Show Fo Four r Salt La Lakers kers Twenty Miners T wenty N i 1 t c t 1 A 1 Miss Three Three- Three Fourths re Fourths of f Birthdays 7 S M S I 41 Aunt Emmeline B B. B Wells ells f j oldest and Baby Walter alter 1 Jones youngest vs 4 4 i 4 Ic 4 t Fi e 1 j among local residents born bont bonton 7 1 on aa clay that comes S but once once q 45 in ill four jour years ears 4 3 p L iWi d L LIc Ic y M 3 1 1 4 4 w r I i it 1 i s tc frk t a A W st fi t J. J x J. J Y r t li rP f r Anniversaries Are Arc Recalled by bj Aged Pioneer By Uarda McCarty y 1 missing the month of con- con i-I i AL ALMOST four lour Salt Lakers rather than have havo their birthdays In Jn an any month except the one ono Washington Lincoln and St. St Valentino Valentine chose choso secure secured their admission cards on tho vcr very last opportunity and arrived on the 2 th Thc They are all twenty and on n the years when the tho doesn't happen tho they still cling to their February lineage lineage lineage line line- age and adopt the The oldest birthday in Salt Lake belongs s to Aunt Emmeline B B. Wells the grand rand old lady of Utah and tho the youngest to Baby Walter Jones who in spite of the fact that he has had Christmas tree trees and valentines three times has never ne yet oct had a real birthday birth birth- day cake The two t other birthdays be belong be- be long Ions to year 4 Robert Hobert William Davidson and to toita Ra Doming who Doming who will be 31 when his birthday comes next I Mrs Irs Wells was born 91 years ago l 0 In in Petersham Mass Although she says sas I I she the cannot quite Quito remember the day she knows I I- I is Iwas was just at sunrise when she first opened her ner e eyes os on the world b because cause she remembers hearing her mother tell how as 13 sho she la lay l lookIng look look- oking oking ok- ok Ing ing- out of or the win window ow with new now little Emmeline in her arms she sho watched Matched the sun spread from the mountains over the tho treo tree tops and light up tIme the little baby baby's s eyes p-es es when thc they first ir t squinted open I Arrived o on oi I Friday Mrs Wells ells was as also a Friday a child arriving on Ion tho the day dar as the nursery rhyme says rhyme bays which makos one loving l and giving Her hem first birthday anniVersary anniversary anni anni- came in Petersham when she was was' wasa a a. shy Rhy little miss with Ith and curls The Tho most important thing thins about that day was tho the bl big brown turkey I watched roast in front of tho the old brick fireplace she recalled yesterday The Plum pu pudding I think came caine next I know there was a snowstorm outside but the tho sight of or tho the turkey and the tempting fumes from the thc pudding were really all that mattered that day lay you ou know Mrs Wells Tells said In her charmIn charm charm- In lag ing little suite at the Hotel tei Utah last ni night ht as she w-i w was wai remembering tho birthdays she has his had had- OC oi course the time next da day n Wasn't ex exactly ex- ex acU- acU m my birthday but there was n n. birthday atmosphere atmo still sUll lingering un until until tin un- til mother quite suddenly dispersed it A circus came to town that that da day th tho first one in my experience T heard the music and wa ao anxious to to go hut but butI I j mother had callers and that meant she was wai as in the parlor with time the do door r shut anti and that lhotte we te m go o In until they ha had bad gone one I couldn't wait ait S so Sc T r boldly boldy I pushed hushed the tIle door open poked ok iii my head around the corner and and asked if ir I might j I I go Mother didn't answer she merely walked over O atar shut the time door That I was tho timo cn end of time the circus and aud the en enor end of or the birthday atm I The he next notable birthday happened d dhen When hen she sI hc 11 was 20 O years carlS old ami an camped with the Carl early arl Mormon pioneers at inter Quarters Nub Net Tint lint wits was ii In III the days o of r tho the Mormon lormon h hardships lr an amid I was no time timo or opportunity for foe 01 birthday celebrations What I Ire Ire- re remember remember re- re member most then she said was the wreck the mice and raw rats 11 had iad d made of ot my my heavy v wool and fur tur coat I j had hud had nO no noo o occasion I to wear It for time and amid it ha lead had t been een stored c 1 away wIth some o of oUr oUr oUri roW t tt l fb p w t. t A 1 t f W Wl l I J 54 S 'S 4 I a I I I other goods but when I lifted tilted It up front from the tho box so so 80 I r might go calling on my birthday I discovered I had a coat but that the coat had no back The Th next September Sel I 1 came camEl to lo Salt Sall Lake and camped on this very spot where the Hotel Utah no now stands I Iwas Iwas Iwas was still gUll camping here hereon on my first Utah birthday At that time there were four a adobe obe houses on oi this square an and several o of the wa wagons ons we had lead brought across tho the pl plains There was no party part or celebration Tho The first public celebration of or my nn birthday ay was when I was 40 years old The general board boar of or the Relief Relle society a arid and m my husband d. d at at that hat time mayor maor 01 ot cn city ana anu J John hn Taylor of ot the tho the Mormon church had arranged a surprise party for me at lit my ol old home where tho the Strand Stran theatre now stands Thc They presented me mc with a s- s gold watch a a. a rarity In in those days and to toda today to- to da day one of the tlC most valued treasures I possess Mr Mrs Wells says say she shoo Is a a. February person bec because ue she I Is quite partial to the thc contrary month and wears wear a as a concession to it twp little earrings th the February b birth stone nab Baby Walter Jones has no birthday to look 1001 back on on but I man to many look forward forward for for- ward Td to for or he lie Is going to bo be ho he grows up A itA soldier an an a captain an a sailor According to little Waltee Walter Wal Wal- tee ter he Is not bab baby Walter Waiter He lie is Big BI man Walter and has a gun and anda a sword and an automobile to prove It It with two kittens ns a do dog and a yard ard full of or chickens Little Walter alter is the baby at the Joseph H H. H Jones home 66 66 Cen Center er street Robert Hobert Davidson was a a. IOOS 1908 leap year ear Lab baby and is an an ll- ll year old old ear r railroad railroad rail rail- ll- ll road l king inS of the next generation It If present ambitions work vork out |