Show GE AND O VISITED t t O l I I 3 Q rf per A A. A Ted Tuttle I J I day dar The sun I I b Ml brightly after three threet j I t a Six of us Elders start- start I trip P to visit Nauvoo and aj v Ve e rode along slowly J I JOl Ol l j the beauties of nature a tR Bounded u along tho road H g grot g ge U there ere is a n marker it rot stating that the lima ay tbt fie ige e Jail is i an all j We went through the tile he W the room loom where whee the ther r dc eph Smith was vas r Q brother H Hyrum rum killed f Hyrum Smith and Johnt John rt t stain the ills floor in the u ch owns this his piece of 1 d dhas has iss a guide there to toj the jail and explain 1 j 1 b it r noes which mm make It so Ite Chur Church h history For ba he e exact location of the thea a GI t known but recently itt it t Ired red and re O oa r.- r. well-house well erect- erect the original stood 1 I one p pictures and rode on ons I s Between b between tween Carthage andt and t country is really beaure beau- beau I re are are countless green greenI I I s with with groves gro of trees ir the e. e landscape As one ono jene of beauty and notes ic Ick ch fertile soil he lie t ci t y the Pioneers did not because of choice H t b brow row of a hill we beheld 1 oj l Mississippi I IK It- Itis is an ef g sight to see the magg mag- mag deur of this mighty might Ir when H so use useful ul when harness- harness elm like US US' human beings e nv w. w captured the t G tai of the mighty river ri Plains i ams ms and locks furnish- furnish far r the cities which dot ol making large lakes Id river rii r r rushed shed l l 1 It is one of these dams diver r about ten miles from fromI J r ct iu has backed the water in l ie nce of several city blocks r which was once drain- drain i Pioneers meers We Ve traveled Gl tanks of the river for nine i It w was s indeed a beautiful mt the river roll on to the theft thee 3 tJ never ending course of l 3 i. i d majesty challenging majesty challenging t and resources of man l i w mighty powers pO Well h Smith draw this simile t gy I As As well might man manh manis Ii h his is puny arm to sto stop p I j I Mississippi in its decreed urn it stream up-stream as to toz z from pouring down clown upon the heads of the Saints ints tore sunset we reached mF just drove around to get r ry view of the city We Ve peeping ping in inHouse House the the home in inca ine e ca 1 ph Smith lived Jived however d rn Jime ime just prior to the This build build- i x v JH as as most of the other i sites is in the posses- posses I reorganized Church ChUlch UJ e next ext morning we arose fi ild over over the ground where 44 i h Smith directed the afI af- af 1 l' l I growing fast city from 43 We Ve toured the time ono ensee on- on o see all the homes or orI omes of the important I church history le site part of which J y the church Is entirely the fh temple was destroyed I Ithe Saints er the Sah Saints ts left lert for the i lf by an internal fire and ar struck by lightening d t y a cyclone which dam dau j walls so completely that were V er razed to recover the tho s them Many of the buHrle build build- e Immediate vicinity of the tho there i re built from the thc st stone no n the walls re reo ge J o Temple site the highest Ion one has a command- command 1 f the river and the valley t en said that the Temple T lion seen Been for tor a distance of Jos lea when it tt st stood od All that todaY Is the well which thee the i southeast corner and I lie he font with water r t he time unique features ofIn of or orr r In n- n Nauvoo O was the thin rick i ek k slabs la which the early eaily en d' d de to be used for shingles are still sUll in u uso r toof toof to- to I of the small effects of or mitt which have been d on page tour four I Cot Carthage and Nauvoo Visited Continued from Crom page one served ned were also of great interest and were ete seen In his home in Nau Nau- The rhe ait City of Na Nauvoo u oo was once a n. thriving metropolis of Mormon acl- acl vit vity The largest city in Illinois and the fastest growing glowing city in the United States tates It reached the population population lation of over oer at one time tune bu but t today tOda- the sign on the road says Nauvoo Nauvoo Population 1000 There are aro In the city sixty miles of streets only part of which are aie in use today I At one time there were about homes bit lt now only a few v hundred plus some ome of oC the old l houses built bythe b by I the parts pails of which are aio I ding but not In use The onto bus busZ streets are aie now run over-run grass grass gras's and Jid vegetation and only the I state highway wy Is paved This city as all west western rn Mormon towns was laid out In squares with four flour acres to a block block and four lots to the I square I The rhe main industry of the town Is farming and much of that I IP is il in grape for orchards for which Nauvoo 1 I Is Therefore There are areat aie at present over SOO acres acre of f grapes Within the city limits I 1 This bis count county ry as seen seen from a slight elevation is hi rolling hills hUls of green The s soil is bla black k and rich and fer fer- tile The m mighty Mississippi forms f a ing arm aim in the form of a horseshoe around mound part of the cit city Words lords cannot describe the beauty of oC thiS part part pait of ot the country in In th the springtime Inte Leaving Nauvoo we drove out oui on the same sume road load which the Prophet was supposed to have ha taken on hi his way to Carthage All in all it was a most enjoyable and instructive trip l I shall long remember the feeling of reverence that came over me as I stood near the grave giave of the Prophet Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum The landmarks of church chuich history in Nauvoo Nauvoo Nauvoo Nau Nau- a although though dese desecrated desecrated- rated b by mans man's 1 nce s still ill have a hallowed meaning if it we ve but but recognize that feeling which surges within us a awe as we tand stand on that hallowed ground gio md It bungs brings home heme more forcibly t the s sacrifice which the early lead leaders J and aId |