The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-04-09
The Nauvoo Gate CITY
Nauvoo, ILL.,, April 8, 1915

Inc baseball season has arrived and
II Is not known whether Nauvoo will
nave club this year or not. There
VIII be lots of quiet Sunday after.
moons mere unless we do
NauVoos evening mails now leave
our postofiice at s: 80 instead of 4:3O
! as mas been the custom during the
winter, on account of crossing Lake
Cooper for Montrose.
Lent being over, matrimony is re-
Stunning its sway.
| A Proclamation calling for the OBJ
serVance OF the semi-centenntaI Of
the death of Abraham Lincoln on
April Ia, has been issued by Governor
Dunne.- The governor directs that
1ags be placed at half mast on all
| public buildings and urges that the
! day be fittingly observed in the
schools.
Next Friday evening at the Nauvoo
/, opera house, the play, Tony, the Con-
..vlet,' Will be presented by all home
talent, under the auspices of the Nau-
/ VOC Rebekah lodge. The play will also
! De staged in Ferris and Hamilton In
Tic next lew weeks.
4'he Nauvoo Gate City Is looked for
every day but appears only once a
week and then 1T gives all the Nau-
VOC news The interest is intense. We
thank our friends for the deep inter
est they take in the peoples popular
paper. The keokuk Daily Gate City.
Advertisers in Keokuk, take notice.
Alderman Geo. Dachroth of Nauvoo,
has purchased beautiful seven pas
senger Cadillac touring car from the
A. l.. McAllister Nauvoo agency.
The Ladies Nauvoo Civic league
met with Mrs. JOS. Carroll Tuesday
AFTERNOON and a fine time was had in
observing the first anniversary Of the
order
Nauvoo's city council members met
In regular session last Monday evening
and among the important" business
transacted was to reduce the salaries
of the city attorney and city marshal.
Our farmers are rapidly finishing
sowing oats. Oats are all up-in the
bins, and soon will be up in the fields.
The saloons were all closed in Nau.
VOC and there were many parched
threats on our streets, Judging from
the way the fellows tried the front
doors Of the wet goods houses. The
saloons will be closed again Tuesday
Arril 90, when the city election &C.
ours.
Some people are glad that spring is
here because of maple sugar days.
With the first breath of spring the sap
begins to run in the sugar tree. AS
an old citizen related recently, the
sugar house on the hillside is opened,
Ia fire started beneath the evaporation;
and the white smoke curls up lazily
from the ramshackle chimney. The
sugar bush resounds with the shouts
of joyous youngsters. Heigh-ho for
the days of real sport! One OF the
women pours a bit of syrup on the
snow ito see if it's ready to sugar
on" All the folks have sticky fingers
and smacking lips. The sap flows
sweet. Springs coming! The maple
sugar season is not much observed
around Nauvoo any more.
Lester Cambre, manager of the Tab.
er Lumber yards in Nauvoo, and Miss
Beatrice Lindsey, of the east country,
will be united in marriage one day
this week. The happy couple Will
make Nauvoo their home and occupy
the Grandjean residence, on Young
street.
1t didn't rain last Sunday in Nauvoo
and according to the old tradition,
we will have fine weather on Sundays.
Had it rained on Easter Sunday, sev-
en- wet Sundays would follow. But
mad 1t rained somewhere else; what
then?
DR.. ]. A. Bortz was in Carthage last
Monday, where he attended meet
ing of the County Medical society.
The Sonora township boys gave a
delightful dance in the Nauvoo opera
house last Monday evening and over
ninety couple responded to the call.
Turner's orchestra of Hamilton. play
ed and the Nauvoo Model restaurant
furnished refreshments.
Miss Emma Paul is doing once
work in the Taber Lumber COM
pany's Nauvoo yard building.
Nauvoo's library board has al
nounced Robt. O. Bowman In charac-
ter portrayals In the Nauvoo opera
house, Monday evening, April II. The
admission price is only % cents, ana
our people should respond literally
by attending, for the library needs
money for its maintenance. Don't let
us kill this popular institution, but do
all we can to boost it so that the cry
ing need will not always be money.
1t will be some time until We VIII
have home grown garden sas.' Un-
I'll then we will be satisfied with tae
dandelion, and it's much healthie",
too.
Sixteen years ago this month work
vas being pushed on the Nauvoo gas
plant It was finished that season
and gave fine lights. But where is 1t
now?
Last Saturday was busy DAY VIII
Nauvoo merchants, many FARMERS
coming to town. Hitching RACKS were
in demand, every available one pelns