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Show I FUNERAL HELD FOR I MWfiffifflfffS I AT BLrxSOW HR :iil H BENSON, Oct. 31. w.Thb (uneral HH services of Mrs.- Clam Griffiths, wUe HH of Mr. George Griffiths, were held HH at 1 o'clock yesterday In the Benson HH ward meeting house. Bishop H. v. HH Bollard, Jr., presiding. The ' hdilse HH was flllbd to ' overflowing with rela- ,. tlvcs and sympathizing friends. Tlio HH Benson choir furnished thqt -singing, HR" wlthj Jho addition of a cjuet.y Mr. HH Nathan Doanjind Mrs. Clara Sparks ' HH and a solo bjr,Mjs..4Jean Llndquist. HH Mrs. Bertha Mather played an ac- HH companament lnt bpUi on tho niano. HH The services began by tho choir sing- HH lng "gpmetimo We'll ,j Understand,.") HH Prayer .was offered by BJshpp C. J., BB Plowman of Snilthfleld.; Chplr sang, BJ "Jesus. Lojer of My .Soul.". Elder D., HH II. Scamons; pf Hy.do park; was tho, HH first speakcry- As a teacher of the) ' BB two daughters of Mrs. Griffiths,' he, BB had a good opportunity! to become BB- acquainted with her always found HH- pleasuro In her companyihs she-Wa's BB cheerful and ngreeablo. Ills heart, BH went Out la 'sympathy for the boreav- BH Xd husband and grief stricken dau-. HH v, ghters, In the. greaL.sorrow that had. BH como to them. As Mrsr.GJfflths was BH A a strong robust lady In tho Vcryi BH - primp of Jlfo, hqr paBalng away had I BH como ns n great surprise to us,, but HB so It ja In life, which is very, uncer-i. BH . tain with; nlj of' us.. Tho decree -gono HB forth; "Thou Shalt Surdly Die' and BH nono can cscapq the call of! death.- It HB behoves us all to prepare for .tho call HH by the living of a desirable life. I HB Rev. Harris Blllsbury was -the BH' next Speaker, ho gave n number of BH appropriate quotation's from Psalms' BH and from theisaylntrs of tho Savior. BH , which ho eloquently applied to tho H .d. occasion. HB '-' Mrs. Jean LinduiBt rendered In her HH- usual pleasing manner a Solo "Volc- HBr cs of tho' Past".-' President' George HB: Thomas of tho U. of U., a cousin 6f HH Mr. Griffiths was the next speaker. HH. Ho took as his text the twenty-third HH psalm upon which' "ho spoke most in- HH terestlngly. Hespokoiof .theilminor-' HH tallty of tho soul showing from scion-, HBj ce, reason and scriptures that the BB christian,' in fact all the human r'aco HHf havo within them, a -monitor ' that BB says "Thero is no end to my exist-BB exist-BB BB Speaking of th,o .deceased Dr. BH Thomas said that ho had not met HH Mrs. "Griffiths very often but had al-! HI ways regarded her as a fine lady. HH One trait In her character which ho HH greatly admired was her cheerfulness HB that Influenced for tho better all HHI with whom she associated. Elder, HH Howard Beeso, by request of. BH tho family 'told of his Intimate nc- BH qualntance.'Withftho Griffiths, family BH and Jjad .often admired, the fond, af- HH fectlon that existed among them. BB Mrs. Griffiths took her daughters ln- HH to her' confidence and made' campan- HH Ions of' them1, which ho regarded as' BH a verdcslrablo attitude for a mo-' BB " th or to-takq toward her children.) BB Said Mrs. Griffiths, had, always .been PB willing to 'help at ward jeiliilons and HB was willing 'to use Jher' talent ''ris a1 Bb vlollnlst'ln furnlthlng' music at 'parj H tics ptjho young -people,rj;ho. spenk-j or enumerated many-other doslrablo HH traits In the characteer of Mrs. Qrlf-i f lths: Whop If! W.'tiallard bprss'ed ' PBj his apVrcIalldn 56f: the' largo1 attend1 HH anco and'tHatlked -alt who'hai'talconl m part,, 3Jn tbehalf flf .th,o j family !nd. BB relatives hQ tbqnedjjnl who, -had. Bit contributed aid .and conifort and so H many beautiful0 flowers'. 3" BB BH Tho choir sang;, "Beautiful-Islo of HH Somewhere" and patrlanch H. ,W, HH Ballard pronounced tho beriodi'ctlon. HH A 'largo number of loaded auto- HB a mobiles followed tho remains to :tho K . IJogan cemetery wherq tho .remains B 'were laid, to rst until, thq ressur- H' rection. ,, , , HH Mrs. Clara Griffiths was born Jin. HH Trenton over forty threp years ago. HV Sho was tho slater of Messrs Charles HB Brown, Joseph and Frank Wood and HH i four slstors all of whom wero In at- HB -- tendancft at tho funeral except Jos- HB cph, who Is supposed to bo In Toxaa- HB- and a sister, Mrs. Simpson who Is In Hk Canada. Itor mother has been dead H, several yeftrs.'but her father-Ik l'lv HE li In Trenton, .but took n lieayy. HB cold Allien ho' 'came down to sc6 his HH' daughW when sho was In t,ho hos- HR pitat iwid, wasUnlv,b.lq Jo ottebtiahb. K 1.' ft" ' "' A'A funeral services. Ho Is 80. years of dge. Ho was one of tho first settlers ofiTrenton. Mrs. Griffiths was a yell, educated .lady and was, a, great help. to her husband In his 'business affair?. Wo sllAll nil miss her .in oyr social gatherings. ga-therings. That pno so robust and strong should' bo called away so young is "ha'rd . to undersjtancl but "sometime, somewhdro wdmay'uhder-stand wdmay'uhder-stand ,. I ?!bn Sunday last tho Infant child of Mr. liiid Mrs. ItasnuBsen 'was laid tawny in' tho' SmlthfieipV "cemetery' A ifejjr nelghb'ors and. riond's wero pj-es-ept. V(q sympathlzo with tho parents in tli )pss pihelr HUle child, ,rTho King post ol'co jp now a thing' of tho past, as a. It. E. D. has been established. Mr. J'ohn Mathews iS'to bo congratulated for tho competent com-petent servico ho has gIr.en.As .postmaster .post-master during tho life of tho King Postotflco. '' Mr.' "Mathews" suffered greatly tho foro part of tho- week with qn Infection in his hand, but is (better now. . Mr. and Mrs. Gu,y "L. B,ees of American Fork are visiting with their mother, Mrs. Mamie Itees. Mr. and Mrs. Georgd Foster Whitney Whit-ney and their daugh'tors, Mrs. W, O. Beeso Jr., and Edna were Benson visitors last Sunday visiting1 rcla-if-ves." J - Elders O Guy Cardon nnd F. W. Hodgson of tho S. S. Board of tho Cacho Stako wero visitors at our Sunday School last Sunday. y-1 - '.(.. : A, . ' |