The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-02-25
The Nauvoo Gate CITY
Nauvoo, ILL.,, Feb. Is, 1916

Feb. Is, 1916
others are getting divorced from them.
March ! is moving time and many
farmers in Nauvoo's vicinity are
changing farms.
Some say prosperity and good roads
are in the same box, expected but
hard to find.
Only about two weeks more in which
to pay your taxes in Nauvoo. Have
you paid them yet?
About two years ago there was
man down in Missouri setting type on
small town newspaper who was
compositor on the same paper for
nearly fifty years. Before he got this
Job. he and Mark Twain, then known
as Sam Clemens, set type together on
a Hannibal, Mo-, newspaper. He Is
said to be the only printer ever heard
OF as fellow compositor of Mark
Twain There have been several hun
bred Mississippi river pilots who
taught Mark how to steer steam
! boat. One of them-the real one, of
course-dies every now and then. But
the man who actually taught Mark
Twain the river was Horace BiXby OF
st. Louis.
It would be about as easy to name
the well of Nauvoo as those who are
rot feeling well at this time.
Nauvoo had resident in 1860 who
was delegate from this county to the
state convention the year that Abra-
ham Lincoln was the candidate for
doubt il Nauvoo has had delegate
since at any convention for the NOM
nation of president.
John Kraus, the Nauvoo cigar max
er, Is now occupying the Datin prop
erty near the Presbyterian church.
having moved his household goods
there today.
Mrs. VIM. Kraus has been visiting
Nauvoo relatives and her parents in
Sonora township and attended her
brothers wedding last Tuesday.
| AS rule, March makes bad climate
and she will arrive next Wednesday
morning. Wonder il she will arrive
in Nauvoo and vicinity like a roaring
lion or meek lamb or vice versa.
It Is now only a short time until
Nauvoo hens will be setting on eggs,
wives setting out garden and this col
umn setting here thinking up news
that make Keohuk Daily Gate City
readers SIT up ana thlnK.
The opinions Of farmers as to the
condition OF growing wheat are varied.
Quite number assert that wheat
vas never in better condition and it
will not be long before tests will be
made by cutting up chunks of earth
with the plant attached and placing 1t
where it may grow. There is not
very large acreage planted around
| Nauvoo.
Nauvoo had several patriotic people
as was shown by displaying their flags
last MISUNDERSTANDING birthday.
You could count them on the fingers
on both your hands.
The custom of throwing old shoes
and rice has prevailed for many years
in America 1T came from the east
ern nations, and was originally in
tended as a sign of REIMBURSEMENT by
the relatives of their authority over
the bride. An authority maintains
that the throwing Of the shoe was
sham assault on the groom, who was
supposed to be carrying on the bride.
If all the Nauvoo couples that gossip
has going to get married and those
who ought to get married during this
leap year, there won't be enough old
shoes to go around or rice In our
grocery stores.
Manager Ed Bourjoice gave a splen-
did movie show in the Nauvoo opera
house last Tuesday night and owing
to weather conditions, only a fair
crowd attended. Another first class
movie show will be given at the same
place this coming Sunday evening,
February q, and three reels of fine
pictures will be thrown on the white
cloth. There will be two reels Of
feature pictures and one Charles
Chaplin comedy reel, which will be
well worth going to see.
The baseball season is as good as
over. Some of our fans have already
picked the winners for the 1916 season.
Here is a revised song for Keokuk
and FIT. Madison men: I'VE shall gath
er across the river
For several days this week our mail
carrier and ferrymen posed as Wash
fngton crossing the Delaware and all
this happened in his birthday week.
1t also made this column appear a
little late.
| And now comes another report that
you will not be allowed to shoot duck
this spring and If you do, you will be
prosecuted to the fullest extent of the
law, so you had better not get your
fowling pieces ready to make a spring
campaign on these web-footed fowl,
for the game warden will sure be after
you and make it interesting for you
II he succeeds in capturing you with
fowl In your knapsack. 80
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