Show I Observes Oath lOOth 1 Birthday 1 Clara Maria Munk Anderson qUietly celebrated her i birthday Tuesday September 4 at her home Many friends and relatives called to wish her well To be years old however does bring some changes She said 1 dont don't look like I used to and I cant can't do good like I used to Clara was born September 4 1873 to Eunice Ann and Peter Munk at Mantl Manti She learned responsibility very young When she as one and one halt half years old ld her mother became ill and was bedfast for 9 2 1 years Wood was used entirely for fuel She remembers one of her first duties was to bring in the nIghts nIght's supply of wood She tends tended tend tend- s ed the chickens took care of the neighbors neighbor's children for 10 a aday aday day and would drive the cows every morning Drinking water was dipped from the Irrigation ditch and one day Clara was delighted to find a mountain trout In her bucket Clothes were scrubbed on washboards with made home soap perfumed with Clara would take a bucket of I eggs ggs to the store and get a can of coal oil trim the lamp wick and shine the glass chimney This was one of her duties to get ready for Sunday She stood on a chair to clean cleanthe cleanthe the churn scour knives and forks and the brass milk kettle She learned how to make salt salt- rising bread By the time she was seven years old she was knitting and darning for the family Her father had two oxen Bill Billand Billand and Ball She would stand on the fence and paint their horns This made the them m easy to find Clara went to the molasses mill to get She got pure molasses because she always said thank you She dried apples sewed carpet carpet car car- pet rags stuffed ticks straw and feather beds and crocheted When she was young books were scarce One summer she and her sisters Minerva and May repaired books from the Sunday School library They took turns fixing and reading and In this way read many of the classics Clara was a school schoolteacher teacher After six years of courtship she married Lewis Robert Anderson Anderson An- An derson December 11 1895 They journeyed to the Manti LAS Temple in a horse and buggy They set up housekeeping the year Utah became a state 1896 Lewis Robert died October 19 1968 Clara was active in church 1 J II r 3 id l t ill jJ r- r rL T 1 J Mrs L. L R. R Anderson has lived a century F w and civic affairs She loved to fish and spent many summers at Fish Lake She was a Manti Temple matron for 16 years She entertained entertained enter enter- many When Clara was a girl Manti had no electric lights no telephones telephones tele- tele phones no radio no TV no furnace heated houses no automobiles auto auto- mobiles no jets no garages or oil stations no power washers washers wash wash- ers no laundromats no electric flatirons no movies no modern courthouse no public library no sidewalks the sagebrush was too high to see a cow no pavements no flood control dams no hatcheries no manu manu- plants one school building no wear ready no nylons no lipstick no false eyelashes or wigs no beauty shops no tranquilizers In her day it was petticoats woolen stockings and red flannels Clara had seven children Eva deceased R. R Clair deceased deceased de- de ceased L L. L Glen Lucile Keller Eunice Garbe Mary and Elliott She has one brother William WilHam Peter Munk living In Centerfield She loves her grandchildren and great grandchildren She appreciates her kind neighbors Clara is thankful for the many remembrances sent to her |