The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-11
The Nauvoo Gate City
Nauvoo. Ill. Aug. II. 1915

NauvOO, ILL.,,
meeting OF the Illinois centen-
NAL commission was held IN chicago
Tuesday, august 5, and will map On.
the program of the 100 years OF H.i
nois statehood. which will take place
December 3. 1918. The commission
is permanent body now and VIII
proceed with plans for the observ-
ance OF the anniversary to be held iI
Springfield on the above date
Nauyoo makes the proud boast tnas
she has forty automobiles and a large
number in the country at points near
by. We have noticed OF iate tnat
many towns in speaking OF their I'M
mediate prosperity always close their
remarks with telling how many motor
cars there are about Forty is MAJ
voo,s uuoto. with more to come before
the snow flies. To the average man
forty automobiles may not appear IS
Ia whole lot. but in place Ike Nau-
VOC where all enthusiasm is OF the
rampant sort, forty automobiles owned
by .Nauvoo fellows with the automo-
bflists, is automobiles enough AMI
automobile talk enough for town nve
times the size Of Nanvoo-
Nauvoo and vicinity should pc
known as the good roads section and
the people should work them to de
serve the reputation. Every dollar
spent in making good road comes
back in the increased value Of the
land It serves.
A girl baby was born to Mr.. AMI
Mrs VIM Hierstein OF DyersviIle,
Iowa, on Thursday of last week and
died shortly after Its birth Mrs A
J. Beger went TO visit her daughter,
who was Miss Lena Beger OF Nauvoo
before marriage.
Sand Prairie above Montrose, win
not market any wAtermelons befor
the last OF August or September l.
These melons come from just above
Montrose.
Rudy Leppert has commenced work
on the foundation of his new residence
on corner OF Seventeenth and Null
holland streets. 1t viii be . modern
up to date building and handsome
home when completed.
The American floating theatre that
showed at Nauvoo last Sunday even
ing was attended by q fair sized crowd
and the play and vaudeville acts were
fairly good and received many encores.
There were few vaudeville acts that
were exceptionally good
The Keokuk Electric ball team came
mp to Nauvoo and played the local
team and were defeated by score OF
6 to f. They were no match for the
Nauvoo Inyincibles and seemed 10
lose all interest In the game aft er
the first inning. The Warsaw tea n
may come to Nauvoo next Sunday If
they will agree to reasonable terms
The home grown tomatoes may not
turn out as good as expected In MAI
VOC and cut short the output or our
canning factory. A great deal OF rot
is reported, caused by the continuous
wet weather which affected the blos-
som.
The steamer st. Paul arrived at
Nauvoo last Sunday evening 1t abo.i.
1890 on her way to the head OF navt-
cation, the city OF st. Paul. with a
good freight consignment and pas
senger list.
The steamer Dubuque also landed
here at about 1870 p. m. on her was
TO Burlington, being about i've
hours late owing TO some breakage to
the steamer. She returned to St
Louis after midnight
The wet weather was assuredly ba
for the crops, but cheer up; 1t was
good for the weeds and who would
want to cultivate ground that Won.
grow weeds?
The Soacra's home corners meeting
will start the 20th Of August and con-
Itinue ten days. Nauvoo day viii be
August 26 and the Nauvoo band Will
probably be present TO help enliyen
things down there.
These are days when school chill
dren wish that time would stop dead
still. They are beginning TO see the
end Of vacation.
A bicycle trick rider gave two ex-
hibitions In Nauvoo last Saturday ait
ernoon and evening with fancy and
trick stunts on the one and two whe FL
cycles. After his performance he
passed the hat" and received . few
nickles He travelled in covered
Ford auto.
Nauyoo,s Ladies. Priscilla club Will
meet again Thursday afternoon OF
next week.
Geo. Marzolf, who lives In south
| end OF Nauvoo, In one OF the most
beautiful locations in this section and
along Lake Cooper, has one OF the
finest fields of corn grown anywhere
/ or any state in the union.
/ Next month will be the first IN the
oyster season. being the first OF these
/ last four months that has an In 1t,