The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-06-02
The Nauvoo Gate City
Nauvoo, ILL.,, June 2, 1915

4 John Setglemeier and son MOTIFS
/ who are engaged in government Work
a few miles below Hannibal, MO,
1 came up to Nauvoo last Saturday
evening and remained until Monday
for visit with the wife and mother.
Nauvoo now has a daily packet pas
senger and freight service between
Keokuk and Burlington. The steam
ers Keokuk and Black Hawk make al
ternate trips. Nauyoo now has all the
river and rail service it needs until
next winter.
FIT Madison is growing over broom
factory that she has. John Kraft has
maintained broom factory in Maui
VOC for years and makes the finest
sweepers ever placed on the market
and does not crow over the fact.
Ed. Beecher and o. H. Podeyn OF
FIT. Madison, were visiting in Nauvoo
last Sunday. Ed has one of the nm
est tonsorial parlors in the Gem CITY,
having recently had new front
1 placed in his building and the interior
handsomely decorated He is a Maui
VOC boy and his many friends here
are glad to hsar of hts success.
! You Iowa people please take notice.
Nauyoo saloons will be closed next
/ Monday-election day.
There was double marriage IN
| the Nauvoo Catholic church last Tues
day morning and the contracting par
! ties were Gabriel Wilkins and Miss
Theresa Mofftt, Carl wilkins and
Miss Augusta Radel. The grooms
were twins. The large religious
temple was filed to overlooking with
i-Nauvoo and vicinity people to witness
the ceremony that bound these popu-
lar young people in the holy bonds OF
wedlock for life, the majority being
composed of the fair sex. Rev. Father
REIN bold and Rev. Father Murray off,
ciated.
G. T Montgomery OF Nauvoo and
Miss Lucy Gaule, but recently of this
city were married in Warsaw last
Saturday Immediately after the cere-
mony the happy couple returned to
th., brides parents home in Hamilton
for short stay and then departed for
Baraboo, Wis, where the groom has
a position with the wife of Al Ring
ling, the great circus owner. The
bride is an accomplished young lady
and made hosts OF friends during her
residence in Nauvoo.
Your reporter Is sure nobody has
any intention Of forgetting to remem-
Der the Nauvoo Ladies' Civic leagues
coming chautauuua. The date of the
event begins July 81 and continues to
Sunday, Aug 1, inclusive Advance
notices of the event will create interest
all over the United States, and if that
war over In Europe finishes its DELHI
erations in time and puts some Of
those high dignitarfes out of business.
some people may come across and
icit d,,rin hn tho
chautauqua. If the ladies Of the league
could induce Billy Sunday to come to
Nauvoo then he might be good at
traction and wouldn't he look nice
whiting his autograph for beautiful
Nauvoo bellies. The program for this
first Nauvoo chautauqua is certainly
splendid one and everybody in Maui
VOC and vicinity should buy season
ticket and help the ladies make it a
decided success.
Nauvoo's new council meets In reg
ular session next Monday evening. 1t
is hoped some important Improvement
business will be transacted.
The Cotton Blossom floating theatre
is on its way up the big creek and
will show in Nauvoo very soon, hand
! bills having been distributed announc-
| ing its coming, but not when. The
company will present the play. 1.-THE
! Woman He Could Not Buy"
! Just about four weeks until the
glorious Fourth. 1t looks like Maui
VOC will have quiet and sane Fourth
this year-no celebration.
/ The Nauvoo ball boys have an
nounced social dance for this Wed
nesday evening and Agnes popular
orchestra will play.
The game of baseball between Keo
kuk's Bucks and Nauvoo's almost IN
vincibles, which was to have occurred
last Sunday on our home grounds
was postponed on account OF the in
clement weather. Next Sunday after
noon in Nauvoo our team and the
keokuk Blue Labels are booked for 8
game that promises to be good one
If our fans want to see baseball flour
ish in Nauvoo they should turn ou
in force and root the boys on to vic
tory and assist them financially t.
help defray the heavy expenses.
Il With the big mills to increase theil
forces. fine fruit crop in prospec
and the cutting of the greatest white,
wheat Weld in history but few day,
away. the business pessimist may a!
we'll withdraw to the side Of the roat
and watch the procession of prosperit.
pass by.
The Nauvoo high school commence
ment occurs next Friday evening a
! the opera house There will be fvt
graduates. Salm's orchestra will fur
nish the music.
| The Court Of Honor lodge in Nau
VOC will meet at the Oriental hote
Thursday evening of this week. Thi
society has no permanent abiding
place now.
| We hear that Capt John Reimbol,
of the Nauvoo ferry and In the pas
| sanger and freight transfer business
| has bought two Ford cars to be USE
instead of the horseback line to an
from the lake. John is enterprisins
all right.
Our winters are now busy sprayin
their vineyards to insure good crol
The Ladies' Civic league Of Nauvo