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Show JOURNAL ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SERVICE OVER LEASED WIRE, AND DAILY MARKET REPORTS, MAKES THE JOURNAL AN IDEAL PAPER FOR CACHE COUNTY FOLK E PIONEER SKETCH B. ELIZA SEAMONS ENGLAND the Santa Fe trail, or through difficult passes of the Rocky She gave up all Mountains. , sos settled and civilized East. She tolled side by side with her SK tTe anfe faced the danger of death, and. a shocking form of death, at the hands of hostile Indians. She was content in rude and ugly dwelling places until better could be had. She bore children and raised them far from the friendly aid of physician or clergyman. . Without her, civilization would never have spread gradknowing that we could be of ually and surely over the face some service in the ward. of an empty land. There would We were beginning to pros- have been no children, no homes per nicely, when my mother no schools, no churches. In her died, in January, 1875. My absence the West would never husband had never been a very have been anything more than robust man and he was taken the haunt of .hunterS, trappers sick and died August 12,' 1875. and desperadoes. She gave up These deaths were a great shock for most of her days the comto me. I was now left with six forts, the securities and the children to care for, and four graces of life that womer love months after my husbands and labored unremittingly to death another baby was born assure them to those that to me. Ordinarily this would should come after her. And she have seemed an additional bur- did all this with little complaint den, but it proved a blessing, as and no self pity. It is fitting it took my mind off my worries that she should be remembered and brooding over my husband. and. honored in the West which Many friends came to me with she did so much to win. . comfort and assistance. During the next few years, Experiments in radio recepjoy and sorrow, sunshine and tion on moving trains have shadow, prosperity and poverty shown that static decreaces and seemed to fall about evenly to strength increases with and. in my lot, and although we were proportion to acceleration of a sometimes short of bread, and trains speed. ness. She '1 Ml ''f 0, - side of the Mississippi, in cov--' ered wagons over the dusty the pleasant amenities of life in The fifth annual convention of the Utah Federation of Business and Professional WoW mens clubs which was held in Salt Lake City from Saturday is proto Monday, May claimed one of the most successful conventions which has yet been held. Over 250 representatives fiom the seventeen federated dubs in the state were in attendance. One of the features of the convention was a talisman booth where the Utah talisman recently adopted by - the State Federation was on display and was sold to the visiting members. Since the beehive is Utahs official emblem and since the members of the Federation are all associated with industry and the beehive was busyness chosen as the official talisman of the State Federation. The delegates to the national convention at OaklandQin July will carry this emblem to bring Utah' before the assemblage of some 5000 women who will be in attendance at that time. - The resolutions committee, of which Mrs. Rena B. Maycock of the Logan club was chairPARK, Mass., June 4. As we are approaching the man, reported resolutions to BABSON mark for the year 1927, Mr. Babson was asked to educaendorse the character official statetion program of the state de- give us his views on the business outlook. His partment of public instruction ment follows: and urged each club to provide I have a habit of asking evincrease of 1 00 to educational opportunities eryone I meet, in lousiness, in failures show an cent ; idle freight cars show stimulate appreciation of the per comcars and smofiing an increase of 32 per cent emfranchise and effective use of dining and in the hotels, partments, same by the members. This ployment shows a decrease of Hows Business?. Never before 5 per cent, while all of the comresolution resulted from the address made Saturday night by have I found suc a difference modity indices show decreases. Judge' Mary Jane ' Spurlin, of opinion: 'Soijijjb would reply The unfilled tonnage of the Una National representative. An- fine others, poor and others ted States Steel Corporation, other resolution recommended just so so. The consensus of very important indicator, also a. careful study of national opinion seems to be that the shows a decrease. is When all of these business legislation program for local volume of businessare "very good are properly weighed but that indicators gradually profits The national action. constructive is really surpris- and combined in the BabSon-cha- rt action for dwindling.-I- t proposals include: to see the very small marof Business Conditions,, furtherance of child care and ing of profit under which many we have a summary of 7 per child labor measures; approval gin are today operat cent above normal. Thus, the of the Fess amendment for large concerns volume of business is still good ; ing. vocational education, of the of but profits are rapidly declining statistical From a point proposed establishment of a to due to falling commodity prices continues business view, department of education in the show con- and increased expenses. This up very well, when ' presidential cabinet, and of a business increases of the a naturally comparison sidering permanent federal employment last reporting month of this failures, which in turn causes servjce w;th adequate proviwith the same month a unemployment. Therefore, . alion8 to handle b year ific ago. Most of these figures though the volume of business Iemg of women and junioi. year show up satisfactorily and in- is good, statistics indicate' that dicate a better business situa- business may now be headed in continuance of the state tion, but it will be noticed that the wrong direction. We must legislative program in connec- - some very important indicators not be like the ostrich and stick tion with the preservation of are unsatisfactory. For instance our heads in the sand. Cove Fort and the old . state Business Cycles Still Work. , house at Fillmore. A very pernicious and danpresident; Miss Vera Carlson, Delegates at large to the Logan, recording secretary ; gerous doctrine is being preachNational convention to be held Mrs. Gilberts Gillespie, Tooele, ed today; namely; that business in Oakland in July were in- Treasurer. While' Mrs. Mabel cycles are a thing of the past. structed to cast their votes for N. Fry is now officially a mem- It is true the Federal Reserve national, as opposed to state, ber of the Ogden club, she is Board has greatly lessened dang legislation on the proposed child a charter member of the Logan ers of panics, and depressions labor bill. Instructions also in- club and is also claimed by the from the National Banks and cluded opposition to the equal local organization. Vera Carlson Trust Companies which operate rights bill. recording secretary elect, has under the Federal Reserve SyOther features of .the State been national and state affairs stem! The Federal Reserve Syconvention were the chairman in the Logan club dur- stem, However, has not changed human nature nor has it Breakfast at which ing the past year. reduced borrowing which has toMrs Jeannette Batt of the LoThe .following ipembers, been the cause, in the nareally club with President at Heart gan May sang My gether nor has it reduced borrowture, were in attendance at Thy Dear Voice from the opera which has really been the ing Samson and Delilah by Saint-Sae- the State convention: Mrs. and the luncheon at the Jeanette Batt, Carmen Ballard, cause, in the past, of the banks Chamber of Commerce on Mon- Phyllis Baugh, Maybeth Bow- getting into trouble. There to-is more borrowing of all kinds day at which all delegates from man, Mrs. Almeda P. Brown, ever before, both le the various clubs were guests Vera Carlson, Alice' Charles, day than Inand illegitmate. gitimate of the Salt Lake Chamber of Edna Davidson, Juanita Hickbanks under the of stead the Commerce and at which Phyllis man, Vanza Jackson, Mrs. Marie Federal Reserve System extend Baugh of the Logan club sang S. Kimball, Mrs. Rena B. ing this credit, it is being exthe National federation song, Ida R. Mitchell, Mrs. Mae tended by private finance corThe Golden Key, by Carrie A. Musser, Mrs. Tesla Napper, porations which have no govern Jacobs-BonAfton Newell, Afton Odell, ment or state supervision. The Officers elected for the fiscal Mabel Pedersen, Elvina Peter-son, Countrys financial situation is Elizabeth Parkinson, Mrs. similar to its liquor situation year beginning July first were as follows; Miss Elizabeth Fitz- Blanche C. Pittman, Linnie Tel- - Theoretically both bad banking gerald, Salt Lake, president; ford, Lavaun Van Orman and and liquor have been eliminated Mrs. Mabel N. Fry, Ogden, vice'Lillian Wennergren but practically, a large amount . either I A LOGAN MAN Story of Thomas B. Cardon, as a Soldier , e on z. 28-3- OF IN THE CIVIL WAR By JOEL RICKS a steo-stov- e, vast plains that lie PI CUM X WHEN saw the picture of the Prophet Joseph and his brother Hyrum, as already stated. In the spring of 4864 I went back to Hyde Park, but my husband continued to work in Salt I.ake. It was at this time that Olonel Connor came to Utah and built Camp Douglass. Many bitter took advantage of the presence of the troops to stir up trouble for a time feelings ran pretty high My husband returned to Hyde Park in the fall of 1864, and we made it our home thereafter. We built a log house with a lean-t- o which was used as a shop. The people now began to prosper. We both took an active interest in Church affairs, and enjoyed oursehes m EXPERIENCES El (Continued from last Saturday) we reached Hyde Park we found the people living in log huts, several dugouts, tents and wagon boxes. Here I found my dear mother, three sisters and a brother, who had come to Utah the year before. One of the log houses belonged to my mother, and I was taken .there and given a bed. I was nearly worn out with the journey. The cabin had the usual dirt roof, and when it rained my mother would stand by my bedside and hold an umbrella over me to keep off the drippings from the roof. I lived with my mother until spring, when my husband made other necessities we were supa home for me. It consisted of by the faith that the a dug-ou- t. For furniture we ported Lord would help those that had a small a small tried to help themselves. My box for a table. For a bed, a children grew up and went to small log was laid on the dirt work and were a great help to floor, about four feet from the me. walls, and on this small willows Those who have known Sister were laid from the wall to the know what a splendid England log. This was our mattress. she made in keeping h er fight We had small garden, in family together and in rearing which we both labored, and her children, and now in her raised a few onions, carrots, po- old age (82) she can look back tatoes and squash. We also had with pride on the work she aca few chickens, and a small calf. complished. Her last days have Some of the men raised a little certainly been her best days. wheat that- - year, which they She has been a typical pioneer harvested with scythes and mother. cradles. Food was sometimes In the East twelve of Amervery scarce,- - our meals often icas greatest artists are preparconsisting of bread and stewed ing models of a statue to be onions or squash. erected to The Pioneer Women In the spring of 1863 my of the West. Commenting on husband went to visit his 'fath- the subject the Youths Comer, who lived in Tooele, think- panion pays this beautiful tribing to be able to earn a little ute: money to help better our condiOnly a rare genius could put tion. I was left alone to look into refractory bronze or marafter things during his absence. ble, the emotions and dreams In August my child was taken that so remarkable a figure as sick and died on the 9th. I that of the pioneer woman tried to send a letter to my hus- stirs in. the breasts arid the band but no one seemed to be imagination of Americans. She traveling that way. He did not was if anything more heroic get word until . the child had than her sturdy mate, since the been buried for three weeks. woman is less adventurous and My husband returned in the less restless than the man, and fall and we .moved to Tooele, can only-facthe hardships and where he got employment at perils of the frontier and "the his trade as shoemaker. He re- wilderness by a greater exerceived his pay in what the peo- cise of the will and with a ple had; flour, vegetables and greater sacrifice" of the things molasses. Often bread and she values in her daily life. molasses was our only food. Yet wherever the pioneer womLater we moved to Salt Lake. ans husband went she went It was while visiting with my into the dusky, virgin forests sister in Salt Lake that I first of the Ohio valley, across the 10 NUMBER 133., LOGAN, CACHE COUNTY, UTAH, S MURRAY, JUNK 4. 1927. VOLUME L. anti-Mormo- ns YOU CAN FIND A BUYER FOR WHAT YOU HAVE SELL IN NO BETTER WAY THAN THROUGH THE JOURNAL WANT AD ROUTE Mc-Carr- ns May-coc- d. -- k, IIOMAS BARTHELMEY CARDON was born at Brae Prarus-tinear Pignerolo, Piedmont, Italy, August 28, 1842. His father, Philippe Cardon, and mother, Martha Maria Tourn Cardon, like their ancestors for ages, were born and educated ill the faith of the Vaudois, or Waklenses, a sect whose tenants dated back to the time of the Apostles. In 1852 Apostle Lorenzo Snow and other elders came into their section of the country and taught the gospel, and most of the family accepted it and were baptized. In 1851 the family came, to Utah. At Liverpool they joined a company of European Saints and sailed on the ship John M. Woods for New Orleans. They were fifty one days on the voy' age, landing May 1st. They then took a steamboat for St. Louis, and then to Kansas City where they procured their outfit for the long journey across ' the plains. While at Kansas City, cholera broke out in the Company, and Thomas was stricken ' with it Through his faith, and that of his parents, and the administ-eratio-n of the elders - he was healed. The company reached Salt Lake City in October and located at Mound Fort, but later where moved to Marriotts, Thomas B. was baptized March 8. 1857. , During the Echo Canyon campaign, Thomas was enrolled as one of the Home Guard. . In the fall of 1858 Thomas visited Camp' Floyd for the purpose of obtaining employment. Ijis purpose in visiting the camp was that he might earn money to enable' him to acquire , an education. At the camp he met a number of his countrymen who had enlisted in Johnsons army, and these told him that if he would enlist he Would have the prfvelege of attending the schools in the camp, free. Thus to enlist as a induced bugler in Co. G ' 10th United States Infantry. Thomas was none too proficient in the language at that time and ingiving his name, it was recorded as Thomas Gordon, so T n. - , Jim English - all through his army career he was known by that name. He was disappointed in the benefits he expected from the school at the camp, but arranged with a comrade who could speak French like himself, to give him lessons, and in this way ob- tained the rudiments of an ed- ucation. While at Camp Floyd the company to which he belonged, was detailed to go south to meet the who United. States was eoroute under escort from California They marched to the Santa Clara, where . they met the pay officer and escorted him to Camp Floyd. Judge Cradlebaugh was with the company, going south to investigate the massacre at Mountain had taken Meadows, which place the fall of 1857. In the spring of 1860 the company was ordered to Fort Brid-ge- r, to relieve other companies which had been ordered elsewhere. In the fall of this year, being tired of the inactive life. Bugler Cardon applied for his discharge, and would have received it but it was delayed and had not arrived when in the spring of 1861 the civil war broke out. The danger which threatened the National Capital for a few weeks made it necessary to rush every available man to its defense, and Mr. Cardons regiment was ordered to move by forced marches to its defense. v Then followed the long dreary just to get a little more money, march across the plains. It was is beyond my understanding, this regiment, whidi Mrs. Eng, pay-maste- r, , - Continued from page eight I (Continued from page eleven) |