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Show Cedar Couple To Celebrate Golden Wedding Day . .-v.- i - t . WILLIAM FLAM G AN a a . ..." v fM - y NELLIE D. FLANIGAN On Sunday March 14 from the hours two to six pm. the three children and nine erandchlldren of William and Nellie D. Flanlgan, will hold open house to their many friends in honor of the golden wedding wed-ding anniversary of their parents. Nellie H. Draper was born March 1, 1881. Her girlhood with the exception ex-ception of three years was spent at Springdale. William Flanlgan was bora February 17, 1877 in Rockvllle. Both grew up in humble circumstances, circum-stances, practicing rigid economy. A coin was hoarded and spent many ma-ny times in fancy before it was in fact. If they earned a coin they had to go away from home to do so. On March 14, 1898 Will and Nellie Nel-lie with another couple, their lifetime life-time friends (James Crawford and Paulina Ruesch) took a week to go with a freight wagon to the St. George temple to be married, attend at-tend conference and return home. Their "hotel" at St. George was the ground in the tithing office yard north of the tabernacle with dozens doz-ens of others on a similar errand. At the wage of $1.50 to $2.00 per day, and working at any and every kind of pay job, this couple saved and bought one of the best small farms on the Virgin river, in 1909 a I summer flood washed the farm completely com-pletely away. The next spring Mr. Flanagln came to Cedar and was taken on trial for one month by George W. Decker at the B.NJ3. At the end of the month he was engaged to stay for the year. He moved his family to Cedar City, and remained as an employee at the college for the next 33 years. When he began at the school there was nothing to the campus but a bare rocky hill with the bare buildings, a few small evergreens, ever-greens, a hitching post and the big scales for weighing coal. Mr. Flan-lgan's Flan-lgan's magic touch of work and attention at-tention to detail have transformed the bare hill Into a beautiful park. Mr. Flanlgan has many hobblrs, his yard Is a masterpiece of art, the art of arrangement. Neither he nor his wife, Nellie, are ever idle. They share a unique work room and enjoy themselves working with and for their family. Students, teachers, relatives and friends from far and near join to wish them well on their Fiftieth Wedding anniversary. They exten an invitation to all friends to cal during the open house. |
