The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-09-23
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Iowa, above Montrose, knows how to
make glad the heart OF the NauvOo
Gate City reporter. He recently pre-
scented US with some watermelons
and canteloups and they were Of the
finest raised on Iowa soil. Bert
brings a great deal Of this product
to Nauvoo and he is hardly thirty
minutes in our business district I'M
til his load Is disposed Of It pays
to bring good produce to market.
In northern state the women are
up in arms because man has taken
the embroidery prize for three sue
cessive years at the county fair.
This presents the equality OF the
sexes in a new light.
Nauvoo had one police court case
this week. One plain drunk was up
before Judge L. L. Hudson last We'd
nesday and received q fine and
costs.
A young fellow in q neighboring
town was born on the 18th day of
month and so was his sweetheart.
They were married on the 18th day
OF the month. Gee! Didn't they ever
have any bad luck? asked a man who
heard Of it. Thirteen children.
Grape thieves have been getting in
their work In Nauvoo all through
the harvest and were at it no later
than last Thursday night. Several
people who own vineyards in Nauvoo
have missed grapes from the vines
at different times during the cutting
season.
The woman who imagines she can
help her husband by spreading 1t on
socially, is only fooling herself in
order to get a more pleasant view OF
the extravaganza that is keeping her
husbands nose bent over the grind
stone. She is holding him Just like a
ten pound rock helps strong, Wig
orous swimmer, when it is tied around
his neck. There have been many
views to this question. Some of the
most successful men who achieved
both fame, money and glory. have
confessed that along the route from
mediocrity to eminence they have
found the social popularity OF their
wives the best helping hand they have
received. How many Nauvoo wives
take this view of it? The question
is too big to be settled with one
single flourish OF the pen.
Mrs. John Kraus, who 1s In the
st. Joseph hospital in Keokuk. will
be able to leave that institution next
Tuesday and be able to be brought to
Sunday. This Is glad news to her
MANY friends in this old Mormon
city.
Having no use for q Jail in a small
town not far from Nauvoo, the peo-
pie there will convert the calaboose
into a henhouse. Now il somebody
robs the roost it will be seen that
the irony OF fate Is still at work.
John Stadler, a cigar dealer OF
Keokuk. was a Nauvoo business Wis
itor last Friday.
Ed. Simmons has opened his cigar
manufacturing plant in Nauvoo and
a day recently he presented this col
umn with one of his smokers and 1t
sure was good. Ed will surely build
nm a fine trade in Nauvoo.
Carl Boedecker and Fred Schleick-
err who were connected with J. M.
Schmidts Nauvoo saloon, have res
tired from the business.
At least one thing may be said in
defense OF Nauvoo's September
Morn" 1t is not so blooming hot as
the afternoons Of last August were.
to Carthage last Thursday and took
in the county fair.
After today. Saturday. the auto
mobile ordinance passed by the
Nauvoo city council goes into effect
and many arrests are looked for. The
law is very stringent.
Mrs. R S. Latta returned to Maui
WOO for a few days stay from the
Orchard farm. near Wayland. Mo-.