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made in Nauvoo the past week. Sci
wyn Wyles has disposed Of a strip OF
land to DR.. Rudolph which joins his
residence property on South TWelttn
] street, and received $3.50 for it. VIII
/ liam Huntly sold one and half acres
4 of land east Of the city limits for the
! consideration of $500. His son-in-law,
Charles Hackett, of Burlington, was
the buyer and he intends to erect
suburban house ON it in the near
!, future.
| Jacob Steiner, who has for a num-
Der OF years lived on farm in Nau.
voo's vicinity, left for Detroit, Mich.
! last spring to seek employment After
! getting settled there, he sent for his
f, wife and son to join him to make
their home there. Last Friday morn
! ing his relatives In Nauvoo received
| the sad intelligence that the grim
hand of death claimed him after be-
I ing i'll only about week in hos
I pital in Detroit. The young man was
! born in Durrenesch, Canton, Argan,
Switzerland, on May q, 1888. and
! was 80 years, months and II days
| old when death overlook him. Twelve
years ago he was united in marriage
| to Miss Alvina Mae Strom, of Maui
VOC, and one child, a son, was born
| to them, who survive him. The body
| was brought to Nauvoo last Saturday
afternoon and the funeral occurred
from his mothers home last Monday
/ afternoon, and burial was made IN
| the Nauvoo city cemetery.
| Leonard Hudson, who has been Wis
| iting brother in Erie, Kas., has re-
! turned home.
) Fred Walter went to Keokuk hos
pital last Friday, where he under
went an operation for the relief of
hemorrhoids.
Nauvoo has received four carloads
of coal in the last four weeks, which
was distributed among our people. II
coal does not arrive more rapidly,
! cold weather will catch some here
without fuel, unless they can secure
! some of the black diamonds from
! Hamilton or Niota, and to cart it
| from those places would make it a
very expensive commodity
Mr.. and Mrs. j.. Hildebrand, of
Quincy, have been visiting the lady's
J. parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Len K. Parker,
in Nauvoo.
! Mrs Joseph Nelson, ST., has gone
! to Middleton, Ohio for an indefinite
visit with her son Ralph and family.
! Miss Lucille Van ARK, of Dallas
City, has been visiting relatives in
! Nauvoo~ and was the guest of John
! Kraus and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. William P Schneider.
of Logan, Kas., are in Nauvoo for a
visit with the husbands brother,
John G. Schneider, and other rela-
tives.
| Mrs. Harold Rheinberger left for
j Detroit, Mich, last Friday to join her
husband, who has secured employ
ment there. Her mother, Mrs. Ed
ward Walther. accompanied her as
far as Keokuk and remained there
until Saturday.
Mrs. Helen Telford, who has been
attending a "Y'' meeting in La Grange,
ILL.,, for week or more, has returned
to her Nauvoo home.
Wick Crenshaw of Warsaw, who
killed Bert Langford with blow of
his fist at the Carthage fair short
time ago. had preliminary hearing
last week and his attorney made a
strenuous fight to make the offense
bailable one, but was unsuccessful and
Crenshaw was remanded back to jail
without being allowed bail for his re-
lease. 1t is evident that he intends
to fight the charge against him to
finish.
Nauvoo property owners are already
warning hunters to keep off their
fields under penalty of the law. It
lis not much use for the fellow who
possesses a gun and dog to take out
a hunters license in Nauvoo for nearly
all farmers have the hunters Keep
Out" sign displayed. Some few of
our mimrods go out on Sunday oc-
casionaIly and bag squirrel now and
then.
Nauvoo's domestic science club held
meeting in Mrs: Fred Tanners first
district home last Monday evening.
The peach crop is almost thing of
the past in Nauvoo now and those that
were raised found a ready market at
good price. Nauvoo had fine fruit
crop this year and there was great
deal of canning done among our house
wives and sugar selling at a good
|price. There remains the Keifer pear
and apple crop to contend with before
the entire fruit crop is finished.
The grape crop that was purchased
through the Growers a:sociation in
lNauvoO by the POpel d Gliler HTm III
Warsaw. is being gathered, placed IN
barrels and hauled in motor trucks to
Warsaw to be squeezed into juice for
the market It is believed the crop
Will be harvested this week. z. Bax-
tiers Sons are still shipping car load
lots to the city markets and intend
finishing by the end of this week.
George Harris shipping firm ended the
season last Saturday afternoon. There
has been a tremendous demand for
Nauvoo grapes in the large city mar
ikets this season and it has been i'm
POSSIBLE for E. Bakers Sons to fill all
orders telegraphed them 1t is re-
ported that this luscious fruit, the like
THAT cannot be grown elsewhere, will
bring nice price this season and Will
beat the price of the grapes sold by
our winners in bulk to an outside