The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-24

church. They viii occupy the old
parsonage building in the rear of the
church Which the gentleman purchas-
eu from the congregation. The good
reverend and wife have a warm spot
In their hearts for Nauvoo and it's
people and expect to make this town
their home during the balance Of their
declining years.
IN looking over The records OF a
century. going back into the past and
lar into the future, 1t Is found that
the latest Easter within that time will
be- that OF the year 1913, when 1t oc-
ours on April 25. The next latest
was In 1859, when it fell on April "a.
This year it falls on April %.
NauVoo's city marshal has had less
applications for shelter this winter
by persons who come along without
means to put up at hotel than has
been known for good many years.
Some that did apply were probably
professional tramps, but there were
some who were not, apparently, judg-
ing from their dress and manners.
Nauvoo's splendid little ferry was
taken from her winter quarters below
Sonora on Lake Cooper and brought
to Nauvoo Thursday and began to
make trips to and from Montrose.
This again brings us In touch with
the outside world. Captain J. w.
Reimbold will issue his time table in
a day or so, when the travelling public
can learn how often they can make
visit to Nauvoo. rowa's drouth will
send many visitors over on this craft
during tho summer If Nauvoo win re-
main wet after the next township
election
If this column is now and then
crowded with Forward March,"
articles, you will find the central idea
seems to be to get town and country
people together in the procession.
A Nauvoo young single man Is No.
gotfating for an empty North Thir-
teenth street residence. Boys, get the
old dish pans and COW bells ready.
There is going to be a wedding in the
old town soon now.
OF all Nauvoo's crops, let us not
overlook her constant growing crop of
school teachers and nearly every crop
composed of the fair sex.
VIM. Beger of Ft. Madison, was a
Nauvoo visitor last Thursday.
| Rev. Melvin Beger. wife and child
of Moquon. ILL.,, visited relatives in
Nauvoo during the fore part OF the
week.
Common sense would do lot more
good il 1t were common.
A meteorological has figured that
any man with barometer and a
knowledge of few weather proverbs
can make as good predictions as the
Washington weather board, but that
place has no such variety OF weather
as we have
Paris Green usually sells for about
| 20 to % cents per pound and this year
| 1t will be all the way from 80 to 50
cents per pound and hard to get at
these prices.
Those who enjoy the pleasures OF
the chase may indulge their passion
with no disapproval from the society
for the prevention Of cruelty to ami
mails by swatting the fly soon.
Two United States and war mai
peddlers were in Nauvoo Thursda,
trying to sell an atlas that would fl
all requirements for. the home and of
flee at ridiculous low price, anG.. II
the end throw in a pocketbook as ~
|inducement. They found few buy
Here is a chirp of spring that VII
be seen In Nauvoo In few days
Many Of our citizens will get cElt the
rake, spade and hoe. Don Jumpers
put on a pair Of old gloves and go tc
1t. Even the automobile advertise
ments and the daily papers will lose
their allurement when you get tc
bordering over whether you will plant
perennials or bulbs. The movies will
lose their appeal when you are lost in
the glamour Of a seed catalogue. BY
all means plant q garden this spring
Yes. by all means-but how abou,
the would-be gardener who inhabits a
piece of soil alongside of neighbor
who Is raising a lot Of chickens7
Nauvoo is putting on metropolitan
airs again. The Greek popcorn and
peanut man who held forth in Nauvoo
for while last winter has returned
and has his popcorn wagon IN opera
ton again in Nauvoo's business sec
ton. He says he has come to stay
this time.
The city householder who loves tc
voice a wall concerning the high
cost Of living, will have to modulate
his jeremiad again. He will soon be
able to receive anywhere from ten to
twenty pounds of Grated eggs, butter
fruits and vegetables by parcel post
fresh from the rural districts.
Rev. VIM. Hertel of the Nauyoo
Lutheran church. in his sermon last
Sunday morning, denounced practices
like dancing and other public amuse
ment during Lent, which many gen.
timely religious persons practice with
no Quarm OF conscience. He declared
the world is steadily becoming worse.
Thursday evening Of this week.
Miss Grace Argast had the honor and
pleasure Of entertaining Nauvoo' g
Young Ladies' Sew-Sew club at her
home, near corner of Thirteenth and
MulholIand streets. Quite hevy of
young ladies were present, who en-
joyed the evening to its fullest extent.