The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-19

The NauvOO baseball team went to
Lomax, ILL.,, and crossed bats with
the aggregation up there and were
defeated by score Of to 2. The
Mormons had an off day or perhaps
too much attention to the fair dam
sells up there was the cause Of It.
Mr.. Smithwick Of Chicago. who was
foreman on the works when the
Nauvoo Spalding Institute building
was built in this city, was In Nauyoo
last Saturday and Sunday. This
school for boys was built in 1907.
The Powellton picnic will take
place in the above SHRUBS of Nauvoo
next Saturday. A number Of Nauvoo
people may attend.
Business in Nauvoo last Saturday
during rhe daytime was very quiet on
account Of our farmers being busy In
the fields, but in the evening our
business street was fairly alive with
shoppers Of both sexes.
We noticed an unusually large
number of Iowa automobiles in Nau.
VOC last Sunday.
The Sonora homecoming mNeting
will begin next Friday and continue
ten days. Nauvoo day will be We'd
,nesday, Aug %, and some great
"doings" is expected will take place
down there on that day. The camp.
ing ground is about four miles below
Nauvoo.
| Nauyoo people wonder why the Rice
& Dore water circus don't stop at
Nauvoo and perhaps it will on its
way down the big creek. This water
entertainment would receive larger
crowd at Nauvoo than it does at many
Of the larger cities it visits. 1t Is
said to be first class show and
novelty that many people haven't
seen.
Last Sunday was a very quiet day
in Nauvoo caused by our ball team
playing out OF the city, some Of our
people going fishing and others TAX
ing steamboat rides and picnicing.
Miss Amelia Bouler OF Keokuk is
visiting friends in Nauvoo this week.
Next Friday afternoon when the
travelling men visit Nauvoo they will
play ball nine composed of Nauvoo
business men and the knights of the
grip will be shown how to chase the
globe around the diamond. II the
weather permits there will be large
crowd go down. to see this interesting
game. Our business men ought to
give the "drummers" royal vel
come to our city next Friday after.
noon.
| The Nauvoo ball team will play the
Bucks on the home diamond next
Sunday afternoon and q good game is
looked for. The Keokuk Bucks are
fast bunch and play gentlemanly
ball and fans who go to see the game
will get their moneys worth Of the
national game.
Lorenz Russell is down in the land
OF Dixie looking up location and
will leave Nauvoo if he finds place
suitable to his liking Mr.. and Mrs
Russell go there principally for the
lady's health and our people are
sorry to see them leave us.
Nauvoo's canning company will be.
gin receiving tomatoes next week and
may steam up to can this vegetable
There will not be one-fourth of a
crop II there will be that many. sc
growers inform your reporter. There
are over one hundred acres OF
tomatoes planted in Nauvoo and vicin
fly this year and the failure Of the
crop is financial blow to our fac
tory and the grower.
Reuben Hummer, one or Nauvoo
best merchants, was very i'll for about
week. but his many friends are glad
to see him at his place of business
again.
The shippers Of the luscious grape
in Nauvoo will begin moving the big
crop perhaps before this gets into
print. In many vineyards about Maui
VOC the grapes look fine and Judging
from the large number of baskets
Messrs. NThos. and Cecil Baxter are
distributing among their contracted
grape patches they will ship more
car loads of. the early varieties than
they did last year. These Baxter's
sons have large acreage to ship for
Nauvoo people, besides their own rails
ing Of the luscious fruit. We can
safely say that their vineyards are