The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-09-27
nAuvoo. ILL, SEPT. u.

The walnut and hickory nut crops
in the timber land about Nauvoo will
be short one this season.
Messrs. Henry Rump and George
Colt Of Fort Madison were Nauyoo
visitors last Monday.
/ The two-year-old daughter OF Mr..
and Mrs. Emil Breibarth died last
about a mile and half east of Nau-
VOC. The funeral occurred Tuesday
from the Nauvoo Lutheran church.
Bishop Dunno of Peoria, came to
! Nauvoo last Saturday afternoon and
on Sunday morning at ten o'clock, he
confirmed class of young people in
4 the Catholic church and delivered a
lecture to a large and appreciative
congregation.
| Miss Clara Kuhn OF State Center,
! Iowa. came. to Nauvoo for visit OF
two weeks with relatives and friends.
| Vera Kline of Rock Island. is visit
ing her sister, Mrs. Charles McGary.
in Nauvoo.
DR.. A. J. Baxter OF Astoria, ILL.,, was
in Nauvoo last week to visit his
brothers and families.
Ed Roechli of Davenport, Iowa, was
called to Nauvoo last week on ac-
count of the death of his brother-in-
law, Matthew Bruegger. He re-
manned for a short visit with rela-
tives.
| Leland Weiter of st. Louis, came
up to Nauvoo for visit with his
parents and sisters over Sunday. Le-
land gets homesick now and then for
his family here and grand old Nauvoo
and is compelled to make visit to
this old and beautiful town.
Mrs. Myron Datin and little son OF
Chicago are in Nauvoo for visit
with relatives and friends.
Ed Boedecker, NauvOo's chief OF
police, was q Davenport, Iowa. visitor
| for several days recently. His wife,
! who has been visiting there, returned
home with him.
! Nauvoo is up against telephone
rate raise. o. F. Berry of Carthage
was in Nauvoo last Friday evening,
and met in conference with num-
Der OF our people and explained the
! conditions now prevailing and stated
| the cause why it was almost compul
sorry to raise the rates.
Nauvoo's fnvincible ball team
went to Fort Madison last Sunday to
play the All Star ball club OF that
city. The home team defeated the
penitentiary city team by score OIL
seven to four There was large
crowd present to witness the contest
Quite number from Nauvoo went NJ
| to see the game and help root our
boys on to victory.
Only little over two months more
until the presidential election comes
around Hughes or Wilson--tha
all. Here's to them-let's all quaff'
Monte Sellers has the contract to
repaint the city standpfpe and for
| which he will receive the sum OF $50
Everywhere around Nauvoo the
| beauties OF nature are manifest. Corn
will certainly be king In old Hancock
county il the frost will remain away
q couple Of weeks longer. Then II
the cattle and hogs don't eat their
heads Off this fall. it will be because
there is no such thing as loss of ap
petite in the animal kingdom.
| Tho st. Rose society OF the Nauvoo
Catholic church will give card par
4 ty in the X. C. hall on Thursday even
| ing of this week. Refreshments will
be served during the evening.
! We now have autumn according 70
the calendar.
Inc NduNOO LutucIou CAuiSh Hos
undergone repairs and thorough
rcnovatfng and on account OF 1t, serv,
ices were held in the basement Of
the church building last Sunday.
| It now looks like the Nauvoo can
ming factory will not turn wheel to
can tomatoes this season. The com
pany received two carloads OF tin
cans which will be held over until
next season.
Big Thursday will be only one oil
the six big days at Keokuk's big cele
| Grafton next month, and Nauyoo viii
send down the largest delegation OF
| any town OF it's size in this section.
1t may interest you to know that
this temperance wave that is sweep
ing the country does not interest me
| in the least, said Nauvoo gentle
man to me the other day. Our great
Americans of the olden times were
| gentlemen who took their liquor
with no cowardly fear of public cen
sure. You will find my sideboard at
home well stocked after the fashion
of old timers, and ready for my
| friends when they call on me.
Nauyoo automobile ordinance went
into effect last Monday, but so far lit
tie attention is being paid to 1t by
auto owners. Perhaps IL is because
the motor people have not yet become
accustomed to this new law.
| Herman Weinberg and little son OF
iKeokuk, came up to 'Nauvoo Tuesday
and spent the day among friends. Nau.
VOC is Herman's old home town and
| he loves to come here now and then
/ Miss Emma Kraft, former Nauyoo
girl, was recently married to a mr..
Freedman and they are now making
their home in Detroit, Mich.
c. R. Montgomery will furnish l,O0o
/ yards of crushed rock for Nauvoo,
which will be placed on our Thorough n
fares. Monty" will receive 70 cents
per yard for his contract.
Capitalists will never put their
money into an interurban line from
Burlington to Keokuk on the Iowa
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