The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-07-08

ening those who have autos come In
and enjoy few hours Of city life.
Mrs. Henry Schneider, an aged Maui
WOO lady died at the family home last
Thursday evening in the 9th year Of
her age. Besides her HUSBAND she
leaves two daughters, Mrs. John
Koechli and Mrs. Ourth to mourn.
| There are also numerous other rela-
tives who survive. The lady had been
III! for some time and death was re-
! lief to her sufferings. The funeral oc-
Cured from the Nauvoo Lutheran
church this Saturday afternoon, Rev.
w. F. Hertel. officiating. and the re.
mains inferred in the city cemetery.
The Press association OF Hancock
county will meet in the county hub
next Friday and all the press brother
en- should attend.
The Ladies Aid society attended q
meeting held at the home OF Mrs.
. Mary Bottens last Thursday after.
noon.
Last Thursday afternoon man,
wife and son, who claimed to have
travelled from Minneapolis to the Gulf
CT Mexico and are returning to from
whence they started, were in Nauvo1
and tarried a while. The lady who
seemed to be in the neighborhood OF
forty years of age, claims to be lee
turer and from appearances is cul-
tured person. She talked fluently on
different subjects and among those
the different wars that we have had
and are now engaged in and she con.
iwersed with prominent business
man Of Keokuk while here for some
time. 1t was her intention to deliver
! lecture in Nauvoo while here but for
soma ren con fai1e6 IN do 90
There came near being a fire in
Dick Latta's saloon building on the
evening OF July 3. A gasoline stove
ignited from some cause and created
quite a scare but was smothered be-
fore any serious damage resulted.
Albert Steiner, a former Nauvoo
man who is a soldier in the army
stationed down at the Mexican border,
is reported very i'll and the Moose
lodge in Nauvoo OF which he is a
member. has been notified. No other
details have been given.
Every Saturday night now when
the weather is fine Nauvoo's business
section looks like the street of a
lively metropolitan city Farmers
and strangers come in and hitch to
our curbs and stroll about town. It is
a sight seldom seen in small towns.
We nave HdQ SOuie pretty joI
in Nauvoo for some time, but you
don't hear people complain about the
heat in Nauvoo this season as you
have in hot seasons heretofore. Maui
VOC has become a first class summer
resort
The steamer Quincy passed up the
big river after stopping at Nauvoo
and discharging a cargo Of freight
last Thursday evening at about $50
o'clock on her way to st. Paul.
A church excursion came to Nauvoo
Friday afternoon on the steamer Sid
ney from Burlington. The excursion
lists came up to Nauvoo and took in
the sights of the Mormon city for
while.
Wayne Atkinson, the hair dresser
at Jos. Welter's tonsorial parlor in
Nauvoo was a Ft. Madison visitor last
Thursday afternoon. Wayne Is hav-
ing trouble with some affection of one
of his eyes and is compelled to see
his doctor numerous times.
Victor Golden, well known in Maui
VOC and who resides in Sonora town
ship is in Keokuk hospital very ill
with heart trouble.
A number of Nauvoos business men
are asking for band concerts for this
summer and have shown their inten-
ton to subscribe literally to the home
band If they will get up a series of a
half dozen or more, if the band will
take hold of the matter and start
them going. They are so well pleased
with the Nauvoo bands work on the