The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-15

Emil o. Baxter OF Nauvoo was a
Chicago visitor part of this week. He
went up with his father-in-law, Frank
McGee, who took up a shipment Of
cattle.
John Se1glemeyer, a government en-
ploye with he river fleet of boats
came to Nauvoo last Tuesday to re-
main until after the holidays for a
visit with the Mrs. and son Maurice
Nauvoo's Young Ladies' sodality of
our Catholic church have announced a
box supper and entertainment to be
given in the opera house on Wednes-
day evening, December &c and all
ladies providing boxes will be admit
ted free.
Miss Almina Miller Of Kalamazoo.
Mich, has arrived in Nauvoo and will
take charge of the principal depart
ment of Nauvoo's public schools. the
present instructor Harry Steffey hav-
ing resigned to accept a position in
the Taber lumber yards at Basco, ILL.,,
and will leave for that place with his
family next week.
The u. S. army is preparing many
aviators as the supply Of available
flyers Is diminishing. Nauvoo has
sent two young men and Appanoose
township, lear this city, another.
While this war zoe on Nauvoo Red
Cross ladies are still busy knitting
and sewing. Another lot of articles
for our soldier boys were SEN to the
central chapter at Carthage. Last
Tuesday eighteen co~nvalescent robes,
fourteen sweaters. eighteen pairs Of
booties, five bed shirts and six pair
OF socks e sent. The Nauvoo Red
(r0So vodSnr- nrn hn~A - LII. xN--.-
share OF work and are succeeding ad-
mirably.
Repairs fol- the Nauvoo high schools
heating plant have at last arrived and
will be placed in position at once and
the school will be in running order by
Monday next. There has been no
session of this school for over two
weeks.
Time has passed for you to do YOUR
Christmas shopping early, but If you
will hurry, now, you might keep from
Going 1t too late. Do 1t now.
About forty years ago the farmers
around Nauvoo would kill or sell their
hogs early in the winter as it did not
pay to fee corn worth 35 cents to so
cents a bushel to hogs that sold for
$3.50 to SO per hundred weight on
foot. And just to think corn today is
retailing here at $1.35 the meager bush.
Ell and wholesale pork soaring some.
where around the seventeen dollar
mark.
Some Nauvoo fellows say that there
Is going to be a hitchrack war pulled
OF in this town next spring. They de-
clare that hitching Of horses in the
business portion is a nuisance. un.
sanitary and a breeder of more flies
than Nauvoo folks may hope to swat
within the next ten years. Then many
OF our people declare that the hitch.
rack In the business section is almost
as necessary as the business itself. AS
long as Nauvoo is a country town, it
must have hitchracks and near the
business center. Why not? The farm.
er Is a welcome guest. He is our
ne1ghbor, our customer and our friend.
But why worry about a hitchrack war
In Nauvoo. 1t will not be long before
a hltchrack will not be needed in Nau.
VOC. In another year or two a farmer
Will be classed a has been" unless he
an automobile and a truck car.
IN the meantime We would be glad to
see more teams hftched here every
cay. We should feel pride and pleas
ire in bidding all our farmers well
>O-AS, 1914 W Iile ullClTdCk. AUTO ClrD
space and to Nauvoo.
The Nauvoo lads and l~assies have
been enjoying coasting on some one
of the evera hills about the town and
skating on the big lake in spots. The
in the ice prevented first class
skating on the lake here.
Mrs. E.. f. Wohlwend and Mrs T.
Peterson and other heirs have deed
ed their interest in lot 3, block 1873. in
the first ward in-the city of Nauvoo
the1r sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Brueg-
The property Is known as the
Loren homestead and is now occupied
ny the lady and her family. The deed
stlpulates the price Of 81.
ralph Baxter, who Is a member of
the American engineering forces in
and who had an interesting
letter that he wrote to his father and
mother, DR.. and Mrs. Alfred Baxter of
Ill, appear in last Tuesdays
keokuk Daily Gate City is a nephew
Messrs. Thos. and Cecil Baxter OF
Nauvoo. His father was born and rails
in the old Mormon town and at
tended medical college in Keokuk for
several years when DR.. Hughes was at
the head Of the institution. Ralph's
letter from France was read with
much interest by many Of the Gate
readers In Nauvoo.
Two internal revenue men were in
Nauvoo last Tuesday and Wednesday
looking after things In the interest of
the United States government.
The last will Of Henry Schmitz. who
in Sonora township a few miles
below Nauvoo was filed for probate in
Carthage one day last week. A. J..
Schneider, Elmer Fisher and ]. w.
Bertshi of~Nauvoo We're witnesses to
document. The deceased left real
estate to the value Of $46,S 800, and per-
sonal property amounting to $500.
Hamilton business men are going to
give a number of turkeys away to any
persons who can catch them. The tur-
keys will be turned loose from an ele-
waited position and the person catching
the gobbler claims the prize. Some
Nauvoo people will go down and see If