Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-07-20
A PLEASANT
SUMMER TRIP.

Clinton, lathe Diamond 10 Packet
Company has issued a neat little PAM
phlet, entitled I" Pleasure Rest" descrip-
tive Of a trip on the Mississippi from st.
Louis to ST. Paul. 1t contains number
of handsome half-tone Illustrations of
scenes along the Father OF Waters, ly-
ing between the two terminal points OF
traffic OF the packet company. among
which are represented the cities of
Hannibal, Quincy, Muscatine, Daven-
port, the locks at Keokuk, the govern
ment buildings at Rock Island, Fort
Madison, Fountain City. Diamond
Bluffs. Eagle Point and many others.
The work contains a most interesting
description of the scenery along the
great river. The writer, referring to the
attractions on the Iowa and Illinois
shores, says
We pass Clarkeville, Louisiana, Han
nibal, Quincy and other towns, till we
reach Keokuk, la. AT that point are the
twelve miles. The massively built stone
locks are flanked by pretty parks. IL
you happen to pass here In the evening,
the beauty is enhanced; the electric
lights brilliantly illuminating the near
by trees to vivid green. against back
ground OF deepest black, and the silver
rays from the steamers searchlight cut
ting out glowing pictures from the
shadows.
Shortly after leaving the canal we
come to the historic town of Nauvoo.
The Mormons, in 1870, founded Nauvoo,
built a temple, and quite flourishing
little village. Material enough for a.
book to tellsof their troubles with the.
Ineighboring villages, and their heroic
defense of the temple. They were final
I ~ forced to capitulate. Joseph and
Hiram Smith We're taken to Jail at
Carthage A mob overpowered the.
guards and slew the captives The Nor
mons. driven from their homes, started
their long march westward. This was
an unfortunate affair. but for which
Nanvoo would have been the site for
another Salt Lake City. The neatly
built stone warehouses. where the
steamers stop, is built Of the stones Of
the old Mormon temple.
Ever since We passed the mouth Of
the Missouri river there have been all
manner of boats: small and large fiat
boats. skiffs, canoes and barges with
dredging attachments. all gathering
CLANS. This is the leading river indus
try. the shells OF the upper Mississippi
being peculiarly adapted for the manu-
facture of buttons
The fishermen live in the most primi-
tive structures shanty hurriedly
thrown together of driftwood or most
ANYTHING they can lay hands on. a dirty,
dilapidated tent, or a leaky housaboat.
They live happy-go-l lucky life, lazy
and in squalor, but We'll have 10 thank
them for adding their picturesque pres
ence and their clumsy craft and dingy
novels, a never ending source OF pleas
ure to the floating spectators.
AT Muscatine these shells pour In.
from up and down the river by the
barge load. all to be trimmed and made
ready for the market and to be shipped
east, and converted into buttons and or
namental articles. You zee great piles
of the shells, hundreds OF tons of them,
on the river bank.
Davenport. Rock Island and Moline
form pretty triplett Of sister cities,
Joined together by one of the finest
bridges on the Mississippi, the center
resting oh the government island or