The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-20
NAuvoo, ILL., MARCH 20.

Rev. VIM. F. Hertel Of the Nauvoo
Lutheran church has built a garage
building on the parsonage property.
! Circuit court conyenes at Carthage
this week. There are no cases from
Nauvoo that we have heard of.
Oscar Cambre of Waterloo, Iowa,
was a guest Of his Nauvoo parents
last week.
Larry Kelly and Albert Schmitz
shipped two car loads Of live stock
to the windy city one day last week.
The men accompanied the shipme nt
Miss Julia Boyer has returned to
her Nauvoo home after pleasant Wis
| it Of four weeks with her grand
parents in the vicinity OF the hub.
Mrs. Maude Ross and daughter Miss
GLADYS have moved to Keokuk. The
young lady has secured employment
in the dam city.
| Henry Tausch, Nanvoo contractor,
has returned from Chicago, where he
has been under treatment for hernia.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jos. Cooper have left
Nauvoo after fifteen years residence
here and with his wife will make War
saw their future home.
Nauvoo's Rebekahs admitted two
new members into their order last
| &. ALlCA I1S OAciASos'
session a social was INDUCED In and
a dainty luncheon was served.
J. E. Mapes has leased a building OF
tSchneider & Hummel in Nauvoo and
has opened a produce house where he
will buy butter, eggs, poultry, etc
The young lassies of Nauvoo's pub.
lie schools organized junior order
OF thu Civic league and selected the
following officers: Ida Roost, prest
ident: Dorothy Argast, vice president;
dorothy Dachroth, secretary; Leona
Burmeister. treasurer.
Nauvoo tomato growers can secure
their seed at the First National bank
lnow. Forty cents the bushel Is what
lNauvoo growers are offered for to-
Imatoes this season and the factory
there want one hundred acres of them.
This is the only kind of vegetable the
factory in Nauvoo will can this sea-
son.
As q means Of stimulating move
Iment OF farm products to the con-
sumner, the postmaster general In
icreased the allowable weights Of par
Icel post packages when mailed in the
lfrst or second zones for delivery in
the first, second or third zones, may De
as heavy as seventy pounds. They
have been restricted to fifty. The
weight limit for all other zones was
increased from twenty to fifty pounds.
This may work additional labor for
Nauvoo rural route carriers.
Lou Meters, who Is superintendent
lof Nauvoo's st. Marys academy works,
left Tuesday for Atchison. Kansas, for
VISIT to his sister, who will enter
the order Of sisterhood.
Spring, according to the Calendar,
will arrive in Nauvoo Thursday, March
81. unless old winter bursts forth
!; again and disputes the date OF its ar
rival.
One OF Nauvoo's citizens planted
about a bushel of potatoes on st.
Patrick's last Sunday, believing that
tubers placed in the ground on that
date will bring better crop than
those planted on any other date.
. Frank Kerl, a Nauvoo man with an
Inventive turn OF mind, has burst into
1.-THE limelight again. This time he
claims he has contrivance that will
annihilate the kaiser and his vast
army and cities The devise is some
thing that is thrown from an aero
plane and when it strikes the earth
will ignite and set in flames all in
fam BILE material it comes in contact
with and a city will be doomed to
destruction. Frank claims that the
war department has asked him to send
plans and drawings of his invention.
It 1s hoped that he has discovered the
real thing now that will sweep the
kaiser and his followers from off the
| face of the earth IN short order.