Show ADDRESS OF J af M HANSON delivered at fillmore september ath tl 1020 at the diamond jubilee on the important events that happened during durlik the eaily settlement or or 1114 alie city my friends I 1 want to take this opportunity of extending ext endine my congratulations tu and compliments to the enterprising ter public spirited owners and builders of 0 this beautiful motion picture theatre I 1 also want to compliment and congratulate the people of fillmore upon the splendid way in which they do things I 1 have been asked to address you tor for a short time this morning upon the important events that happened during the early settlement ot of your city I 1 am pleased to see so many here this morning and to know that you have this opportunity of learning of these important events a great many ot of which havo have never been recorded in history in addressing you this morning it will be necessary for or me to mention the names ot of a great many who are here together with the incident with which you were connected and as I 1 certainly hope that there Is no one here whose name I 1 shall mention mellon will in any way be embarrassed chagrined or take any ottense offense whatever by reason 0 of my mentioning their names or the event with which I 1 shall connect them it was only a few minutes before this meeting was commenced that I 1 was advised that I 1 should be expected to address you and it Is very likely that I 1 shall overlook a number of the important events and I 1 likewise trust that should I 1 tail fail to mention the name of 0 some person or the incident with which they were connected that such person will not feel eel embarrassed or take any offense by reason of 0 ray my failure so to do in III short I 1 boull like you all to be good sports and because as david said to goliath when lie he cut his head oft off its all fun I 1 am somewhat embarrassed myself this morning in my delivery due to the tact fact that I 1 have recently had all my teeth pulled A while back I 1 had a great many taken out but due to an injury which I 1 received in an automobile accident in arizona I 1 had a severe attack of lumbago and on going to see a doctor ing my condition in salt lake I 1 was sternly told that unless I 1 had the balance of 0 my teeth pulled he could do nothing for me being unsophisticated and not used to the wiles of an unscrupulous practitioner I 1 walked into the operating room of doctor docter harding and he in connection with two or three other scoundrels proceeded to divest me of 0 my remaining Ina ining 86 beautiful teeth yes yea yes I 1 am glad you yon reminded me of it I 1 am advised that it was not 86 teeth which were pulled at this last sitting but only sa 5 you see one of them was a double tooth teeth and I 1 had counted it twice now having disposed of the preliminaries limin Ilmi aries narles and as aa they say at a christening I 1 will now take up my subject and let the predicate alone no no prof hickman not petticoat predicate that Is the word I 1 shall never forget the day when we first landed in fillmore it was a beautiful autumn afternoon the sun was shining birds were singing bees were humming the waiving areas of gr grass a as made one feel like all the world had burst into song it was exactly 36 minutes after two on the atter after nono of september 2 1851 some historians tave told you that it was ten minutes after halt half past two but this is not true I 1 marked the exact minute and hour in my diary as shown by the clock on the city hall at that time we had driven from scipio that day having started very early in the morning after we got out of bed we were convoyed conveyed upon the last leg of our journey b by y al miss 11 rose thompson and joshua vey of scipio they at that time idere were acting as guides scouts and indian interpreters interpret era and were well acquainted with nith the territory over which we had bad to travel having taken a number of joy rides in libat haat vicinity I 1 have a picture in my minds eye today as I 1 saw them at that time each mounted upon a coal black charger which had been surreptitiously obtained from stevens elevens horse ranch at whiskey creek when we arrived at holden a number ber of the citizens importuned importuner us to stop and have dinner I 1 remember among those who extended an urgent invitation was jesso jesse giles joseph paul and a man by the name of elevens daniel stevona stevens I 1 believe ilia his name was wag I 1 remember the man stevens stevena was very insistent in his in vi tation telling us ui that he had just killed a couple of nice young beeves the night before had plenty of fresh ineat meat something that we were decidedly in need of and that we were entirety welcome to any or all of it we were about to accept his invitation when we learned that the beeves had not been obtained in a manner strictly according to hoyle and fear tearing that we might be charged with |