The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-22

dance in the Nauvoo opera house last
Tuesday night. The slushy, bad roads
and threatening weather was b
cause OF the slim attendance.
Miss Airline Graf has returned to-
Nauvoo after a several days visit
with her grandma, Mrs. Thos. Scott
in Fl. Madison.
Right after the first of the year
Nauvoo's tax collector will receive
his books and our citizens will be
called on to liquidate for the taxes
or their personal property and real
estate. The county clerk and a mum
Der of assistants are now busy in
Carthage extending the taxes to
ninety cents which was an order
from the state board of equalization.
This Is claimed to be the highest
state tax rate ever levied.
Sigmund Hertel, son Of Rev. and
Mrs. VIM. Hertel of Nauvoo, mas
been sent to Fort Sheridan, Alabama,
from Camp Grant, Illinois, to enter
the signal corps and where he will
serve as German translator.
Nauvoo st. Rose society of the
Catholic church is holding a market
day and fancy work sale in the X.
C. hall. They also served refresh
ments. -.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robt. Datin of Sonora
township are occupying living rooms,
over Datin & Leppert's store. They
will remain until spring when they
will return to their farm again.
Jacob and Fred Walter succeeded
in putting up about two hundred
loads of fine eight inch ice during
the recent cold spell. This is the
only Nauvoo firm that has stored
any crystal blocks this season.
Nauvoo will have several big
Monday evening. How fast a good
popularity Of these trees. Nauvoo
churches have had this idea for a
number of years and this ear as
usual, many citizens and our rural
cousins will celebrate around their
church trees Christmas eve. These
| finely decorated trees have in them
great possibilities for good. If the
plan involved pity or patronage it
! would fail: if it were for one class
by another class it would not be a
church affair. But they are trees for
all people and will help them realize
the things which bind them together
as people. This is the way Nauvoo
understands the Christmas trees.
Everybody is invited and everyone
who goes will have q better Christ
mas for having gone to the celebra-
ton that has no faint Of class or
narrowness In it..
Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh Bunch who
were former residents Of Nauvoo,
but who now live in Canton, ILL.,, are
the proud parents Of a new boy who
arrived just recently. They now have
two lunches, both males.
Nauvoo ice dealers will now have
to wait for Old Boreas to again blow
his icy breath down upon us again
before they will be enabled to fill
their buildings with the frozen water
blocks.
Nauvoo rural route carriers will
have no holiday next Tuesday. That
is, they will be compelled to make
their usual delivery of mails on that
day and enjoy Christmas after they
come in off their route.
Whatever you do, now remember
not to confound the two Christmas
spirits next Tuesday any more than
you can help.
Judge G.. r. James, a prominent at
torney of Carthage, died Friday
morning at his home in that city.
Judge James visited Nauvoo every
week Tor some time on professional
business, having established an office
here for the accommodation Of our
people who wished and needed legal
advice. He made man. friends in
Nauvoo who are panied to learn Of
his demise. The funeral will occur
Sunday from his late home in Garth
age.
A good many Of the lads and las
sizes who are away in neighboring
| and distant cities, are coming to the
old home town to spend Christmas
with their parents and relatives.
This is an annual custom in Nauvoo
with the parents to have the absent
ones come home at Christmas time.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. koechli of Dav-
export, came down to Nauvoo Thurs
day in their auto to visit relatives.
Fred Baxter, Emerson Soland and
one or two others went to Flint,
Mich, to bring down several Buick
cars for Will Pitt in Nauvoo. They
went up last Thursday and will
bring the machines overland.
Nauvoo's mails have gone astray
again this week on account Of the
crossing on the lake at this point.
Friday the Nauvoo mail carrier went
to Keokuk and Montrose on the over
land route to bring the mail sacks
and did not arrive here with them
until the middle of the afternoon.
Couple Instantly Killed.
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