The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-21
nAuvoo, ILL.,, AUG. 81

! tree, touch not single DouSn, YOU
may need wood, but you should Dc
for conservation now.
The Caufman company played an
, other two nights engagement IN the
| Nauvoo opera house last SATURDAY
and Sunday nights and gave splendid
satisfaction to our theatre go1nS pub
Tic. The company is playing at DON
Nelson, Iowa. this week while the
fair is being held there.
Some farmers say that our corn
crop will be pretty short, but not
nearly SO much as reports first ind1-
Gated. We quote farmer as say
ing that he will harvest at least q
half or more OF crop since the late
rains.
AS usual several hundred automo-
biles passed through Nauvoo last Sun
day and we noticed one car from the
state of Nebraska.
In the country papers of Illinois
one may read from time to time &C
counts of sales of black walnut TIM
Der to agents who ship the logs or
lumber to Germany. This buying for
export appears to be decidedly &C
tive, but the home demand for wal
nut for the manufacture of fine fur
niture has all but disappeared. There
was a time when many Americans
insisted that the finest quality of
block walnut was not less beautiful
than mahogany or rosewood. There
is always a room for divergence OF
opinion upon such questions, but no
body can deny that black walnut Is
beautiful furniture wood. though
there are few in these days to do it
honor in it's own country. The reason
L. xI,~x ot hA yvpon
in most general use the art of furni-
ture making in this country was at
it's lowest ebb. 1t was period when
the Jig saw did its worst and the
turning lathe was an implement for
the destruction OF beauty. Ugliness
which was the product of unmitigated
wood butchery seems to have been
imputed to the wood itself. 1t might
be worth while for some American
furniture maker to take the field
against our German friends and show
his countrymen that when walnut
is handled artistically as other woods
are handled in American shops 1t IS
one of the most satisfying of ma
terials for fine furniture and then
the Germans could buy no more black
walnut here for gun stocks.
Warren Argast, rural route mail
carrier out of Pontoosuc. I'LL. spent
Sunday in Nauyoo with Ills parents
and friends.
The Royal Neighbors and Modern
Woodmen of Powellton will hold
picnic in that place next Saturday
and a large delegation of Nauyoo
people will go out and visit the dolngs.
We notice Mr.. and Mrs. Chas
Laubershiemer Of Keokuk. in Nau-
voo's city limits last Sunday after
noon. They tarried while on the
Oriental hotel lawn. Charles loves
to come up and visit his boyhood
home every once in a great, great
while since he can run up by the
auto route
You can't please all the bankers all
the time and you can't please some
of them any Of the time. but Nauvoo
bankers strive to please people all
the time.
Nauvoo's police court had one case
last Friday night, the first for several
days.
Some small lots of Moore's early
grapes were noticed in Nauvoos shoI
windows today (MondaO, but did not
look ripe enough to be ralatable.
Chester Stratton. Will Guilliam
Nauvoo assisted the Sonora township
ball team to defeat the Hamilton bal
tossers at the Appano0se TOWNSHIP
field day meet and picnic last Thurs
day.
We learn with regret that the out
! look for home made sauer-kraut is
dark. The Nauyoo cabbage crop is
failure and the prices this fall will be
TSy tEh
like sauer-kraut They belong as {
general thing to that gustatory type
which takes four Jumps il its cup O.
coffee, likes sweet pickles instead o.
| the sour kind and eats quantities o
cake. In their ignorance these per
sons have been known to say thai
sauer-kraut is merely cabbage In
state of incipient decay. All sucf
should be told that there is more
real 10Y in savors than in sweets ant
that sauer-kraut is really cabbage
picked by the clearly and sparkling
fermentation of it's own juice.
Iivens the jaded appetite, adds an
other flavor to the monotonous rount
| of winter dishes ON the farm and II
town and sets of the December spare
ribs as nothing else in the whole lis
| of things comestibie can do. Agar
we regret the dark outlook for home
made sauer-kraut-
The Nauvoo knights Of Columbui
society held an interesting meetini
| last Sunday afternoon Several az
plications for admfttance into tn
order were received at this meeting
Some persons believe that Sauvoo'
Civic league and influential citizen
should write to the Nauvoo mayo
and city council expressing thef
views regarding city park Tor TIL
grand and beautiful old town. Heayel
forfend, In the name ri palm lea
[ fans and grape juice, however di'
these persons get the opinion ina
what the mayor and council needle,
to secure effective action on the par
problem was "viewsg NauVooi
mayor and council is weary or views
They have had 'em al nauseaul
expressed, sent by freight, conveys