The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-25
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lures on the screen by Friday even
| ing. A committee was appointed to
| solicit funds to finance the enter
prises adopted. The Nauvoo band
members reported that they had their
/ organization ready to furnish first.
! class concert at any time now, and
the committee on this entertainment
| so reported to the assembled mem
bers. The club did not believe they
| could raise the amount of money
asked by the band at this time. so
/! tabled the band concert proposition.
| 1t will only be few short weeks
now until the Nauvoo grape crop will
/ be ready for the harvest, and there
promises to be one of the best yields
in the history of the city. Figures
with different colored garments will
appear in various Vineyards, plucking
! the fruit, and a medley OF soft voices
will rise where for long there had
| been no sound. From side to side OF
! the vines the workers will move, al
ways bearing armfuls of purple.
/ Steadily among them will move
! bosses from early morn until even
! ing, issuing orders and directions.
Creaking through Nauvoo streets will
! go wagons heavily loaded with bask-
| cts packed with grapes to be placed
! in cars for the different markets.
Finally the last grapes will be gath
| cred, the last baskets packed. and
/ along the road the laden wagons will
! creak for the last time this season.
Suffering Moses! Forty springs ana
! summers and autumns! Let me see
u was only twenty-five when l began
| with the grapes in Nauvoo, said one
of our citizens, land / am sixty I've
/ now. That is forty years that l nave
| gathered crops for wine, bought bask-
cts and sold my crop, hired help ana
| gone through the whole process.
"Why don't you sell the vineyard"'
/ he was asked. "Sell it? My wife and
! family would die of broken hearts II
| mentioned it to them. This family
/ have been the slaves to that vine
! yard since the first Of my ancestors
went into the grape business. We've
fortified it, pruned it, protected IT,
| tied it up, sat up nights with IT.,
! drove the insects away from 1t Win
blue vitro, etc., hired people to pick
| the fruit and pack it, fed the people,
| we've done everything! And what
have we had for it? Only a very
moderate living, all the grapes we
! could eat and few bottles of good
wine. 1t is family heirloom, like
title or some very old and valuable
piece of jewelry. Other people have
family traditions, but we've got
vineyard, or, to speak more truth
fully, it has us. Sometimes l wonder
why l grow grapes, when it would
= Of
know that I'd never have to see.
! touch, taste or even smell another
grape in this world or the next. =
And yet this Nauvooite has raised
/ a fine family and Is apparently
wealthy.
Mr.. Joseph Welter and Misses
Grace Argast, Rosetta Hertel and
Edna Berger motored to keokuk
! Thursday evening to visit Mrs. Well
ter at St Joseph's hospital. Mrs.
Lou Argast, who has been visiting in
Keokuk, accompanied them to Maui
VOC on the return trip.
The G. w. Hill brought an excur-
sion to Nauvoo from Burlington, Dali
las City and Fort Madison last We'd
nesday. The steamer arrived here
about o'clock in the evening and
; remained about fifteen minutes.
There was quite crowd on board.
Jake Boyer has dismantled the in.
terror of his saloon that he conducted
until war prohibition compelled him
to quit. He evidently believes there
will be no more saloon days for old
Nauvoo.
Very few strangers visit Nauvoo
these hot days, for there seems to
be no more attraction for them here
! since the wet" places that sold the
stuff that had the kick and brought
much joy to the human system have
| ceased to exist. If they come here
now and then, they visit us for the
purpose of seeing what effect the re-
moval of saloons has on beautiful
old Nauvoo.
Some of Nauvoo's young sports are
wondering what has become Of
Heinie Snider and his six-table bill
lizard room, for which he applied for
license at a council meeting at the
beginning of the fiscal year, last
May, and which enterprise he intend.
ed operating as soon as the war
time prohibition put the saloons out
of business, July 1.
delightful picnic in the Hemmy To-
Gust grove, about six blocks from
our business district, last Thursday.
The members of the society took
well filled baskets with splendid eats,
and a socialistic picnic luncheon was
greatly enjoyed by all who attended.
All present report delightful time.
c. R. Montgomery, Nauvoo coal
dealer, has made arrangements to
build residence in Fort Madison,
which he and his wife will occupy
when finished.
There might be a heavy sale of
shovels in Nauvoo some time before
cold weather sets in. 1t is reported
that some booze is buried about the
city, so that the search and seizure
law officers cannot find it.
Considerable money will be put in
circulation again in a short time in
Nauvoo, when the lads and, lassies,
women and men are engaged in har-
vesting the mammoth crop of grapes
here. The basket tackers are already
earning fair wage.