The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-08-24
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schools will open on Wednesday, Sep
TENDER l. For the public school these
teachers have been selected: Prof.
Smith, of Basco, ILL.,, seventh and
eighth grades; Miss Clara Cambre.
fifth and sixth grades; Miss Sylvia
Kruger, third and fourth grades;
Miss Goldie Datin, first and second
grades For the high school, Prof O..
n. Perkins has been retained as prin-
! cipal, with Miss Fern Seibel, OF Val
paraiso, Ind. and Miss Clara Horton,
! OF NauvOo, as assistants.
! Last Saturday was a very uuu
business day in Nauvoo. The Powell
ton picnic and many engaged in the
quiet time. But in the evening the
business section was filled with autos
and the sidewalks thronged with
people and business took turn for
the better.
Nauvoo is nearly a hundred years
of age, but looks far from it. There
isn't anything old here Come and
visit us now and eat a bunch OF
grapes or two.
! Elmer Fisher and Fred Walther are
new members Of the Nauvoo Masonic
lodge.
George Hannah and wife of st.
Louis, have been visiting Nauvoo
relatives and friends and while here
were the guests OF George Marzolf
and family.
! Mr.. A. J. Schneider's smiling face
can again be seen behind the cage
of the Nauvoo State bank. He has
returned from three weeks visit
in Texas, and from city which is
only about eight miles from the
Mexican border.
George Huffman, Nauvoo young
lad, and Miss Elenora Kruse Of So
nora township, were united in mar
rage last week.
The Keokuk retail merchants are to
visit Nauvoo tonight and will enjoy
a banquet prepared by the Catholic
church ladies in the Knights of Co
! lumbus hall.
you find sticker on a loaf of bread
bought in bakery. And didn't it
make you wonder who stuck it on and
how. Nauvoo people are not now
bothered, in a nervous way, anymore
with these stickers on bread pur-
chased in our stores.
! Nauvoos grape harvest began last
Thursday morning and the first car
was sent to Minneapolis, Mimi, by
E. Bakers Sons fruit shipping firm
This was followed by George Hart
who sent a car to Grand Forks, South
Dakota, and the Nauvoo association
brought up the rear with their car to
a northern market. There will be in
the neighborhood of twenty-five cars
of the early varieties of grapes
shipped out this season, Everybody
is as busy as they wish to be in the
vineyards plucking. the luscious
lunches and arranging the fruit in
baskets for the market. The team
STEERS, ferry boat and car leaders are
kept on the move and all is busy life
in Nauvoo at the present time.
Plenty Of watermelons and cante-
loupes are now found IN Nauvoo's
markets. They come from the Sand
Prairie district near Montrose.
Ernest Argast is visiting his par
ents in Nauvoo. The young man has
a good position in Rock Island.
Last Saturday the steamer Keokuk
failed to arrive at Nauvoo's port from
Quincy and Keokuk. There were a
good many passengers at the landing
waiting to take passage to FIT. Madi- |
nearly the noon hour for the steamer.
1t Is reported that the high winds |
was the cause of the boat being IN |
able to make the regular trip. The |
Nauvoo ferry boat was also unable /
to make it's regular trips until the !
noon hour and several wagon loads |
of grapes were at the landing wait |
ing transportation to Montrose to be |
loaded into the refrigerating cars.
If the Nauvoo schools open Sep
TENDER l it will be the cause Of cur
failing the number OF grape pickers
when the Concord variety is ready
for shipment.
Nauvoo fishermen are making some
good hauls of fish now and then and
they are mostly of the catfish tribe.
They receive % cents per pound for
them.
Several Nauvoo fishermen are at
work hunting clans along the shore
opposite the depot at Montrose. They
fish for them after their days work
and delivery of their fish catch.
Nauvoo's bathing beach is not very
we'll patronized now on account OF
the cool evenings. The young ele-
ment would rather take wash tub
plunge in hot water than brave The
cold waters Of the lake.
1t is surprising to see the number
of strangers who visit Nauvoo these
days. Many of them come here for
grapes and other kinds of fruits,
while others come to enjoy the beau
,tiful climate during their vacation.
Mr.. Ed Crooks. the obliging &C
lcommodating and pleasant station
agent for the c. B. & O. railroad at
Montrose and his assistants in the
Office are busy men these days. He is
always on the job providing first
class refrigerating cars for the Maui
WOO grape shippers and makes it a
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