The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-14
The Nauvoo Gate City
Nauvoo, ILL.,, March ii, 1916

the day of the wearing of the green
In honor of st. Patrick. 1t will be
worn by many Nauvoo and Keolluk
people who know nothing about the
saint and have but the haziest idea
of what the celebration Is all about.
Why. then, do they wear it? 1t is
an unconscious tribute to the Irish.
The Irisnman stands in class by him.
self. Speaking generally, Quick-wit-
ted people are irritable and the good
natured man, though he may be a
clear thinker, is a slow one. The
lrishman is quick as the electric
spark, and yet good-natured withal
For that reason he las natural
"janius for politics." where quickness
and good nature are precious assets.
And for that reason every normally
constituted American admires him.
No wonder the people next Friday
will be wearing shamrock. though
their own ancestors may hail from
| the Rhine, or the Thames, and he
may know no more about Robert EN-
met than he does about Shalmaneser.
While Nauvoo is by no means all
there is of Illinois, the fact that il
| supplies the northern markets with
/ fine luscious grapes entities it to
| some consideration.
The suggestion that our little park
| Is all right, we ought to at least pur-
| chase enough grass and trees for or
binary park purposes in grand old
| Nauvoo.
In winter a man is always ready
for spring, and in summer he is al
| ways ready for winter. A man is
| twice as contrary as mule.
Every effort should be made this
season to form a baseball league with
towns in this neighborhood and we
believe Nauvoo will get right into
the game. A movement would be
started as soon as the league is as
sured, to grade out a place for base
ball park and build a fence around it.
Within a few days after the move
ment is commenced sufficient funds
could be secured to carry the deal
through and then Nauvoo could get
busy picking out material for win
ming team.
Mats a valuable dog of yours
said one Nauvoo citizen to another
the other day. Eyes, but he don't
know he is valuable dog. Look at
him scratching yonder in that cheap
dirt when he might as well be down
on Mulholland street in Nauvoos
business district, scratching in ground
worth $500 or more for building site
of about thirty foot front"
"All planting spuds now" in Maui
WOO will be read in this column In q
short time. Probably you never heard
potatoes called spuds before around
here. In the east, parts Of that sec
ton. white potato Is spud when 1t
isn't a white potato. 1t never is an
Irish potato there. In Texas also
our old friend, the Irish potato, is
called a spud. But what is the diff
ference? Bring us big baked Muir
ply. waiter!
4(auvoo's Moose lodge members are
particularly anxious for you all to
attend their st. Patrick's day in the
evening social dance in the opera
house next Friday evening. A gala
time is promised all who will be
present.
Some say flying is as safe as
motoring. 1t is safer for the man on
foot.
Who will be the first person to
file this spring complaint? Nauvoo's
dog population begins to show ma
terial increase and the time is ripe
for a cleaning out of the ours that
are allowed to run the streets in vio
lation of the law. The hitchrack
problem, over which much has been
said Of late, is nothing in compari-
son with the danger due to the free.
dom allowed dogs.
Let us all here in Nauvoo firmly
resolve that no swatable fly shall
ever make a doormat of our bread
and butter this season. If ever a
nickname was justified, musca domes-
tica's title of the typhoid fly is that
nickname.
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the possibility of having to pay ali
mony. The next special type of
policy announced will probably be in
surance of the bachelors against the
state of matrimony.
An historic way of crying over
spilled milk is to join the Iowa pro-
! hibitionists.
Talking about scarcity of money
! in Nauvoo, just imagine what it
would be if the women of this town
should retire from the poultry bust.
ness. Several days last week one
Nauvoo family gathered eighty-two
eggs from the hen house. Many OF
our families pay for their groceries
and many other things of household
use with eggs and poultry, thus re
lieving the men of many dollars they
would otherwise have to pay out fol
these things.
Ones idea of a physical marvel is
a human being who does not have
any of the symptoms in most Of the
1916 patent medicine circulars.
/ We expect to see some more engi
neers blow into Nauvoo this spring tc
have another squint at the proposed
roadbed of the trolley line people
here have been talking and reading
about for many years.
A good many Of Nauvoo people are
taking care of the incubators which
are expecting any minute now.
A Judge of the United States re
Gently delivered an opinion in case
which hinged upon the Interpretation
of the word ship" The question