The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-03-28

which will occur on Tuesday of next
week there will be no drainage work
done on that day in Nauvoo The
saloons will be closed and the pro-
pretors and employees Will enjoy an
enforced holiday.
NauVoo has a young man who
pushed what he thought was an cleo
trio doorbell button and piucked the
doorknob at a Nauvoo residence last
Sunday night in which lived one of
our fairest daughters, but who was
entertaining a gentleman friend at the
moment. He is requested to call for
his fine silk handkerchief which he
dropped while doing so. Just what a
fellow does when he plucks door
knob Is beyond us at the moment
Lest you forget we wish to remind
you again that Nauvoo's library board
members have arranged a market day
sale in the institutions rooms over
the First National bank building, for
next Saturday, March 81. You should
go there and buy them out Of "house
and home" SO to speak, for the funds
will be used for a laudable enterprise.
New books are needed and other
necessary expenses are constantly
occurring and money must be raised
to keep things moving.
There Is a whole lot in gardening
than simply reading four seed catalogs
to find out what kind Of seed is best
to plant. Nauvoo people have seed
catalogs beat to FRAGILE when it
comes to showing up a beautiful and
inviting garden. Come to Nauvoo the
latter part Of next month and see
Things grow.
The finest weather of the season
was here last Sunday after the sew
eral dull days since spring arrived,
and many people were out in their
glad rags once more. Nauvoo was
lively little city last Sunday.
Lou Meyers, foreman Of the work
at ST. Mary's academy in Nauvoo,
went to Keokuk last Monday to have
a delicate, but not serious operation
performed.
This is an age Of conquest of the
forces OF nature" But when the
heavens are black with clouds and
wind, the man of the twentieth cen
fury is as helpless as the savage; he
can only hope to hide himself until
the danger Is past. The construction
of great bridges Is in q peculiar sense
one of the glories Of the present day;
yet these massive trusses are brushed
away like the spiders web before the
wrath Of the heavens. North America
is the continent of tornadoes. They
are almost unknown in South America
and of rare occrrrance in Europe. 1t
has mercifully CHANGED thus far. that
Nauvoo and vicinity has escaped them.
Report has it that r. r. Mcdonald,
rural mail route carrier on No. 2, in
tends to resign his position. Mr.. Nc
Donald is a pleasant gentleman and
one of the most accomm odating mail
carriers that ever held q position in
the government service and the pa
irons and his many friends are sorry
to learn of his intention to resign.
Nauvoo ought to revive It's CONNER
cial club, pitch out any dead ones that
want to enter and hunt good timber
to set in their places, and all mem
bers should engage in a fresh hustle
and hustle in this city. Then we
could joyously admit that Nauvoo has
woke up" again, and that new slo-
gan should be adopted to annihilate
the knockers and the mossbacks and
otherwise help in the good work to
build up the city. Live members In
commercial club may be greatly
needed in NauyoO after next May
and we should unload all dead ones.
1t is reported that Ed REIN bold.
who had some trouble with Quincy
firms about money matters. intends to
bring a damage suit against them for
several thousand dollars for false
accusation and false arrest.
Joseph Nelson, one OF Nauvoo's ris-
ing young men, so report has it. has
thrown his hat into the ring and his
friends have announced him as a can
didate for mayor OF Nauvoo. Here's
hopfne Mr.. Nelson's hat has q better
time of It than some hats we had oc-
casion, to see badly battered and
abused in years gone by.
About dozen young women Of Maui
VOC have placed "a man" at the head
of their list of desirable possessions.
They are evidently frank young per
sons.
Nauvoo now has only one restau-
rant and we understand that the own
er would like to sell, but not on &C
count of not being we'll patronized and
a paying business, but wants to en-
gage in another occupation In the
mercantile world in this town or else
where
Our brother reporter OF the Warsaw
Gate City wants the people Of his
town to hand him the news so that
because the reporters at Carthage
and Nauvoo have larger news letters
in The Keokuk Gate City. We have
tried that method, brother. and 1t
won't work Now we go out and hunt
for news items. They turk behind
bushes, in yards. business houses and
on the farm. Thanks for saying that
Carthage and Nauvoo work for their
Gate City, the best local daily newspa-
per on earth.
When the home team Is winning in
the baseball season-use your mem
cries. o, We inhabitants Of Nauvoo-
and the baseball yard fun; when ev-
erybody is enthusiastic over the team.
and the town, and the game. there is
just one thing TO be regretted: that
il takes only nine men on the diamond
to represent Nauvoo, and that, in the
nature of things, the cheering crowds
can't take a hand in the victory them
selves. nor can one in twenty OF them
have any real personal acquaintance