The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-14

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i is being cared for at the Nauvoo hom
!, OF her daughter. Mrs. Wesley Schneid
J, or. Her many friends here hope TO
. a speedy recovery.
: Last Monday stick of dynamite
about twelve inches in length wa
, discovered in the rear of Jos. Ochs
, ner's implement building which mus
/. have been placed there by some ont
. for the owner of the store carries M
explosives. Workmen were using wag
ons in hauling and If they should have
happened to drive over it some awfu
icled. Nauvoo is surely getting on the
j. map In mysterious happenings.
\ Master Clingan Mcdonald, who Is
! making his home with Mrs. John
Seiglemeier in Nauvoo, had bone
In his right ankle fractured while at
play at school Friday of last week. He
was thrown over companion when
the accident occurred The injury will
house the lad for some time to come.
I Geo. H. Hart. postmaster, and Fred
Salm, Jr., cashier of Nauvoo's First
National bank, were selected by the
county officials as a committee to So
| Iicit funds in Nauvoo and township
for the Y. M. @. A. work in the present
war
| Nauvoo Ladies Industrial society
| will meet Thursday afternoon at the
home of Mrs. Fred Tanner and the
meet will be a social one.,
| Rev. l.. G. Tholen Of the Nauvoo
Catholic church is assisting in clerical
work in the Carthage religious temple
during the absence Of Rev. Father
Landreth, who is on a vacation in New
York and other points in the east.
/, The first quarterly conference OF,
the Nauvoo M. E. church will be held
next Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock
and all interested should not fail to at
tend. Revival meetings are scheduled
| to take place some time in the first
month Of the new year.
Nauvoo shippers should remember
that next Saturday, November II, may
be the last trip Of the season for the
steamer Keokuk in the local packet
trade.
We have 1t from good authority that
an interesting wedding will take place
| in Nauvoo or the home Of the bride
in neighboring town in the very near
| future.
The farm and vegetable products
| in Nauvoo this year are estimated to
be worth double that of last year.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Gnilliam were
called on to entertain sixteen couple
of their Nauvoo intimate friends last
Sunday evening, who came to their
south hill home to remind them Of
their twenty-seventh. marriage an
niversary. The evenings divertise-
ment was progressive 500 and prizes
| were given those who showed the
most expert playing in the games.
Dainty refreshments were brought by
! the guests and partaken Of after the
gam es. 1t was a great and welcome
surprise treat for this worthy and
popular Nauvoo couple and they thank
their visiting friends for the honor
bestowed upon them.
Geo. Dachroth, Jr., is city treasurer
Of Nauvoo. and when he became a
candidate for the Office last spring
without opposition, he faithfully
promised to donate $25 to our free
library, which was to be used to
purchase books. He forked over the
amount which his generous habit is
noted for, and the library officials re-
ceived the wad Of filthy lucre in the
spirit for which 1t was intended.
Mrs. Geo. r. Bruegger and children
visited Burlington relatives last week
Mrs Chas. Swingle, who has been
visiting Mrs. Ed Graft in Nauvoo,
has left for Peru, Ind, before return
ing to her Glasgow. Mont, home.
Mr.. and Mrs. John G. Schneider
have returned to their Nauvoo home
from their three weeks visit in Mil.
4 waukee, Wis, with a daughter resid-
ing there.
Messrs. Geo. Hart, John Reimbold.
Fred Salm, Jr., r. Arbuckle and
brother were Quincy visitors last
week and attended Maosnic meet.
ing where they received several de-
grees of the order, which makes them
thirty-secoud degree Masons.
j. NJ. Fisher of the Nauvoo State
bank, was a Chicago visitor recently.
Leland Welter of Chicago, and his
sister, Sylvia, who is attending col
lege at Quincy, were over Sunday
visitors in the parental home in
Nauvoo.
Kansas City, came to his Nauvoo
home this week to enjoy his vacation
among relatives and friends.
| Carl Rose of Nauvoo, is in Basco,
ILL.,, at work in the Taber lumber
yards there for a short time.
Alfred Hohl of Nauvoo is In Rock
Island, where he went to look for a
position.
Fred Newton and Fred 'Hoots, Maui
VOC boys, went to Moline, ILL.,, in a
house boat driven by a launch, and
expect to remain. The boys have
secured work in the Deere pillow
works and will live in their self con-
structed river craft
Nauvoo's interurban railway line
is not dead yet. c. H. Petsch Of New
York City, one of the promoters, was
in Nauvoo last Monday and the only
thing preventing the building of the
road was the present war conditions.
AS soon as the kaiser is dethroned
the work of construction on the road
will hnyin This ic nhoaYdno