The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-08
Nauvoo, ILL.,, March 8, 1916.

| Fred and Emil, sons Of Mr.. and
Mrs. c. J. Baxter, recently purchased
twenty-five acres of land two miles
east of Nauvoo and will set 1t out
to orchard as soon as practicable.
The land was purchased from the
Schneider heirs and Mrs. Catherine
Koehler of Nauvoo. The Baxter boys
expect to reap a rich harvest in grow
ing fruit on this land.
Many FIT Madison and Keokuk's
male population make trips nowadays
to take in the sights" of Nauvoo
And when they make 1t, 1t keeps
them busy telling their friends what
they saw (and call them aside to
give them a smiley in the other
end of the popular city at the end
Of the unfinished interurban line.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. F. Argast Of Maui
VOC went to Basco, ILL.,, last weeks
end to attend the funeral of their
son Limer's mother-in-law.
Lloyd Bossler of Keokuk was
Nauyoo visitor for several days the
past week.
Nauvoo's Rebekah members held a
social after their regular meeting last
Friday night and fine time was
had by those who were fortunate
enough to be there.
| When all of the white pine gives
out what is going to become of the
whittlers?
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Shaw of Dallas
City, and son James of Calgary,
Canada, visited in Nauvoo the fore
part of last week, the guest of their
daughter, Mrs. Fred Salm, Jr.
Very few gossip about ugly widows
| in Nauvoo.
The law allows the women vote,
but that isn't sign that she Is to
be trusted with it.
| The little packet will begin opera
tons from Keokuk to Nauvoo and
| Burlington in a short time now. We
nave always maintained that the way
| to get the river used was to use it.
But the barge line from st. Louis
to ST. Paul is not assured.
From an observatory we learn that
there has been late spring frost in
Mars, and the next thing one may
suppose in Nauvoo will be reports of
total destruction of the grape and
| peach crop.
Did you ever stop to think how
little you get from an orange and
how much from an apple? The orange
| is covered with a Tough, thick skin
absolutely inedible. 1t has coarse
| grained pulp that is as dry as chip
when the juice is gone, and the cider
is the only thing of value in the
fruit. But how different with Maui
VOC delicious apple. You take it be-
| tween the thumb and fingers of the
left hand and bite a generous chunk
out of its luscious side and keep on
revolving the apple in your hand and
biting as you go until you reach the
place where you commenced. You
then release the tip end Of the core
with your fingers and eat that, seed
and all, and then release the lower
end and eat that, stem and all There
isn't a particle of the Nauvoo apple
from seed to skin-ference that can't
be eaten and enjoyed. The man who
would peel an apple to eat it ought
to be shot, anyhow.
The board of supervisors are in ses-
sion at Carthage this week and Sup
ervisor Hertenstein of Nauvoo is
present, if the board is not througu
with it's business before this column
gets into print.
Nauvoo's Civic league members will
be entertained by Mrs. A. J. Schneider
this Tuesday afternoon.
The Ladies' Aid society Of the Maui
VOC M. E. church will arrange fine
on ST. Patrick's day at noon time,
just after the morning.
1t seems that if Nauvoo Is to get
an interurban railway line to alight
here, we will have to bait the rails
and ties with dollars.
One by one they sponge out the
proverbs and axioms. Now the real
estate men are about to make it
cheaper to pay rent than move"
All hail to the Nauvoo and vicinity
hen. This is her day Of days"
4 Nearly all orators and poultry raisers
are Growing and cackling the praises
Of the hen in old Illinois. Back in
1910 when the census takers combed
the country as with fine tooth comb,
Illinois was ranked az first in poul-
try production. In that year many
million fowls were raised In the state
and produced nearly 250,000,000 dozen
eggs If you want to know how many
separate and individual eggs there
were, figure it for yourself There
were enough to build pyramids, dam
rivers and wall Lake Cooper which
so badly needs it. The hen of Maui
VOC was just getting into her stride,
so to speak, at that time. She has
smashed records since and is prepar-
ing to smash some more. Never was
the hen a more popular institution in
Nauvoo than she is today. Now she
is extoiled as a mortgage litter, a
home builder and a feathered agent
of civilization. Let the orators pile on
their eloQuence and soar in fevered
heights till both feet are off the
ground. They can hardly say too
much of the hen, one of the pillars
and props of Nauvoo and vicinity's
prosperity. In the meanwhile the