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

date and an interesting program
carried out.
Somebody who has discovered that
music makes the hair grow, sees
why It is now tina. the baldheaded
squad buy seats Immediately behind
the orchestra. Sooner or later, we've
always felt that somebody would
come along and explain this, and yet
it does not seem to do some Of Maui
voos baldheads any good.
Mrs. VIM F. Hertel and children
of Nauvoo, are in Dunlap, Iowa, for
months visit with the lady's pa
rents
Nauvoo's new city council met last
Monday evening and among other
business, city marshal and sexton
were appointed. Ed Boedecker was
selected as chief Of police and his
salary placed at $500 a year. Her
man Gerhardt, the old sexton, was
reappOinted
One of Nauvoo's women hung on
her husbands neck and pleaded to be
taken to see the movies next Sun
day night in the opera house and he
couldn't refuse her seeing sucn e~od
pictures for 10 cents. The confound-
ed old tightwad.
Nauvoo's big rock crusher Ia to be
overhauled and placed in condition to
crush rock again. This looks like
there is going to be something done
with Nauvoo's streets and there are
number of them that need atteu-
ton. By the way, there was no street
supervisor selected at the new coun-
ell meeting last Monday evening and
strange to say, there were no appli-
cations presented.
hf,-c DIV 80 fr al
ing over some old papers, found
program Of the first graduation exer-
cises of Nauvoo's high school. 1t was
printed twenty-six years ago and the
writer of this column set the typ1 for
this same program.
Splendid Roadway In securing per-
sons for the home talent minstrel
show in Nauvoo is being made and
the event may be pulled Off the latter
part Of the present month.
A floating wild western movie show
occupied the Nauvoo bill boards
Thursday evening"
Governor Dunno of Illinois has de-
clared that May 10 shall be observed
as good roads day. He recommends
that on this day actual work be per-
formed on the highways of the state.
If the people Of this vicinity will take
heed to tho announcement and do
good work it will not be long before
you will hear strangers say that they
have driven over miles and miles of
road where the hills have been pulled
down, the low places drained and
graded and crowned with rock and
gravel where it was possible, steam
rolled and with as smooth, solid a
surface as you can find ON boule-
vard-all in NauvOo's vicinity. If
this is done, permit us to say that
to the credit and honor of Governor
Dunno no small part of this viii be
done out of respect to his good roads
proclamation
We have written repeatedly about
the noise of autos when standing on
our streets with open exhausts and
what a nuisance it was, and now the
Nauvoo Independent has taken up the
matter and asks the council to pass
an ordinance declaring it a misde-
meanor.
A learned Judge suggests that d.
vorces should be denied where the
parties have children; but there are
other judges who grant divorces in
order to save the children from the
evils of a household that is not
home.
TWO OIL BCAOofS Will CloSo CtJl-cty.
They are the Nauvoo district schools
taught by Prof. StefTey and MISS
Verna Hohl
On Wednesday evening of next
week Nauvoo's Civic league ladies
will meet at the home Of Mrs. Ed
W'alther.
Services are being held in the Maui
voo Catholic church every evening
during this month.
Some of Nauvoo's people are al
ready gathering mushrooms around
the city and In the timber lands
above and below town.
Best prospects for wheat, oats and
corn I ever saw around here, said q
farmer the other day. AMI fruit
grower said peach and apple buds are
an right so far.
Today, amateur bands-country
bands-play creditab1y well tunes
that were the boast Of many first
class organizations OF the outgoing
period. The band is an important fac
tor in the present day life Of our mod
ern civilization. 1t performs many
functions, the least Of which is to
amuse This fact has been lost sight
of in Nauvoo by many. Its principal
mission is to civilize, humanize, make
good, and help to cement the brother
1y feelings which it has been the mis-
sion to religion and art to promote.
While the military band lacks the
finesse of the orchestra, that def
cheney has been compensated for by
its greater usefulness as an outdoor
instrument, thereby getting more in
contact with those who most need it's
influence as a humanizing medium.
The usefulness of a band to a COM
cannot be overestimated. One
of our modern writer's compares it,
and rightly so, with the same relation
to the community as the choir to the
church, highly important factor.
School children ought to be induced
to dig up the dandelions on the lawns
and yards in Nauvoo. The work
should be done in the nature of
contest, the winner, presumably, to
be the one who won't have to eat
any of them.
The funeral Of Louis Wolf, who