The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-06-30
The Nauvoo Gate City
Nauvoo, ILL.,, June 80, 1915

NaOvOO, Ale,
Naurco's Priscilla club may sus
1 pend its meetings on account OF sum
mer heat coming on.
| The city powers have had many
weeds cut about Nauvoo. This Is good
| work and all hope it will continue.
Summer onions are fine tonic TOT
the ladies' complexion, but they are
too strong for sentiment.
You hardly ever hear Of anybody
speak of Nauvoo's public well. And
when were those city cisterns last
inspected?
1t will not be long now until cante.
loups and watermelons will be IN
Nauvoo's market
Mr. Ralph Emerson's floating
theatre was at Nauvoo's landing Just
below the city limits last Sunday
evening and the company gave one OF
the best shows ever seen here. THE
Price She Paid" was the play present.
ed and was acted admirably through.
ont with an all star cast. The special
ties consisted of 9 Ave in num-
Der and all were compelled to respond
to an encore. On account of the
rainy evening the attendance was
small, but Mr. Emerson will stop at
Nauvoo on his down river trip and
then his fine opera barge, 1.-THE Golden
Rod" will be crowded with Nauvoo
and vicinity people.
Last Sunday evening a company OF
lady and gentlemen friends of Mr..
Ralph Emerson came .p from their
Keokuk homes, and were his guests at
", ~
came up in an auto.
Nauyoo st. Rose society will serve
dinner in the Moose hall on July 5.
A Nauvoo young man says and
he ought to know, that ice cream
melts more feminine hearts than hot
words do.
Don't forget this is fly swatting sea-
son. They can't be swatted too hard
or too often.
Ia The annual picnic Of the Powelton
NJ. w. A., and Royal Neighbors will
occur on August in the grove at
that place.
On July 4, 1876, a little company of
men, representing thirteen colonies
whose sparse population was sprinkled
along 1000 miles Of seacoast on the
edge of savage-infested wilderness
with firm reliance on the mercies
of divine Providence" pledged to
each other their lives, their fortunes
and their sacred honor in support Of
certain principles Of government to be
embodied in new nation animated
by neg freedom.
One hundred and thirty-nine lag
ging years have passed since that day.
Thirteen colonies have grown to forty
eight states. Two and one-half mil
lions of people have increased to nine
ty FIVE millions. An uncertain zone of
land on the Atlantic seaboard is swal-
lowed up in domain that spans the
continent. Poverty-strick.en colonies
have become the richest nation Of the
world The significance Of that day
| in 1776 was. after all, not in the wide
ness of fertility of the land those men
| possessed, nor in the number of theil
! guns, nor the depth of their wal
chests. 1t was in the principles &c
/ which they pledged themselves, and
| things Of the soul, which are the true
riches Of nation. how would 1915
| look to the searching gaze OF 1776.
/ Mr.. Whitaker, owner OF the Blum
Park summer resort. has begun his
I ScIlcS vi buhAACT OnhSOS az thAS bCo u
tiful resort on the banks of Lake
| Cooper. Just below Montrose, and viii
! conduct them every Friday evening
and Agnes celebrated Keokuk orches
ira Wis. play. Many Nauvoo young
people viii r2ttend.
! The Nauvoo Sad Riverside team Of
Hamilton played az interesting game
/ OF baseball on our horse grounds las,
! Sunday afternoon and the score at the
end of the ninth inning was II to IL
in favor OF Nauvoo Both sides were
greatly fatigued from running bases
and were glad when the game closed
Next Sunday afternoon the Garland
| baseball team will come to Nauvoc
for a drubbing. This fast bunch hal
from Burlington and an interesting
game is looked for. On the follow
ing day. Monday. July 5, that only
once defeated Hamilton team will
come to Nauvoo and play our home
team in the afternoon. II they don't
drink too much Of the celebrated" fire
water on sale here, they may stand 8
ghost of show to keep the Nauvoc
teams score down.
| Arch Weber, manager of the Nau
VOC implement house, has sold about
a dozen binders this season.
! Some of our farmers are looking fol-
harvest hands and promise from two
| to three weeks work.
George Burk of Keokuk. soda water
fame. was in Nauvoo last Tuesday
taking orders from our dealers so that
no one will have an excuse for going
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