The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-29
The Nauvoo Gate CITY
Nauvoo, ILL.,, March 20, 1916

day evening of this week. A gala
time is assured all who attend and
good music will be q feature OF the
evening.
Quite number Of farmers in the
vicinity Of Nauvoo have planted con-
siderable oats during the nice wealth
err last week and are still at 1t. There
will be large acreage sowed this
spring.
Compulsory voting might work
next Tuesday.
II Nauvoos treasury had several
dollars and out Of debt, she could well
ginning to wear.
The Priscilla club will meet Thurs
day afternoon of this week at the
home of Mrs. J. M. Schmidt In the
third ward and an interesting and en-
joyable session is looked for.
Since the ferry started making its
regular trips across Lake Cooper
here, travelling men are flocking into
this city in large numbers.
Little Richard. son OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Art Schneider has been quite Ill with
pneumonia, but we are glad to state
that he Is mending rapidly.
Mrs. Mar Kruger will attend the
eighteenth annual meeting Of the Re-
bekahs Of Illinois to be held at Bowen,
ILL.,, April II and 2S. She will attend
as delegate from Nauvoo lodge. r..
In Nauvoo's temperance sheet the
drys are putting some hot shots into
their enemy's camp, but many are
fired in blank cartridges and do little
or no damage
William Kmball,. George Dachroth
and E J. Baxter are the retiring alder
men in Nauvoo this spring.
Another temperance lecturer will
deliver an address in favor of the
sdrys in Nauvoo next Friday evening
in our opera house. The dry faction
is leaving nothing undone to make
Nauvoo a dry town for two years to
come.
John Schraeder of Springfield, ILL.,,
is a Nauvoo visitor. His father was a
Nauvoo resident for many years.
Miss Lois Hobbs of Nauvoo was
guest at leap year party given in
Ft. Madison on Friday evening of last
week. 49,
Nauvoo's Presbyterian congregation
has not yet selected a minister to
fill the pulpit in their religious temple
W
has resigned. A selection will be
made in short time from numerous
applications in the church trustees
hands.
James Foster of Nauvoo, has gore
to Chicago again to go to work as 4
brick-laying mechanic.
Squire Berger passed his 10th birth
day last Friday and number Of the
'old vets" called to remind him of
the event. They had a delightful
time at his home playing cards and
enjoying refreshments.
Mrs. Geo. Leosch Bruegger Of Maui
voo's first ward, presented, her hus-
band with a fine daughter Tuesday
morning. 1t is the first OF the fair
sex to visit this home and the mem
bers are indeed happy.
The dandelion is on tap in the
front yards of Nauvoo now.
The race Of man has been here on
earth a long time, yet the problem
of how to make cabbage good to eat
by some seems no nearer solution
than at the beginning. Come to Maui
VOC and learn how. 10 the good ap-
petite all things are good. .-.,.-c
That last rain we had-did It food
into your basement? asked one Maui
no, mine is one of the six best Gel
lars in town. Get the AK, Steve.
We are glad to learn that our
friend Ed. Lotion, was selected as city
mayor of Keokuk and we predict one
of the best city administrations for
the dam city she ever had IN her his
tory. Congrats, Ed.
VIM. G.. Webb has purchased the
Peter Reimbold property consisting Of
a two-story brick residence and eight
acres of land and the consideration
was $4,000. which is considered a
bargain.
Automobiles are a fine thing to
get you out of doors-and sometimes
keep you there and you would never
get back if assistance didn't come.
The building of the interurban line
from Fl. Madison to Nauvoo VIII cost
us $4,000 or better, but 1t will be
worth many times more that amount
to our people.
The steamer Keokuk Will touch
Nauvoo's port on April 4, next Tues.
day, on her north bound trip 70 Bur
lington. This popular little packet
has entered the trade between Keo-
kuk. Nauvoo and Burlington, making
three trips a week until the steamer
Black Hawk enters this trade when
Nauvoo will have a daily packet line.
Nauvoo is right on the map again,
to remain until the next winter IN
less the interurban line is built.
A boarder in a Carthage hotel pre-
scented a plaintive appeal to his land
lady, begging her. to put some hash
and whisky on the dining room table
occasionally. Ibis boarding house
lady ought to come to Nauvoo and
learn a thing or two She should