The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-17
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Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Lugner, Mr..
and Mrs. Jos. Welter were Burling-
ton visitors last Thursday, the two
couples going up in the latter's auto.
J. P. Guthrie of Hamilton was in
Nauvoo for several days during the
week on a business mission.
Mr.. E. J. Baxter was in Springfield,
Ill.,, during the week where he at
tended meeting of the Illinois Bee
Keepers association. This Nauvoo
gentleman is president of the organl-
cation.
Capt A. S. Barber of Hamilton was
a Nauvoo visitor last Tuesday. He
is game warden for this section and
says only twenty-eight hunters have
taken out licenses and it looks like
there are that many nimrods in Maui
VOC alone.
r. w. Lane of Hamilton, who pur-
chases cream from our people and
farmers, will not make his regular
trip 70 Nauvoo on Thanksgiving day,
but will be here on the day follow.
ing. Ralph is going to eat turkey
at noon and will not allow business
to prevent.
Brick and tile cover the ground on
Jos. Ochsner's building site now and
work of laying the bats by masons
will begin next week in dead ear
nest The dimensions of the build
ing will be thirty-nine feet front by
one hundred and ten feet deep. The
structure will contain pressed brick
and will be two stories In heighth
instead of one as first intended. 1t
will contain a sample room 2Ox40
feet, ladies' rest room, smoking room
for the male sex, special room for
Ford auto supplies, office and display
room, concrete basement, electric
lights, water and vapor heat. 1t will
be a splendid addition to Nauvoo's
business section and will give the
gentleman one of the finest auto SER
vice stations in this section. the
second floor may be used for hall
or picture show room and will make
an ideal room and location for gath
erings of public nature.
The early shopper in Nauvoo will
have the same good luck as the early
bird, and deserves It.
We have not been blessed with
much Indian summer in Nauvoo and
vicinity this year and the fore end OF
this week people did well to carry
an umbrella in one hand and a fur
coat in the other.
With the aviation corps training
stations of this great governm ent,
Uncle Sam ought to put Nauvoo on
the military map-or way above It..
Two Nauvoo and one Appanoose
township young men are members of
the flying fleet.
The fortunes to be made in grow
ing apples in Nauvoo is going to
tempt many an Adam next spring.
The farm purchased by our towns
| man, Mr.. T. r. Baxter, last fall. and
known as the Doolittle farm, will
| have a number of acres planted with
apple trees and some more of Maui
voo's and vicinity people are talking
seriously Of setting out good sized
| orchards.
It is said that there are several
hundred bushels of potatoes stored
in Nauvoo cellars in excess of home
consumption and which are being
held for higher prices. In Chicago
the tubers were selling at $1.7O to
| 81. 90 for 100 pounds; in Nauvoo the
price asked is $3.50 for 60 pounds.
| While Investigating things the
powers that be ought to pay a little
attention to our food spectators. If
| they did Nauvoo would be distin-
guished for something.
During the week in Nauvoo could
be seen magnificent display of
knitted articles, such as sweaters.
stockings and other comforta BILE
things for our soldier boys who are
| to be sent to the war zone. These
artic1es aoDeared in the display win.
dows Of Mrs Zelda Walther's mil
linery emporium and were made for
the Nauvoo Red Cross society and
they made their first shipment OF
completed articles last Tuesday. The
shirts, one dozen pair bed socks, one
shipment consisted Of two dozen bed