The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-11-19
The Nauvoo Gate CITY
Nauvoo, Ill, Nov. 10, 1915

The Nauyoo Moose lodge members
had an installation of officers and a
social in their rooms Thursday night
Last Saturday night two young men
from Burnside were in Nauyoo, driy.
ing here with lively team Of horses,
On returning home in the evening
and when near Ppwellton, their team
ran away and In turning q corner east
Of the above place the wagon upset
throwing Walter Marley out and fat,
ally injnring him, hut his companion
escaped unhurt. The young man was
carried into a farm house and a doc.
tor summoned. He was taken to HIS
home, believing he was not fatally
hurt, but later became unconscious
and another doctor called. In less
than two hours he died, death being
due to injured bowels or abdomen.
The young man was % years Of age
and unmarried.
Mrs, Julia Boquet Of Keokuk, was
a Nauvoo visitor with relatives from
last Saturday until Monday.
Mrs. Theo. G. Ochsner Of Ft. Madi-
son, visited with relatives in Nauyoo
the forepart OF the week.
Last Wednesday morning about J
o'clock, the Nauyoo fire bell sounded
an alarm that 9 copfagrat!on was In
progress in the first ward. A gaso-
line stove either sprang a leak or the
generating cups overflowed and start.
ed things burning in the kitchen OF
Mrs. w. e. STATIONS home. When
the volunteer fire brigade and appa.
ratus arrived, bucket squad had ex-
tinguished the flames. The walls and
ceiling were slightly scorched and
was about the only damage done.
Miss Katherine Giebe Of st. Louis
came to NaHyoo last Saturday and is
visiting relatives this week. the guest
of her father and sister, Mr.. H. Der.
ger, ST., and Miss Edna
Mrs. Lou Hudson and grandson
Carl, were in Chicago for several days
recently. Carl had slight operation
made on his person while in the windy
city.
DR.. C. I. Daley, an osteopath Of Ft
Madison, was in Nauroo last Tuesday
on business He was again here Thurs
day to treat patients and may con
time his visits to NauYoo for an Ia.
definite period.
The Nauvoo Modern woodmen's
Thanksgiving ball takes place in the
Nauvoo opera house next Thursday
evening. and a good attendance is
looked for.
Farmers in Nauyoo's vicinity are all
beginning to name their farms as is
and has been the fashion in the east
for years 1t is doubtful II there are
enough pretty names to go around, for
no two farms can be named alike.
Myron McGregor and Fred Schleich
er held shooting match for turkeys
geese and ducks on the formers place
in the third ward Thursday.
A fine auto hearse passed through
Nauvoo last Monday evening, which
was bought in Quincy and taken tc
New London, Iowa, where 1t will be
used when necessary. Nauvco DOM
own one yet for it hasn't even resi-
dent undertaken. Mind town the
size of Nauyoo without a dead mans
| valet.
| Ed. v. Reimbold and family now oc
cupy their newly purchased residence
on South Fourteenth street,
A report was circulated and In some
way got into the Fl. Madison news
papers that Geo. Deeg who died In
his buggy while being brought to HIS
| Nauyoo home recently, had. $1,000
sewed in the lining OF a coat he wore
and that he was seldom seen without
wearing coat. This column heard
of it and knew that there was not q
word Of truth in the statement, fol
your scribe saw Mr.. Deeg numerous
| times without a coat.
| Nauvoo business men ought to or
ganize get acquainted" trip to oul
opera house and talk things over FOL
the betterment of Nauvoo.
! A fellow who has kept tab through
the newspapers Of the number killed
! in each of the European nations since
the war began, says the losses as Civ
en- by the. metropolitan papers are
such according to statistics in Ger
many there are but twelve men left
| in France but six, in England, fifty
and in Belgium, twelve. More mer
have been killed. than that countr,
originally had. but. they might have
! been Americans who strayed ovel
there. SO it will he seen how much
reliability can be placed on war news
dished out in the big dailies to the
/ public. ....a aF
Nauvoo ought to have a brick plant