The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-02-16
The Nauvoo Gate City
Nauvoo, ILL, Feb. l6, 1916

selected to fill the vacancy until May
IL. Mr.. Hart also resigned as super
visor of Nauyoo township at q meet
ing of that body in Carthage which
was also accepted and VIM. Herten-
I, stein OF this town was placed in the
! position until the township spring
election which will occur next April.
Some one of Nauvoo's splenold doc
4 tors ought to undertake to investi-
gate several Nauvooites headaches
and better consider whether it is not
thinking about Nauyoo politics that
causes them as the spring election
approaches.
When the snowbound farmer is
shut away from Nauvoo, wallowing in
snowdrifts, wrestling with wood
| logs" and pulling the thrice foolish
eve from the snow banks, he should
mediate on the laws Of compensa-
ton. For there is compensation In
the big snow for all the mysery and
discomfort that it brings. The corn
| Of 1915 will be all the deeper green
for the snow that now lies between
the dead stalks Of yesteryear. Farm
ers of dead generation always pro
phesied good crops when the snow
lay on the Yields for days. Their
sons and grandsons know that big
snow means more stored moisture,
therefore greater crops. 1t is blan-'
ket that protects the big wheat fields
and leaves the soil fairly throbbing
with the mysterious forces that drive
the blades and stalks upward in the
first warm days of spring. No wheat
grower bewails the coming Of the
great blanket that protects his fields
from the thaws and freezes that jerk
the wheat roots from the ground.
Somehow the soil always seems
blacker and fuller Of the mystic pow
ers that make for growth after win
ter of deep SHOWS. There Is more
promise of great armies Of the corn"
in the fresh turned burrows of April,
after the SHOWS are gone. the black
birds have come and the voice of
the frog is heard in the land" The
himself has forged. snow means
walks to clean and generally un-
pleasant break in his petty daily
round. Out in the open country it
has bigger. deeper significance.
Nauvoo's Priscilla club met We'd
nesday afternoon of this week at the
home of Mrs. VIM. himball down in
the extreme end of the first ward.
There were small amount. Of val
entines sold by Nauvoo dealers this
year and few sent through and re-
ceived in our mails. The custom Ia
fast coming into disuse and only
practised by the lovesick swain
Members of the Brownson literary
club of st. Mary's academy In Maui
VOC were guests OF Miss Helen Cullen
en- Thursday Of last week and were en-
tertained in splendid manner by
the hostess.
Mrs. j. Latham. wife OF Nauvoo.s
lent of very pleasant surprise party
last Monday afternoon. The Indus
trial society planned the event in hon
or Of the lady's birthday anniversary.
Games were played and splendid
eatables were served. The hostess
was presented with beautiful piece
Of silverware as a remembrance OF
the happy event.
A Nauvoo young man proudly an
nounces that he has married the ideal
woman--but then he has only been
married about a year.
Miss Zeld Walther may start a mil
linery store in the Russell business
rooms in Nauvoo. She has gone to
Quincy to inspect the goods. secret OF
prices and profits, and when she re-
turns with the spring hat fashions in
her mind and the profits soaring high, |
may conclude to try the venture
1t is hard 10 see just how a concen-
trated headlight that hits you In the |
face like hard-fiung brick, will make |
the pedestrian any safer from the on.
slaughts of the auto driver.
Last Sunday evening John LAUDER.
sheimer while in the act Of feeding q |
cider mill. had the misfortune to get
his hand caught in the revolving I
part OF the press. The second finger
of one of his hands was badly mash
ed and anputation was found neces-
sary. Tie middle finger was cut of
near the knuckle and the hand is do
ing as good as can be expected at this
time.
Will Argast received second honors
in ST. Mary's college in Kansas. He
is also a member Of the junior or
chestra Of this school.
Women are running for ONCE in |
many Illinois counties at every spring
election and mostly for the Office of
tax collector. Making the men give
up their money was ever passion
among the fair sex. Some Nauvoo
lady ought to run for this office here Y
at the coming election.
Mrs. Harley Johnston, the newly.
wed, entertained al, the lady friends
who rendered her the several before
marriage shower parties" at her pa
rents home last Monday afternoon. 1t
was in the nature of Valentine
party and all enjoyed the event in a
delightful manner. Mrs. Johnston
served dainty luncheon before the
quests were allowed to depart. and all
present voted the hostess capital en-
.ertainer
This must make queer reading to
he present generation born since
Lincoln's emancipation proclamation
vent into effect in 1853: Did you .
,now that in 1850 there were LIS
slaves in Adrian county in Missouri. (
md they were owned by 327 indiyid-
,als? In all. there were 1862 slaves