The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-02

| DlaCh walnut mouse III Il missouri
town. There is house still stand
| ing in that town that was built of
black walnut lumber. turned out at
saw mill in pioneer times when the
wood was plentiful. The sills, joists,
! studding, rafters and siding are of
black walnut. Originally the roof
was shingled with black walnut.
! German Official war pictures are to
be shown in the Nauvoo opera house
this (Tuesday) evening.
| Nauvoos new mayor should issue a
proclamation and obeyed to the let
ter, to set aside a day the forepart
Of this month for cleanup" day
Mind you, this is not saying that Maui
VOC is pretty clean city. but should
the mayor do this, all Nauvoo should
knock off from it's regular work, and
men, women and children alike could
give the old town securing and
scrubbing and make N!auvoo y spot
less town.
We would indeed by curiosity If
we could read, write and argue poll
| tics, and at the same time be reli-
gious, funny, scientific and historical
at will, write to please everybody,
know everything without asking or
being told, always having something
good to say about everybody else,
live on wind and make more money
than enemies.
The torpedo boat Sommers, with
Headquarters at Quincy, came of the
dry docks at Keokuk and steamed up
Lake Cooper as far as. Nauvoo last
Sunday and landed at Capt j. W..
Refmbolds ferry docks for several
! hours. While here the naval reserves
Of the ship came up town through the
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of our people went down to inspect
the craft while she lay at our land
ing. She returned to Quincy at about
1 o'clock in the afternoon. Had the
weather been fair, all OF Nauvoo
would have gone down to see the
ship while she honored us with a
visit. It is hoped she will come again
soon.
Cainching any further arguments
that vegetarians may rid themselves
OF, a Nauvoo fellow has this to say OF
neat and meat eaters: NO man who
lives on meat was ever known to lick
his wife or ask for q divorce. Adam
got into row right off because he
had no hog meat, butter or black bass.
Napoleon lost Waterloo because the
allied forces had bacon for breakfast
the morning OF the fight. The French
had vegetable soup No war can be
successful without hog meat. Ameri-
cans are the most frisky people on
earth because they eat the most hog
meat. A vegetable diet woman Is as
cold and clammy and unlovable as a
turnip. If you wish to put roses In the
cheeks OF your girls, vitality in their
every motion and brain in their heads,
feed them meat. If you want your boy
| To 1oI> nd nlJ 90 n a
and amount to something, give him
bacon grease, ham fat or tallow three
times a day. Eat pig and be frisky.
The weather has been interfering
with the work on Nauvoo's new build
ing for our postoffice. The work OF
laying brick should begin this week.
Girls who are not Chickens seldom
know any boy friends who used the
word in just this way.
| In some counties where gam" ~
most abundant they have the scvest
applications for hunting licenses. This
is always the case. but why Is, It?
Fewer folks, do you think?
The asparagus season Is now On In
Nauvoo. Among the richest Of the ex-
! ports is the asparagus tip and for
years farmers IN some sections have
gradually grown rich cultivating 1t.
/ 1t is Mayor E. J. Baxter in Nauvoo
now. Many times the office of mayor
in this grand old town was considered
a joke, with nothing to do but meet
with the council once month and
preside over meeting to allow a few
city bills. We were doing a Rip Van
Wrinkle act and liked the job. 1t
! should be different now. And it
should be different since MIR, Baxter
became mayor. and should make lot
of penny pinchers loosen their purse
strings. It will give them an intense
pain at first but If he will begin the
operation often and so well it will not
be long before they will begin to like
| it. 1t is hoped Nauvoo now has may
or who is not joke.
From the number of Americans who
have emerged from Mexico and still
! in the interior, it is evident that some
people don't recognize warning even
when it has been dinned in their ears
for many months
Several days ago a Nauvoo citizen
put up bee martin cote made of
small wooden box about 10x1S inches
with a partition and sloping roof.
The first thing the next morning a
pair Of martins had taken possession.
and by night they were joined by
some new corners. They are all busy
now, building nests and incidentally
destroying insects.
One of Nauvoo's citizens is attempt
ing to organize company to present
minstrel show of all home talent and
to be given under the auspices Of the
M. w. A. lodge of this town. He eX
poets to have about 25 or so young
men to take part in the performance