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Show i .V r 1 J I X v ! r SATURDAY;' JANUARY 18, 1930 MAETIN HAKSEN 13 REMINISCENT , ' . : , . ' . OF PIONEER PAYS AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN" JANUARY 18, ' , rih. v ,' : .,"",' ; CMpmaii r . , ,. 1 " When tasked MrHsnsen, If during the toilsome weitward Journey, the Immigrants eer ,reirtti their undertaltlni, he said, "Looking at It now, I "believe that even In the midst of ihe eorest trials, they 'never regretted. Their one desire was to reach Salt Lake."' ' ' ; n: :r At the-age of ten. In 1857, Martin Kan sen left Denmark. 'The wiling vessel "Westmoreland" vu almost continually the toy of adverse wlnda, and the thirteen weeka aent in crowing the ocean, helped to prepare the West ward destined pasiengera for later hardships. This boy who had tended the delicate flowers of his native land saw death, grief and despair among the passengers. He' told the following Incident which happened daring the trip . acroe e ceani I remember ieing very sickv- Father brought me np on the deck. I vu nearly choking tor a drink, and as we were out of drinking water I begged father to get me some out of the ocean.' He told me I could n't drink that water because It waa aalty. I kept Insisting, and finally Just to please me lie tied a string to a can and letting It down Into the ocean brought It up full of water. One alp was enough to strangle me, and father laughed a great deal at my expense. Soon after this I waa all right, and, at I remember cured of sea-sickness," h , The Hansen family left Iowa with a hand-cart company in June, 1867. The burden of pushing the hand-cart ' was' lessened - from time to time by leaving many, prized and valuable belongings be-longings oft the camping grounds. When they arrived In Omaha, Ole Peterson, who -waa in the company, ' could go no farther, so he and tla family stayed in Omaha, while those who -remained In the company started start-ed the Journey onward. One-hundred and twenty mllea west of Omaha, on a branch cf the Missouri River, the ; two elder Hansen's: collapsed and could not go on. A man from a settlement (Genoa) across the river wanted to go to Utah. He had one-hundred one-hundred and slxtjr acTei , of land which he gave to the Hansen family for .their place la the company, Once more the train went on without one "of the original members. r The three weeks following, this stop were cruelly hard . Of this time Mr. Hansen says, "Father had to go back to Omaha to find work. Our diet for 'three weeks consisted of squash and potatoes, which had been planted plant-ed on a few acres of land by the original owner. We nearly starred before we heard from fatherr but at last one-hundred pounds of flour and a piece of bacon came. I will never forget, how, when mother opened the sack ire ail stood around and ate dry flour until we nearly choked. Moth er soon mixed up some of the flour without any salt or "rising" and baked it In a skillet on the fire place." : " 1 " ". It waa not until four years later, 1868, that Martin Hansen . came to American Fork. The old mud wall waa still around the town, and what people there were here lived Inside the walL "We hadbeea advised by Brigham Young to come to .American. Fork, and coming around the point of the mountain we met Bishop. Hunter who told us that there was lots of hay . Is American Fork and plenty of teed for cattle." In. 1868 Martin Hansen, Amoi Waf-Btaff, Waf-Btaff, William Ovard, Niels Christen- sen, George Baker, Thomas Withma, of Alpine, Jacob Beck and Fred Clark were asked by Bishop L. E. Hairing ton to go back to the Missouri river for a train load of aalnts. Each was equipped with ef . covered wagon, three yoke of cattle and supplies tor the .trip. Speaking of this Journey, Mr. Hansen says. The first day got as far as the mouth of Cotton' wood canyon. ' The next day we left Bait Lake Valley, and when we got through the mountains to the plain our troubles were practically over so far as traveling was concerned. All went well the rest of the , way until we ' got to our Journey's end. We camped on the bank of the Missouri river waiting for the Saints to come. that sad news greeted, us. .The saints had been delayed on the ocean and because of bad drinking water had contracted cholera, Many of them were very sick and we rested a few days before starting on our jourofey, but some died on the camping grounds and were burled there. The season was getting late and we concluded It was time to be moving, and ws start ed for TJtan. The trip back was very hard on the alck ones. They died In our wagons every day, and the teamsters had to dig graves and bury them. ' Sometimes there were as high as seven In one grave, with only little writing on an old buffalo head, or anything, we 'could And, to mark the lonely spot As ws neared Salt lAks the saints began to get better and titers were no mors deaths Among those who cams with, us : to American Fork wars the two John son families. . ' "I Joined the first Brass Band. In American Fork. William Grant was the teacher and leader.-1 played solo cornet In the band for eighteen, years, and we sorely had nany enjoyable, and never to be forgotten, times. F. Pulley and I are the only two left of the first old' organisation. 1 1 ;. also played the violin for the dances and entertainment of the town, and we all had wonderful times together." Martin Hansen discovered the care in American Fork canyon which bears his nam. In a cupboard, made especially tor the ' purpose, he had many splendid specimens "of stalagmites stalag-mites and ; crystals. : He held one beautiful piece In bis hand and said, If I knew the story of this I could tell yon much." ' '' o- - - Mrs. Olive Kirkwood Urn . Dies In Salt Lake City Mrs. Olive Klrkwood Ltm, wife of George Lim, died in a Salt Lake hos pital Tuesday, Vanuary 14, of compli cations following an operation tor gallstones over two weeks ago. - Mrs. lim was born In this city July 7, 1881, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Klrkwood. . In addition to her husband and parents, ons daughter, Leatha, and brother and sister, Joseph and Mary Klrkwood of this city survive. Funeral services were held yester day at X p, m. In the Fourth1 ward chapel,'but were too late to print as we went to press. , Four Girls Left In Gold c and Green Queen Race Misses Fays Parker, Etta Abel, Lois Beaclr and Gladys Bhumway are the remaining aspirants for the Gold k Green Queen honor, Miss Parker leading with 11.660 votes. Ellmlna tiont will be made at the Third Ward They did not arrive, however, until. Mutual meeting next - week, - which seven weeks later and it was then will leave only two ' In competition for the honored position. X : Miss Abel has 7.890 Totes. Miss Beach 8,840 and Miss Shumway, 8,000 Third warders are nrged to support their choice. . ' . , The committees working on the ball to be given Wednesday evening. January 29, report their plans to be maturing rapidly. The decorations are to be a feature of the dance-event this year, and will alone be an In centive to draw a large crowd. The M. L A. colors, gold and green, will be the central color schema, but a special design will be worked out In the hall. i:,..-JT'-3 J-- The Gibson Girls orchestra of Salt I Lake City will; furnish the dance music 5. : . ' jX ' v: C ':.'J-J The Gold Green caprice, the contest dance," la weU under way. Two couples from each ward . have been selected to participate In this feature. - r:l;;; :-J Patrons and patroneases will Include In-clude th Stake Presidency and Ward Bishops and their wives. The Reception Recep-tion Committee will comprise the M. L A. stake superintendent and president, presi-dent, and ward superintendents and presidents; A detailed account of the ball will be printed next week, !-: Annual Utah County ' Farm Bureau Convention Monday, January 20 Dr. Richard R. Lyman, nationally nateii enslneer and prominent 1 D. S, churchman, will be the principal sneaker at the annual meeting of Utah County Farm Burean organisation, organisa-tion, which Is to be held Monday, t.. 20. in the city and county building at PrbTo."y The subject of Dr.' Lyman's ad dress will be "Taxation And Coopera tive Marketing. He will speak dnr- lng the afternoon session which, w- rlns at 1:80 p. px Tne general pno- lle la Invited to this msetlng? women as well as men. 4.,i;:ic;i':-'::'-'', At the 10 a. m. meeting, reports summarising ,J year's activities tn various lines of the agrlcultnral Industry In-dustry of Utah County will occupy the major part of this session. - Many - other splendid - speakers have been arranged for la addition to the many reports? ' , Election of officers for the coming; year will be held at a epecial meet lng following the close of the morn ing' session. . Local members and ' their are especially convention. urged to aticad tie Scout Leaders To " a Enjoy CnoIIiks Scouting will be personated to4ay by Scout leaders,' their aaclstanti and troop committeemen and all others Interested In thlg work who bars attend ' tha Econt "training classes bemg conducted in ths stake, when they take their big snow, bike, as the last requirement of tha second class course vhldi Scottt Executlrs A. A. Mderson ha taught' The hike Is to ba led by him. "- : ' ; The class left la cars early this mcrnlaf and motored to Alpine. Upon Up-on arrival there they took to foot and hiked ato 'ths old Indian Fort near the Joseph Moyle farm. They are probably npon their Journey at this reaches pur. snbscrfbers. homes.' They exiteci' to-puHd a bonfire, cook their dinner and enjoy a program before be-fore hiking back to their parked autos and motoring homsa. ' " . . The work taken up during the past six weeks wlll nlso- be used in the vires demonstration hlks. 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