The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-22

| for the markets and these pickers were
paid one cent per basket while in Nau
VOC harvesters are paid by the day.
Louis Hohl, Nauvoo's rural route
carrier on route No. !, out Of this city
had the bone in his right wrist broker
while cranking his Ford car one day
last week. This luckily happened dur
ing LOUIS vacation granted by the
postoff1ce department and his son AL
fred substituted for him. Lou has ex
tended his vacation period.
When that Nauvoo interurban line
from Keokuk through Nauvoo to Ft
Madison is built, the peoples popular
paper, The Keokuk Daily Cato City,
will arrive in Nauvoo in the evening
before supper time, and our men read
ers will then have nothing to do but
go to the picture show or prayer
meeting. There would be a great con-
ISOLATION in the fact that the readers
in Nauvoo would now like to see the
paper delivered here in the evenings
now so that they could get over the
war news before bed time, thus hav-
ing an unbroken night Of sweet repose.
Nauvoo's canning factory has so
far canned between eight and ten
thousand cases Of corn. The tomato
crop has been ripening slowly, but the
factory expects to take care OF all
the tomatoes that come in and II none
are canned, the crop will be thrown In
to pulp. This has been the busiest
season for Nauvoo's canning factory
since its beginning.
r. r. Mcdonald, a former rural
route mail carrier on Nauvoo route No.
2, was indicted by the federal grand
jury in Quincy on June for tamper-
ing with mail matter in his care and
drew a fine OF $50 and costs which
he paid and received his discharge.
Flying visits in this personal col
umn are not 80 numerous as it was
during the summer. There are plenty
of persons though, who come to Maui
VOC to spend Sunday.
Next Saturday will be Michaelinas
day and is a religious day observed by
the Catholic congregation
John L.aubersheimer has traded his
Nauvoo store building and grocery
stock for IT'S acre farm. The build
ing is taken in on the deal at $4,000
and the stock at invoice value at
wholesale price. The farm which is
situated one mile north Of Wild Cat
Springs, near Hamilton. Is valued at
SIPS per acre. The invoice of the gro
Gerry stock is going on at this time.
The building is now occupied by Quin-
cy parties in which they conduct
saloon and who hold a lease for one
year and pay rental OF SIS month.
]. NJ. Kendall, one Of Nauvoo's old
civil war veterans, is very sick man
at his home in the Mormon old man.
sion building, and on account of his
advanced age, his recovery is doubt
full. Mr. Kendall is close to eighty
years Of age.
The apple croprin Nauvoo will be
short one this season. The Baxter
Bros fine orchards will not yield
more than one-third Of a crop. The
cause of the failure of their fine or
chards not yielding a better crop this
year has not been learned for last
year an unusual large crop was har-
vested. while other orchards produced
a small crop.
Elmer, son Of Mr.. and Mrs. J. F.
Argast of Nauvoo, who is manager
Of the Taber lumber yards at Basco,
Ill, has been very III and the fore
part of the week his parents were
again called to his home. He Is
now reported to be improving, which
is glad news to his many friends In
Nauvoo.