The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-07-30
The Nauvoo Gate City
Nauvoo. ILL.,. July 80, 1915

section. 1t was very thoughtful on
the part of the ladies to have it in
stalled.
Every session has been largely pat
ronized and the management is de-
lighted with the attendance. The
Civic league will no doubt come out
several hundred dollars to the good,
even though they experienced two
days of rainy weather. The balance of
the week ought to be sunshine. al
though the rains didn't interfere with
the attendance.
Nauvoo barber shop proprietors
who formerly kept their business go.
ing to any old hour on Saturday
nights now close at II p. m. sharp.
They keep open Sunday mornings
until IL o'clock and should abolish
this system too.
The little packet that is in and out
every day at the Nauvoo landing.
finds this town the most profitable
of any on the steamboat line. An In
terurban would kill the river trade
in Nauvoo. In the summer time. Maui
VOC don't feel the need Of railroad.
but when the chilling blasts of win.
ter come, then our people wish we
! had one.
Bluff park. across Lake Cooper
from Nauvoo has pretty cottages sur
rounded by shade, trees and has
plenty of mosquitoes and chiggers. A
Nauvoo belle told this column So and
she ought to know for she and a
bevy of friends have been camping
there for a week, but it is an ideal
oyo md, MOI .fjo
| No matter how the other markets
fluctuate, good. old = common. every
| day politeness is still quoted at the
same figures and some Nauvoo peo-
+, pie have Forgotten that fact. but
thank the Lord we have only few
OF them in this grand old town.
It will not be long now until the
water melon@ and canteloupe will ar
rive in Nauvoo from Sand Prairie,
above Montfose and when the first ar
rive, you watch bunch OF boys or
men, too, Cor that matter. and you
/ will hear them talking something
! like this: I'm bet two bits It's going
| to be punk" says one. TITS like buy
ing a pig In a poke, you know says
| No. 2. Obi don't know. / think It's
| lots Of fun figuring on just how its
going to finally turn out" says No. 3.
| That's what think. Believe me, I'm
| for anything where the element OF
chance is apparent" says No. a.
"Well, what are you fellows kicking
about? Before you start you knew 1t
was nothing but IAN educated gourd,
ANYWAY" says no. 5. The apparent
discussion then ceases when No. d
proceeds to cut open the watermelon.
The parcel post is not satisfied
merely to stand alphabetically on
the threshold CT the express business.
| It has decided to enter boldly and
will eventually occupy the whole
house.
A large streamer is stretched
across Thirteenth and Mulholland
streets with the word "Chautauqua"
painted on it and directing visitors to
the grounds where the big tent 1t
pitched. A white way is also placed
! on the electric poles to the grounds,
making the way as bright as day. AL
SO a telephone has been placed on
the grounds for the use Of visitors.
In fact everything is done to make 1t
comfortable and convenient for ev-
erybody who attends the chautauqna.
! Misses Marguerite and Helen
Tweston of Hamilton are spending
the week in Nauvoo with relatives.
| Mrs. Sebelia Rayburn Of Hamilton,
spent last Tuesday with Virgil
Nicaise's family.
The Nauvoo Civic league which Is
instrumental in giving this town its
| first chautauqua. will score a big
success and will have the honor of
making it a paying venture from the
start. It nearly always has been the
experience of chautauq,Ia MANAGERS
to lose money, but the Nauvoo ladies
| will fare otherwise and may be sew
! eral hundred dollars to the good.
: Here We are at the first end OF
August and it will not be long until
we are shivering with the cold.
The corn crop is booming and so
are the weeds.
Thirty-five years ago next August
the tenth, the first REGULAR night
train left Keokuk for. St. Louis on
the x line. The conductor of the
train was Jack Evans so well and
PECULIARLY known in Keokuk and Nau-
VOC.
The reporter of this column is
sometimes misinformed as to the
character of news items. but when 1t
! 10 proyen that this column is wrong,
we hastily and cheerfully correct
There is no Improvement in the