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Show THURSDAY. JANUARY 2. V.CG HIE LEHI FREE THURSDAY. PRESS TUP FHf FRFE PRF;? Published by The Lehi Free Prees Every Thursday Lehi. Utah Phone T I r " - " 1 " " ' in ii ii i .1 . we "ft f ; 8-- J.AVr-- i w ana i. ,r children of and Charles RavmotjN -- ere the SundaVl01 . I Pro;0a HtJ? Mrs. Wallace P. Price. Hebertson Manapvr Crtiryp r f Oifice. 32 W. Main St-- , residence, 2nd Harren's to spent th. West and State St. Lehi. Utah holidays. Phones Office residence 117-- returned?, 8-- W Entered at the postoffice at Lehi, Utah as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION I l r vit&kx i yt One ytar r ... . $1.00 r LOCAL t U' tv&Hl'- v.; M - 'ii with her sister. Brown in Garfield. 5'! - - '. Into Port Sumter. Christmas Night. By ELMO 8C0TT WATSON Inset: M.j. Robert '."4 rs ' fT.I1" Anderson busied himself strengthening the d fenttes of both Fort Moultrie, which he had garrisoned, and Fort Sumter, which was also under his command, m, force was a small one. It consisted of nine officers, 53 artillerymen, musicians and 30 lnborers- -a total of 1(H) 13 of which only C3 were combatants, with this little band he determined to defend the to which he had sworn allegiance and to flag maintain his post to the last Watchful of all approaches to Fort after December 11 no one was admittedMoultrie, the works unless he was known to some within officer of the garrison. Ills Justification for this acUon was the fact that the South Carolinians were arming and it seemed almost a certainty that they Intended to seize Forts Moultrie and Sumter and Castle Tlnckney. On December 20 South Carolina adopted It. Ordinance of Secession and the South Carolinians began to act as though they were Immediately free citizens of another In country. fact, the Charleston as an Indication of the Independence ofpapers, their state bepan announcing occurrences in the Northern tate. under the head of "foreign news." Soon ,tr00p'. began t0 pour lnt0 Charleston where equipping and drilling began. Anderson was well aware of the danger and delicacy of his position. In a private letter which he wrote on December 24 he set forth the precarious nature of his posltlon-w- lth a garrison ,n n,en ed 'ortreee, the walls of "n , J"!!7 were only feet high and within a d yards of sandhills which commanded the and afforded position good cover for sharpshooters to pick off his gunners, he confessed that "If attacked la force by any one but simpleton, there is scarce a possibility of our being able to hold out long enough for our frieodj to come to r euccor." 0 u bun-dre- i REPURin3 Lehi, with STATE STREET. SKGP J LEHI, HAROLD O8B0RNE.pJ Come la and give u. a trW, done while yoe was. J Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wathen went . io ciue ceil to visit with Mr. Wathen's mother on Christmas. i. SCHOOL SUPFLfE: Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Adams and family of Salt Lake. with Mr. and Mrs. George and Better Supplies Type 5c and 10c I Paper Wing Beaver fillers Ruled ....fcrf lamny, unday. Beaver Fillers. Plain There will be nn Union MMti'r. Composition Note Bnnl .. t. held until the second Sunday in Jau- - Large Composition Note Book.. ary. uet xour Supplies Here Mrs. Lowell Brown unH fomii. visited in Sat Lake with friends on Monday. Miss Helen Gardner retnrnod oun. after snpndinty& th no,f Fort curtain-raise- r slavery the u.o oouiu ua annea inevitably Into the question of the right of a state to from the Union and he found himself In secede the hot-be- d of the Secession movement-So- uth Carolina. That states withdrawal from the Union seemed certain and when It did withdraw it was a certainty also that the South Carolinians almost else all United States property within would the bor-deof their state, in so-fas Anderson was a natlvt of one slave state and connected by narria- - with the people of another, It was h0 won,d hand i2S?.M the been entrusted to him. to the South Carolinians, and it was feared that be woald resign his commission andby othen SecesslonUts. But. a. later events proved" neither side understood the true character of the man. Ten days before the South Carolina conven-Uo- n took the final step of severing the bonds THE PARK SE2 nnsimas. or When be took command of the United States P08t 0f Cnarle" harbor on November JL lmo- dispute over between VCrANDI8r Miss Vera Brown and Miss Barbara Christofferson of Salt Lake, were home visiting with their parents on Anderson. nJ' nt GiiTnrA ir Dl ul r mi Mr. and Mrs. Orren Wingett of visited with Mr. and Mrs, Charles Crabb, Saturday. 1860. "ff Mr. and Mrs. Golden Hansen of Salt Lake, spent the week-en- d in Lehi with If. ana Jirs. toulam. jit. Joseph rXKMIIEu 23. 18G0. mo fateful Chrlstmaaei In the tory of the United States. On that uigui la yeara ago a little force of soldier stole quietly out of a fort, located on a aandy Island outside aa Atlantic seaport, entered boats and silently rowed across the water to the shelter of another fort la the middle of the entranm in tha . bor. Although their perfect right to lead his garrison ue loruucauon to this move was fraught with the mostthe other, serious consequences. r.f.0.r hf,W" Bobert Anderon. of the artillery of the United States army; the which post he evacuated was Fort Moultrie and the one he entered was Fort Sumter in the bar-bof Charleston, a G Four months later a snot went screaming across the water of that harbor and when it struck Fort Sumter's brick walls It set 2.000.000 Americans each against In other the greatest civil war In history. The story of the firing on Fort Sumter, the to the drama of the War Between the States, la a familiar one to most Americans, Xor It Is found In every school history ever pub-- " llshed. But the story of the events on that fate-fChristmas night, which led Inevitably to the opening of hostilities In April, 1SC1. Is not so well known. Itobert Anderson was a Kentucklan who had been graduated from West Point In 1825. had served with distinction In two Indian lie wars the Black Hawk uprising In Illinois In 1832 and the campaigns against the Semlnoles In Florida later and was promoted to captain In 1841. Subsequently he served as assistant general to Gen. Wlnfleld Scott, was severe-- y wounded In the attack on El Molino del Rey in the Mexican war and promoted to major In work Paper in LehL the Mrs. Miss LaPriel Brown was in Tuesday, spending the Haw friends and relatives. Entry of Major Andervon'i .7 Pr. Mil UM Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Wilcox and Mrs Rose Christofferson spent Friday in Salt Lake. Miss Irene Bushman spent -- thellf: JV1 ITEMS -- ( Get. Free finest theatre, each BOe tM Lehi Free JJ Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Curtis returned u me Angus Gardner home after spending Christmas with Mr. and Mrs r rea Curtis in Salt: Lake. Mr. and Mrs. Max Rothe, Miss Eva , Gunther, and Mr. t Gunther are visiting with friends and in anrornia. They are ex to sustain and defend themselves in a strong n!a"f ' frtreS8 for & lon8 What carried away was destroyed. Not could a k e' e 8maI1 ari"s and military all kinds were removed; the guns the burned, aupplie. of iked . th" d mounted; addltlonfand a tlons of the work were the destroyed; was cut down; and . nothing, in fac harmed but the round .hot whlc ire too he. to carry off. and which the spiking and dismount Ing of the guns had made useless partly-t.nl.he- mood; but. kept them to himself. "During the day. the wives and chii.trn of th troop, were sent away from the fort onThe that, as an attack might be made upon It. removal was necessary. Three .maU hoo rs were hired, and the few inhabitants of Sullivan's Island saw them loaded, as they beds, furniture, trunks and other thoug luggage of E d t,'S "The (lawn saw Major Anderson safely established with his command in from immediate attack, though Ton ' occupied only by a corporal's Vnar i . P to complete the work of destruS hat a responalhllity he had a aiM.rec.ated the delicacy and the nrtanee the trust committed to , have looked forward for seen all the consequences of his C uJ? ' L aSj C ' liJe " "T 1! fr,r,orn?,,hVr h!oh VSSll.'j rvbHuTeswuvV,. "'any ready a that the 75 - ". South ne s,omed to know the hut Major Anderson himself and his' next In command knew their destination. The little garrison wa. paraded. Inspected and then on boats which headed for Fort Sumter. oodw" nd ,aken. or then took, all .kT"1' provisions, garrison furniture and munitions or war which could be carried away on such Jjort notice, and with such slender means of traosportatloa-enou- gh to enable fourscore men d and' h $ ect s in Apr! ' hrenV t lia" J J' m atoa might he nnd in U" ti'"' Jon, rit p " 1 wded W"8 StU1 . rh U,e "'-take- otVZHTS ILZ Dress at this Glovf office. m.r. Cl - SLM'-- - FREE! A FAMILY PASS TO ROYAL WITH EACH 50c ON SUBSCRIPTION PAID Send In Your Subscription loday n. One Year for $1.00 Six Months for 50c I?p,1,lre-Charlosto- IT oJ'1 ZT Call Cr,, f' S"m and l"e t Man's on SU'f " It was the lo,,cal result ? thrlstma. night T5 years ajro. Sard, commander of the cnnrl i p ' called u Andprson to render Fort Sumter U' baUer.es tlme other Christmas had f Arc"'n had died and before the Chrlstma, be 5? t0 dlfl h Ut aa,n their message of peace and loud-wll- i 0ver a re united nation. ZZli ..wa- - V'UrlnS lhnt 7'. IPncc J,?! FOUND right hand. "nd ,Kit fo,lr hJ WANT t,,,,y v l ;lr"""a No Ioulltf , homo, both North up prayers thai earth, eood win to men" VO No .s,tuat1"" ,C ,1 f7r .. Crist,:,., seou t a moment', notice. I toXV "e posil,ty averted. 1 CII1RLEST0S IIARR0U , fr from the -- ere Ffsmnter 0 Materials Used Are TbeB PRICES ARE ALWAYS LOW! ' I or any of their South, were to know IVspite ihe i... .... FtMoultrwrX ij? :: ST this move had WRAPPERS entertained at a i nomas Crabb. p "y Wonday niht for w.v iwivw n? DIlOCTo f ' I - TT, . For Exnert Mavtnir Service ' Lucille Bateman. M w i Write rcii " Carl Smith. Fairfied. I vjvates. - Keith Hunter. Vallev. SP atCftelor' Mia and Mrs. Ivan Schow. If vour Sewinc Machine or Kower needs repairs. Sisson or Walace Hebertson Sharpened, William Osborne ,'And.MrS- - rlw It. in p. th Mr. and Mrs. Gerald n. VHP CATV ar a tm? no LEA! M ss Geraldine Harrenand Miss De-unucr xioici yivy'-- t 0remcaie home with mam az., jariing Lew. uwner u. nd MrHebtson to visit with dale, 650 So. Rnrincr St.. Log W heir, during the holidays. aiiiomm H re,,. an-bo- iJ - u. y be "About nine o'clock In the evening, were ordered to hold themselve, In marchS order, with knapsacks packed, ready to move at MniiliJ. 'uuuiure rcannon. in the Distance.; A Vnr (Fort Sumter move which he did. making According to a contemporary historian: "Christmas day dawned J?rnder80n UDder theae circumstances ... BUTTER today GOOD POP CORN FOR SA bee Lloyd Gunther, Lehi. ana Mrs. Gunther and Miss Eva Gunther -- c v.Mung wiin Mrs. Alice Jones Boar FoT Service Frank Barl and -aitUie unir.er and Mr. and Mrs. are visitinoiwwie th r anaj , ivirs. FOR SATE CUV P fiwl Rn uuicw jscods and family. Lot. 8 hv 11 , . . t cnicKen coop on the ground, see Miss Ruth Rothe - 10 h,s ""tructions the necessary latitude for ,n8trnctl0D8- not In a festive Send in your order Big Double Show at the Royal, ..uiMiay. Friday and Saturday. Let's Go! V adv. 8St 8eDtence Sot! that bhVh08e I "-.- Gen. Winflold Scott, whw!1 g8se 1 PRESS ocveii T a poi m las Angeles, California, w nere sne has been working. rvV .ms Sumter in Charleston Harbor commander-in-chie- f of the United States army, was also aware of the situation and declared that the fort could be taken by 500 men in 24 hours. Both President Buchanan and John B. Floyd, secretary of war. were In a state of uncertainty as to what course to pursue In this crisis. Their Instructions to Anderson were to "carefully avoid any act which would needlessly provoke aggression and not, without to take any position that could be necessity into construed the assumption of a hostile attitude." They did however, direct him to "hold possession of the forts in the harbor, and if attacked, you are to defend yourself to the last extremity. The small-nes- s of your force will not to occupy more than one of permit you. perhaps, the three forts, but an attack on, or attempt to take possession of either of them, will be regarded as an act of and-y0may then Put your command in? either U them which you may deem most proper to increase its resistance. You are also authorized to powerof take similar steps whenever you have tangible evidence of a design to proceed to a hostile act" LEHI FREE E.EIHE FIH The Only Paper Z Sfts and Printa All Local Nes VHY HOT BUIUJ LEII? , |