The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-01-07

! some kids loafing about the street.
land in business places, where tn,
law excludes them.
II you are inclined to grumble a
your lot in this weather. think OF oul
lferryman. mail and express agents
ete.. n shut up.
The old year closed with the sans
old wheels whirr1ng In the heads O.
some Of Nauvoo's people. The trou
BILE with these wheels il that some o.
them turn backward. and il they were
in the majority. Nauvoo would urn
back with them.
That new leaf must look mighty
white now. but somehow 1t don't seem
half as sociable as the reprehensible
old dogs earod one you've left be
hind.
Miss Corrine Laubersheimer will be
q guest of honor at a miscellaneous
shower Saturday evening at the home
LOT Miss Eunice Walther.
Some are wondering who will be
ielected mayor Of Nauvoo and super
visor Of Nauvoo township when Post
master Hart takes charge Of ouI
mail house." One OF our aldermen
may be appointed TO act as mayor pro
tenn il the law permits, and the town
clerk, assessor and justice OF the
peace, all township oficials may be
the ones IN authority to appoint a 81
.peryisor. 1t looks like the time is ripe
to hurry up the appointments, accord
ing to law.
! 1t would indeed be a poor business
man who would not learn something
from q past years experience. We
heard a successful Keokuk merchant
once make the remark that he at
itributed his success to past mistakes.
One Of them was his failure to a6ver-
tise In The Keokuk Daily Gate City.
which is read by ten thousand people
every day.
Nauvoo will have another black
smith shop. A man and his son from
Niota. have leased, the late Geo. Deeg
shop and will begin operations next
week.
A professor declares that tobacco
smoke used TO kill insects on house
plants. does more harm t. the plants
than to the bugs. There goes the last
reason why a woman should want her
husband to smoke.
According to you. said a Nauvoo
wife to her husband. these breakfast
foods are not good for anything, when
he said. not at all, my dear! I think
they would be first-rate> stun to
sprinkle on the sidewalks during slip
perry weather.
Geo. Hart, our new postmaster, lit
tie thought when he taught school a
number Of years ago., that he would
again have to go through a school OF
instructions. But he must since he
received his political plum from Uncle
Sam. 1t will take him some time to
learn the lay OF things in a postofice.
No kings or queens in Nauvoo's
railroad deck! Promoters have simply
given us a cold deal.
Do you know OF any town in this
country that needs an aeroplane IS
badly as Nauvoo at this season OF the
year?
Mrs. Chas. w. Weller will enter
tain the Nauvoo Domestic Science
club at her first ward comfortable
home mex Tuesday evening.
Nauvoo's live stock king, George
Boegner, sent four car loads of stock
to Chicago markets the %forepart of
the week. In the shipment there were
fifty head Of hogs weighing 254 lbs.
per head.
Some people turn up their nose at
the statute OF liberty, but IL you don't
say anything about it to her, VI won't
Nauvoo's Catholic church is under.
going some improvements. The In
terror Of this large and beautiful re-
ligious temple will be frescoed and
other identifying done. which when
completed will cost over $1,000. Our
Catholic friends are bound to make
their house OF worship appear at its
best, no matter what the cost. They
may take up the matter OF placing a
town clock in the tall steeple some
day in the ear future.
Miss Edna Berger OF Nauvoo is WIS.,
ting st. Louis relatives.
Mrs. Gus Wallet of Nauvoo has o n
to Palmer, Nebr., to visit her son
Victor.
There are latent possibilities in the
parcel post system which may not
have occurred to the statesmen who
devised 1t. Did they think OF the fact
that the system OF direct dealing be-
tween the town housewife and her
country sister, which the parcel post
Is likely to develop, may prove a pow
erful aid to the movement which IA
yors selling all kinds OF food by the
pound instead of count and measure?
Consider the eggs as an item in par
Gel post commerce, and assume that
nine dozen Of large eggs will weigh
as much es ten dozen small eggs. The
fact that It pays to sell small eggs
will be indelibly impressed upon the
farmers wife because she will per-
ceive that she can market a greater
value at a smaller cost in handling
light dozens. Women are ever care
full OF pennies in market matters, and
the town housewife will be duly i'm
pressed. BY comparing the size OF
the stamp on the arriving basket. with
the number Of eggs In it, she will
have an infallible a of just