The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-04-14
The Nauvoo Gate City
Nauvoo, ILL.,, April II, 1915

i Several mixers clubs will be formed
IN Nauyoo this season. The principal
/ route will be along Lake Cooper down
the boulevard. No doubt all will COM
plete the jaunt in good shape.
/ The Nauvoo high school will not
close until June Z and there will be
Ave graduates. two girls and three
boys.
The Nauvoo township. election
which occurred on Tuesday of last
week, was one of the tamest affairs
ever pulled OF in Nauvoo. There
were Just thirty.four votes cast and
the expense OF holding the election
was over $35.
Two important events occurred
right after Easter which pleased the
majority of Nauvooites, because they
terminated according to their liking.
! They were the Warsaw wet" and
dry" election and the Johnson-Wil-
lard prize fight.
| The w. r. G. met at the home Of
one OF its members one afternoon Of
last week and an interesting and So
cial time enjoyed by the ladies. Dur
ing the meeting Mrs. Samuel Brown
! was admitted to membership These
/ Nauvoo ladies meet from house to
house Of It's members and find It
more agreeable and sociable than a
i permanent abiding place.
Sixteen years ago this spring Peter
Wolf. Nauvoo boy, was elected mar
shall OF the city of Keokuk., He was
conducting blacksmith shop at the
time in the dam city, but sold it after
he was selected chief OF the police
| there. He made fine official.
Nauvoo had some large mails Just
before Easter. The pupils at ST.
Mary's academy and Spalding institute
We're largely responsible for it.
Eighteen years ago this month Nau-
VOC citizens voted on the electric
light measure and like many other
city improvements 1t received knock
out blow. But we got the light plant
later on through DR.. J. A. Bortz.
Messrs. -Thos and Cecil Baxter own
fine orchards that could be used for
demonstration purposes to the best
OF advantages. In their large peach.
pear and apple orchards they use up
to-date methods in cultivation, prun-
ing and spraying and nearly always
get crop of fine fruit
Carl Pfaffe, the Keokuk cigar man.
was Nauvoo business visitor last
Saturday.
Miss Agnes Mary Martin died
Thursday evening OF last week at
Nauvoo ST. Mary's academy. The
lady had been ill several years. She
was Is years old at the time Of her
death. The funeral occurred last Sat
urday from the academy and was pri-
vate. The remains were inferred in
the Nauvoo Catholic cemetery.
Mrs. E. j. Danley, former Nauvoo
LODI 1Sol Tod
day of last week in the 9th year OF
her age. The remains were brought
to Nauvoo last Friday and the funeral
held from the Methodist church. The
body was laid to rest in our city Gem
etery beside her husband who died in
Nauvoo II 1901.
A Nauvoo farmer in small way
thinks that times this year are not
going to be SO hard around here and
that people are going to pull through
fine. He says his wife has started q
first class chicken business and seems
to be prosporing we'll. 1t is coming
first class spring time here now, and
fish will be biting good in Lake Coop
er soon, and IL you get chance to
visit him a day later on, maybe he
can persuade the old lady to kill a
couple Of her pullets.
Archie Weber of the Nauvoo imple-
ment and automobile house, fractured
a small bone in his right wrist on
Thursday OF last week while attempt
ing to crank his auto The little
daughter Of Mrs. Geo. Schmidt fell
and fractured small bone in her
right arm on the same day at the
home of her grandpa, Mr. John
Schmidt, Sr.
Sitting 1t all out, there isn't any
better sign OF spring than when the
women folks begin to poke around for
bargains in the white goods depart
ments OF the Nauvoo stores.
1t would be nice to see half score
or more new residences and business
buildings erected in Nauyoo during
the present year, but that viii never
come unless Nauvoo gets an inter.
urban and several factories. II we
get the trolley line we will surely get
the factories.
On April 20 and 30 Nauvoo's Re-
bekah lodge members will entertain
delegates to the seventeenth annual
meeting Of the twelfth district assem-
bly, OF Illinois. The meeting will be
called to order at o'clock IN the aft
ernoon CT the first day by the district
president, Mrs. Emma Walther of
Nauvoo. Miss Minnie Kruger Of the
home lodge will deliver the address
OF welcome. The Nauvoo ladies' will
show the delegates an interesting and
enjoyable time on their visit to the
most beautiful town on earth.
Nauvoo's Civic league has set aside !
Saturday, April "a. for cleanup day
in Nauvoo. The mayor Of this town |!
has published call for our citizens