The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-12-03
The Nauvoo Gate City
Nauvoo, I'LL, Dec. 3, 1915

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/ emit. Perhaps it wasn't necessary for
| q representative from the old Nor
mon town to be in attendance for we
are off the creek and now on the
| lake.
| Lutheran church, held a social and
| business meeting in the church base
ment last Wednesday evening.
| The Nauvoo Christian Endeavor So
ciety held social in the basement OF
| the Presbyterian church last Wednes-
day evening and a good time was re-
ported.
Mike Baumert OF the Nauvoo indie
pendent, announces that he will is
sue an extra on December II as a
Christmas edition for the benefit OF
advertisers. 1t takes hustle" to get
out a Christmas number and all OF
Nauvoo's business houses should be
represented in this issue and hope
that the Independents solicitor will
get all of them in his wide awake
and newsiest of newspapers.
Stockholders of the Nauvoo Fruit
Growers union will hold their regular
business meeting next Saturday att
ernoon and among other business,
will select three directors.
The management is showing COM
mendab1e enterprise In installing an
other linotype machine, modernlzed
with Intertype parts, and well The
,, Daily Gate City needs 1t too, to get
up the large amount OF up-to-date
reading matter OF the most tnterets-
ing character. It is now one OF the
best equipped newspaper offices In
this section and can handle the news
~, N
this column will be handled more
quickly and keep one machine busy
for one day in the week, at least.
A Nauvoo vicinity young lady who
tackled her first school last fall
writes to a chum who is engaged III
similar occupation and which the
latter told for secret: Every day
go to that horrible old school house
and those Notwithstanding children
II I could see a way to resign W1tho4t
becoming a laughing tool OF my
friends, rd-well. heaven only knows
what I'd do It's simply awful.
thought had little nerve, and Tvs
gotten along beautifully, but good
night and goodbye. 1t is worse than
ever dreamed of in my widest fhghss
of imagination. The directors haVe
; been grand and tell me l am JUST
getting along wonderfully, put
don't see how anyone who hates 1t
like / do. could possibly make It q
success / have three little darnnss.
who have (well, they are ahvel.
sent them home three times with O
nice note to their mother telling her
tn send them back when they got
fixed. She sent them back every
time and sent note saying that II |
sent them home again she would
have me prosecuted. sent them
horne (they still have 'em) and SO |
reckon my next letter win be written
behind jail bars. That will be little
variety anyhow. A few days ago,
got thirty-two apples, two pears and
| q birds nest. That's the JOY OF
teaching school. -
The travelling mems visits to Nail
VOC are getting noticeably less every
day on account Of the Inconvenience
! of getting to this town and leaving
here.
Nauvoo Is going to sleep and will
wake up again next spring. Through
spring, summer and fall tourists IN
automobiles hold almost uninterrupt-
ed sway in Nauvoo. Now the constant
stream of stght-seers Is augmented
by a few solemn visitors.
Nauvoo's fire bell sounded an
alarm for the volunteer department
last Thursday morning at about ~
o'clock, informing the laddies that q
blaze was in progress In the kitcnen
of Ed Crafts residence on the old
brewery block. When the department
arrived, the blaze was almost exiting
uished with but little damage DONE
The fire was caused by the oVernoW
OF a gasoline stove. This is the third
blaze in three different Nauvoo resi-
dences caused by an overflow In
gasoline stove this fall.
There isn't anyone got as many
deputies as Santa Claus and they are
all on the job now getting Things
things ready for the little ones for
Christmas.
DR.. l.. B. Hobbs, Nauvoo's dentist
! and agent here for the Buick automo-
bile, went to Keokuk last Wednesday
evening and returned with two ma
chimes for the trade.
There is only one course open at
times to a telephone company. 1t has
got to raise the rates because it posi-
lively cannot lower the service.
| Our hunters are improving the time
left in which they can shoot quail.
The open season closes next Thursday
ievening, December 9, when this popu-
lar bird can rest again for another
year.
Pausing for a moment and laying
aside serious things, we stop to men,
ton that a Mr.. Necessary will be the
name that will secure Nauvoo a Park
site next year. And this is all We are
going to say about it. If there is any
lpunning to be done, and we believe
there is a fine chance for it, we are
going to be magnanimous and let the
other fellows get the first whack at 1t.
Nauvoo's sick at this writing are all
getting along splendidly, thanks to our
fine corps of physicians and nurses.
! A town not far from Nauyoo has an
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