The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-14
NAUvoo, ILL, NOV. ~

Nauvoo, one OF the most beautiful
little towns in these United States
with barely population Of 1000 souls
is one Of the richest for its size in tn
country There are sixty nine auto
mobiles possessed by our citizens, an
out of this number fifty are Ford cars
four Bucks, three Ovelands. tire
Cadillacs, three Chevrolets, one Dodge
one Jackson. one Vulcan, one Everett
one Maxwell and one Nets. Their
cars represent an outlay OF over $50,
1000. Can any other town the size o
Nauvoo make showing equal to thu
above statement?
!; do you know how old these chick
ems Of mine are?' asked a Nauvot
citizen of friend who was visiting
him. When railroad was first talk
ed Of being built through Nauvoo,
moved here and brought them in q
wash basket from the east in a wagon
and the friend who gave them to me
said he imported them from England
some years before. Think of it!" II
do," said the friend with astonishment
difficult to express. More than sixty
years old, and no sign OF decreptitude
in Growing, fighting and laying eggs!
You know / did not mean these very
identical fowls are those that came in
the wash basket, the original quartette
three hens and cock, but the stock
has remained pure game for something
like forty years. They are beauties
and we are proud of them"
Rev. w. j. Baird of Fulton, Ill, oc-
cupied the Nauvoo Presbyterian
church pulpit last Sunday.
Nauvoo's free public library has
again changed its evening hours begin
ming Monday evening, November 10,
the rooms will open at $50 and close
at $3.50.
Nauvoo police judge assessed the
first fine for drinking beer on our pub.
lie highways against a Burlington
man one day last week. The fellow
evidently didn't know of the stringent
laws on our statute books and one Of
them occasionally enforced. He will
know better how to act on his next
visit to this wet old town.
The Nauvoo home Of DR.. Rudolph
was quarantined a day last week on
account Of the parents little lassie be-
Ing afflicted with scarlet fever. No
other cases have budded forth SO far.
Many in Nauvco observed meatless
and wheatless days in accordance with
the request Of this great government
Of ours.
A number OF Nauvoo Knights of Co
lumbus are going to attend the tri-city
initiation which takes place in FIT.
Madison November 25. A fine menu
will be submitted to the guests after
the business meeting
With the quantity Of the Nauvoo
vicinity corn crop being large part
of the billion or two Of this seasons
raising, 1t is the truth as well as poet
ry to refer to 1t as the golden corn.
When our farmers began shocking
they found large part of it soft and
not fit for market as several OF them
found out when they sold. They have
quit gathering the crop until later
period with the hopes that 1t will dry
out and make good corn. Some now
report that the corn is moulding in
the fields.
Curt Roberts. Nauvoo soldier boy,
who was one of the first drafted and
to leave for Camp Dodge, Iowa, is now
a member of Battery D, field artillery,
339th regiment Curt likes soldier
life, so he writes relatives in Nauvoo
and has secured two Liberty bonds.
The Hancock County Mutual society
has assumed risks, of those members
who were compelled to enter the war
1t was SO decided at meeting of the
grand union held at Carthage a short
time ago. Mrs. Ed Walther, Mr.. and
Mrs. James Horton were present and
represented Nauvoos union.
Nauvoo's Red Cross society has an
nounced an old-fashioned dance to be
given in our opera house on Thanks
giving night. November 80, and the
proceeds will be used for the good
work OF the order. Good, oid-fashion-
ed music will be played and old-fash-
Toned dances presented and the adrnis-
sion will be seventy-five cents the
couple.
Mrs. Jas. Nelson, who had the mis-
fortune to break bone in her left
shoulder short time ago, was taken
to Keokuk Wednesday of last week
by DR.. Haggett, where an X-ray photo
was taken, which showed the fracture
to be an extremely bad one. She has
been suffering much pain and the lady