The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-12
The Nauvoo Gate City
Nauvoo, ILL.,, May IL, 1916

Some people don't think much of
mothers day public observance. II
man or boy gives his mother 10y
atty, love and kindness every day,
that beats a. flower once year And
all the flowers in the world wouldn't
make UP for Indifference or neglect.
However, mothers day will be OBJ
served in Nauvoo next Sunday.
Miss Helen Kline OF Moline, H.,
who has been visiting her sister, Mrs.
Chas. McGary. in Nauvoo. has re-
turned home.
Chas. Christen with his auto. ran
up to Nauvoo from st. Louis and
said hello and how are you to his
sister, Mrs. Ed Dachroth, for a short
while last Sunday.
Should you meet certain Nauvoo
citizen you would find fellow who
believes In speaking right out in
meetin' with regard to the Mexican
situation. He comes out f1at-footed.
but flat-chested. in advocacy of tho
annexation by the United States Of
the northern part of Mexico. That
is the only way we can collect for
damages done, thinks this Nauvooite.
A few OF Nauvoo's garden makers
are complaining OF their ne!ghbor's
chickens kicking up their carefully
arranged and planted beds. Shoe
them to the bake-oven or frying pan
il they won't remain at home.
In the past few years grape cul-
ture in Nauvoo has been increasing.
Grapes grow we'll almost anywhere
in this town and wild grapes thrive
in the woods. There must be 500
acres in grapes in Nauvoo. Nauvoo
is both orchard and vineyard.
The. young lady wanted for the
Civic leagues May day" celebration
for Saturday, May 20. will be about
the most remarkable girl in Nauvoo
history if she does all the things she
is scheduled to do.
And now it is reported that Nauvoo
Is soon to have its fourth saloon.
What matter IL the mercury does
stand at IS degrees and then drops
to so and below? What matter If the
jolly farmer lad is forced to grip the
pillow handles with mitten covered
hands and the rest Of us searching for
earmuffs and longing for pulse warm
ers? The first of the seasons water
melons have arrived in cities south.
The first ones sold for fabulous
sum, well-nigh their weight in raw
gold, but this first shipment is but
an earnest of many more to come.
Cooling doves, croaking frogs and
cen the namboyant dandelion may
be false heralds of summer weather,
but the watermelon may be relied
upon And the first strawberries
have made their appearance. Some
of them arrived in Keolsuk on day
when the Thermometer seemed to
have designs on humping the fatal
freezing mark, but they came. When
the Nauvoo berries get into market,
life is good thing to be living.
What with greens" Florida water
melons and Nauvoo Strawberries we
VIII try to hold out now till our new
potatoes and roasting ears get here
The moving picture show next
Saturday evening in the Nauvoo opera
house promises to be good. Our peo-
pie have been faxed so often by old
and worn out films that they hest
tate to go for fear OF a repetition.
Some believe that nearly one
thousand automobiles passed through
Nauvoo last Sunday The weather
was just right for auto parties and
many took advantage of it by visit
ing Nauvoo and take a drive along
Lake Cooper. on the boulevard.
Agnes orchestra OF Keokuk Win
play at the dance to be given IN
Nauvoo next Tuesday evening by
Hertenstein brothers.
1t will soon be time for the Maui
VOC boy scouts to go down to the
Veith farm, a short distance below