Show 1 O. O KIM'S KIMS TALK TALK At T TIlE TIE LION INN HOUSE ROUE I t Daughters Daughter's of the Pioneers Pioneer's Lis Us Listen 5 ten to Address by a af 47 Man Mall f t u- u I REVIVING OLD MEMORIES MEMORIE Frol From l Philadelphia Through I Winter Quarters I S and nd Across the Plains t W. W Biter Riter a 3 pioneer of 47 was wa 0 the speak speaker r at th the meeting of the tin I S Daughters of the Pioneers last V Wed Wei Wednesday S nee l in the he Lon L on house In his rem nt talk of or the journey across the tin 55 plains and earl early pioneer life In Utah 5 he clearly portrayed the trials and sufferings ln S of the pioneers rs He lIe said I S As a a. small child I r came carne with m miS my mi S and family from Philadelphia to Nauvoo Xau In April 1846 A As Am we entered en en- Nauvoo oo the white stone of th the thc S f. f t t. t temple shone In the sun and IV I I V was much Impressed with its beautyS beauty S f v Fe todar today 1 realize the time sacrifice made math S by y tJ Saints in bull building this temple of or sadness in taItIng taking tak taIt- und and feelings ing look at this thia sacred build build- e. e v Men ren tm physically weak for lack S of food f had worked d da day after da day andS and 5 3 It was dear to er e every heart hem t S a well vell remember tho night before i S W wu Wi left Nauvoo oo that we vie met together r 1 ter singing singing- one of President Tal Taylors Tay- Tay l lors br's rs r's hymns hymns parted with a 3 feeling of ot F. F In Intense e v e sadness ai il- il Pluck of time tile Women omen V t As S a child chIl I was much Impressed wit the courage of those noble WOmen wot wo wo- t S j men I will tell you ou of ot one ono instance l j j.- j. 1 Mp Mrs Clawson mother of ot H Hyrum Claw- Claw t t son a 0 widow and with the help of i her young son Hyrum prepared forSi for tor torf Si f c west I watched her start It Although she silo at first met with some someS S trouble in managing her yoke ole of ot oxen i on account of not being accustomed toS to S driving them she drove aU cU the way to lo the Y valley There were wore ninny many oth other r In Instances Instances Instances In- In stances df or the thc pluck of these women S. S On our journey to Winter Quarters Quarter some fell b by the wayside One pathetic ic Jc ca caSe cae e I r recall was of a family who ha hal had made a tent teut of some ome cloth to shelter shelter shel she ter ter their sick son He died led while In t S camp They took tool one of ot their fewS few S quilts to bury him in The anguish and S despair of or this family and others at ath h lr loss left an Impression on m my mind that I e have nc never ncr r forgot ot r ten teli S M tt Sith-tt Kies ut Winter immler S Il t ft-t Winter r Quarters we prepared l shelter we could of or log huts huh sod houses houseS' dugouts while some had hadS oni only the shelter of wagon boxes Chills S and fever fo was raging rag here until almost I S eV every l' l family had sickness Many lost ei remember counting couDUn the theS by death I S 7 l JS graves grates in all aU Another case e. e of womans woman's pluck I recall Aunt p had a r steers ikelS got got out outS k S S J n loS logs cutting the tho smallest her herst st t dragging thorn them to Lo the tIme place placeS lac S wh rc she built buill her log house un anti and In lu it all winter 1 Our company left Itt Winter Quarters and amid the first stop was made mad at what It now Fremont where a liberty pole was vas wai erected and we were organized Into l camps of ot 50 and 10 I Scenes on oit tIl the Uie Plains S our JUl journey we saw immense herds S of oC buffalo al also o many mam Indians i an aria anUj while these Indians annoyed us with their thieving ln and Impudence P c. c they did not make a raid until we wa had hadI I le reached ched Strawberry creek Here we wei i met President Young and others reS re- re S tur lIng to their families at Winter WinterS Winter'S S 'S Quarters The night ht after they joined q us the thc Indians made mace a maid laid and carried car car- rl ried ll oft off I should judge halt half of or President Pres Pres- K J ident Youngs Young's horses When hen President Young heard of this he lie was wag much deS de de- de- de S pressed The rhe next morning in a 3 snowstorm snow snow- S. S S storm torm President Youngs Young's company compan left lett for their journey of miles to WinS Win Win- S ter Quarters and we continued on our ourS S travels miles more to the theal valS val val- alIe S Ie Icy ley r- r r. r Arrived at the valley October 3 and 5 camped on Third West street They J- J S l had d started to build the fort tort The houses were many of or them adobe 1 The he adobes the battalion boys bos had J s. s taught them to make The fort tort con- con 1 sst d of or three squares The latter part 1 of October m my aunt taught the first school chool in the valley It was In a tent In tn the fort I with sis others att at- at t tended I IVo Wo Vo suffered red much from cold and hunger neer although the tho hardships had bad toughened us considerably I can ref re- re Member r seeing barefoot boys skating f un i on oil Ice r In n tho the spring of ofIS IS ig my lather father fi d six acres of wheat and alter after succeeded In r. r S raising enough nough that with the corn he others from start star- star S keut l lt his family and t vaton We le ate atEs sego and other ther roots S. S S Several eral lost their lives by eating polson on onus us roots Well we wo did not starve state f bread blead was often a n lux- lux C all although Ough ItT dry S ury President C. C KImball used i S to encourage us by telling us that we f. t rl eed d not eat dry ry bread as long as t there ero was a creek with water to mols- mols I II I t two tn It I r S g of or tile the Gulls F ome years ears later Inter I was vas an nn lt J i th the tILO gulls guUs played In S n ne nass 8 to the part sating us from starvation One pecullar peI pcp pe- pe I f cullar thing that after eating crickets p c 1 t they could not eat at any more they t. t would disgorge themselves and f. f 1 all over o again This I have never f l known th them m to do b before or since rt f 5 S The speaker then compared tho the exodus exodus ex ex- odus under President ent Brigham Young rii to that of ot the Israelites under Moses pw The fhe Israelites In their 40 O years wore te ltd fd b by manna and quail luau He ompha- ompha u S of or the thc work done one 1 sized the importance the and congratulated the lly Iy y pioneers on the organization of the Dau Daughters f work they have hu commenced I. I r Work Wilt iiI B no Do Recognized t I. I zoo closed with this remark 1 J Biter Mark It IL the tho day come when the then will b be held memory n motY of or the pioneers se sacred red and the tte work recorded not only n th the archives s of ot the church but inthe Inthe In tn th the history o of t. t the e nation they will be r J riot not ot only as os the the pioneers pon rs of ofT r Utah but a as s pioneers of ot tho the great tie tie- de development e- e T West I 1 am ani provid ro d of ot veo leIt a of the being o- o pioneer May success attend the v ork of ot your OCi society ty There will bE a 3 of tl tie tie- e e- etu tu- tu council of or tIp the D of o t. t tie the Pioneers Wednesday ay at the Lion t n house at 2 p. p m. m Reg Regular lar study meeting will willbe Ul Ulbe 11 be held at 3 p. p m. m In room 2 B B. B Y 1 Memorial e ob h hall hail l. l |