The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-16
THE NAUVOO GATE CITY
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died in Blakely. Georgia, last Janu
airy, were shipped to Elvaston, III
for burial. The gentleman and his
wife were Nauvoo residents until
their departure for the southern state
and conducted a jewelry store here
in a building erected by him and
which his wife still owns. The couple
made many friends during their resi-.
dence in the Mormon city.
Everybody in Nauvoo is going to
make garden i n a week or two The
people are now getting out their rakes
and hoes and spades. Soon they will
don jumpers, put on a pair of old
gloves and go to it. The automobile
advertisements and magazines and
daily papers, except the war news,
will lose their allurement when they
get to bordering over what they will
means, they are all going to plant a
garden this spring. This is a chirp Of
spring from Nauvoo.
1t Is a terribly hard row for a person
Of piscatorial ~propensities to peruse
this; but it is not written to %tantalize
a fellow: 1t will be but a few weeks
until the creeks along at Nauvoo will
be alive with minnows. Among min
nows that will populate these creeks
in the warm days will be horny-heads,
silversides, sinners, slippery shoes or
any other name as some fishermen call
them. Minnows will be coming out
of the deep waters of the lake and
there will be bass, catfish, carp-oh,
why continue the agony?
The Nauvoo Household Science club
met at the home of Mrs. w. F. Hertel
last Tuesday evening. The hostess
husband, who is the popular minister
of the Nauvoo Lutheran church and a
patriot from the crown Of his head to
the soles of his feet, treated the mem
bers to a splendid talk on food conser-
walton. Mrs. Emerson Soland deliver
ed a reading on Her Point Of View"
and Mrs. Lula Klingelmueller present
ed a demonstration on pastry, with
oatmeal flour as the cereal used. It
was an interesting and instructive
meeting M the members enjoyed it.
The annual election Of officers was
held at this meeting and all of the old
officials were retained. They are:
Mrs. NJ. Kruger, president; Miss
Rose Nicaise, vice president; Mrs.
Minnie Lutz, secretary; Mrs. Stella
Baumert, corresponding secretary;
Miss Yetta Young, treasurer.
Fred Simmons, who is employed at
the Schneider & Hummel store in
Nauvoo, may sever his connections
with the above firm and enter the
services of Jos. Ochsner, the imple-
ment dealer and auto agent in his
Nauvoo house.
The young men who We're called to
Carthage last Monday all passed ex-
cept one. The boys from Nauvoo and
nearby section were: Geo. and P. H.
Kyburg, Carl Rose, Ed Wellner, Har-
old R~heinberger, Floyd Heberer, Fred
Haas. Reno yesterday, Guy Saunders.
Ray Kress and Hiram Reed. All but
the last named passed the examina-
ton. Next Tuesday these Nauvoo
boys will appear before the local
board: Ralph Hudson, Harry Argast.
Carl Deeg and Geo. Dachroth. None
of the boys who have been before he
exemption board lately have been sum-
moned to any of the training camps,
but expect a call at any time now.
Nauvoo people who own vineyards
and garden patches will DON be rak-
ing UP the debris accumulated and ap-
ply the match t o the rubbish and
bon fires" will be seen all about the
city.
Carl Pfaffe of Keokuk, was a Maui
VOC business visitor last Friday.
Mr.. Fletcher. who is conducting a
pool room in Nauvoo, has been a
Bushnell. ILL.,, visitor during the fore
part of the week.
Nauvoo's public library may pur-
chase some new books again soon.
They are badly needed as the presently