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Show Sentinel Guardian of Your Community News WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 2010 • A3 General Authority to visit for Benjamin Stake Conference 'Round and About Benjamin Kathleen Olscn An Important Reminder to everyone in both Benjamin wards who plan to attend the Sunday Morning session of Spanish Fork West Stake Conference on Mar. 21,2010. Members of the Benjamin wards are to attend that particular session of conference at the Benjamin Church and the starting time is 9 a JII. rather than the usual 10 a.m. starting time. Other conference meetings will be announced to those invited. All adults of the stake, 18 and older, are invited to attend the Saturday night session (March 20) which will begin at 7 p.m. at the Spanish Fork West Stake building in Spanish Fork. We will have the unique opportunity of having El*der Robert D. Hales of the Letter to the Editor Thank You Council of Twelve Apostles, fairs. Richardson is the grandas our visiting authority. Also participating in mother in Benjamin. ••• ••• the contest with connecCongratulations to two tions to Benjamin was Benjamin 1st Ward young ladies who were re- Kaylee Cloward. Kaylee Relief Society will be obcently named to the 2010 is the daughter of David serving its 168th birthday Miss Spanish Fork royalty. and Susan Cloward and on Friday, Mar. 19, 2010. Jessica Johnson, daughter her Benjamin grandmother All Relief Society memof Joel and Amy Johnson is Betty Lundell. She is a bers and their husbands or of Benjamin and Donna student at Maple Mountain other guests are invited to and Scott Terry of Spanish High School. All three girls enjoy the delicious supper Fork, and grand daughter did well in the Miss Span- followed by an address by of Hal and Marie Johnson ish Fork contest and repre- local author, Janene Baadsof Benjamin, was named sented their community and gaard. This will be held at Miss Spanish Fork. She has their families very nicely. the church with the starting ••• been an outstanding young time of 6:30 p.m. ••• lady and has been playing A new baby boy was the piano since she was born to Jared and Susan The next 4-H Benjamin about eight years old. She Richardson Chapman on Livestock Club meeting is presently attending UVU Sunday. Mar. 7,2010, at the will be held on Thursday, in Orem. Candace Wride, Utah Valley Medical Cen- April 1,2010. at the Benjadaughter of Dennis and ter in Provo. The little boy min Church. Elections will Kathy Wride, was named will be named David Aaron be held that evening and second runner up. She is Chapman and was greeted final plans and preparations also the granddaughter of by his three older broth- will be made for the BenjaVerla Richardson and Mar- ers. The Chapmans live in min Livestock Club Show. ion and Pat Wride of Ben- Springville and now have The stock show will be held jamin. She attends Spanish four boys under five. Things on Saturday, April 24,2010, Fork High School where should be pretty lively at at Browns' Arena in Payson she is active in student af- the Chapman home. Verla starting at 10 a.m. In September our house burned and the response of City Police, Volunteer Firemen, Spanish Fork Third Ward bishop and members, family, friends, neighbors and people we didn't even know was amazing. We would like to express our gratitude to these many people. We received offers to move in and live from many people and thank those who turned their homes over for us to live in these months of rebuilding. The amazing efforts of people to save many of our belongings was nothing short of heroic. Sisters with water dripping down their backs were carefully packing our dishes and other treasures. Men and boys, women and girls standing side by side handing things down the stairs and out into a huge covered trailer which someone provided. We are still sorting through boxes of things that came back and finding treasured items that are special only to us. Thanks is totally inadequate but we will forever remember these acts of courage and kindness. Also we want to thank the craftsmen especially, who took so much pride to make our home beautiful and for their patience with us during this trying time. We also thank the insurance company and Spanish Fork City employees, and fire departments from Salem, Woodland Hills and Payson. We especially thank our family for long enduring care from injuries sustained during this time. Thanks to all. Grant and Edna Jensen Spanish Fork The importance of blacksmiths in wagon trains 180 years ago There and Back Again Shirlene R. Ottesen You might be a redneck I... .it takes more than a minute to read all the bumper stickers on your truck. For those of you who are reading the column and are members of the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, the lesson for this month is Pioneer Blacksmiths. If you . haven't had your monthly meeting yet, well now you know what the lesson will be. To be a blacksmith 180 or so years ago was pretty important. Quoting from an article that appeared in the July, 1997 Ensign we learn . .more about this important occupation. "The advance, ' exploratory company led by , .President Brigham Young ,was not a typical Latter-Day Saint train with tight food -.supplies and families planning to be settlers. Rather, this was a handpicked - .scouting group of 143 men, 3 women and 2 children. . Eight of the Twelve Apostles were in the group." : . "On April 18 a clerks' inventory tallied 72 wagons, 66 oxen, 89 horses and 52 mules." That total comes to 207 four-legged animals making a total 828 feet that for tonight. I hope we don't had to be shod. I guess they have a runaway or trouble put shoes on oxen. I don't with the wagon wheels." think I knew that before Our success depended on or if I did I had forgotten. the mules and the function "During this trek men were of our wagon. West of Marassigned as hunters and fish- tins' Cove, we traveled on ermen. Blacksmiths were a trail that was so realistic essential, constantly fixing and just what I imagined wagons and wheels and what the pioneers must have shoeing horses. It was later traveled on. Looking in any written: "As soon as camp direction there was nothing was formed. Brother Alfred for miles and miles to even Lambsons' forge would be remotely indicate the curprepared and the ringing of rent world we live in. There the anvil was heard until wasn't a pole carrying elecnightfall." tricity, not a sign of any kind "The wagons carried of populated settlement and stock piles of flour, sea bis- so it gave me the feeling that cuits, dried beans, bacon, we were on our own. Not dried beef, salted codfish just us, but everyone in the and salt. Cows provided camp. But, when there was milk. Wagons contained some kind of trouble, it was tents, saddlesjronforhorse- wonderful to watch as fellow shoes, nails, leather for har- participants came forward to ness repairs and for boots offer help. and shoes, tools, cooking I can't imagine 72 wagand eating utensils, sacks ons yet there were immiof garden seeds, buckwheat grant trains that had over and bags of corn, oats and 100 wagons. The Sesquibran to feed the livestock." centennial Wagon train has Sounds a lot like the "food 30 wagons and we would storage" counsel we are get stretched out over quite hearing today. a distance. At the height Having had a little expe- of the immigration to Salt rience on wagon trails, I can Lake, it has been said that tell you that when seated in the beginning of one train our wagon and heading down could see the last wagon the trail, I had one thought, "I in the train ahead of them. hope nothing happens to our Quoting from the same wagon or mules to keep us Ensign article: " By early from reaching our campsite September, the eastbound Madison's Avenue returning pioneers met and passed the westbound big company of 560 wagons!" The early blacksmiths were skilled in their craft, performed a critical service and were much in demand. I guess like the car dealerships we have today. Many of us living in Spanish Fork remember Robert Jex's blacksmith shop on the south end of Main Street next door to the old Premium Oil station. My dad used to take plow shears to him to prepare for working the fields. I remember the smell of coke burning in the shop and thefirehe worked with. He wore a tight fitting black, leather cap and always had a few black smudges on his face. His gloves reached up to his elbows to protect his arms from the heat and sparks as he pounded the hot metal. With the amount of horses in this valley, I assume that those skilled in shoeing horses are still kept rather busy. My great-grandfather, William Roach has a blacksmith shop in Spanish Fork and there were probably several others at that time in the history of the city. Thanks to these lessons we shall remember another important contribution of the I early settlers. emerald Princess iotl) Januani - 17th Jnminr'i zoic ' vve » Get It! 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