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Show The MIDVA LE JOURN AL . amous Friday, Februa ry 15, 1929 Entry No· 6 In Journal's Famous Characters Contest ourse (Continued from Page One) the honor to be acquainted with. He L. D. s. had a thorough knowledge of the prin church, and in the succeeding year cipal languages of those lands, viz: Turkish, and Armenian and 1872, emigrated to the United States, his place Arabic, will be hard to fill. H~ had stopping for a few months at Chicago lately been released. The Mission (this being the year of the fire) and headquarter s had been moved to later the same year coming to Utah. Haefa, Palestin~, and he must have He had been used to clerical positions been on a visit to the previous headand found manual labor rather trying quarters at the time of his death. Full at first, but after a little while, he be- particulars have not been received at came accustomed to working in the the time of this writing. mines, on railroads a{ld other employContinuing the trip of Elder Herment of various kinds. mnn, Booth and Page, they <>arne by In 1873 he married Emma Harms, way of the Hamath (Solomon's kingof Chertesy, Surry, England, and his dom extended from Hamath to River two daughters, by this union, married of Egypt) where there is the largest brothers and are Mrs. Robert S. Slea- wooden water wheel used by irrigater and Mrs. Thomas B. Sleater of tion purpose existing; Damascus, CaeSalt Lake City. During a portion of ser')a, Phillip, the most northern point this time he was agent of the Bing- of Christ's recorder travels, Nazarham Railway, he being the first agent eth and Haita (at the foot Elf Mt. there at that time of the Bingham Carmel where Edyah slew the prophCanyon and Camp Floyd Railway. ets of Baal. 1 A great many of the English peoAt Haifa they had a small branch ple (they are not so numerous as for- of German Saints who were formerly merly) have a very great desire to members of an organizatio n called own land, freehold land, coming from Templars. Marc~ a land where under the survival of About 1870, two brothers of the the tyranical feudal system, land is name of Hoffman, in Wurb'!mbur g, mostly under 99 year leases. Germany, preached Christ's C'Oming Many of them have purchased lands was close at hand and advised some in the United States and in the Eng- of their followers to start some collish colonies, and have not always onies in Palestine, which they did at showed very sound judgment in their Haifa, Jappa and Jerusalem. The purchases. He bought a small tract colonies at Jappa and Jerusalem still of land on the Union bench a~d ~y being in existence. Their organizatio n working at the smelters, teachi~g m was a rather loose organization . The • the schools, and othe;r . occupatiOns , young men, most of them, to return made a rather scant l!vmg and made • their German citizenship, went to some improvemen ts. Germany to serve in the army, and During this time he helped st~rt remained there. They were a rather two Mutual Improveme nt Associa- prosperous cl~ss, however. The Gertions, one at Uni~n and one a~ South man tradesmen being generally a betCottonwood . This was preVIous to ter workman that the Arabs and their the L. D. S. church officially taking system of tithing for mutual help and over the Mutual Improveme nt move- assistance was also a factor in their ments. At that time the Salt Lake property. The Turkish town of Haifa Tribune, now perhaps the grea~est with many blind alleys, with its high newspaper in the Rocky Moun tams, walls and flat roofs was a marked con was a particularly ribald anti-M?r- trast to German c~lony at Haifa with mon sheet. That paper used to gwe wide straight streets, gardens in the us reports, manufactur ed to a great front of the gabled red tiled roofed extent. One of their reports which I houses. Here Elders Booth and. Page ••• have not forgot, was one of our mem- were stricken down with malaria fevbers preached a sermon and conclud- er and took ship for Alexandria and ed with stating .he met an ignomin- from there to Aintab, headquarter s ious death by bemg hung up between of the Mission. two other thieves. Advert!sem ents Elders Booth and Page, having been even if not intended to assist often released from the missions on account does so, and the South Cottonwood of sickness, but not accepting same. organization was able to purchase Elder Booth arranged to stay in Turbooks and start a small library and key, but Mr. Page took up his old after the L. D. S. church took over release when he suffered another atthe Mutuals, it became a leading mem tack of fever and started for home. ber of that society. After:ward~ h:e On the way home, the ships on whi?h homesteade d 80 acres of Wlld umrn- he traveled were thronged with pllgated land, which is now Rivet:ton, grims Mohammed ans going to Mecbut at that time was part of West ca m~mbers of the Greek Orthodox Jordan Ward, and on which he is now ch~rch going to Jerusalem for the living. During the years 1880 and Greek Easter (not on the same date 1881 he worked on the Utah and Salt as the Roman Catholic Easter) and Lake Canal to bring water to the members of the Catholic church, goland. In 1882 he married Harriett ing to Rome for the Roman Catholic Frankland of Beccles, Suffolk, Eng- Easter. He visited Jerusalem, saw land. He followed surveying, con- many of the places connected with tracting and other occupations . the life of Christ there. Bethleham, In 1883 he moved to Scofield, Car- which was at that time putting in the bon county, managing a store for the great dam at Assonan, on the Nile, Union Pacific railway at their coal and which has brought most of Egymines and living there seven years. pt into a land more prosperous than During his residence at Scofield he it has ever been since the time of the was in the bishoprics of the Pleasant Pharoahs. Valley and Scofield wards. He re(To be continued next week) turned to Riverton and with the exception of very extensive travel, he Mr. and Mrs. Gladwin Woodhead has lived their to the present time. of Salt Lake entertained at dinner on The Page-Hanse n Company Wednesday for Mr. and Mrs. E. L. In 1891 he started at Riverton a Burgan and family, the occasion besmall mercantile establishme nt, which ing Mr. Burgan's 51st birthday annihas developed now to the Page-Han- versary. sen Company. In 1899 he was called by the L. D. S. church on a mission to Turkey. While there he started a ATCH REPAIRIN G Turkish Rug factory in a portion of GOOD PROMPT AND that land where rugs were only made 1 DEPENDA BLE Service to a limited extent, and which, when Your jeweler should enjoy the other churches took hold of that industry, was the forerunner of the rug confidence of the community, center known as (Aintab. In 1890 he Bring your precious stone probin company with Elder Albert Herlems to me. I guarantee to reman, president of the Turkish mission and Elder Joseph W. Booth, repair ~·our watch satisfactory or tiring president of the American misask no pay. H yow want anysion, took a bicycle trip through Asia jewelry from Salt Lake, I can Minor, Syria and Palestine. Most of save you money on it. See me. the way along the Syrian desert and through lands where a bicycle was J. S. MORGAN unknown and where people by the hundreds would come to see a bicycle. Now a word in regard to Elder Booth. ESTAURAN T &; CAFE Word has just come that he died suddenly at Alleppo, Syria, French ManThere is a DEFINITE date, where he labored many Y~l!-rs of SATISFAC TIOS WHEN his life. He has spent 17 years of his Your FOODS satisfy the taste. life as a missionary, most of the time Our Experience assures you of as President of the Turkish mission, which. has been renamed the Armen- ! Tasty FOODS at all Tll\lES. ian Mission. Elder Booth was one ofJ' U.S. CAFE the most self-sacrific ing, earnest, spir SAMAS & THOMAS, Props. itual elders that Mr. Page ever had 1 In 1871 he joined the THESE TWELV E LECTU RES MAY CHANG E YOUR ENTIR E LIFE EVERY MONDAY AND THURS DAY .. ~ .LJ..L.J£1 ...... "-' AND DESTIN Y" How can I use my resources so as to have more and enjoy more? -GETTE RS AND GO-GIVERS" How can I become a real salesman instead of an order-ta ker? G MY FOUR KINDS OF PAY" What is th ·ebig thing I must do to get all four kinds? ON SOUTH! 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