The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-07-29

Nothing much is leaning in Nauvoo
that needs STRENGTHENING out.
DR.. L. J. Burk OF Detroit. Michigan.
visited with Mr.. and Mrs.. Ellis
days during the week.
week.
We enjoyed holiday this chad
tauQua week by running Nauvoo
daily in the Keokuk Gate City, daily
newspaper that goes into the homes
Of several hundred families in Mall
VOC and our two rural routes.
You can shoot squared in Illinois
after next Monday and they say the
crop is good ono If you can find
timber enough around NauvOo IN
which to hunt them in.
Every day that you pick up a news
paper you can read about men being
fined and Jailed for. auto speeding,
driving on the wrong side OF the
street, lights not lighted at the prop
er time, failure to sound a note OF
warning at corners and the absence
Of the necessary license tags as we'll
as the open exhaust. In Nauvoo. Of
lenses like those. described above are
generally not noticed and not punish
ed and nobody goes to tail.
1t won't be long now before the
scant handful OF soldiers in NauvoO
will be holding their last reunion and
get ready to answer their final roll
call. SO let NaMvoo business men
and citizens do their best to enter
tain the old veterans and their friends
next September s and 8. the date Of
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A child adopted from an orphans
home was being ridiculed by other
children who had real parents, and
one OF the latter said she had no real
father and mother, when she replied
that may be she hadn't but that hers
loved her more than theirs because
they picked her out of about hun
dred babies and the real parents
had to take what they got.
Mrs. Karl Sauer of KeOkuk came up
to Nauvoo Friday and remained until
Sunday visiting her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Wm- Guilliam. Mr.. Sauer comes
I'D Sunday to Join his wife and will
return by the auto route IN tho even
Ing.
Tho fourth day. friday, Nauvoo's
chautauqua has ended and like the
preceding ones was a complete sue
sess. Tho Dixie Singers appeared in
entire concert In the afternoon, and
while the crowd was the smallest for
the week, there was a large assem-
b1age. In the evening the Dixies ap-
peared again as 4 prelude to Mr..
James McLAren, the lecturer, and
he chose for his subject, "The Birth
of the Nation" His style of delivery
is simplicity and he is successful in
making great things plain. He Is
one Of the best lecturers in the pro-
fesston. Today, Saturday afteroon
and evening as we'll as the two ses-
sions tomorrow record breaking
crowds are expected In the big tent
house at the camp ground. This aft
ernoon the Howard Quintette will APP
pear In prelude to the lecture of DR..
D. Waugh, and in full concert this
evening. Tomorrow, Sunday, they
will again appear in prelude to the
lecture. to be delivered by Rev. VIM.
Spurgeon and In the evening. In full
concert again, which will end Maui
voo's chautauQua for 1915. From the
platform Friday afternoon, Rev. VIM.
Hertel announced the winners OF the
garden contest for school children.
Sixty-eight children took part In the
contest. 0lTlb OSoT LIZ, WAlAAoe SsAiASs
won first prize, and under IL years
Of age, Salome Foster, the next prize.
Boys over IL years OF age, Herman
Meyertholen captured first, and un-
der u, Richard Schneider the second.
A number Of others received honor
able mention. Nauvoo's chautauqua
has certainly proven q success SO
far and enjoyed by the large crowds
thai onnoared at every session and
it looks now like they will become
a permanent fixture In this grand
old Mormon town. The Civic league
ladies who have the matter In charge
are deserving of much praise for
having started these chautauquas In
Nauvoo and next year they Will at
tempt to secure better talent than
aver. These kind of entertainments
are good business getters also for
thew attract hundreds OF people to
Nauvoo o. was shown this year.