The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-10-09

ed by new furnace being installed
in the educational building She Wis
! tied her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. F.
Argast in Nauvoo.
! Nauvoo's council members met in
regular session last Monday evening.
They transacted what little business
came before them and adjourned to
meet again, Monday evening, No
yember /, the night before the presi-
Dental election.
! The mo hunting" signs and notices
in local papers are now appearing and
the nimrod who has a fine gun and
dog will have but small space to
find game if he obeys the mandates
of the property owners and the law.
( John Kraus of Nauvoo, has invested
in new Ford auto truck and intends
going into the freight transfer bust
ness from Keokuk and FIT. Madison
to Nauvoo.
| A free film picture show was given
in the Nauvoo opera house Thursday
evening and program by Miss Jose
phine Packer, the county nurse, and
our school children.
! Geo. Boegner a stock buyer of Maui
voo's vicinity, has purchased a car
! load of northern potatoes which he
expects to- arrive at Montrbse at any
time now. He intends to dispose of
them to Nauvoo consumers at S1.S5
per bushel, delivered.
| J. w. Bertschi, the Nauvoo man
who is confined in Keokuk hospital
for the relief Of some ailn1ent, is get
ting along fine and his many friends
hope for his return home soon.
| 1t is reported that Nauvoo grape
growers who shipped their seasons
crop with Geo. H. Hart, realized the
largest price ever. received from
grapes sent to markets in The history
of Nauvoo. The early grapes brought
them six cents and the Concords five
and one-half cents net. That beats
the Nauvoo Shippers union deal with
| a Warsaw firm by one and one-half
| to two cents pound.
| A quartette of Nauvoo fellows at
tended a minstrel show in Keokuk one
evening last week.
! Mrs. Robt. Blum and child have re-
turned to their Nauvoo homo from
their Chicago visit.
Mrs. w. ]. HANNA Of Hamilton was
recent visitor wild her daughter,
Mrs Allen Dachroth in Nauvoo.
! Mrs. J. w. Steinbach of Mt. Pleas
ant, Iowa, is a guest of her sister, Mrs.
John Weber in Nauvoo.
| Mrs. Jennette Kraft who has been
visiting her daughter in Davenport,
Iowa, for the past six months, has re-
turned to her Nanvoo home.
Thos. Summers Of Stoneham, Colo,
has come to- Nauvoo for a visit with
! his family who have been here for
some time.
! Some Nauvoo people have gathered
walnuts about Nauvoo. The crop is
quite large, but the trees are scarce
owing to the government using them
for lumber during the late war. The
hickory nut crop is said to be small
about Nauvoo.
! The season for making apple cider
is on in Nauvoo, but you should not
call it cider now. 1t should be called
apple Juice since the national prohi
bition law went into effect.
Last Sunday was an ideal day for
automobile parties and many of them
visited the old Mormon town while
many remained in Nauvoo for a visit
and. look around the city.
/ Ellis Daugherty, the Nauvoo meat
market man, purchased the material
in couple of old buildings which he
will use for the erection Of slaugh-
ter house and shed. He has leased
a five acre tract of real estate from
John Koehler for his killing houses.
! Halloween parties will be next in
order and will be INDUCED in to- a con-
siderable extent by Nauvoo's young
2cople. Then Thanksgiving will fol
low.
The corn shocking season is almost
upon the farmers and the laboring ele-
ment are wondering what the scale Of
prices will be if the price of corn keeps
falling until the actual week of har-
vesting the crop begins in and around
Nauvoo.
| There is going to be some crowding
at the Nauvoo polls on November 2,
but will the rule be, ladies first?
Some Nauvoo straw hats did abau