The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-30
The Nauvoo Gate City
Nauvoo, Ill. Sept. 80, 1915

house and the proceeds will be used
to purchase books which the library
badly needs.
Rev. Latham Of Nauvoo, received
word Tuesday of the death OF his
daughter-in-law at her home In Gin
cinnati, Ohio. No particulars.
Rev. W. L. HURT OF Adair, Ill, Is
the new minister of the Nauvoo M. p.
church.
Rev. and Mrs. M. A. Berger left on
"Wednesday OF this week for their
new home in Maquon, Ill, where he
has been assigned to new charge In
the M. E. church.
Nauvoo city dads will meet in regu-
lar session next Monday evening.
Winter Is not far off and how short
the days are growing.
Upon the divorce Of parents. one OF
the hardest duties of court Is to
award the custody Of children. The
judges are asked to- exercise their
Jurisdiction as court OF chancery
in the adjudication Of an exceedingly
difficult, embarrassing and important
question. one that affects the most
sacred feelings and reaches the pro-
foundest depths Of the human heart
which Of the two parents shall be
awarded the custody Of their child or
children. It Is an unwelcome task,
fraught with heavy responsibility. In
its performance, however careful and
sympathetic they may be, they must
walk with heavy tread into the very
sanctum sanctorum Of parental affec-
ton, and. laying hands upon the jewel
there enshrined, make such DISPOSE
ton Of It as, in their finite wisdom,
It's best interest may seem to require.
It 10 . painful duty from which every
well-regulated mind must shrink,
since its performance has to do, not
only with the tender relations Of par
ent and child, but involves tho future
course Of a human life. and perhaps
may have an influence upon the des-
tiny OF an immortal soul. One thought,
however, affords some slight comfort
way responsible for the causes which
have unhappily brought about the
situation with which they were con-
fronted. They are called upon to act,
the heavy obligation Is laid upon
them and they have no choice but to
meet 1t. Let those whose hearts are
wrung, remember this when, in their
pain and tears, they realize the eff
feet Of this decree.
william Stahl of Quincy, Ill, was
in Nauvoo for few days this week.
This Is his first visit to the Mormon
city in a good many years. He was
the first man to ship grapes out OF
Nauvoo to northern markets and the
first person to begin the strawberry
culture here and got our citizens in
terested IN fruit raising on large
scale for shipping purposes. After
Mr.. Stahl got everything well started
and going at a lively rate, many peo-
pie "sat down on him. as they gener-
ally do on almost every good thing
that comes along and want to do Il
themselves, and Mr.. Stahl concluded
to move, which he did.
An outfit composed of men and
women folks and q number of chill
dren, with FIVE rigs, passed through
Nauvoo Tuesday They tarried here
a while and many thought they were
gypsies. having an outfit that looked
like that used by the Nomads. A
Nauvoo man and some of these tray-
cling horse "swappers" had about
made a horse trade and while In the
act Of showing horse hitched to the
above named mans buggy. with him
and the trader in tie rig, the animal
got home-sick or mad spell Of the
runaway spirit, and started off at a
mile a minute gait down our business
street. The Nauvoo man jumped out.
the horse trader was thrown out and
the animal turned around and ran up
the same street, fell down, got up,
ran ND a street to the north, switched
into a yard-way between this columns
home and the First National bank
building where it got hooked up on
account of the open buggy getting
caught fast The runaway created as
much excitement as circus. There
was but little damage done to the
horse, buggy or occupants.
Mrs. John H, Wolff OF keokuk is