The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-16
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social time. He also reports crops
as looking fine through the section
he travelled.
Ed Argast, ST., who has been
visiting in Davenport and Muscatine,
returned to Nauvoo last Thursday
evening.
of TT. Madison have been visiting
the lady's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. c..
j. Baxter in Nauvoo.
Mrs. A. Masbery and daughter Miss
Marie, are visiting relatives in Wat
erloo, Iowa, the guests of the son
Ferd and family.
The Hancock county Press associa-
ton held it's quarterly meeting in
Nauvoo last Friday and twelve of the
sixteen newspaper men of the county
were in attendance and some of them
brought their wives, daughters and
small children with them to enjoy
| the hospitality of Nauvoo people. NO
business session was held in the
morning. st. Rose society of the
Nauvoo Catholic church arranged an
excellent menu to satisfy the inner
man at the noon hour and everyone
connected with the press association
|
to partake of this spread fit for the
kings. After dinner the editors held
/ their business session in the public
library rooms in the First National
bank building, and number of mat
tiers of interest to the publishers or
| the county's newspapers were dis
cussed Mr. J. D. Butler Of the Dali
LAS City Review, was selected secre-
! tary to fill vacancy caused by the
removal from the county of P. K.
Ewing. At this meeting 1t was de-
cided to hold the EDITORS annual pic
mic in Hamilton on August 10. Rev
Father Tholen of Nauvoo's Catholic
church was rendered an invite to be
| present at the editors meeting ana
address them on any subject to his
| liking. and he generously accepted
and spoke to the knights of the pen
ell in his happy and pleasing manner
and said 1t was a pleasure to De
| allowed to be among such lot or
| brainy pencil pushers and their ladies
| and these editors were glad to nave
Rev. Father Tholen among them. TOO.
While the meeting was short one,
caused no doubt by these newspaper
men wanting to visit the many places
Of interest that. Nauvoo is noted for.
principally among them being the
underground arched passages, 1T
was. nevertheless, one Of the most
interesting ever held by the associa-
! ton. The editors were escorted
| about Nauyoo in automobiles. furn-
fshed by generous citizens who were
bent on showing these visitors a good
time and let them learn what KIND
of hospitality Nauvoo contains so as
| to make them wish they would like
to come again and often. And they
expressed themselves as more than
pleased with their visit to grand,
beautiful and old Nauvoo. AID we
are sure every citizen was glad &c
have them come and hope they VIII
soon return Their next meeting VIII
be held in Warsaw on October 5.
Jesse, son of Mrs. Jos. Nelson, who
| left Nauvoo ten years ago, arrived IN
| this city last week for visit with
| his mother, brother, sister and his
numerous friends. He Is wireless
telegraph operator and has been IN
the service of Uncle Sam for sew
eral years, doing duty on warsh1ps
while making cruises In different
parts of the world. Jesse was at
Vera Cruz and Porto Rico and four
months at Sta, Alaska. He also
spent a few months at San Diego
and the last months at Mare Island,
! Calf He is now summoned to go
to Washington. D. c., and may later
be sent to France. Jesse was on
his way east and concluded to stop
at Nauvoo while on his way. He ex-
pected to visit here for five days ana
would like to have remained for
{,-i1 IN cot a n
extension Of time to prolong his visit
here.
The $50 D. m. closing Of Nauvoo's
ordinance went into effect last Satur-
day night and now the thirsty ones
will have to get move on them
selves to get their wet goods out
before that time to last them over
Sunday. Even employees are not al
lowed in the Nauvoo saloons on Sun
day and the doors of these cafes,
Bullets or whatever other name you
might call them will have to remain
closed from $3.50 p. m. on Saturday
night until a. m. Monday morning.
! The bankers of Hancock county
held their regular meeting at the
Lake View club house near Hamil-
ton last Friday evening. Why not
most beautiful spot on earth, to hold
one of their meetings. We are posi-
tive that our local bank boys could
show their brethren a scrumptuous
time in the old Mormon city.
Nauvoos library officials have
adopted the following hours for chau-
tauaua week which begins on Tues
day of next week to remain in force
for that time only: Closed on We'd
nesday afternoon and open every
evening from $3.50 to s, and on Sat
urday afternoon from / to 2:30 p. N.
The Nauvoo Red Cross order Is
now in working order and commit
tees are out soliciting members and
expect to round up enough of our
people to join so as to make as good
a showing as any town of its size in
the country. In few days course
on surgical dressing will be given by
an expert and class organized.
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