The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-09

/ dealers have finished putting up the
crystal blocks for the coming seasons
use The ice harvested this season
was Of fine quality and twelve and
more inches in thickness. There is
no danger Of an ice famine in Nau
WOO the coming season.
| Nauvoo council of Knights OF Co
| lumbus are arranging to present
three degrees in the order the COM
ing spring if enough candidates can
| be secured to warrant the attempt.
ut looks like a go because several
| from Warsaw and Carthage would
| like to become members of the Maui
VOC council.
The year just passing into history
| has been a remarkable one for Maui
voo There has been no labor
| troubles and all classes of mechanics
and laboring men have had work
every day they wanted it and at
good wages. Capital and labor in
Nauvoo has been on most friendly
| terms, and all of our people have
worked tremendously at the task of
I making Nauvoo one of the best
| towns it has been for several years
1 and have proved successful. The pros.
!, pect never looked brighter for the old
town than it looks today. Civic pride
! will take hold of our people next
i spring and will inspire everyone to
do their best.
The Mississippi Valley Telephone
company held banquet in the Odd
Fellows hall in Warsaw on Friday
evening of last week. There were
| fifty-five employees of the company
present and they enjoyed the splen-
! did feast to their hearts content.
! Those present from Nauvoo were:
Chester Stratton, Misses Edith Nc
!: Gregor, Adoline Rain, Balinda Ruff,
| Marion Argast and Gertrude Bech-
told.
! Chas Singer OF Nauvoo secured
large concrete mixer that was used
when the Spalding was built. and
other works about the st. Mary's
academy here. 1t is large contrap-
| ton and run by steam power. August
Koechli, Nauvoo concrete work
contractor, has purchased the large
machine and will use it In his work.
! Nauyoo's Young Ladies' sodality
held a card party in the K. c. hall
Tuesday evening.
| Lou Hudson is in Springfield. Ill,
| this week where he Is serving as q
federal juror.
Mrs. Mabel Schmidt and her two
children have returned to their Maui
VOC home after pleasant holidays
visit with relatives in Keokuk.
| Mrs. Catherine Tomlinson OF Keo-
kuk was guest OF her ssiter, Mrs.
lC. Steinmetz in Nauyoo for several
days last week.
| Mr.. and Mrs. John Laubersheimer
have returned from their Tulsa,
| Oklahoma, visit. Their daughter-in-
law, Mrs. Earl Laubersheimer, re-
turned with them and will make Maui
VOC her home until her husbands
safe return from the war.
! Mrs. Fred Salm, Jr., who has been
at the bedside of Mrs. Owings in a
Burlington hospital, has returned to
her Nauvoo home.
Joseph, son of Ed v. Reimbold.
returned with his father to Rock
|Island last week and secured posi-
| ton near the employment of his
| father.
Harold Hart who is engaged as
| fireman on switch engine in the
Santa Fe yards In Fl. Madison, Wis.,
tied his father in Nauvoo last Satur-
day.
We are informed that Mr. and Mrs.
Chas Falkner who live in Canada,
are on their way to Nauvoo for a
visit with the lady's father, Mr.. Her
man Berger, and other relatives.
residents.
Rev Barred of the Nauvoo Pres
byterian church, is now occupying
the parsonage and his step-daughter
who is teaching school in Atkinson,
ILL.,, may come here and spend the
summer months with him.
Mrs. Henry Dover and daughter
of Billings, Mont, are in Nauvoo for
visit with the mother and grandma
of the ladies. Mr.. Dover will come
here in few days, as also Al. New
ton who has been employed there.
Louis Tanner who is in the gov
| ernment's service as sanitary clerk
at Fl. Riley, Kansas. is enjoying his
furlough with his relatives in Nau-
VOC.
Considering the material it has to
work with, the January thaw which is
due to arrive in Nauvoo in a short time
will make noticeable impression.
Nauvoo city council members met
in regular session and transacted but
little business and that which was
of the utmost necessity. The men,
bers selected committee to nego-
tate with the st. Mary's academy
a sewer with that which was laid
by that Institutions officials
Miss Juanita Parker of Sonora
township is in Nauvoo q guest at
the home of her aunt, Mrs. Robt.
Datin.
! The Red Cross order dance held in
Powellton on Wednesday of last
week was attended by about one hun
dred couple and many tickets were
sold in excess of that number This
order cleared nearly $119. Welner's
orchestra of Nauvoo furnished the
music free, assisted by the Colusa
| orchestra. Ed. Printy donated the
use of the hall.
The inventory season is on in Nau-
VOC and our merchants are busy
figuring UP their profits and losses
sustained during the past year.
Crossing the lake at Nauvoo is
done in apparent safety just now,