The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-03

mere Is talk OF producing the dra1na
in n~eghboring towns during the winter.
Nauvoo's Industrial society meets
with Mrs. Ed Boedecker Thursday
afternoon Of this week and the NJ. e.
Ladies' Aid society on the same after
noon at the home of Mrs. r. Hummel.
e. j. Baxter left for California last
Tuesday and before arriving in the
golden state will stop for a few days
in Kansas to visit his sons who live
in one of the cities in the latter state.
He will be absent from Nauvoo until
spring.
Lou Hudson will leave for Spring
field next Monday where he goes to
serve as a juror in the federal courts
held there.
Misses Airline Mulch and Olive Wal
ter visited friends in Keokuk over
New Year, and while there were guests
of Miss Marie Adams.
John Laubersheimer mi wife, who
have been down in Oklahoma for sew
eral weeks, will return to their Maui
VOC home tomorrow. Mrs. Earl Laub-
ersheimer, their daughterin-law, whose
husband has Joined the soldier boys,
will return with them and remain here
until the kaiser says enough of this
cruel war.
Mayor Arbuckle, who has been in
Geneseo. H., for a visit, has returned
to his Nauvoo home. His wife and
children are still absent in the above
place, where his eldest daughter was
stricken with pneumonia and was i'm
proving nicely when he left for his
home here.
Elmer Argast of Basco, Ill, came
to Nauvoo last Monday for a stay
with his parents. ME-. and Mrs. J.. F.
Argast. The young la has had a
serious time with a stubborn ailment
and a change to N%auvoo's climate
and familiar surroundings may bene-
fit him.
1t may seem contradictory, but still
it may be a fact, that you will be
able to take an airship or the Nauvoo
Keokuk interurban to the dam city
right after this big war is over be-
cause they are going to go.
Mr.. Orr, an attorney from Hamilton,
was a Nauvoo business visitor Thurs
day of last week. While here he
made arrangements to lease the
rooms Of the late Judge James, and
will visit Nauvoo two days in every
week to give legal advice to those
who need it and not be compelled to
run to Carthage for points in law.
Revival meetings will begin in the
Nauvoo M. Z. church next Sunday
and continue until the 14th and
Evangelist Williamson will be in
charge. There will be a fine choir
.present under the leadership of Rev.
Marston.
Rev. Father Tholen of the Nauvoo
Catholic church was the recipient OF
a generous and welcome present,
made by his congregation on Christ
mas. The gift was a roll Of Uncle
Sans wherewith representing near
ly 5000. This splendid minister de-
serves all the good this world con-
tains and his many friends outside of
his congregation rejoice at this good
fortune.
Recently one of Nauvoo's nearby
farmers sold two hogs weighing three
hundred pounds each and received fif-
lty dollars apiece for them. That's
what we used to buy six hogs for not
many years ago
l. Two revenue officers in the interest
of the government, will arrive in Car
thage February 2 and will assist the
taxpayers to make income tax re-
turns who are to make the returns
not later thar March 1 and the penal
ties for neglecting to do so are very
severe. Married persons who have an
income of $4,000 or nor and single
persons with $1,000 are requested to
make returns. There are few if any
persons in Nauyoo who will be com
PEELED to make an income tax return
to the officials.
The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Nauvoo State bank will
be held next Tuesday morning at 10
o'clock for the purpose of selecting
eleven directors and t~ransacting other
business.
Some Nauvoo lads are aeitating the
matter of keeping a good sized field
of ice free from snow during this win
ter to provide a skating rink for all
lovers of th!E outdoor sport to be had
on the ice. 1t is doubtful if they can
interest enough fellows to help them
do the job.
The present status of the Nauvoo
interurban railway line which at one
time seemed destined to link Keokuk
and Fort Madison, is Just about the
same as the status OF the factories
which the Keokuk dam was going to
lbe responsible for on the Illinois side
of the lake and which are in status
quo.
A Nauvoo couple got married but q
short time ago and after enjoying the
honeymoon for a few days. nave sep.
arated to live apart on account of
domestic complaints discovered by
the husband.
A citizen has kept track Of the
number of SHOWS hat fell in Nauvoo
since the winter months began and
has totaled just fourteen since the
first flakes fell.
Nauvoo dealers are busy harvesting
the crystal blocks taken from the lake
here. The ice harvest measures
eighteen inches and is taken from the
slough near the old steamboat land
ing in the northwest Part of Nauvoo
Some of them will finish this week if
this weather continues. The lahorine
people here have a short payroll and
the wage scale is thirty cents pei