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Show TUB SPANISH FOUR PRESS. SPANISH FORK. UTAH UTAH BRIEFS --ht l 111 U tho llrber to Frulthiiel road. Fsn ly t'lflrea hundred Ihdt Lako county l'M and gills Imre received free garden merle this Tooele Fait beds eu the Gnat i es an Ierert are to aulo sped It t ground, apr. u-- Aim-rlmi- lu.in-- r 1 be toaniy held on Keptemlsr It fulr will be and IX 13 (trout J&mbotee Is Imke ou Msy loth. Kl'.erton Erg grading plant Is es tshil-lie- d by wrojierntlre emlety. 8 near House tlsli Flute lrl-'- 0 jM'putiillou on April 1 wss 802. Moigun A I II fiolt project has (sen formed la Morgt cotiniy. Itgdon Niue tt.oiiwflud who! children will urn rb In a intrude on May 2 II) rum Cm he Valley Hoy Fcoul Kit bflrld-J- 1, hy at refilled t'th luov nuod-ctroop. Mldt ale Dairy uun of Valley urge u slate r Hull Luke of the dairy pmdurer. ttuilhfirM lire! acreage l Cache valley will hath the fourteen thousand acre mack this )eur. Amrrb-uFork -- Flail wilder wIiciA crop 1 estimated nt three uud one fourth million bushel. lirlghntu City llenutlflreitlou amt Clean Cp pluns arc clalN.ruie for ihe prevent wvtsi. ML dicaurd This city will have a j .mlor gurdcu contest dm log Ihe mourner. (Udeii A "Re Kind Ucek" Is on for week To Animals ending April LU will Mugns ITsli Nidionul Hospital day on Ihe 12th of Mry. Zin National I'uik I. HruoUhy, prlnelpa! of the Ordorvllle school was aceldeiitsliy killed l.y Ihe breaking of a iiouler Imslting ear cuMe. Ftule Capitol If lamdon Naval pluns go thru ihe tnitl hli l l nil will go to Ike eerup beep. Guniilaui-California hankers on a tour of the Fun. A e valley compll.iietit the f:.smers oil Ihe condition of their farms. Miilvuic Water and sewer Improve-meat- s prnpoved heie will cost a sum In the neighborhood of sixteen thoun-- a ml dollars. Granger I II Club for the promoting of Ihe breeding of pure Hoi teln cm lie bus bora formed. Provo Prof. IS. F. Dir son of the IS. Y. I, has htnl a pointing accepted by Paris. Franco officials for the spring exhibition of art. Fciplo Mdlnrd county schools will ob-er- te e By BLMO SCOTT WATSON FAME tho morning of April 10, 1830, when la tho llttlo town of 8L Louis, Mo, I bon a frontier trading poat, tbrro men, Jededlsh & Smith, David El Jackson and W. L. Sub lettat called the roll of 81 members of a expedition, ordered tbe oien and mules bitched to the train of covered a a sons which they Jr had aaaembled and gave the com 2 mand to start weatward on tholr jpfZL ,1 great adventure. .Theirs was tbe first covered wagon caravan to pass over what history has written as the Oregon Trail. Later years were to see thousands of other such wagons pass over that trail, and more than 860,000 persons who carried the star of empire westward' were to follow It across the plains and over the mountains In sn epic migration which stands as one of the greatest movements In all history. And now. Just a hundred years later, the people of America are to honor the pioneers who followed that trail. President Hoover has Issued a proclamation calling for the observance of the Covered Wagon Centennial from April 10 to December 29 of this year April 10 being the hundredth anniversary of the start of the first wagon train weatward and December 20 being the hun dredth anniversary of Ezra Meeker, "the Grand Old Man of the Oregon Trail." who devoted his life to the perpetuutlon of Its memory and the memory of those who traveled It. When Ezra Meeker died In December, 1928, at the age of ninety-eight- , his Inst whispered words were: "I am not quite ready to go; tny work U unfinished." Put he left behind him an organization which proposes to see to It that his work Is finished. That la the Oregon Trail Memorlnl association which he founded and a fitting climax of Its patriotic work Is the Covered Wagon Centennial In which It has Invited the whole nation to participate with city, state and natlonnl covered wagon centennial celebrations. In view of the nntlon-wld- e Interest which this celebration has. It seems particularly appropriate that there should have appeared receutly a new book by a historian which deals with the Oregon Trail from a new point of view. It Is, The Overland Trail; The Epic Path of the Pioneers to Oregon," written by Agnes C. I. nut and published by the Frederick A. Stokes company. In her first chapter Miss Laut says: There stand In Amerca three great obelisks. One Is In Washington, tbe federal capital. It la the Washington monument. It marks the beginning of a great nation in Its expansion from the Atlantic to tbe Pacific. It commemorates also on of the noblest lenders who ever guided that nation In Its destiny. Tbe second Is In Kansas City. It commemorates tbe soldiers who perished In the World war; but It also marks the beginning of a great racial path In that expansion from the Atlantic to the Pacific. That racial path Is the Overland Trail. Here set out In the last trek of humanity westward, not an army of soldiers In rank formation, but an army of pioneers, who conquered a wilderness and transformed a desert Into a garden ; and they accomplished In a little more than a century what the Old world did not achieve In sixty centuries. They conquered by sheer dogged, dauntless courage an empire half the area of Europe. Twenty thousand people men, women and children perished from hunger, from hardship, from Indian raids, In a single year on the Oregon Trail. If you want to realize the epic heroism of such pioneer heroism compare that mortality loss to the army death list of a single little wnr In Europe over some principality not the size of a single county In the states bordering the Overland Trail Then you grasp what the great racial highway means In American history. You realize why, to the West, It Is sacred as the very altar stairs of a saints monument In Asia or Europe. It, too, Is dyed In sacrificial martyr blood. It, too, Is worn by the pilgrims feet In traces which time can never efface. The third obelisk stands at the final outlet of Columbia river to the Pacific. It Is known as the Astor monolith. It marks the end of the Oregon Pioneer Trail. It comememorates far more. It symbolizes the final destination of mans trek round the world from East to West for six thousand years. One may grasp the significance of these things best, perhaps, by telescoping back from the present to the past and seeing bow all evolved from simple beginnings." The writer of this book then follows the trai. step by step, from the Missouri to the Pacific, linking the past with the present In the vast panorama of the trails history. And as g well-know- n 1 ever-changi- 770? CATZ19 KEEKER AMD HIS COVERED WAGOZT the climax to this stirring picture are these words from the Ust chapter of the book : "And now look bnck over the long Overland Trail ; from the Mississippi to the Pacific two thousand miles stretching from Lewis and Clurks day roughly to 18.57, over half a century I Ixmk back over the longer racial trail dim In tbe historic past covering at least two thousund years, or perhaps before historic unnuls on stone or parchment, six thousand years, or roughly, sixty centuries. We naiy say It was pagan persecution as to idol worship, or It was luck of pasturage for bis flocks sent Abraham trekking up tle Euphrates to Palestine about 2000 II. C. Drought sent Jacob and his twelve patriarchal tribal sons trekking to Egypt. Economic persecution sent his descendants under Moses wandering hack to their Promised Land for forty years, fighting a way through wilderness raiders sometime about 1400 to 1200 B. C. Dispersion by war scattered the Twelve Tribes up through Ituxsla, across Geruiuny and up by sea through the Pillars of Hercules Gibraltar to Britain from 800 to 000 B. C. Love of adventure Hll H"H I I I . ! A PROCLAMATION The Congress, by unanimous vote, has authorized commemoration of the heroism of the fathers and mothers who traversed the Oregon trail to the far West. On April 10, 1830, the first wagon train left St. Louis for Oregon, pioneering the way for tho thousands of men and women who settled the Pacific states. On Dec. 29, 1830, Ezra Meeker was born, who carried over into our day a personal memory of this historic epoch. The Oregon Trail Memorial association, which he founded and which includes men and women in all walks of life in all parts of the country, has sponsored the movement to observe the period from April 10 to Dec. 29 of this year as the Covered Wagon Centennial, to recall the national significance of this centenary of the great westward t;de which established American civilization across a continent. Therefore, I, Herbert Hoover, President of the United States, do call upon our peo- pie to employ this fitting occasion to commemorate the lives and deeds of the heroic pioneers who won and held the West. lii witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington this 21st day of February, in the year of our Lord, 1930, and of the independence of the X United States of America, the lS4lh. Sig-.eKERBETf HOOVER. J -- I DK-K-- W H-i-- H- H H H-- H- clove on May 2nd. Diguu C. A. C. CafZlU, and litcrrr,lnutirn for religious freedom sent tha old sea nuvlgaiors from Columbus to Cartier and Hudson across the billowing Atlantic In ships not so Urge as many a sailing yacht, from 1 92 to 1633 and 1010. We may explain that It wus purely from trade motives the fur truders pushed up the Great Lakes and down the Ohio from Kioo to lst. Wa may add It was the same lure of guln drew Mis- sour I and New York and Baltimore traders to the foothills of the Rockies. "It was hard times front 1S37 to 18,57 forced men In a fever across the Hookies down to the Pacific. The fact remains the Great Knciul Movement had gone round the world In a complete circle; and the movement In spite of hutuun motives, low or high, had been a spiral up from the lower level of humanity as a hunting and hunted animal to a spiritual rebirth both us to vision and daily living. We ntny give the human motive any name. Behind the motive was a Something Greater than the races moved. "Some call that Something Greater X. Somt call It Y. Some call It Z. Some call It destiny Some call It God. Tils Dominion had extended from the rivers to the ends of the enrth. "As the culmination of that movement, the Overland Trail stands without a parallel In racial history; and that Is why It Is held In honor today." ' So the Oregon Trail has an International significance as well as a strictly national one. It Is probable that many Americans do not even realize its national significance. Therefore, In view of the call for a nationwide observance of the Covered Wagon Centennial this year, a statement by Dr. Howard It. Drlggs of New York university, president of the Oregon Trail Memorial association. Is especially Interesting to Americans In parts of the country other than the territory which the trail traversed. He says: We are prone to think of the old Overland Trail as a western trail. It Is no western trail at all except geographically. Historically It Is an eastern trail. It was discovered and worn deep who went West. by Easterners The West, may I remind you, Is simply the transplanted East. It Is more it Is In a very real sense the blended North and South. They sing a song Out Where the West Begins; frankly, I do not know where it begins, but I do know where it began. It began on the shores of the Atlantic. The puthflnders who mapped and charted our Far West came from every state east of the Father of Waters. These heroes tnay I repeat were native sons of all our older states. Listen to the names of Just a few of them Capt. Robert Gray, who by discovering the Columbia, gave us our Initial claim to the Pacific Northwest, was a son of old Ithode Island; Lewis and Clark, the first to lead a band of Americans across the continent, and Jim Bridget who as a boy trapper discovered the Great Salt lake, were Virginians ; Wilson Price Hunt, who led the Astorians overland, and Capt. Zebulon Pike, of Pike's Peak fame, were sons of New Jersey ; Edward Robinson, who, fighting under Daniel Boone, was shot and scalped and left for dead on the Bloody Ground, was one of the three Kentuckians who found the South Pass, the great gateway of the Rockies; Jedediah Strong Smith, the first to dare the great American desert, and Dr. Marcus Whitman and his devoted wife, who gave their lives to carry Christianity beyond the Rockies, were from old New York; Nat Wyeth, who built Fort Hall a place of refuge and help for weary emigrants to California and Oregon, was from Massachusetts; John C. Fremont, the fearless Pathfinder, who by a daring stroke won California, was a son of old Georgia. A full roster of the heroes and heroines who played significant parts in the winning of our West adds luster to tvery one of the older states of the Union. fiM-u- l year budget calls for expenditures amounting to SIR WALTER RALEIGH hid a hunch would welcome some practical hints on how to tale care of a pipe. It was a good hunch. have sent Thousands of free booklet fur this pipe-lover- s ptpe-smoke- It tells you how to break in a new pipe how to mike good pipe smoke smoother and sweeter the proper way to dean a pipe and many worth-whil- e hints on pipe hygiene. If you havent sent for this booklet, write for a copy today and find out s what pipe makers and sugto gest doing keep your pipe sweet and mellow. Just drop a line to the Brown fiC pipe-lover- Williamson Tobacco Corporation, Louisville, Kentucky, Dept. 99. Tm n m "T tewM. tilmt Fftday. lit on lArw Y.r I Ml r.r tk'W I At OO M Jl.-C- I1. MnrteF. S C Sir Walter Raleigh E'vlll.hiHMH). CoiTville Summit county fulr wilt be held Feideinlicr 1, 2 uud X men luvtsll-g.ii- o Rearer Government roden control ill the Milford valley. Echo Japanese government engineer Imqirets the Echo dam, gathering data for similar work lu Julian. Hyrum Allotment of water In the prewired Ilyriim project are being studied by gov eminent engineers. Fugarboiisr Celebration of the anniversary of ISoys Week will he held June 1 to 7th. Kaysvllle Four Davis county men were fined one hundred dollars cneli and their fire arum takeu from them by the giMiic wardens. Lehl A committee from Price Inspected the local imtnicpally owned electric light and power plant for the purpose of considering the Installation of a similar plant. Additional water for Kpringvllle culinary purposes Is being sought by the city authorities. Please-nGrove Extensive city anIs carried with atnual Clean-U- p tention centering oil the city park. Spanish I'ork Business men decide to observe the following holidays for the rest of the year: Slay 30, July 4, July 24, September 1, November 27, and December 23th. stages a county Ogden Weber week closing county wide Clean-u- p Tenacious Momcriet Wasn't there something about a promise to love, honor and obey In that marriage ceremony? asked Mr. Meekton. "My goodness, Leonidas! You are like some of those politicians who never quit talking about a party platform." t on April 20. are being Provo grounds beautified and enlarged with more accomodations for stock. American Fork New water system will cost around $100,000. and of tills amount the piping and valves will be almost one hundred thousand. Cedec Valley Sheep shearing is on Its way with many of the desert animals being clipped. Plain City Big cattle show will be held on May 5th and horse pulling and other contests staged. Prizes will be offered. trees were cut Orchard Sixty-fiv- e down in one field by an unknown miscreant. Cache Junction Local farmer boy of ten years operates a tractor of 6 plow capacity. Cove Ladies of Cove form club for a campaign of labor saving In houseKf.-i- r work. Springviile An assembly station for eggs has been established by the Utah Poultry Producers Ilyrum The city will immediately begin construction of a quarter mile in highway around the city Blacksmith fork canyon. re-er- new chapLogan Logan 9th el costing $50,000 has beeh officially wa-rd- s dedicated. Ogden There are prospects for a new athletic stadium by the latter part of the summer. Springviile 20.000 rainbow trout of small size been planted in the waters of Chalk Creek. Pay-soBaby conferences were a feature of Utah county school work Of tho past few weeks. 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