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NAUvoo, ILL, MARCH 81.

Lots Of Nauvoo people will make
garden next week If weather condi-
tions remain favorable and some will
wait until Good Friday to plant spuds.
Some call this fruit potatoes and some
refer to them as Murphys.
One OF Uncle Sans officials came
to Nauvoo a day recently and took
r. R. Mcdonald, mail carrier on Route
No. Q to Quincy to answer to the
charge Of tampering with the mails
and after preliminary hearing was
placed under a 5000 bond to insure
him to appear before the federal
grand jury, which body convenes IN
that city next June. Mr.. Mcdonald
claims that he is not guilty of tamper-
ing with any mail matter entrusted IN
his care. He returned to Nauvoo and
lis still on the job and says he can es-
tablish his innocence. He intends to
resign as carrier on the Nauvoo route.
AS a mere matter OF business, every
one in Nauvoo should save something
out his earnings and deposit it him
self. The mere fact that something
strength. Besides this, money depos-
tied In one of Nauvoo's banks at 4
per cent, soon accumulates and when
W.
60 into business arises the depositor
Is ready for it.
There will be some peaches in Maui
voo's vicinity this year It Is claimed
now. Trees in some localities about
the city are showing vigorous buds
that were protected from the ele-
m ents. A lady living along the lake
shore drive a short distance below
Nauvoo has a fine peach orchard and
she predicts that she will raise nne
peach crop this year.
A salesman for a manufacturer OF
mems shoes was in Nauvoo the fore
part of the week, He said that men
are as fastidious over their footwear
as their wives. daughters and moth
ers. Men today" he said, ARE care
full to be we'll groomed from the feet
up" It is noticed so in Nauvoo.
Nauvoo's city council met in special
session last Monday evening and in
troduced an ordinance placing the city
attorneys salary at $50 per year.
raise Of $15 it being SIS per year be-
fore. In addition to this princely sal
airy the legal adviser is to receive 70
for every case he conducts for Maui
VOC and gains q verdict of guilty
Heretofore he was allowed the SO fee
in every case II there was a convic-
ton or discharge Or whether he was
absent or present The council mem
bers will meet in regular session next
Monday evening.
Mrs. Hugh and little laddie have
been visiting relatives in Galesburg
during the week
Mr.. Chas. Lugner, Nauvoo's gentle
manly and hustling shoe cobbler, has
added a fine new awning to the iron,
of his business place. Mr.. Lugner Is
one Of The Keokuk Gate Citys
stauncb subscribers and who says 1t
is one of the best little daily news
papers printed in the country, giving
the most important general and local
news, besides telling US people all
about what is going on in the Nor
/ mon city in the Nauvoo Gate City
column.
In many towns the retail cigar
trade is materially decreased during
/ lent, said a travelling salesman to this
column the other day. We certainly
do not find this the case in Nauvoo.
DR.. ]. w. Gay, an Indian doctor o.
Winfield, Kansas. was in Nauvoo 6
day recently and also visited some
friends in the country east of the city
VIM. Datin Of Davenport, Iowa, il