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Show ItGROgenarian Was Once Employed as Teacher ia Rauvoo "I wan teaching school In what was called the west side,' and the man who later became my husband, Daniel H. Wells, wn the justice of the peace in Nauvoo, Nau-voo, II., at the time the Mormons were persecuted and driven from there," said Mrs. Kmmellne I. Wells, when questioned yesterday yester-day concerning Nauvoo, the town on the Mississippi river in Illinois Illi-nois made famous hy the Mormon Mor-mon activities there in 14. News was carried to Mrs. Wells -- that the once busy, bustling town of 16,000 Inhabitants, made to thrive and prosper by her people, but whioh n4nee their departure. has dwindled to a population of less than one thousand. In to be made the site nf one of th large vocational training schools for former service men. Upon hearing this news, Mrs. Wells said; "It was rightly named bv Joseph (Smith, the prophet. Nauvoo. the Greek word signifying beautiful situation or Ideal spot, and the temple built there by the Mormons waa of beautiful marble and It Is said thit a part af ihie ."Tr't is in tact." Mrs. Wells visited the historic town several years ao. where the home of Joaeph Smith and Brig-ham Brig-ham Toung are also still kept Intact." In-tact." Nauvoo at the time of Joseph Smith's reign was the tersest city In the state of Illinois and a charter was granted bv the state rule, making the city Independent of the state. - The vocational training school-will school-will be located on a bluff near the old Mormon temnle site overlook Ing a sweep nf the Mississippi river. When the Mormons wsre driven from Nauvoo a colony of Vrench fcarlana, of whom Ktlenns CHbet was leader, settled there. Thoy were a communist order, buU the experiment was not a suocesa and in a few years they gave way to a similar order of Germans, but finally they, too, drifted away, leaving this rich agricultural and horticultural community practically practi-cally abandoned after establishing establish-ing itself. In the- history of the re ligloua persecution of the country. coun-try. Now the government sees fit to make use of the historic spot In aiding the heroes o the world war. |