The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-11-18

have been purchased at that time fol
modest sum. What a sight this
would be, for the stranger and what
an impression it would make on the
visitor to be met with beauty spot
in the heart OF our city!
| A Nauvoo woman became very
angry with her neighbor and SAID:
PAY attention to me, woman; what
ever say goes And she was an
swered by the other: you needn't
impress it further upon me. l alrea iy
know it-you gossip"
Mr.. Geo. BoeGner, Nauvoos STOCK
buyer, returned Friday from Chicago
where he sold several carloads Of
live stock.
After some little looking up of the
statistics there is right now enough
! liquor in the licensed houses in Nan
WOO to get every man and boy in Keo.
kuk and Fit. Madison. including Car
thage. drunk and keep them so for a
month and half. Doesn't this worry
some of those fellows in the above
placesr .
AS a money-maker the goose that
i laid the golden egg isn't in it with
| the Nauvoo hen that lays the fresh
egg.
We wish to rem ind the readers of
! this column and this paper that it is
not yet too late to do your Christ
mas shopping early, but time Is
scorching and before you do your
holiday shopping be sure and read
the ads in this greatest Of all family
newspapers and then you will be sure
t. get the best selections and best
bargains.
Nauvoos Commercial college
basketball members have ordered new
uniforms for use of the team in
games against opponents. They will
arrive in sholt time.
whats the stter with Nauvoo?"
is the question asked by many stran-
gers who visit the city. The ques-
ton has been asked by a great many
, cities and discussed at length, but to
the mind of this column and many
others here it is not the question
which Nauvoo should ask. Suppose
the question had been: What is the
next thing to do to make Nauvoo a
larger and better business town."
There would have been subject cal
culated to stimulate rather than to
depreSS civic pride. It looks to &C.
ton and improvement, while it. truth
! fully implies tnat Nauvoo is a good
city just as il stands. .....
Rev. H. S. Willing will preach in
the Nauvoo M. E. church Sunday
morning at 1890 o'clock and all are
| invited to come and attend services.
With an interurban railway line
knocking at ou- door, Nauvoo ought
| to be put on the MAJOR way above
it.
The fine living or even fortune to
be made in growing apples in Maui
VOC and surrounding country as told
by those who know should tempt
many an Adam
| Considerable cabbage has been
shipped to Nauvoo recently and dis
tributed among cur people. Nauvoo's
cabbage crop this year was almost a
failure.
One of the leading social organiza-
tons of Nauvoo last year was called
the Sew-Sew club. 1t was entirely
com posed Of about a dozen yorrg
women of this town. Any young man
in Nauvoo or elsewhere with tna
character and habits, with sufficient
courage to speak up at the psychologist
cal moment was entitled to honorary
membership. Ieveral young men
spoke up last season and reduced the
ranks to such a small number that
the remaining members adjourned to
meet again as soor as the clubs new
constitution is adopted, barring any
sort of male mem bership.
Nauvoo has several persons be-
tween the ages Of ten and twenty
who should be in school, but are not,
but they would be if they could see
the situation now as they will when
they begin to taking inventories of
themselves about thirty or thirty-five.
The roof on the First National bank
building in Nauvoo will be repaired
by workmen who will arrive here
next Monday.
Tomorrow, Sunday, is the anniver-