The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-24


circuit court in Carthage next month
The petit jurors names drawn from
Nauvoo fare: Ed. Dachroth, Henry
| Harsch, Fred Schoell, Frank Baugh.
man, Conrad Argast, Sidney Fowler,
Jas Ogden and Chas. SteIzner. Three
| Of the above may only be used.
The grape Juice is about all squeez'
/, ed out now in Nauvoo and the bev.
erage will be ripe for use about the
first OF the year. A number OF years
back, the juice had to lay in state In
the arch cellars for year or two
before 1t was At to be placed on the
market.
There IL something In Nauvoo where
q fellow can always ind something
with which to appease the roar for
news Nauvoo had at one time .
|pugilist who was coming to the front
as scientific boxer. Then there Is
the Mormons to fall back on. Aside
from Nauvoo's fame as ono Of the
most beautiful towns in the Missis-
sippf valley or On the map and the
abiding place of whole lotsy OF good
looking, hospitable@a' 7ple, II is noted
principally as having been the home
of Prophet Jos. Smith and his follow
ers. And Nauvoo came very near get
ing.a railroad at one time. The ties
and rails were laid IN this town and
II excavators would get to work be-
low town they may unsarth few ties
yet. There is no dispute shout Nau-
WOO being the hottest pancake on the
griddle Of the union, sweetened by the
honey OF happiness flowing frim the
bunghole Of prosperity.
Nauvoo Catholic ladies win book q
play In our opera house some time
In the near future. Rehearsing is on
now and the home talent selected bids
fair to Guido the professional ones.
This makes three home talent plays
which will occupy the boards Of the
opera house before Christmas time.
A Nauvoo youngster has reformed
He has given up cigarette smoking
and taken to cigars and a pipe. He
was seen in our business district the
other day putting a pipe nearly as
large as his face.
When.Nauvoo's library ohicials give
their musical entertainment, next
month, Mrs. Ed. Colt OF Fl. Madison
will give flute solo as one OF the
musical numbers. Mrs Colt was for
merly Miss Baxter, daughter OF Mr..
and Mrs. G. J. Baxter OF Nauvoo, and
pay Gu q AulC SOlO dL q UuSlC4l0 CIV
en- by, the Nauvoo band some seven
teen or eighteen years ago when she
was quite young girl. The lady Is
splendid musician and the flute is
herf favorite musical instrument.
Fred Walter and G. r. Montgomery
attended the West Point. Iowa, fair
last Thursday.
Indian summer season will soon be
A,Vn nj nj 70 10 nc
of II and next month we Will have
harvest MOON
A few weeks Of fine weather will
add thousands OF bushels to the corn
crop In Nauvoo's vicinity.
NauvoOs city council meets In reg.
ular session one week from next Mon
day night.
c. J. Lugner, our shoe hospital man,
has Installed . sole stitching machine.
Walter Bros, Jake and Fred. are
having built a new ice house on
their Fiat" property and 1t will be
3Ox6O feet in size. It looks now like
they intend opening their meat mar.
ket again.
It is doubtful II there Is . CITY the
size Of Nauvoo anywhere in this coun-
try that has az much real wealth In 1t
as has Nauvoo. The bank deposits
and mortgages would indicate this to
be the case. Nauvoo people must
learn that money earns little and adds
nothing to the growth Of prosperity Of
a town when It is stored away IN q
vault or in mortgages or some other
old thing.
Chicken thieves are getting busy
in Nauvoo now. Last Tuesday night
some Of these night providers visited
the hen coop OF Ed Graf and finding
It locked, pried of the end of some
boards and attempted to confiscate
the property, but the fowls made
noise to attract the inmates of the
household and frightened the intrud-
ers away. The gun is turned loose
and the dog loaded now by every own
er OF chickens in Nauvoo, and It will
go hard with any culprit detected Ia
trying to appropriate fowls from 9TH
err peoples hen houses.
The green leaves are beginning to
turn very rapidly in and around
Nauvoo.
There will be no game Of base.
ball in Nauvoo next Sunday, the sea-
SON having advanced SO far that the
fans have refused to attend. 1t is
doubtful II another game win be play
ed in Nauvoo this season. The ball
boys, like Keokuk's club, every sea
SON come out in debt.
There Is no epidemic of matr1mony
in Nauvoo at present, but may break
out between now and Christmas time.
The damnable noise made by the
open muller in automobiles ought t.
be stopped. Warsaw's city council
has just passed an automobile ordin-
ance and among other things relating
to autos, has an ordinance stopping
this unnecessary noise. Nauvoo's city