The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-31
The Nauvoo Gate City


What's kept out Of the Nauvoo
| Daily Gate City by your reporter IS
| often great deal more interesting
| than what gets into 1t.
| II some of Nauvoo automobile dr1v-
ers are not more careful they will run
| into some other car and muss 1t up
and get mussed up themselves. They
Eare entirely too speedy when going
| along our business -thoroughfare.
Let us all forget what Swinburne
sang as to 1.-THE hounds of spring on
winters traces, since it proves that
| the beasts have run down and throt-
| tied their quarry" Two Nauvoo citi-
| zens are getting their fishing tackle
| in order. With the exception of the
song of the frog and the chirp of the
! robin this is the best sign of spring
we know of. The fish in Lake Cooper
will soon get the hook worm.
Book beer arrived IN Nauvoo last
week. The regular date for this bev-
erage to arrive is May l, but 1t usual
| ly appears over six weeks earlier to
allow imbibers to get acquainted with
it before the regular date.
Last year nearly 29.000,000 Missouri
meerchaum, or con-cob pipes were
manufactured in that state devoted to
that industry. There are six fac
tories in that state and pipes are ship
ped from these places to Europe,
Asia, Australia, South America
everywhere. Franklin county, Mis-
souri,, with four of the six factories,
is the corn-cob pipes international
capital. But the cob pipe originated
as a commercial asset in st. Charles,
the late DOC" Carr, printer, Indian
fighter, dreamer and discoverer-of
the cob pipe-being it's Columbus.
Ed Bevering, one Of Keokuk's
most popular cigar manufacturers,
was q Nauvoo business visitor last
Thursday
VIM. Hemmy. Nauvoos township
! assessor, will receive his books next
week and begin making his rounds
looking after personal property. This
year he will re-assess real estate. This
is done every two years and personal
property every year. It will take him
over two months to complete the
work.
The Nauvoo saloon keepers will be
called upon again the last day OF
April to replelish our treausry to
the amount OF $4,000 and the pool
tables owe $50 more. Well, Nauvoo's
treasury certainly needs It for she is
several thousand dollars In debt and
this saloon license money will relieve
it somewhat
That instructive and entertaining
society, the Nauvoo Ladies Priscilla
club will be entertained by Mrs. Jas.
F,arren at her comfortable home in
the first ward Thursday afternoon,
A I'M ovsr1
to a most delightful time for Mrs.
Farren Is one of the best and most
pleasant entertainers in Nauvoo.
A Nauvoo housewife proclaims
some appetizing ways to prepare
| apples, OF which few Of them are
left yet in some OF our cellars. The
best recipe we know is sink your
teeth in them"
| Nauvoo winters can produce several
! thousand gallons of grape juice every
year. AS it Is now, 1t is permitted to
age into wine and will continue to do
so unless Nauvoo gets a grape Juice
factory or Secretary Bryan buys it up
and drinks it himself. Grape culture.
will never be neglected in Nauvoo.
Secretary Bryan and grape juice fac
! tory promoters please take notice.
Twentyseye1 citizens In Nauvoo
own automobiles and out Of this num-
Der there are fifteen Ford cars.
If we don't get warm weather pretty
soon Nauovo ice dealers will have a
4 short season and they have a large
stock and of fine quality on hand.
Trade in diamonds has had quite a
falling on, say dealers now. The
trade will pick up again, for when
the young mans fancy brings him to
the point where she ought to have an
engagement ring, even the tariff will
not stop him.
i The difficulty, Of worshiping God
Easter Sunday in last years hat is
never truly appreciated by the dull
masculine mind.
This is holy week and things social
are at their lowest ebb and the calen-
dar is almost blank. 1t is the calm
before the storm, however, because
next week the beginning Of spring
weddings and social gayeties will be-
gin just where they left off when
Lent began Next Sunday is Easter
and our main streets will be bower
Of beauty by the fair sex prome1ad.
ing with costumes representing all
the colors Of the rainbow.
VIM. Pitt, Jr., has taken the agency
for the Ford automobile at Powellton
a suburb Of Nauvoo. He has already
disposed of one car to Randolph Der
dine OF the northeast country. Will
is fine salesman.
A couple of Nauvoo young ladies
were washing the dinner dishes few
days ago when one OF them said how
happy Eve must have been in Eden
where there was no china, no silver
knives and forks and 40 pots and
kettles, and what an endless burden
of commonplace drudgery she entailed
upon her fair sisters when she fell
: from her high estate.
Mr.. c. r. Montgomery will go to
Flint, Mich. some time in April
where he has purchased a bort auto