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Show Centennial Eder Box n.r Peach NEWS-JOURNA- September Edition Days S, L 1947 ANSON CALL WAS CHOSEN BY THE PROPHET TO HELP BUILO Colonizer Of Harper Area Helped Develop Five Areas In Utah the Colorado river, concluding five successful colonizing mis sions Anson Call was baptized a member of the church by Wil liam Smith, biothfr of the t prophet, Joseph Smith and med a member by David Whittnei one of the three vul nesses to the Book of Mormon He passed through the pc r , solutions m Tar Adam on d' Ahinan and Nauvoo He helplesslv witnessed the bum by Alice Harding Historian, Box Elder Co. D.U.P. Call's life was out landing in the development of " (tern vstndustiy as a tolon i( r a ise counselor and a man of affairs He was born in rhfcbtr Franklin to Ver mont, M,n It 1810 and died con-fi- ttivin W-st- August ji Davis count i tan lie enter " to Nalt lake City as a Mormon " n ho,r,e' on V" ' ?MOnS Lni p lfl onlVd"f,'borne Throe pionctr Sept 3 9 18-,v as ,,5e bu,s,, uut class lat.r he mow d h,s fanni v JMI,hdd n ftn,rtd W1,h f)u,'K to North Canton Ward .Bounti weather was extremely coi.l lull wl ere he became its first The o Anson bishop Almost all of his t n Iaiks for appealed to (omul the privilege of re tire life was devoted to public turning to his home in f ir welfare through the strenuous West He Itceivcd he folio eng duties of pionr ciing chietly in pei m it, I permit Anson ( id Davis county re His eoreci as a coloni r he to turn to far V t st and tlu nv out state The peopl pan in Oct iber, 3 850 when he were ofnottheallowed to leave the was called by Pi esident Brigham settlement except pioctire to colonie Little Salt wood to burn Theyto were Young or Lake valley (Parowan, Iron dered to vacate the state yet county, Ltah) under the di they were not permitted to eo lection of Geoige A Smith In out in search of their horses or 1831 he returned to Salt Lake to use on the jourmw ( lty for mor colonists for Iron cattle On the 14th of July, 1843 An In he was October, 1851, county son Call with several oj the tailed to raise a company of brethren crossed the Mtsxissip fifty families to colonize Pau to river pi vant Valley (Fillmore Millard ent at the Montrose to bpof pies the install ction county Masonic Lodge ol the Rising In 1834 according to Louis Sun They assembled in the N Boothe, the following famil Block school house in front of Gibbs Grover and Jones, les, Boothe made permanent homes which was ample shade and a As the at what has been variously barrel ofwasice water testing the ice wa known as Calls Fort, North Prophet he warned the others not Ward and Harper, a section y- - ter to partake too freely of It, Then ---- would yet go to the Rocky' southern boundary of Honey ville These families were join mountains and remarked that ed by Anson Call who bui't the crystal streams that flowed from the snow mom a home and hlack-nitshop tains was wherecapped futuie his and surrounded it with a wai, home would be located eight feet high, five feet wide Anson saw his countenance and inclosing a tract of land 725 feet square The fort was change to white not a deathlv but a brilliant white He to be protection against In white e eined absorbed in gazing at dians One of the purposes for at a distance something taking up land in this locality and said "I am great at the gazing The-was ti find employment for of the mountains European saints who had been valleys gave a description of the moun to the ltah by brought perpet the streams He ual Emigration Fund Co He tains and at Roundv Shadraeh pointed acres of fortv ,sowed grain and and others and said, 'There raised sufficient food for the are some here who will do a families there On the 24th day of July, 19 great work in tothat land And then pointing Anson Call, he 23, Anson Call was honored at said, There is Anson Call, he the Harper Ward A monument will go and assist in building bad been erected to hi metno-- y eities and was unveiled at a pioneer Anson Call ir sneaking of celebration The Y L M I A of this occasion in the later years He nev vi lie and Harper commu of "It is impossible mties represented then tespec-tiv- to his life said, represent in words the scene wards in soliciting foi funds which is still in m mind The in the county to Ik used in the of his 1 I 1 - h n e appearance grandeur beautiful descriptions of t h wonderful the land, prophetic M itteranccs such as these sc nes that these people hal! the pass through the dead that w li way 83 The stones used m hr bi ned here thr apostasv its const ruction were brought that will take place but he from various places in Box El over priesthood will der Wtber and Davis counties its over tl tnun enemies ph was The plaque famished by devil and be established upon the Ltah State Monument Com the earth and never to be thiow n mission down Remember these things In April 1S53 Anson Call and treasure them up Arrr n was again called upon to col Carson then at in vaPey, om'e western Utah, now a part of a strenuous ex Monopolist Not Eager Nevada After pener.ee, he arrived home Oc To Be Millionaire A defraying the expense large crowd was present to honor Mr Call The monument an impressive structure is standing by the side of high pre-va- c ' tober 13, 1856 In October, 1864, in connection with others, he was given a mission to establish a colony near the Colorado river He started about the lirst of No vember, 1864 with a company to locate a road site to the most suitable place on the Colorado river and there to build waie houses This he did to the sat isf action of those who employed him He then returned to his home, but after one month he returned to Call s landing on WOOSTER, O (UP) The Sherman anti trust act deesn t mean a thing to Guy Ulster Kister has a monopoly on a timothy seed cleaner and is the only person in the world who can make the machines. He ha built only 36 In the last 14 years Although he is paid well for each machine, and it takes only six weeks to make one Kister claims hes in no hurry to come a milhonaue |