The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-24
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| Paul Schenk. of Nauvoo, has the
contract to build new residence
for William Ellison in Niota.
Mrs. Frank Schleicher was taken
to a Keol1uk hospital last week for
an operation. She is now recovering
nicely and will soon be home among
her friends, which is glad news for
them to read.
Nauvoo's canning factory closed
work for this season last Tuesday
with credit of about 1000 cans OF
tomatoes prepared. There were only
thirty-five acres Of the red apples
planted for the factory this summer.
The city powers were unable to
furnish water for our citizens for a
couple of days last week. After To-
eating the trouble in the Nauvoo
waterworks system, six feet OF mud
was found in the colossal tank, which
had not been cleaned out since 1t
was built.
Nauvoo's two splendid financial
institutions paid out for the fourth
Liberty loan bonds the sum Of s1.2,.
400 to people of Nauvoo and vicinity
They all paid cash, and none took
bonds on the installment pin that
we have heard from
The Keokuk contractors started
work on Nauvoo's three blocks OF
sewerage system In the business
portion OF the town last week. AT
the rate the work is being pushed
it will take several weeks to COM
plete the work, and no doubt snow
balls will be falling before the sewer
is done. There was considerable
talk OF beginning injunction proceed
ings restraining the mayor and coun'
cilmen from continuing the work at
this time, but 1t is said that legal
technicallties were not available.
Miss Hazel Hudson is visiting
relatives in three states-Illinois,
Indiana and Michigan-and will be
gone for several weeks.
Last Sunday the gas ban was lift
ed and many Nauvoo people took
advantage of the beautiful day and
engaged in Joy riding to the neigh
boring towns and through the coun-
try.
Robert McConkey has purchased
the old property known as the Bratz
place, down in Nauvoo's first ward.
1t consists of dilapidated brick
residence building and quarter OF
an acre of real estate. The price
paid was $500.
Fred Salm, Jr., cashier of the
First National bank in Nauvoo, was
Carthage business visitor Tuesday
afternoon.
Ed Hudson, who Is managing his
brother Ralph's meat market In Maui
VOC during his absence in one OF
the training camps in the south, was
an innocent victim of the law when
!; the game warden of this part OF
! Illinois swooped down on him one
| day last week and hailed him into q
! court of justice to show cause why
he sold fish under the size set forth
by the powers that be. The fisher
man who sold the catch to the Hud-
son meat market ought to be the
one to receive the fine for selling
them to innocent persons to be re-
sold. Ed was fined, and paid the
bill, which amounted to $31.
Ted, son of Mr.. and Mrs. T. N.
Moffitt. Of Nauvoo. lost his wife by
death in Kansas City on Thursday
of last week. The young wife Wis
tied Nauvoo several times with her
husband and made many friend
here, who We're sorry to hear OF her
demise and deeply sympathize with
TERED in the ST Joseph, Mo-. Gene
terry.
Last Saturday night, between the
hours of IL and 1 o'clock, fire was
discovered in the building used by
John Ed as paint shop, on the
corner Of Fifteenth and Mulholland
streets, in our business section. Two
young men and two young ladies
claiming Fort Madison as their resi-
dence were coming down the street
when they discovered the building
on fire. The men tried to awaken
families in the neighborhood, but
without success, and came further
down town, when they met four men,
who soon got things and beings NOV
ing toward the scene Of conflagra-
ton. One of the men ran over to
the telephone office and got the
night operator to sound the alarm
for the volunteer fire department,
and soon the bell on the station
building tolIed the alarm. Part of
the company made the run Of three
blocks in double quick time and soon