The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-03-21
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tll917. was $16s. SIG. 800 according to ,
recapftulation made by the state bank
ing department.. This was an increast
Iof $5.0O0.O00 over the latter part Q
! 1915. Total deposits were $1,000 s473
an increase Of $40.269.173. Total casl
J and due from banks amounting tt
$2SS. 401,765. an increase Of $2S.604.
1853. Total resources were $1,1SS,
a 334.9 The capital OF NauvoO's
! state bank is 100000 with a surplus
of $4,000 The deposits at the las,
printed report was $SO4,536.5S, undi
vided profits Of $46,242.SS and the to
tai resources are 1851 .003.46. Oui
] genial and accommodating cashier A
III. Schneider ought to feel proud Of the
/ Nauvoo state bank figures. II 1t keeps
on increasing at the present rate II
will not be long until this Nauvoo state
bank will reach the million dollar
mark.
| Nauvoo merchants should try this
experiment this spring and summer:
| In addition to putting up money for
celebrations and other things they
should make one day Of each week spe-
1 Cldl SdlSS E<nCu ulOl Shnht oi10o1SA
advertise some special bargain for
visitors to town It would surely get
the women folks.
A number of our Young ladies assem-
bled at the home OF the Misses Case
last Thursday evening and treated
these popular sisters to pleasant sur
prise. The girls called it hen party
because no young men were invited
1t was sort of welcome to our city"
party, where these young ladies are TO
make their future home. Dainty re-
Ifreshments were served and q general
good time was had by all those fortu-
nate to be present
Easter comes early this year and
Nauvoo ladies should please go early
to the millinery stores TO avoid the
rush and select the feathers. bands,
buckles, ornaments and beautiful flow
ers and so-forth for their spring hats.
Chief OF Police Boedecker has not
been applied to very frequently for
shelter this winter by persons who
came along without means to put up
at our hotel
I'VE have heard nothing more. OF the
pessimist who started out during the
coolest spell of weather this season to
kill the 1917 Nauvoo peach crop.
The subscription paper of the Maui
VOC interurban line has been so num-
erously signed and the, required
amount of money secured by the TO.
moters that it will be entirely proper
for somebody to move to make WORK
begin at once and make 1t unanim-
GUS.
There ought not to be any question
made by the incoming new council
about appropriating money to provide
Nauvoo with park site this year.
When one thinks of the years 1t takes
to grow tree the policy Of providing
q park right now seems to be the only
one. incidentally the money can be
voted with all the more pleasure when
our onicial department decides to Sc
1ect large trees to be placed on the site
in the frozen months next winter 1t
is pity that conclusion was not
reached twenty-fve years ago.
Chas. Welter and Leonard Hudson,
two OF Nauvoo's prominent citizens.
were quite Ill the first part OF the week
and were under our physician's care.
Nearly everybody In Nauvoo has his
incubator and hen set and working
full time now. Before long we look
for much activity In business way.
Counting the chickens.
There is just as much exercise In
making garden as in playing lawn
tennis or other outdoor sports and
you don't always have to be keep.
| ing the score card, either. And II
lessons the high cost of living.
Is it possible that Nauvoo has
! thugs within it's borders? At least
| it is claimed that Mr.. r. r. McDon
| aid, rural route mail carrier on No
2 out OF >Nauvoo. was slugged last
Friday night by two fellows while or
his way home While passing the
third district school building the
thugs suddenly sprang out from be
hind some trees and assaulted him
They knocked him down and kicked
him about the body. The assault was
/. not robbery, but may have been 70,
| spite or revenge unknown to the
| victim.
Ed. simmons, Nauvoo's saxaphons
player will go to Fl. Madison on
the evening of Easter Monday even
| ing and assist an orchestra of thai
place to furnish music for a popular
society dance there.
Mr.. r. r Mcdonald, Nauroo's rura
/ carrier on route No. 2, was in Garth
] age Tuesday attending court mat
! tiers. Herold Hart substituted fol
him during his absence.
/ II the masses in Nauvoo would
iouit thinking in a body and each
fellow do, little bordering on his
own hook, there would be chance
1 for more class to the masses.
T Nauvoo's Score club members have
made declaration that they would
give the Easter dance in Nauvoo
Time, April IL, and place. the opera
house. Dan Agnes popular orchestra
of Keokuk will furnish the music fol
the occasion.
HousecIeantng time is here and the
Nauyoo housewife is the first in the
] field.
Circuit court convened at Carthage