The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-11-17

The early Christmas shopper has
the same good luck as the early bird.
and deserves it
7. is no use looking for Indian sum-
ne- any more this season and from
row on you will do well to carry an
umbrella in one hand and fur coat
in the other.
After January list 1t Is believed
bootleggers will be so thick In Iowa
that they will have to wear badges
to keep from selling their wears to
one another. II the officers over In
our sister state learn the distinguish
ing mark pinned upon them. there
will be fine time to nab every one
OF them.
The Nauvoo State bank officials
with their usual commendable enter
prise. have announced corn contest
and are offering liberal prizes for the
best corn Of ears presented. Cashiers
A. ]. Schneider and Elmer Fisher are
barred from being judges because they
don't know the difference between a
good buckwheat or corn cake.
Something seems to have gone
wrong with that iitney bus line to
have been installed soon from FIT
Madison to Nauyoo. Nothing has been
heard from it for some time.
II the men who save the nation in
the old accustomed way. pi1ing up
without vacation heaps of language
day by day, would forsake the verbal
byways, dump their elocution wares
and old stunts upon the highways, we'd
have splendid thoroughferes. All their
platforms are decisions. all their
pledges are hot air Good roads con-
Meeting farms and towns beats hun
dred years of wind. Good roads to
Nauvoo from every direction would
an tnterurban line Catch the windy
Jims and send 'em out to drag the
roads.
Corn shuckers have been getting in
some fine ticks in the last two or
three weeks. Farmers in Nauvoo's
vicinity are paying 31s cents per
bushel to shuckers to gather the big
crop.
For many years the Thanksgiving
dinner has been standardized. It con-
sists of just about the same things
year after year and the higher critics
OF things gustatory have never been
able to change it with all their argu-
ments that turkey and cranberries do
not go together. They were features
in the autumn feasts of our earliest
American forefathers and win not be
replaced in our annual Thanksgiving
feast so long as they are to be had
and the money is available to buy
them The fact that THANKSGIVING
dinners are about the same from year
to year makes it possible to compare
their cost over period OF years and
to get notion of how fast the cost
is outgrowing the buying power Of
modest purses.
The Nauvoo high school basketball
team went to Colusa, III, last Friday
evening and encountered the team at
that burg and defeated the Mormon
school children by q score of SO to 10.
Several Nauvoo men are like cir
Gus organization, heavy on the parade.
but when it comes to the big show OF
life they only produce about one-half
they advertise.
Mrs. W. NJ Ha8gett, the beloved
wife OF Nauvoo's popular physician, is
very Ill with typhoid fever. but we
are happy to state that she is i'm
proving rapidly under the care OF a
competent nurse and tho doctors eI-
perience In handling difncult cases Of
illness.
The local packet from Keokuk and
Nauvoo to Burlington has discontinued
to navigate for the season OF 1915 on
the great Lake Cooper and Mississippi
river, and all OF Nauvoo's citizens are
sorry to see the popular little craft
enter winter quarters. Captain Blair,
the popular owner, was blessed with
a profitable season and ali will be
glad to see the packet IN these waters
again IN the early spring.
Lake Cooper Is thought to be higher
right now at Nauyoo than ever known
before, since 1t was formed In this
great river, and It may be sent anoth-
er foot higher than the stage at this
time.
The Sonora township boys dancing
club Will give a social party IN the
Nauvoo opera house next Friday even
ing. Nov. 10. and there will be dances
placed on the program for the old IS
well as the young. Turner's orchestra
from Hamilton will play.
Many more people today are plan