The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-10-22
The Nauvoo Gate City
Nauvoo, I'LL, Oct ~, 1915

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EszE.oa On NoF- . and q Pro1
Eze s1ezkars viii be present and
$3.50 II prizes Eiu De awarded On
gyFsss ao5 fruits z J. Barter Of MAJ
voo Is interested n TIE meeting
Tires lots n EsIiltol belonging 70
tss JOHN Pitt estate we're sold last
ssr--5zy ard the susm SUE OF SIS
Eas r=cesvsc fo- them The deceased
who EEsd II NaaToo paid 1000 for
thea : few years before his death
Had The lots been In NsuEoo they
~orEs have brought 81 $50 at least
Mrs Albert Berg OF Nsuvoo has
k-sa visiting relatives IN Chicago
Fred wolf Of Omaha Neo., Is Ttstt-
ing his parents In Nsuvoo-
Miss Bertha ScheH of Keokuk was
z SaGToo visitor, the guest Of Miss
Ida Beeche-
Cnzs Haas returned last Saturday
from an extended visit IN Wyoming
and Nebraska where he has farm In
tarest=
Miss Bertha Gates Of Burlington
has been visiting S.uvoo friends dur
ing the week
Mrs. Louise Bruegzer and Miss Lena
Berger departed Tuesday for Excel
stor Springs No. for an extended stay
for the baaaat of their health
Phil Kyburtz and Al Schmtsz pur-
chased about sixty head o. cattle for
feeders They got them in Iowa and
brought them over On our ferry
Thos. BALI of Chicago Il visiting his
sister IN Nauvoo
Dr. G. Walter Barr and mother. for
merry OF Keokuk but now OF Des
Aoines. Iowa, were Sauyoo visitors
last Tuesday They autoed to this
beautiful and historical little city.
Mrs. Val Laubersheimer Of Keokuk
vas visiting relatives and friends In
Nauvoo during the week
John Strorl, aged 20. and for many
years until last Tuesday SauToo
resident, departed for Weurtenherg,
Germany, to spend his remaining
years on this earth
TIE Nauyoc powers that be. have
had considerable crushed rock hauled
and filed the numerous chuck holes on
our business street this week
The steamer Black Hawk announces
her last Sunday trip of the season to
Keokuk next Sunday and IL the wealth
CT is fine many SauEoo people intend
going down to the dam city After this
week the tri-veekiy schedule VIII
probably 20 into effect and the little
packet will remain with US until No
Teulrer Is IL weather conditions VIII
permit
The Nauvoo baseball boys social
dance occurs next Monday evening in
the opera house
And now noted physician an
n0unces that the onion Is good
for small pox. We have always main
tanned that the traducers OF the snion
would some day have to admit 1t was
good for something
According TO statistics the people
of the United States spent more
money for automobiles the past two
years than they did on battlsships
They are likely to continue 30. Some
remarkable Improvements will hare
TO be made in battIeships before they
can compete with automobiles.
Nauyoo seems to be growing more
and more in interest for motorists and
touring parties are growing larger
every day. This week was a banner
one for auto parties IN Nauyoo. Last
Wednesday gentleman and two
ladies in a Ford car who were from
Denver. Colo, were IN Nauvoo and
dined here at noon. They came from
the above city to Keokuk and this
town from where they left for Chi
cago. and then go to Florida and back
to Colorado. This is some trip for
the much talked Of little Ford auto
mobile.
Nauvoo observer says there Is al
ways some fellow falling heir to an
automobile that hasn't got social
standing enough TO know how to be-
have after he gets It.
From one of Sauvoo's young ladies'
we get this bunch: There viii be we'd
ding bells in our midst quite soon, for
the briGe-to-be Is wearing a diamond
ring.
Mrs. H. C. Hodge Of Keokuk visited
with Mrs. W. NJ. Haggett In Nauvoo
Wednesday.
In Rokomo. Indiana, the business
men are making plans to celebrate the
birth Of the automobile On July 8,
1894. EIwood Haynes and Elmer APP
person placed In operation the first
automobile propelled by gasoline. John
Repplinger, Sauvoo's garage man,
some time after that worked faithful
~ On a machine propelled By gasoline
and got II completed so far that when
he gave # try-out # ran about two
blocks and baked. John knows con-
siderable more about autos now and
can repair any machine that is on the
market now.
The persimmons that are really
good will soon be ready for use in
this vicinity. They will in short time
be Just at the right stage OF rfpeness
to be delicious.
The man that's for better and big
ger Nauvoo IL the man we want to
move here and stay here. That's the
only kind wanted to move to Nauvoo.
Geo. n. Hart wanted TO be postmas-
ter Of Nauvoo and he ought to have It
and now IL IL pretty certain he Will
get II, even though some politicians
here tried to wrest It from him after
they learned ne had been endorsed by
the congressman OF this district. There
are TO more courteous and sensible
men in Sauvoo than Mayor Hart and
besides he is emfnentiy qualified for