The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-10


them.
Whenever you run across a real
happy Nauvoo couple you generally
find husband that is always taking
little hand in wiping the dishes.
Mrs. John Kraus and baby Of Maui
VOC are in Keokuk for a weeks visit
with relatives and friends.
Mrs. Susan Banghman, an aged
Nauvoo lady, departed this life last
Monday morning, and pneumonia was
said to cause her death. She was 81
years old at the time Of her death and
had lived in Nauvoo for over fifty
years. The following children sur
vive: John, Frank and Clara of Maui
VOC and Charles and Noble Of Oak
land, Calf. The funeral will occur
Thursday or Friday. '"
No one in Nauvoo will worry much
If the Lake Cooper bathing pool is
not opened until June /. These days
temperatures do not suggest thoughts
Of the old swimming hole
Mothers day is going to be 90
served in Nauvoo next Sunday and 1t
is suggested that all should wear a
flower in honor Of the occasion.
Poor old dad don't count on this day:
Most people cannot be convinced
that women undertakers you hear
| about from time to time are not
myths, but there is one who comes to
Nauvoo at most every funeral
Hancock county's board Of super
visors hold a special meeting at the
! county hub on Thursday of this week.
|. Nauvoo's st. Mary's academy pupils
! will give an entertainment in the
auditorium Tuesday evening, May 16.
Misses Sylvia Kruger and Min
| ME Klingelmueller will close their
schools this weeks end in Nauvoo.
Word has been received here that
! there will be no daily packet service
! in the keokuk, Nauvoo and Burling-
| ton trade this summer, but it is be
| lieved to be a mistake. If this Is
true, some one may put in boat to
run in the opposite direction and be
made a paying venture. too.
/ There was a runaway in NauVoo
! last Saturday evening. Two fellows
came I'D from Keokuk in a one horse
/ spring wagon and stopped in front
| of one of our saloons, leaving the
horse united. An auto came along
and started the horse and vehlae
homeward bound at a mad race 1T
succeeded in getting to the foot OF
a Nauvoo hill leading to the boule-
ward, when the animal took Tumble
Frank Kunzelman Of Chicago,
former Nauuoo boy, is in the city for
visit among relatives and friends.
Mrs. Ada Krusi1opf of Keokuk. has
been visiting her brothers, the b.
Bakers sons, in Nauvoo.
J. M. Schmidt was a Quincy busl-
ness visitor last Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harley Johnston have
| returned from their visit in Rock
Ridge, Ohio the husbands former
home They have been absent for a
month and report a delightful time
during their stay there.
Virgil Nicaise, Jr., is going to De-
| troit, Mich, some day this week, to
engage in work in some auto machine
shop.
Ralph Hudson and his sister, Mrs.
Carrie Benne, went to Lewiston, Mo-,
to return with their brother Eds two
eldest children, who will live with
relatives here on account OF the
mothers serious illness, caused by
cancer, and her recovery is doubt
full.
Several female canvassers were
doing" Nauvoo this spring.
1t looks now like Nauvoo may OBJ
serve Memorial day Tuesday, May 80.
The few remaining G. A. R. boys are
beginning to talk the matter up and
public observance of the day may
take place in Nauvoo this year.
Geo. Anton went up to Chicago
last Sunday for a visit and may re-
turn with wife from the windy city.
George and bride will occupy his
parents old home place in the first
ward. He may engage in the under
taking business, which he can attend
to with his other work.
Business was on the hum in Maui
VOC last Saturday evening, and some
half a hundred automobiles were
stationed along our business streets. !
The old tradition that If it rains
on Easter Sunday it will be follow
ed by seven rainy Sabbaths in sue
cession seems to have reversed it
self this presidential year. 1t did
not rain on Easter, but it rained on
the two following Sundays.
Nauvoo's Rebekah and Odd Fellow |
members treated Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. !
Steiner to a farewell party in their |
lodge rooms last Friday evening |
This Nauvoo couple who have been |
residents of this town for a good |
many years, left for Portland, Oregon,
to make their future home.
There will be another moving pic |
ture show given in the Nauvoo opera !
house next Saturday and Sunday |
nights and good pictures are guaran- !
teed by the management. The one |
given last Sunday night was pro-
nounced good by those attending, but |
the crowd was small.
Nauvoos Ladies' Priscilla club |
meets Thursday afternoon Of this |
week.
May day celebration in Nauvoo |
will occur on Saturday afternoon, |
May 20, in the city park and the
Nauvoo band has consented to furn- |
ish music for the occasion.
The brick work on the postofffce |
new building is progressing rapidly |
and in a short time will be finished. |
Some of Nauvoo's people are !
mushrooms about town and |
in the timber land.
1T is suggested that the women Of |
Nauvoo organize a commercial club |
of their own lust to show how much !