The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-17

them are experts in knitting and
sewing, have not yet got fair start.
hbut when they do the Red Cross will
be kept busy furnishing material that
will be made into comfortable things
for the soldier boys who are and
will be lighting for the honor of this
country. Lucky will be the soldier
who receives one of the comfortable
knitted things made by the fair hands
of a Nauvoo lady.
Queer vandalism was perpetrated
in the Maple Grove school house
few nights since. Some persons took
the pains and time to enter the
rooms of this house Of education
which is situated about four miles
east of Nauvoo, to drink booze and
eat lunch and had no regard for
cleanliness during their stay. The
room was Uttered With scraps of
lunch and soiled paper and the stove
stuffed with broken bottles. The
persons who participated in the act
had better lay low, as a number of
people who live near the building
are making still hunt to learn the
names Of the guilty parties and
bring them to justice
Nauvoo may be called slow town,
I
much: When people visit us these
days they are always surprised to
see how busy the old town has
grown. The business growth Of Maui
WOO is never perceptible to the
natives as it Is to an outsider. The
fact is, Nauvoo is doing more bust
ness now on account of the vast dry
iterritory that surrounds this section
and we are getting much better and
bigger In a business way all the
time, but perhaps many Of us don't
notice it. The thing that should
concern us Trojans the most is how
fast is Nauvoo business growing and
how much, better it is becoming.
: What we need in Nauvoo is some
organization to keep the spirit Of
business boosting on the jump.
Just forty-three years ago little
band of sisters of the Benedictine
order arrived in Nauvoo to establish
convent and fine school for girls
and young ladies. The Baum resi-
dence was secured for this purpose
and 1t was considered one of the
handsomest and convenient resi-
dences in many miles distant from
the old Mormon town. 1t was pur-
chased at a low figure by the order
and Immediately converted into a
convent with Mother Theresa Krug
at the head of the little band Of
educators second to none in the
country The lady remained at the
, head Of the institution about six
. months and was known as Sister
PeckIa, who is still remembered by
a number Of our older people The
Spalding institute has been estab-
Itch cd cin ie
vised by this order, and both schools
sustain a fine reputation as splen-
did Institutions Of learning for boys
and girls. Mother Krug had a
brother who was priest, who went
to Italy to study music and while
. there was made Abbot OF Montecas-
, sino. He persuaded his sister to
many good resolutions that everyone
, has made, let there be some social
dofngs, not elaborate. but informal
little parties, attended by Nauvoo
bellies and beaus. These small affairs
would be great sources Of Joy and
delight, at least to the younger ele-
ment and help this column to report
more society news.
The steamer Keokuk. our local
packet quits today and when our lit,
tie ferry goes into winter quarters,
Nauvoo will be cut off from the out
side world, if bad gloomy weather
should set on us. Now would be a
good time to arrange daily or tr-
weekly auto bus and freight line to
Keokuk and FIT. Madison from Nauvoo
and continue during the winter
months, and once given thorough
tryout, it no doubt would be q paying
proposition during the entire year
Who will make the attempt?
Tramps are scarce article in
Nauvoo this winter season and none
of them have been here to ask a
nights lodging or handout.
1t Is estimated after looking up the
statistics that there is right now
enough whiskey in Nauvoo to get
all those thirsty individuals in Iowa
who come here, drunk and keep them
so for month and then some.
The A9panoose township wolf club
had another set Of dogs at work re-
Gently, which also proved a failure,
and a know-it-all fellow puts it this
way: "How can wolf hounds track
the prey when there are no wolves
securing the country surrounding
Nauvoo?"
A NaIvoo citizen who visited the
soldier boys at Camp Dodge, Iowa,
says there is talk of allowing Uncle
Sans subjects over there to come
home for the holidays, beginning De-
cember %, and allowing them about
weeks stay. Relatives here in
Nauvoo would be pleased if the gov
eminent would grant the boys this
privilege.
Jacob Hummel, former Nauvooite
who has been farming near West
Point, Iowa, for the past year, has
leased the All. Bertschi farm in APP
Fpanoose township, a few miles above
Nauvoo, for period of five years.
Their many Nauvoo friends are glad
to hear Of them returning to their
old stamping grounds again, for the
Fiummel family is a splendid one.
Meanwhile determined Nauvoo
womenhood goes on knitting to vic
tory.
Floyd Heberer, rural route mail
carrier on Nauvoo route No. 2, has