The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-24
The Nauvoo Gate City
Nauvoo, Ill, Sept. "a, 1915

The Rushville Presbytery met IN
Nauvoo last Tuesday and Wednesday
and the visiting ministers enjoyed 9
delightful session in the old Mormon
city. There were about sixty minis.
tiers and delegates in attendance and
they represented nearly fifty churches
An auto ride was given the visitors
Wednesday afternoon to Ft. Madison
and all were shown the penitentiary
| up there. The trip to the Keokuk
water power dam was abandoned
"wednesday the ladies Of the Nauvoo
church served an excellent dinner and
Invited the public to partake OF ths
good feast. An evangelistic confer.
ence was held in the Appanoose
church about nine miles above Nauvoo
Wednesday afternoon, followed by .
supper and many OF the visitors at.
tended.
| Jos. Bossler of KeOkuk, spent a few
days in Nauroo with his children dur
| ing the week.
Mrs. Blanche Gilbraith is visiting
her sister, Mrs. r. Arbuckle. in Maui
A. r.. MccaIlister and brother of
Bently, NJ. were Nauvoo visitors last
Tuesday.
Chas. Miller Of Keokuk spent last
Tuesday in Nauvoo.
Rev. Father Flynn Of Champaign.
Ill, was guest of Father Tholen In
Nauvoo during the week.
o. B. Heitzman Of FIT. Madison, with
his family were Nauvoo visitors this
week, the guests of Mr.. G. j. Bakers
family.
Mrs. Jos. Fisher and children and
Miss Jennie Penton OF Quincy visited
among friends and relatives in Maui
VOC this week. The ladies were for
mer residents OF this city. 81
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. n. Lenihard visited
the Illinois state fair at Springfield
for ga days during the week.
Archie Weber and John Wolf are
in Minot, N D., to investigate their
farm interests there.
|. Miss Emma Hauptman OF Davenport
Iowa. is in Nauvoo for visit with
relatives and friends, the guest OF her
mother Mrs. Ed Argast. iSr
4 Mrs. Geo. Wilhitet and brother Carl
Stratton, of Kansas City, are visiting
their mother and family in Nauvoo.
The Sonora township commissioners
have at last come to satisfactory
settlement with the Keokuk water
power people and have accepted their
portion of the boulevard between
Nauvoo and Hamilton. The dam peo-
pie paid the commissioners $500
above all other items that were IN
controversy and now are compelled to
keep the road IN repair.
We now have autumn according to
the calendar and winter will soon be-
gin flirting with it.
Nauyoo will have "short course"
In agriculture this winter. Mayor Geo.
Hart circulated subscription paper
and succeeded in raising funds to de-
fray expenses for that purpose.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. C. Clark are the
parents OF new daughter which ar
rived last Tuesday night. Mrs. Clark
has been making her home with her
parents Mr.. and Mrs. c. Steinmetz In
<Nauvoo for some time and the little
angel was born there.
The lowest fine now IN Nauvoo for
plain drunk, fight or misdemeanor
IS So and costs. Heretofore 1t was
IS and this song was sung in the JUS
tice courts for many years. Probably
this will make Nauvoo much better
town in the future.
The real estate OF Geo. v. Baum
garten, deceased, VIII be sold at pub
lie auction on November 6. This Maui
VOC property consists Of stone resi-
dence and about four acres of land
situated in the first ward, on the way
to the old steamboat landing.
Some few Of Nauvoo's citizens are
going to Carthage next Wednesday to
attend the Old Settlers reunion.
George Hart OF Nauvoo has been
appointed as one of the delegates to
attend state conference Of charities
and state county home superinten-
dents and matrons to be held in Dam
vile, H.. next October Mr.. Hart OF
Nauvoo is supervisor and his expenses
WIN be paid by the county. MFR. and
Mrs. s. D. Weiser Of the county home
are the two other delegates appointed.
Our people are not the great corn
bread eaters as Of yore. Corn cakes
are still in vogue, but the honest and
homely corn pone, corn dodgers and
hoe cake seldom occupy the dining
room table at meal time now and
are not as popular as at one time.
Lou School of Nauvoo Is the next
grand Juror to serve this city at the