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Show SPRING CITY j By Special Correspondence I Word has been received that Charles W. Nielsen, has sustained severe wounds recently while in action with the Marines on Iwo Jima, and is receiving treatment in a hospital in the Marianas Islands. He was a graduate of North Sanpete high school, a student of Snow College and a graduate from the Western Electrical college col-lege at Salt Lake City. He enlisted en-listed in the Navy "Seebees" in July 1943. At the time of his enlistment he was employed with the District Engineers. He received re-ceived his training at Camp Peary, Virginia, Camp Endicott, Rhode Island, advance training in Gulf Port, Miss.; also at Port Heueneme, California, where he was shipped overseas in April, 1944. He was stationed at Pearl Harbor, until his battalion was attached to the 4th Marine Division. Divi-sion. He married Betty Vance of Fair-view, Fair-view, who is now employed by the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation Corpo-ration in San Diego, Calif. He also has a son, Charles, Jr. one year old; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Nelson and a brother, Roger of this city. His grandfather, grand-father, Emil Nielson, live at Mt. Pleasant. Charles has 16 cousins in the armed forces, serving in all parts of the world. Lynn Barney has received word from his son, SSgt. La Mar Barney Bar-ney that he has been promoted to the rank of Staff Sergeant, and also that he has been awarded a Bronze Star Medal for meritorious meritori-ous services. SSgt. La Mar Barney left with the National Home Guard, March 17, 1941. He received his training at San Luis Obispo, California; Fort Lewis, Washington; Camp Forrest, Tennessee, and Camp Polk, Louisiana. He left for overseas duty in February 1944. He has been in England, France and is now in Germany, a member of General Patton's Army. Elwood Hansen is home on furlough, fur-lough, visiting his wife and his young baby and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F. Hansen. He will return to Camp Gordon, Georgia to resume his training. Funeral Held For David Blain Funeral services were conducted conduct-ed Thursday noon in the ward chapel for David Leroy Blain, small infant son of Odell and Flossie Allred Blain. Royal Allred of the Ward Bishopric Bish-opric was in charge. Music was furnished by the ward choir, under un-der the direction of Mrs. Geneva Justesen. The opening song was, , "I Have Read of A Beautiful Cityi" with Mrs. Rose Schofield i singing the solo. Prayer was of- ! fered by John S. Blain. speaKei riuyu iiantl x ttlv-Bishopric ttlv-Bishopric spoke many beautiful and consoling words to the bereaved. be-reaved. He said, "this little infant in-fant can and will attain the' highest degree in the resurrection because these small ones do not sin in the sight of God. They are in safe keeping and care and their lives before have been worthy wor-thy and thus they have been permitted per-mitted to come here and partake of a body. There is no destruction destruc-tion of the spiritual mind. His body and spirit will reunite and he will continue in progression. His family will be grouped together to-gether again and to greater perfection. per-fection. He concluded with many contorting words and blessings to the parents and family. A vocal solo, "God Understands," Under-stands," was sung by Miss La Rue Dahl, accompanied by Mrs. Virgus Osborne. Royal Allred told of the many-friends many-friends of Mr. and Mrs. Blain in this ward and community, and ol their kindness in these sorrowing times. The closing song was, Sometime Some-time We'll Understand." The doing do-ing prayer was offered by Doyle Madsen, ward clerk. The many floral offerings were profuse and beautiful. The pall bearers were: Duane Blain, Leo Osborne, Ross Aiken and Glen Osborne. Interment was in the City cemetery, cem-etery, under the direction of the Ursenbach funeral home The grave was dedicated by James W Blain of the Stake Presidency. Funeral services were held Tuesday forenoon for the new born baby of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Ken-neth Frandsen. The services were held in the City cemetery. Th mother was formerly Miss Erma Neilson of this city. A birthday dinner was held, Saturday afternoon for George Allred, at his home, with several members of his family in attendance. attend-ance. He is a son of the late Samuel and Elizabeth Diantha Allred. Mr. Allred has been an active and ardent church member, having hav-ing served in the Priesthood quorums, quo-rums, and auxiliary organiza. tions. For several years he and his wife, Mrs. Effie Allred, were chairmen of the "Old Peoples Dinners," a yearly entertainment. The daughters of Mr. Allred were home for his birthday. They are, Mrs. Loa Aiken of Las Vegas, Nevada; Mrs. Gwenna Bauer and Miss Edra Allred, at present teaching in the Pleasant Grove schools. Other out of town guests were, Denzil Aiken and Denza AiKen or iNevaaa ana ivirs. verna Neilsen of Mt. Pleasant. Sunday evening, Mr. and Mrs. Willis Allred, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Allred, Mr. and Mrs. Leon Allred, Mr. and Mrs. Reid H. Allred, Mrs. Vera Downard, Mrs. Eva Erick-son, Erick-son, Miss Manett Allied and Mrs. Virgus Osborne called at the j home of Mr. George Allred in ob-j ob-j sei vance of his birthday. Mr. Lorenzo W. Aiken, who has been a recent visitor to Tooele and St. Johns, has returned home, j Vero Aiken, Burns Allred, Vir-j Vir-j gus Osborne, Boyd Allred, Marvin Peterson and Eathen Thompson left Friday for Brigham City where they will be employed for a short time. Mrs. Petrea Monson Larsen, a lifelong resident of Spring City, was honored by her eighty-third birthday. Mrs. Larsen was born' at Spring City, March 26, 1862, a daughter of Peter and Bertha Monson, who were early pioneers. They crossed the plains in the year 1859, walking walk-ing the entire distance. A member of the L. D. S. church she was active for many years as a Relief Society visiting teacher. teach-er. She was married to Louis Larson May 30, 1890 in the Manti Temple. Mr. Larson was engaged in farming until his death November No-vember 1924. Of Mr. and Mrs. Larson's four children, three daughters are living, Mrs. Ber-getta Ber-getta Jensen, Mrs. Otillia Justesen Juste-sen and Miss Mary Larson, all of Spring City. There are seven grand children. The Guardian Class of the M. I. A. Bee Hive Girls held a party, Tuesday evening at the home of Lu Dean Madsen. Teachers Mrs. Iris Allred and Mrs. Eva Grace Allred were in charge. The girls enjoyed an evening in playing games and also a delicious lunch. The girls in this group are. Yvonne Aiken, Leila Allred, Lila Lee Blain, Sherma Allred. Ruth Nunley, Mapola Olson and Ludean Madsen. The Freshie Hop Dance was held in the Victory Theater Wednesday Wed-nesday evening. Music was furnished fur-nished by the "Revelers." The students of the Ninth Grade were in charge, and the hall was decorated deco-rated bv these students. This vear's Junior High School Student Stu-dent Body are, Kenneth Osborne, Jack McGerty and Robert Schofield. Scho-field. Miss Vera Allred spent the week end visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leon Allred. At present she is living in Salt Lake City. The members of the K. K. club enjoyed a social Friday evening at the home of Mrs. Curtis Allred, the occasion was her birthday. Special guests Were, Mrs. Olive Coleman, Mrs. Eva Grace Allred. Mrs. La Vee Draper and Mrs. Ruth Osborne. Mrs. Betty Goodwin left last week for Grand Island, Nebraska to visit a sister, Mrs. Elvin Hansen. Han-sen. Sgt. and Mrs. Elvin Hansen are the proud parents of a new-baby new-baby girl. This is their second daughter. Sgt. Hansen is stationed sta-tioned at Grand Island, Nebraska. Nebras-ka. Mrs. Rose Schofield and daughter daugh-ter Rosaline were visitors in Salt Lake City over the week end. The following members of the Service Club held a party, Satur-dav Satur-dav evening at the home of Mr. (Continued on last page.) i SPRING CITY ! ! I By Special Correspondence (Continued from first page.) and Mrs. Allen Beck: Mr. and , Mrs. Rudolph Hope, Mr. and Mrs. Mack Strate, Mr. and Mrs. Cutler Scohfield, Mr. and Mrs. Morris Bunnell, Mr. and Mrs. Allen Beck, Miss Geneva Strate, and Mrs. Virgus Osborne. The party was in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Erickson, members of the club, who have moved ot Ephraim to make their home. They were presented with a lovely fjift from the club members, mem-bers, 'llie evening was spent in playing progressive rook and the i.ns CMi served a delicious lunch. The North Sanpete Stake Primary Pri-mary officers held their monthly Board meeting, Monday evening at the home of Mrs. Iva Aiken with President Elva Allred presiding. pre-siding. Mrs. Rose Schofield conducted con-ducted the singing. Reports of the visits to the Wards of the Stake in obedience of the Primary Pri-mary ward conferences held Sunday Sun-day evening were given by the various officers. According to reports given the onfeieni.es were well prepared and presented. The theme was, "Reverence." Mrs. Ada Ellis presented a report re-port on the monthly scripture reading. Allen Reid Black, of the Army Air Corps and Ins wife, Mrs. Virginia Vir-ginia Black, left Saturday for Altus Oklahoma. The young flier has completed his training there and received his wings and graduated grad-uated from the Altus Flying field as a Flight officer. Before leaving they visited a brother Clinton Black and faimly at Salt Lake City. The young couple have been visiting Mr. Black's oarents. Mr. and Mrs. Angus Black of this city, also other relatives. Accompanying them, to Salt Lake City were Mrs. Angus Black and Francis Black. Mrs. Mar Dye entertained a group of children at a birthday party, Wednesday for her son, Ellis, who was nine years of age. Mrs. Leona Strate entertained the following members of the Alethea club, Friday at her home. Mrs. La Vee Draper, Mrs. Sylvia Syl-via Nielsen, Mrs. Lorna Jensen, Mrs. Grace Sullmer, Mrs. Mabel Beck, and Mrs. Eva Grace Allred. The afternoon was spent making mak-ing an alfgan for the Bushnell Hospital. The hostess served a delicious hot dinner. Mrs. Amasa Madsen, of Tre-monton Tre-monton is visiting her sisters and other relatives in this city. She came to attend the funeral services serv-ices of the young baby, David Blain, son of Mr. and Mrs. Odell Blain. Mrs. Clarissa Nielson and Mr. and Mrs. Zane Nielsen of Clear Creek, Utah also came to attend these same funeral services. serv-ices. Mr. and Mrs. Terrance Aiken, who have been to Blackfoot, Idaho, Ida-ho, for several months where Mr. Aiken has been employed, have returned home. Stake President H. C. Jacobs and James W. Blain of the Stake Presidency, and Chauncy Howell of Fairivew were in attendance at the Sunday Sacrament meeting. meet-ing. Under their direction the following boys were presented certificates of award for achievement achieve-ment in the activities of the Aaronic Priesthood: Von Allred, Ruel Allred, Eugene Terry, Ronald Ron-ald Coleman, and Junior Fullmer. Full-mer. These awards were presented pre-sented by Mr. Howell, a member of the Stake Priesthood activities. The quorum teacher of the boys, Floyd Draper, was also in attendance. attend-ance. Miss Arlea Hope, student of North Sanpete high school, was first place winner in the American Ameri-can oratorical contest at Richfield Rich-field Saturday, with Miss Lola Schultz, Snow Collegelowe division divi-sion taking second place. Miss Hope and Miss Schultz tied for second place in the regional re-gional speech tournament at Snow College Friday, March 23, and are eligible to participate in the State Finals of the Utah association as-sociation of High Schools, April 20 and 21, at the University of Utah. Miss Hope is a daughter of Mr. and. Mrs. Rudolph Hope of this city. ilie Primary ward conference held Sunday evening in the ward chapel, was very well attended. The conference was under the di.ection of the Primary Presidency, Presi-dency, Mrs. Eva Erickson, Mrs. Libbie Allred and Mrs. Olga Black. The beautiful stage setting and other decorative teatures were arranged by Mrs. Erickson, Mrs. Allred, Mrs. Olga Black, Mrs. Vera Downard and Mrs. Edith Sorensen. The theme was: "Reverence." "Rev-erence." Mrs. Lo Ree Hickman, chorister, had charge of the music mu-sic with Mrs. Virgus Osborne as organist. Class teachers in charge of their groups were: Mrs. Christie Chris-tie Bunnell, Mrs. Bertha Blain, I Mrs. Utanna Strate, Mrs. Mildred ! Peterson, Mrs. Ethelyn Anderson, ! Mrs. Hilda Jensen and Mrs. Vir-! Vir-! gus Osborne and Mrs. Helen Jensen, Jen-sen, 'it I The procedure of the conference confer-ence was: organ prelude, recit-j recit-j ing and singing of the song, "Gladly Meeting, Kindly Greeting," Greet-ing," prayer, Clair Syndergaard; presentation of officers, by Mrs. 'Edith Sorensen; greeting, Counselor Coun-selor Mrs. Olga Black; song, children's chil-dren's chorus, "This Is God's House," Group I, statement of project; group II, "Manners In Church;" Zion's Group I, "Story of David and Nehemiah." Song, "I Think When I Read That Sweet Story of Old," chorus, Zions Group II, Coral reading, "The Lord's Prayer," Larks and Blazers, Blaz-ers, accostic "Reverence," and the story, "The Kings Birthday." Song, "Reverence," by the chorus, Bluebirds; class dicsussion on "Tithing," Tukkers; "Order and Reverence in and About the Church," Guides and Seagulls. "Reverence for Temples of Today," To-day," vocal duet, Mrs. Iva Aiken and Mrs. Olga Black, "Dear Children, Chil-dren, God Is With You." Prayer, Bishop E. B. Terry. Stake Primary officers in at-etndance at-etndance were: Mrs. Ada Ellis, Mrs. Rose Schofield, Mrs. Iva Aiken and Mrs. Virgus Osborne. Citizens and friends send birthday birth-day greetings to the following Service Men having birthday in April. They are: Lloyd Snow, Leroy Allred, Kay Larsen, Louis Sorensen, Darwin Nyberg and El-wood El-wood Hansen. School Notes The Sixth grade gave a social in the school house Thursday night at 8:00 o'clock in honor of their parents and the teachers and their partners. We had two plays which were: "The Heirs," with the following characters: ! Mr. French, Don Allred; Jim, Max Peterson; Mr. Twig, Grant Watson; Wat-son; Frank Whiffy, Charles Osborne; Os-borne; Bob Hearty, Gordon Blain. The second play was, "Just One Day," with the following characters: charac-ters: Jack,( Gordon Blain; Conscience, Con-science, Joyce Sorensen; Alexander Alex-ander Graham Bell, Max Peterson; Peter-son; St. Patrick's Day, Carol All-red; All-red; Luther Burbank, Don Allred; Ponce De Leon, Grant Watson; First Spaniard, Charles Osborne; Second Spaniard, Max Peterson; March 21, Bonnie Brooks. After playing games the students served lunch to their guests. Mrs. Eva Erickson is our teacher. teach-er. Reported by a member of the Sixth Grade. |