man from Keokuk who drives an
It auto tea, coffee and spice truck, was
D. here last Friday and ran his car into
r the south Tenth street ditch. His car
}, fell to one side but was only slightly
y damaged.
o Uncle James clifford who lives up At
y Mormon Springs, few miles north OF
Nauvoo, Is an occasional visitor here
It and was a former resident and en-
W gineer on the ferryboat years gone
n Uncle James is one Of the oldest resi-
@ dents Of this county and one Of the
\ most pleasant. When he comes to see
n US Nauvoo people. he wears a smile
# like he had just got his first chance