The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-04-28
The Nauvoo Gate City
Nauvoo, ILL.,, April n, 1915

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Mr.. H. j. King was Nauvoo bust
ness visitor day recently. Mr.. King
| Is the gentlemanly subscription sollcl
tor of the best daily paper printed in
this section-the Keokuk Daily Gate
City.
Mrs. John Seiglemaier has been Wis
iting Mrs. Frank Spencer in Montrose
| for several days recently.
Mrs. Ed. Boedecker is visiting hel
sister Mrs. Ed. Koechlin in Rock Is
land, Ill.
Mrs. VIM. Parker who has been Wis
iting her mother, sister and brother
in Nauvoo for number of days. re
turned to her Fairfield, Iowa, home
last Saturday.
Wnl Reimbold, ST., of Keokuk, Wis
tied his brother Rev. j. Reimbold, in
Nauvoo last Saturday.
Mrs. Louise Kruegger and daughter
Mrs. Jos. Schilsung, were in FIT. Madi
son the past few days, visiting the for
mer's neice who has been i'll.
Misses Edith McGregor, Gertrude
Bechtel, Marion Argast and Ada Rahr
attended telephone operators schoo.
, held In Carthage last week.
Miss Leila, daughter of DR.. and
Mrs. w. NJ. Haggett Of Nauvoo an6
who is attending school in Decatur
III was selected by Alpha Chi Omega
sorority Of the James Wilkin univer
sity as a delegate to the convention
to be held in Long Beach, Calf, from
June % to July 2.
The Harry La Tier dramatic com
pany which played in the Nauvoo
opera house the three first days OF
the present week, gave excellent sat
isfaction. The company was a SPLEEN.
did one and should have had crowded
houses every night during their stay
in Nauyoo.
The lap robe, buggy whip and storm
robe thief is again abroad in Nauvoo
All three of these articles were
lstolen from a buggy standing at one
Of our hitching racks night recently.
The old city council of Nauvoo will
| meet in session for the last time next
Monday evening when the new city
administra ton will gather up the
! reins and conduct the city's business.
If the United States will send few
more battleships down along the coast
line of Mexico we may tip that coun-
try over into the gulf.
Bayard Baxter leaves Friday for
Leavenworth. Kansas. He will take
a carload Of bees to be planted on his
property possessions near the above
city
Several more Nauvooites have pur-
chased automobiles in the past sew
eral days. If this thing keeps up,
pretty soon Nauvoo will be making
her kick for traffic policemen.
FIT. Madison will send down to Maui
VOC its Empress Rebekah lodge Thurs
day of this week to attend the con-
vention to be held here
Nauvoo's baseball team will play
their first game of the 1915 season
with the Hamilton club next Sunday,
in Nauvoo. A large crowd should go
down to their diamond to witness the
game. Nothing gives ball team as
much encouragement as large crowd
Of rooters
Not even an old tin can was found
in the business section of Nauvoo by
the cleanup brigade which began
its work last Saturday. TIE Nauyoo
Ladies' Civic league had charge of
the affair and had all wagons return
empty to headquarters. The ladies'
had a pretty good job made Of it.
There isn't a girl who hasn't got
memorized the specifications Of the
kind Of fellow she means to marry
and who misses it farther when the
bids are opened.
This is the first Nauvoo snake story
of the season: "One of our ladies',
while preparing southern grown
cabbage for dinner, found a long
white serpent-like critter coiled
around one of the leaves. She grab
bed it and measured it ont on the
table. Its length was seven inches.
1t has the proportions Of piece of
white thread"
The Nauvoo district schools will
close on May Z.
Farmers are now busy planting
corn in this section and they are all
crying for more rain. Some Of our
rural brethren say there is plenty Of
time yet to get in the corn crop.
Robt. Kuhn. Nauvoo's furniture
dealer. Is about to discontinue his un-
dertaking business and will turn it over
to FIT. Madison man who will at
tend to all calls. 1t looks like this
will necessitate an extra expense to
Nauvoo residents when they are
Obliged to need the services of an IN.
dertaker and call him from the above
town, besides the delay.
Several OF Nauvoo's citizens claim
that they will raise few peaches on
their premises, but the largest part Of
the Nauvoo peach crop Is killed for
this year.
The Nauvoo State bank is always
an up-to-date institution. 1t has now
installed Burrows electric ledger
posting machine. 1t is a wonderful
piece of mechanism and adds and sub
tracts as accurately as the best of ex-
perts.
Nauvoo X. of c.. society has ap-
pointed committee to get figures
and learn the cost Of placing a heat.
ing plant in the Nauvoo Catholic