The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-31

The historical division Of the Genoa
logical society of Utah will give grand
Nauvee ball at the old Social hall in
State street, Friday night, Nov. 5, for
which invitations have been Issued. The
event promises to be one Of the most
successful of the year.
The invitation expresses the nature Of
the affair, with the request: please
ceme with eid=fashioned dresses, old
fashioned feelings, and have genuine
eid-fashieHed time" The opaning grand
march is scheduled 20 take place
promptly at o'clock.
Hlahefate preparations for the ball
have been made by a special commit
tee, of which Geergs d. Piper is chair
man, 8E. PypeP has been working
with his characteristic zeal and push
toward making the affair huge sue
cess. Others on the social committee
are Leu GFeesbeek McCune. Florence
WINS, ina c. Smith, Mary Grant, Jo-
seph StFas Peery and Lyman Mar
tineau,
The reception committee. which Will
be On hand 10 receive properly the
guests on the night Of Friday, Nov. 8,
consists OF the following: Susa Young
Gates, chairman; Alice Kimbal Smith,
Elizabeth c, McCune. Annie D. Watson,
Grant, Malvina Peters, Ann D. Groes-
beck, Rebeeea n, Nibley. Maria B.
winder, Isabel Whitney Sears, Eleanor
b. Macdonald Annie Lynch, Edna L.
Smith, Sarah A, Lund, Tina Y. Card
and Fiera 3. Horne.
The event will serve as a reunion for
cid former residents OF Nauvoo.
NauVoo, "the beautiful" is situated
On the east bank of the Mississippi. IN
Hancock county, Illinois, near the head
OF the Lower Rapids, The site OF Maui
voc is one of the most beautiful on the
river. The ground rises gradually from
the river, and presents a smooth and
regular surface with a plain at the
summit,
Nauvoe was first settled by the Lat
ter-day Saints in 1889. at their expulsion
from Missouri, At this time that dis
trict of Illinois was very thinly popu-
lated, and a little settlement called
Commerce, the spot first settled by the
Saints was the name given to the whole
neighberheed, There extensive pur-
ehases of land were made Of DR.. Isaac
GaIland, AiS, White, d. H. Wells and
others, on which the Saints located.
The charter for the CITY OF Nau-
vee," including charters for the "Nau-
wee Legion" and the University Of the
City of Nauvee," was signed by Gov
ernor Thomas CaFiin on Dec. 10. 1910.
and took effect Feb. i following. The
fourth section of the act provided for
a city council, which consisted OF a
mayer, four aldermen and nine coun-
eiliOrs who held effiee for two years,
or until their successors were appointed.
BY the seventh section all free white
male inhabitants, wne we're of the age
IF 81 years, whe were entitled to vote
for state officers and had been residents
of the city sixty days next preceding an
election, were entitled to vote for city
officers.
Before the eiese of 1913 a vast i'm
prevement had taken place, The city
which then extended feuF or five miles
along the river, and about the same
distance back, had been regularly laid
eff into blocks, containing four lots OF
I1x12 rods each. Between 700 and SOC
houses had been erected, and the Pspu-
iatien numbered about $4,000, TIVE
steam mills and two printing presses
existed, and buildings for various man
pfactures were rapidly going up. In
the meantime, the temple and NauvOC
house were progressing. The city ha6
been settled scarcely three years, and
by people who came to it nearly desti-
tUte of every worldly thing, but it is
impossible that any city could present
a greater claim for improvement eff
fected in the same amount Of time by
the industry of its own inhabitants
than did Nauvoe. It is true, there were
then no expensive mansions nor pol
ished public buildings. but the city
presented. in its numerous well-buili
houses and well-cultivated farms and
gardens. "a pattern Of mechanical skill
domestic economy, practical temper
ance, common intelligence, and every
day virtue" Nor was the mercantile
business great, but that circumstance
only promoted the increase of home
manufactures and self-reliance.
Indeed, Nauvoo was now rapidly ad-
yancing IN population. wealth and ev-
cry other characteristic Of a great City
An Englishman. who saw 1t at that