The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-01-18
The Nauvoo Gate CITY
Nauvoo, ILL.,, Jan. Is. 1916

Nauvo0, Ill
Right here and now we're going 4
evince our Judgment OF those Nauvo
people who said Banker Fred Saln
Jr.. who had such q serious tussl
with typhoid, could not live. Hoy
a constitution Of gold Fred will b,
behind the screen in the First Ma
tional bank dishing out coins again II
a few weeks.
According to the last census, it ap
pears that there are nearly q thfrt
more females in this country thar
I,males; 30 of course there are no
husbands enough to supply the de
mand. Under this state OF affairs
there is nothing left for the girls t.
do but change their tactics. insteac
OF spending their time and energies
this leap year in fascinating the
beaus. set themselves to earn theil
own way through life. They can dc
1t. too. Let. them calmly and de.
cidedly make up their minds tina,
there is work in life for them and
that they do not propose to throw
themselves as martyrs into the mat
rimonial market to be disposed of to
the highest bidder. II the girls have
a good, comfortable home, 1t is far
better to abide there, If they can find
anything to employ their time and
energies, than it is to go among
strangers and fight their way. AS
long as they have y mother to love
them. it is we'll to keep her. for in
no place can purer happiness be
found. After she is gone there will
BIO time enough to buffet the storms
OF life In this wide world. A girl
can be Independent II she chooses,
and earn comfortable living in many
ways, and it is not the worst misfor-
tune in life to be born a girl; not
half as bad as it is to be married to
man that You can neither love nor
respect. Think well before you make
your choice this leap year.
Hog killing is still the order of the
day in Nauvoo
Mrs. Pauline Behnke of Nauvoo
died at the home of her daughter in
this city on Wednesday morning OF
last week at the age of 81 years.
She had been wasting away for some
time, due to her advanced age and
was bedfast for about three months.
The lady is survived by seven chill
dren. her husband proceeding her in
death q number of years ago. The
funeral occurred Friday afternoon of
last week from the Nauyoo Lutheran
church, Rev. w. Hertel officiating,
and the remains laid to rest in our
city cemetery.
The x. G. card party and social in
their lodge room on Friday evening
of last week was attended by large
crowd OF our people. 1t was pro-
nounced decided success. A dance
h0
Mr.. Harley Johnston and Miss Cor
rine Laubersheimer were quietly mar
ried at Rev. L. Tholen's parsonage on
Friday morning of last week. The
happy couple are two of Nauvoo's
splendid young people and the best
wishes Of all go with them through
their voyage on the matrim onial sea-
Several charivari crowds visited them
and were handsomely rewarded.
One NauvoO prognosticator said he
knew that we would have a severe
winter, while another was equally as
s1red that we would always have mild
weather. We will not undertake to
say cosmology is out Of whack, but
it would look as il somebody had
merely made lucky guess.
A pair OF old-fashioned slippers and
an old-fashioaed book is good no
ton Of night life.
The Nauyoo NJ. w. A. members will
give grand mask ball in the Maui
700 opera house on the evening OF
February l and intend to make it
the event of the social season in Nau-
VOC.
Nauvoo people who get up next
Thursday morning between four and
FIVE o'clock. will have an opportunity
to see part of partial eclipse OF the
moon II the clouds do not produce !
4 total eclipse of the kind often seen.
The beginning and end of the eclipse
will be visible here and elsewhere in |
North America The middle OF the
eclipse which should be its most IN I
part, will not be visible.
The time scheduled for this eclipse ,
IS: Moon enters shadow Of earth, i
i:55; in middle Of eclipse, 2:40;
caves shadow, 3:25: leaves outer
shadow, STA.
And now some in Nauvoo claim
hat we will have no peaches this
year, just because mercury fell to
sixteen degrees below zero. Others !
lain they don't know anything about
t and that Nauvoo may raise boun-
.iful peach crop this year.
A new dance Is said TO be coming
nto vogue. 1t is to be grave and
lignifed, but it won't be long after il
gets to the American dance hall.
Nauvoo merchants are now busy
invoicing their stocks of goods. r
Nauvoo Catholic church services I
we're held in the Spaiding Institute /
chapel last Sunday on account Of I'm 4
being made in the interior i
If the church building
Occasionally you hear of a man
lying and requesting his relatives to
rave brass band play at his funeral. !
Possibly they have 1t figured out that .
he chances are slim of them being
provided with heavenly harp or
lorn.
The Mayha1l Stock company opened I.
! four nights engagement in the Nau.
roo opera house last Sunday night. +
rhe company is a good one and car
les fine band and orchestra. They
ire giving splendid satisfaction on
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