The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-05
The Nauvoo Gate City
Nauvoo, ILL.,, May S, 1916

Everybody IN INhuVOO anu SiSlilIy
should go down to our ball yard next
Sunday afternoon and see the Nauvoo
team wallop the Keokuk Electrics.
them a large attendance and root
them on to victory.
And now Nauvoo people and the
travelling public will have to take
back all those tears they shed over
the passing of the Nauvoo and FIT.
Madison interurban line. Report has
it that Mr.. Petesch and Mr.. Payne will
soon be in Nauvoo TO make all pre-
liminary arran gements for the build
ing of the road.
The peas planted for our canning
factory are looking good and IL the
weather warns up considerable and
remains so, there is promise of a
large yield There is large acre
age planted in Nauvoo and suburbs.
Although Keokuk and FIT. Madison
has been surrounded by water the
past several days, yet they never
were drier. Judging from the num-
Der of people from those places seen
in Nauvoo almost every day, there
isn't a drop OF that exilir in those
towns that continues to call atten-
ton to Nauvoo and Warsaw.
Some few cement walks are being
laid by our citizens along their prem
Uses.
Now Nauvoo is out of debt and ST.
900 to the good. 1t would be good
idea for our new council members to
town hall. Nauvoo is in need of a
suitable place where public gather
ings could be held. The new edifice
when completed, should neither bar
high school debates. baby shows
flower or vegetable carnivals, nor
hold out against any of the grown-ups
who might wish to get together and
wrangle over the political outlook.
Not wedding to chronicle since the
lenten season and Easter departed
but several are talked Of to occur IN
a very short time in Nauvoo.
Goods made in Nauvoo should be
SO branded. Goods not made here
well, let's make them here.
Nauyoo's high school commence
ment exercises will occur June 8.
Several candidates from Nauvoo
expect to go to Davenport, Iowa, the
latter part of this month to take the
fourth degree which will be put on
in that city by the knights of Co
lumbus lodge.
Several fine monuments have been
placed over the graves of departed
ones in Nauvoo's cemetery lately.
The commission form of govern
ment originated in the Galveston
Texas, disaster. 1t has proved its ef
ficiency in many cities and towns
since. and Nauvoo should adopt the
form and give it tryout.
Carl Pfaffe, the cigar dealer OF
h,,rs q
itor last Thursday.
The Industrial society of the Nau
VOC Presbyterian church met in The
noon.
The Ladies OF the NJ e. church Aic
society in Nauvoo, held an all day
quilting bee in the church basement
Thursday afternoon. They also hello
a business meeting.
The way of the transgressor is
full of skiddings and front-end col
lisions.
If German airships keep UP their
conduct the word Zeppelin will
acquire a decided value as a general
designation for things that go wrong.
Mr. and Mrs Max Kirscflbaum OF
Nauvoo, are entertaining new girl
baby at their first ward home, the
little mite arriving last Saturday.
Leo. Ochsner Of the east country,
near Nauvoo, has taken the agency
for the Chevrolet automobile and ex-
poets to revolutionize the auto trade
in this section Cor the balance of the
season.
April went out like the bull moose
and May came in like donkey
A Nauvoo woman has thought up
and is giving her friends a recipe for
carrot pie. Beyond the fact that 1t
establishes the absolute culinary zero,
which has been in doubt for some
time, the recipe is of no scientific
worth to mankind.
What is Nauvoo going to do about
observing Memorial day? If we are