The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-06-10

candidates were without DOUBT oleCLSu
for they carried Nauvoo and the
Icounty Very little interest was tax
en- in this election in Nauvoo and
none seemed to care for the result.
Nauvoo city council met last Mon
day night and transacted little bus'.
ness and adjourned to meet again on
Monday evening, June 81, when the
members will take up the appropria.
ton ordinance.
4 Mr.. Isaac Blom of Keokuk, was a
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. A. Brueg.
Iger last Monday.
| The Nauvoo Ladies' Priscilla club
Twill meet next Thursday afternoon.
Mrs. J. M. Schmidt may be the hostess
which VIII be- a guarantee for an en-
joyable time for the members, for the
lady is one of Nauvoo's best enter
tainers.
| Early cherries are ripe but there is
hardly enough of them to justify ship
ment. Some trees that were loaded
with fruit last year are bare OF
cherries this season.
! Fred Walter left Monday evening
for st. Louis with shipment of wool
and returns Wednesday evening.
Keep your ear to the ground, it
won't be long now until some ser
ton starts to tell how bad all their
prospects for crops is going to be.
] Nauyoo K. c. lodge met last Tues
day evening and enjoyed a social ses-
sion.
Nauvoo's high school held it's au
nual commencement exercises in the
opera house last Friday evening and
fair sized crowd was present to see
the graduates receive their diplomas
and listen to a carefully arranged and
interesting program. c. A. James of
Carthage, delivered the address.
which was interesting and the gentle
man sure knows how to hand out the
English language.
Rev. Rex. of Montrose will occupy
the pulpit in the M. e. church in Maui
VOC next Sunday. TIE congregation
evening with an interesting program
Mr.. Chas. Mulch has returned from a
delightful visit with her sister in Chi
cago.
Louis Hohl and Henry Leinhard
have returned home from college
duties and may remain in Nauvoo dur
ing the summer.
Major D. B. Hamill and wife. Mrs
Dysart of Keokuk, and Mrs. Sydney
Doris of Hendersonville, Tenn, were
Nauvoo visitors last Thursday
Nauvoo's police court was quite
lively for short time in May. The
Nauvoo marshal receives the num-
ificent salary Of $500 year for pre-
serving the peace and morals of this
town and If he cannot round up n
few more DRINKS SO as to increase
his fees he will have to reduce the
jhgih cost, of living to get along.
! Mrs. Oscar Berg and children. or
how NO. n,pn este
relatives. Mrs Berg was formerly
Miss Chloe, daughter OF MIR. and Mrs.
John Schneider, of this city.
Next Monday will be flag day in
Illinois and every Nauvoo citizen who
towns a flag, should unfurl it to the
breeze.
And it will not hurt any while you
are about swatting the fly, to swat the
bee in the bonnet. But by all means
be sure and swat the fly now.
| A healthy Nauyoo girl may not be
able to tango as gracefully as her
slender dollhouse city sister. but she
| is there with the bells on when it
comes to doing the kitchen scrub, the
dust rag din the broomstick balance
and the cooking canter. Yea, verify,
| city brother!
/ The clergy continue to denounce
| the current styles of women's clothes
and the magazines publishing the lat
+! est fashions direct from Paris continue
| to sell out every month.
! Corn in some farms close to Maui
VOC right now measures two feet high
and some patches have been cultivated
twice. How is that for a corn crop
at this season of the year?
An Illinois farm was sold the other
day for $4,000. 1t was not very bis
farm, either-about the size of Rhode
Island.
Miss Hazel Hudson, who is visiting
in Detroit and Chicago, is expected
home soon
The auto is fortold in the Bible. de-
clares Nauvooite, and quotes from
Nahum, chapter 2, fourth verse, as
follows: "Chariots shall rage in the
streets: they shall jostle one against
the other in the broad ways: they
shall seem like torches; they shall
run like lightning"
Miss Emma Hauptman of Davenport,
Iowa, will come to Nauvoo for a visit
soon and will be the guest Of her
mother. Mrs. Ed Argast, Sr.
Nauvoo's canning factory this sea- |,
son is looking toward great crop OF
tomatoes and at the present time has |
reason to believe that its manufactu |
output this year will exceed it's Ca
lpacity. The Nauvoo plant bases the |
amount of the vegetable It is to han i
die on the number Of contracts it has |
in hand from our citizens and nearby |
farmers who have agreed to grow a |
certain number of acres with which !
the factory Is to be supplied. Virtu- |
ally the crop is purchased before it |
lis planted. Thus the manager of our !
plant begins his preparations at the |
start of the season with an approx |
innate idea of how much the yield will |
jbe. It is a splendid business arrange.
Iment, equally beneficial on both sides. |
Many Of Nauvoo's young folks are
wondering when those show boats are |
going to appear at this landing. There |
are two on the way up at the present |