The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-02-02
The Nauvoo Gate CITY
Nauvoo, I'LL, Feb. 2, 1916


tables and all occupied, all eager to
win the prize in progressive euchre-
Fine refreshments were served and
| a dance followed. which lasted until
midnight
4 Winter has been coming to Maui
700 In small and severe doses, and the
( coolest weather comes when the fuel
1 pile gets the lowest Just think of II,
six weeks of moro winter before the
date of the arrival of Miss Spring.
unless she VIII visit us sooner. after
quitting flirting with Old Sol.
Nauyoo's canning factory directors
VIII pay more reasonable price for
/ tomatoes the coming season so as to
] induce larger acreage and better
i quality II that were possible. The
company VIII pay so cents per bushel
during the month OF August, Is cents
| in September and q cents to the close
/ OF the season, instead OF 25 cents
I; Straign. as heretofore. This company
ought to put up fine quality oTecat-
I sup which would add to the income 10
the stockholders to a considerable
amount.
1 We have been having trying times
with the Nauvoo mails the past sew
| erai days. Il is late in the mornings.
arrives from Keokuk at times, and
we get it at supper time some days.
Well, better late than never.
! 1t is said that a Nauyoo citizen at
tempted to secure a lot on which to
build mercantile house recently, but
!, could not find an owner who cared to
! dispose of a lot in the business Sec
| ton, which consists OF a block and
half. II a dozen or more business
men who are hustlers would come to
Nauyoo and lay out new business
section, they could guide the channel
to another direction, and then those
holding lots and do not care to sell
and II they do ask Chicago prices for
them. could hold them and welcome.
Nothing retards the growth of q
| town like those people who own lots in
a business section and refuse to sell
or erect business house or ask city
! prices for the dirt because some one
| else wants to build. A new business
! section in the east part OF town or on
! the fiat" near Lake Cooper, would
, put new impetus In life and busi-
! ness in Nauvoo and make all branches
/ OF trade here more prosperous.
While many other towns have the
suicide mania, Nauvoo is entirely free
! from this epidemic.
| Lagrippe Is more than an ordinary
cold said a fellow in Nauvoo who has
/ just had 1t. He believes it is
miasmatic infection and contagious
malady, form of epidemic cataarh
more or less severe, according to cir
cumstances.
I About eighteen years ago some mis-
7 creant hurled a rock through plate
glass window in a Nauyoo business
building In which was conducted sa-
loon, and the rock barely missed the
large mirror of the back-bar. The
deed was committed in the dead hours
Of the night. A liberal reward of $50
was offered for the apprehension and
conviction Of the culprit who threw
/; the stone, and strange to say no
city sleuths appeared on the scene,
and as Nauvoo had no trained detec-
+ tives on the police force or in priv
ate capacity. the william was not pur-,
sued and still remains at liberty and
{ the reward unclaimed.
| About seventy years ago the trans
/ portation OF a letter cost about TWEEN
| ty times as much as 1t does now.
| The four days short course in Maui
WOO ended last Friday and was
complete success in every particular,
/ and every farmer who was able to at
| tend was loud in his praise and wants
another meeting OF the kind again
next year. Nauvoo State banks
corn contest was held on Saturday
/ last, after the closing Of the short
course meeting In the opera house,
and Corn Expert Mr.. HOLDEN OF Edin-
burg, H., was present and delivered
/ an interesting and instructive address
! on corn culture, and announced the
/ names OF prize winners on the corn
exhibit. After the awarding of the
| prizes ON the corn, the display was
/ disposed of at a sale and nearly forty
dollars was realized and deductins
| the expense or lecturer and incident.
ais the remaining funds were distrfD-
uted among our four church societies.
The Nauvoo State bank officials are
| we'll pleased with the corn exhibit and
It was the best one ever held here.
! There came near being serious
chimney fire in Nauvoo's business
section last Tuesday during the noon
hour The chimney in Mrs. R. Som
merholder's building was about to
belch forth flames, when 1t was dis
covered and ncighbors came I'd the
rescue and smothered the fiery tongue
before any damage resulted 70 :
/ Miss Leila Haggett has returned to
! her studies in seminary in Decatur,
H. after quite stay in Nauvoo with
her mother. who had a severe case OF
typhoid fever. It is hoped that this
/ pleasant and accomplished young lady
will not be interrupted again in her
studies by sickness in this popular
household.
The lake at Nauyoo is now higher
than has been ever known before and
| Is full of floating ice.
! The Nauvoo Ladies' Priscilla club
will meet again on Thursday after
noon OF next week, time and place not
yet announced. 10
/ A runaway was pulled or about mid
night last Monday. from which no
particulars could be gained. Parts of
the buggy to which the horse was
hitched, were strewn along MuIholland
street in Nauyoo as far east as the
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