The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-11-19

SUTL IOT we nave SpuuQAnL material
here and of the best quality for that
purpose. Nothing helps q town like
sprtnging up OF these new Industries
even though they are only on paper now
and sometime soon capitalists will sit
In their libraries and peruse this col
umn, come to Nauvoo, Investigate
and plant their money here. This
column ts Nauyeots commercial club
all embodied into one.
A farmer living near Nauvoo has An
ordinary red COW that gives nearly
three gallons OF milk at q milking
from which, on an average. the farm
er's wife makes nearly two pounds OF
butter day. He says that the only
feed the COW gets outside OF the pas
ture IL corn and fodder and little
5tgger OF bran now and then, and
claims to know nothing about milk
and butter records, but ventures the
assertion that his COW taking COWS
as they run, IL some COW.
Nauyoo's city council ought to give
IN order for several hundred shade
trees to be planted at an early date.
They should be set out in various
places along our thoroughfares and
around orr school buildings and wher,.
ever people want them, Nauyoo would
then set an example that many other
towns would do well to follow.
Nauvoo's young people are anxious
~ awaiting the skating season to
open on Lake Cooper.
In Aye weeks we will have Christ
mas and the bsst fed turkeys in the
barn yard are wearing that worried
look
We were in hopes that We could
chronicle another wedding before
Thanksgiving day but 1t seems We ara
doomed to disappointment The splen
did cage that one Of the members Of
the Nauyoo band Is building for his
birdie love Is not completed yet.
Eighteen years ago this month q
sodality was formed at the Catholic
church with roster of one hundred
men. 1t Is no more now and X. of
q. order has formed in its stead with
perhaps barely one-haif that number.
Several parties from foreign towns
have been In Haupoo during the week,
attempting to gain possession OF the
Geo. Deeg bla cksmith shop. The de-
ceased who owned this shop did a
profitable business, in splendid loca
tion and had we'll regulated outfit
None SO far have been able to make
deal with ars. Deeg. Here is profit
able undertaking for some one.
Some papers have the reputation Of
being up to date and are In most In
stances, but q day or two ago week
ly newspaper that we saw. came out
with about column of boiler plateH
that was intended to be published In
July. which statsd that during thesa
long, hot, sunshiny days, etc. The
editors who use tile boiler plate" hal
better look 1t over before using, for
those sunshiny days are thing Of the
past for this season and as for being
hot, the editor must have been eating
chill.
The question whether or not Nauvoo
would be benefited by railroad, has
been argued pro and con. Just let
railroad knock for admission within
Its gates. allowed to pass through Its
corporate limits and then you will see
her stride past Keokuk and TT. MadI-
son in few years. That's what these
two cities are afraid of or we would
have railroad long before this.
Eauvoo has citizen who claims
that the st. Louis Republic was the
FIRST daily newspaper he ever saw.
This was about 1888, and that paper.
was about twenty-six years old thea.
He still reads It, when he gets y
chance.
The big crop Of apples in Nauyon
and vicinity this year and the fair
price received for them ought to in
'duce our people to enlarge their or
chards.
The young squirrel crop 10 said to
be good and they are in fine condf-
ton. The large amount OF nuts In the
woods makes 1t easy for them to pick
up q living.
The old and young married folks
ought to organize social club and
hold parties during the winter in Maui
VOC. These socials would make them
all feel like young single folks again
and what grand good times they could
have.
Since the frost has hit the pumpkin
the soda water trade at the fountain
has fizzled out in Nauvoo.
The dying squeal of the porkers will
soon be heard about Nauyoo. Many
families in this town raise their hogs
to supply them with lard and smoked
meats for the year.
Those fellows who are employed by
the government on the river and i'm
for this season. Nauvoo at one time
had quite an army of men engaged by
the government on river work.
As Thanksgiving Is almost here, let
us not forget the poor and needy II
there are any deserving ones in our
midst
Nauvoo's lodges have not initiated
any new candidates for some time. II
looks like the goat will get very un-
ruly for the next one who applies for
admission.
Miss Hilda Rheinbsrger who IL in
X eokuk's st. Joseph hospital. is i'm
proving rapidly and may be brought
to her Nauvoo home the first OF next
week.
II our people would gather the fall
len leaves and place them on their
garden patches they would find them
to be the best fertilizers they can use.
Real estate in the business section
of Nauvoo is held too high and those
1of- ~ e.