The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-03

| Physicians and those familiar with
death beds, know that the mind OF the
dying, when able to think at all, thinks
with amazing clearness. Artificlalltles
are stripped clean from the scheme
of things when the mind faces dissolu-
ton. If we are able to keep in the
| back of our consciousness trace OF
this feeling of the inevitable, we
/ might be better able to see every day
! life more nearly in its true proportions.
The man who is ready to die is likely
| to be less bewildered by the pettyness
of everyday existence.
Captain J. w. Reimbold made it
known a few days ago that he ex-
pected to bring out the Nauvoo-Mont-
rose ferry to ply in this trade, about
| the fifteenth of the present month.
but he has probably changed his mind
since the arrival Of March. But many
! changes in the weather may take
/ place in two weeks.
Many of his Nauvoo friends would
| like to see VIM. Reimbold ST., re-
elected to the office of county treasur-
| er over in Keokuk.
/ The cat in the cracker barrel and
the fly in the sorghum will be elimin-
ated in Nauvoo when the Civic league
| finishes the proposed spring cleanup.
Many towns have been holding their
commercial club banquets. Every
such function attests the fact that the
town is awake and alive. Have you no.
! ticed the present day movement in
| Nauvoo toward the organization of u
| commercial club that would be a
sticker? Even villages are in it. The
people are linking together Watch
those towns grow in business II not
! in population.
| Miss Zelda Walther has opened
millinery store in Nauvoo in the Rus
sell building near the postoffice.
/ Everyone would enjoy two weeks OF
| warm sunshine in Nauvoo.
When March came IN with a snow
storm Wednesday, our young people
were expecting some more sleighlns,
but were disappointed. The sound OF
those bob-sleds during the winter GER
| tainly was music to us. We can hear
those sleigh bells a-jingling clear
down to Keokuk. 1t reminds you Of the
| days when you used to take your girl
or some other fellows girl out sleigh
| ing on cold winter nights on the coun-
try roads, get upset in a snow-drift,
break the off runner or the harness
and walk a few miles through the
snow to some farmers house where
he kindly permitted you to melt the
! icicles out of your hair by his fire
place and his wife thawed out the girl
at the kitchen stove. All, those were
| indeed, happy days and nights. Now
about the only long and good sleigh
| ing you get is these Nauvoo front
| parlors with a red-hot stove in one
| part and an artificial ice plant in the
other, but the young folks OF today
don't notice it.
! oh CT rt
"Clean Life and Happy Future asso-
citation" Sounds queer, doesn't It?
| The aim Of the association should be,
chiefly, the swatting Of cigarettes.
! Boys who Join would be compelled to
! take this pledge: "In order to give
myself a square deal, pledge myself
not to poison my blood with tobacco,
! liquor or bad company, nor use or lis
| ten to bad language, nor knowingly
| do anything to cause heartaches or
unhappiness in my home" The one
! who would do the crusaaing for the
movement in Nauvoo would give up In
| disgust for there aren't any angels in
Nauvoo or any boys that want to be-
come one, but something should be
j done here to decrease by a large per
who ask for the markings" or buy ci-
garettes. ..
| Mrs George Hart entertained the
Kensington club at her splendid Maui
VOC home last Wednesday afternoon,
! in a royal manner. Games, social con-
versation and refreshments were the
afternoons pastimes and all present
! enjoyed a delightful afternoon in the
Hart home.
Every few days ,Nauvoos mail car
rier goes to Keokuk to bring up our
mail on account of crossing Lake
Cooper but this state of things won't
last much longer. The whistle of the
steamers will soon be heard and then
outside world.
Yet few days and the palpitating
public will finally get look at some
Of those redoubtable candidates whose
identity has been disturbing the win
ter dreams Of Nauvoo's citizens.
Miss Alva, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Gus Schenk, who were former Nauvoo
residents, but now Of st. Louis, had
her photo printed in the picture sec
! ton OF last Sundays st. Louis Post
Dispatch She was in costume at the
| Leiderkranz clubs annual mask ball.
Miss Alva and two girl chums were in
like costumes and presented pleas
ing appearance. The young lady at
ten0eQ NduNoo acduelhy d. lc" ySoi
before her parents left here for their
ST. Louis home.
Miss Mollie Munroe OF Peoria, ILL.,,
who is staying at Nauvoo's st. Mary's
academy, will shortly be married to a
man named Sheldon of Kahoka, Mo.
Many who are living in Nauvoo to-
/ day first went to school In a school
| house made OF logs and slabs with the
bark on the under side used as seats.
A section of a log was taken out Of
! the wall to admit light land cold). and
| the building was heated by fire.
place that accomm odated logs six
feet long Now they have modern
! buildings and the law says there must
be one.fifth as much window space as
| floor space and that both of Nauvoo's
school buildings will need quite an ex-
tensiye remodeling to meet these re-