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Show .1 HISTORY SERIES NO. 5 . GRASSHOPPER INVASION THE By Kyle Harrop Roy, Utah, Thursday September 25, 1958 To The Editor' Organize This is an important meeting and it is hoped that all prospective members will attend to assure forming a new club of approximate' ly 40 members. The feeting will be conducted by Robert Brown, district governor of Utah. Travelogue Due Opening Socials The opening social of the Lake View Ward Relief Society will be held Tuesday, Sept. 30, at 10 a.m. A special program has been arranged. Luncheon will also be served. There will also be a babysitter for the young children. All the ladies of the ward, mem bers or not, are invited to attend. Regular Relief Society meetings are scheduled to be held each week following the social. Mrs. SLATED OCT. 4TH The "Autumn Frolic" the first stake MIA dance of the season, will be held Saturday, Oct 4, at begging time 8 p.m. in the Lake View Stake recreation Hall. It will be a sack apron and overall affair, with special intermission numbers and an orchestra. Cider, doughnuts and punch will be served. All members of the stake and their friends are invited. By Kyle Harrop God-Rarin- g Florence Tullis To A good many citizens are asking where the official welcoming com mittee of the City of Roy was when they were scheduled to have met Governor George D. Clyde, Rep H. Aldous Dixon, George McDonald, field service officer of the Salt Lake Postal Dept., their wives and Bernard R. Diamond, executive secretary of the Ogden Chamber of Commerce at Mas and Pas Sept. 9, at 4:50 p.m. t They were to have escorted the guests to the scene of the unveiling of the monument at the site of the first post office in Roy, but they failed to show up. Zaeher McDonald Five of her children are still living, Clarence McDonald, Hooper; William McDonald, Syracuse. Mrs. Elizabeth Patterson, Clinton, Jack McDonald, Ogden; and Mrs. Lester Childs,, Kemmever, Wyo. She also raised from infancy, a Mrs. Afton (Milgranddaughter, dred) Craythorne cf Hooper. Kate McDonalds all abiding faith that the Lord would look after her." provided her with an optimism which has continued, through the years. Her good health and longevity she attributes to the fact that she has always kept the Word of Wisdom. At 90 she still did her own baking and canning. The family proudly show pictures of her taken at that age with paint brush in nand, doing her part on the Hoop-.- r Second Ward when it was being juilt. At the present time, hei Jght and her memory are failing i bit, but not her ready wit which always gave an added sparkle to .ier personality. undi-mimshe- "Aunt Kate, or Grandma Mae, by which she was also affectionate y known, has outlived many o( i.t neighbors and friends. But h.is been a good life, full of the happiness and satisfaction t that comes from hard work, and service. She is be ov d by all who know her, her coekie jar that was never empty was the treat of every child in Hooper. Mrs. McDonald has 31 grandchiland dren, 92 35 Many of her descendents have distinguished themselves in church and civic affairs. urt accom-p.ishmen- n els and any available thing that would crush them. Trenches were dug an dlined with straw and dry weeds and then the hoopers were driven into the traps and burned. When the seagulls finally Servicemen News did come, it was too late. There was not a blade of grass or stock of corn or wheat left. Even choice plants that had been hastily covered for protection were gone when the cover' was removed Dead insects were piled as deep as wagon hubs in some places along the shores of the Great Salt Lake that bordered Hooper. Many folks would have starved that winter if it hadnt been for their willingness to share and to help one another in their mutual d.stress. ID IT These distinguished visitors interrupted a busy schedule to add to the significance of an important historical event to be enacted in the city, commemorating the memory and to do honor to some of the towns earliest settlers. .TANKS! Tanks got their name BECAUSE the BRITISH IN PREVENT IS, IN ORDER TO OF THE NEW INFORMATION WEAPON LEAKING OUT REFERRED TO THEM AS CI6TERNS USED TO a SOON A CARRY WATER SYNONYM 'TANK," I WAS USED AND THe NAME STUOV g ward are invited to attend. Charles J. Bradshaw, sonarman Regular Relief Society meetings third class, USN. son of Mr. and will be held each week following Mrs. Jerry K. Bradshaw of 2323 the social. W. 400 So., Roy. aboard the ocean mines'feeper USJj Loyalty, participated in an amphibious training exercise (Phiblex-2- ) in the San Diego-CamPendleton, Calif., area during Sept. The exercise involved an Amphibious Squadron, a Naval Fire TAKE OVER PAYMENTS two manual organ No. 51413 save ing Unit composed of destroyers, and a Marine Brigade size landing $400. Box 148 Sugar House Staforce supported by Naval and Mation. rine Aviation. FOR SALE Six ygpm, modern ROBERT E. BURTON brick home in Roy. Must be Graduated from three weeks ammoved. Phone EX phibious warfare training Aug. 20, at the Little Creek Naval AmphibPIANO LESSONS ious Base, Norfolk, Va., was Midsecond E. class Robert shipman Vera B. Pettit, T.T.C.M., pupil Burton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Franof Muriel Hartly Brown, of New cis C. Burton, Sr., of 5135 So. 2100 York and Germany, teacher of West, Roy. piano and theory. Beginners and Midn. Burton is a student at the advanced students. Phone TA University of Utah. or TA 5 3896. PVT. ELLIOTT F. FOWERS SEE US FOR: Marine Pvt. Elliott F. Fowers, son of Mr and Mrs Frank 0. Fow--r- s Wedding announcements of 5318 So. 2200 W Rcy, is Missionary Farewells Poster Papers the in akrng part years largest Colored Cardboards West Coast amphibious landing exROY PRINTING CO. ercise, with the First Marine Divi- 5380 So. 1900 W. s.on from Camp Pendleton, Calif., Phone EX during September. CLASSIFIED ADS p FOR SALE an invitation. It is fortunate that the Chief of Police, Julian Green and his officers were on hand to accomplish, in a very commendable manner, that which others, who were responsible, failed to do. Adding to the indignity of the occasion, was the refusal of the official hosts of the town to provide a suitable repast for the well deserving and important guests. Certainly it isnt too much to expect that common ordinary courtesy in a situation of this kind, should supercede anything else. Signed Mrs. R. K. H. Planned Saturday In The Teenage dance, sponsored by Kanesville and the Hooper First and Second wards will be held Saturday, Sept. 26 in the Hooper First Ward Teenagers of the Lake Stake are invited to attend r lTrJ . ' i Mrs. James C. "parents, Parker, -- d TuPppr ic STRENGTH' 5 BONOS FORM A YOUR MONEY INVESTED IN 5 AND YOUR COUNTRY N HER EFFORTS TO AND MILITARY STRENGTH. 5QENCE, EDUCATlON...INDLSTRiAL US. UNION BETWEEN YOU PEACE POWER THROUGH the li ving philosophies By R. F. Cottle - 1958 Children Are Like Ideas There are 272.116 lucky boys and girls in school now in Utah The little red school houses of yesteryear are gone, perhaps for-ee- r Todays schools are BIG and almost before one is completed, a new addition for it is being planned Education in Utah is now more than a $95 million business. $324 will be spent on each child attending school this season. THE WISE child will be there to receive his or her share. oer television is that you can In national affairs a million is only a drop in a bucket But, in education, it's a bucket full of priceless drops." Day after day, science produces many substitutes, but it will never produce a substitute for HARD WORK or EDUCATION. For these require the cooperation of the receiver. teachers or friends of children to what Is already the nation's largest voluntary service organization. Schooling is a Constitutional Right to Life; Togetherness at its best. It has always served youth, and will help us save our inheritance of independence and liberty, bequeathed to of Grand Rapids, Mich., president of the National Congress, cites "the dynamic potential of Alaska, jur newest state, as comparable to the spirit which has associaenabled Parent-Teache- r tions to contribute so much to the welfare of children. The variety and scope of P.T.A. activities in the history of the National Congress are reflected today, Mrs. Parker noted, in the everyday life of Alaskans which ranges in spirit from the quite sophisticated to the truly frontier. Alaska's Congress of Parents and Teachers, which became part of the national organization in 1957, today faces problems which can be compared, Mrs. Parker pointed out, with those recorded over the years in tiny American communities or in its largest cities. For it Is a land where . , . School youngsters may ride for miles in a dog sled to quonset crowded, poorjy-heatehut, or walk across the street to a modern, several story building. Where accountants, school woman FIRST YEAR STUDENTS approached this new experience trembling with excitement outfitted in pretty clothes and a clean face to greet the new teacher, and now have settled down in routine activity. the-U.S- new CEREMONY, AFTER OONClOeRED A married The advantage of school books see and read only what you choose annual Membership Enrollment month this October, they will be urged to knock on every door to find new members interested in advancing the welfare of children. Some of those doors may open to the oldest dwellings in the Western hemisphere stone ig loo homes in Alaska, scheduled soon to become the nation's 49th stale. ., Lere, as throughout the National Congress of Parents and Teachers will seek to add half-millio- r. SHE View When more than eleven million P.T.A. members open their some POOR MAT Hooper y Sheyll Knock On Igloo Doors In Newest State WEDDING MARCH Because twerb a shottage op men AMONG th URDU OP MONGOLIA, evert fifth irl must marry a. THE Dance Teenage ET. A. Sets Membership Month Catherine arefully planted and cared for, and how like ,an act of Divine Providence the Seagulls came and ate the crickets, saving the crops rom complete destruction. Other incidents like that ' happened elsewhere among the new ,ettlements, however, which did iot have such a providential end-ng- . Such was so when the grasshoppers invaded this area in the ear of 1878. It was a clear bright blue day .vhen suddenly a darkness came ipon the land. So thick were the invaders that they shut out the light of the su nand many, trem-bligand crying, feared the end of the world had come. And then the hordes descended, settling on each green leaf or blade in sight; will present Alaskan Travelogue" at the opening Relief Society social of the By this act of negligence and Roy Third Ward, Tuesday Sept. 30, at 10 a.m. Refreshments will discourtesy, the town of Roy can well go on record as being the most be served. There will also be a baby sitter inhospitable city in the state, a to accommodate mothers with place where individuals of importsmall children. All the ladies in the ance will think twice before accept-tin- Dairy Princess and Rosemary Wangsgard, Weber princess. CommunityPortrait Probably the oldest citizen in tnis part of Weber County is Mrs. Catherine (Aunt Kate) Zaeher McDonald, a long time resident of Hooper who celebrated her 98th bithday August 30, of this ye.r. She was born in Hazelton, Penn, in 1860, the daughter of George and Elizabeth Giesmg Zaeher. Her parents and grandp.ne.its, siuidy, immigrated people from Germany. When Kate was a very little girl she had to commit to memory. The Lord's Prayer, the 23rd Paslm and the Sermon on the Mount. Her father was a volunteer in the 147th Pennsylvania Infantry and fought in the famous battle of Gettysberg during the Civil War. When Kate was 16 years old she went to Kansas .to live with her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Christian L. Stine on their homestead. She loved living on the prarie and when she married John McDonald May 1, 1878 they too, took up a homestead and planned to make Kansas their home. John McDonalds parents were LDS converts from Scotland and when Kate fell in love and was determined to marry that Mormon, her father who pictured the Mormons with horns and believec all the horrible stories he had heard about them, went to Kansas to make her return home and for get her foolishness. However, he was unsuccessful, for Kate, defying the wishes of her family and friends was baptized into the church. She immediately became as unpopular as were the few other Mormons living in the settlement. After seven years of withstanding the bitterness and persecution so prevelent there, th eMcDonalds sold their heme and with what belongings they could take with them moved o Hooper arriving May 13, 1885 and purchased a 400 acre tarm. Only one other member of Kates family joined the LDS Church and that was her sister Dora who came to visit them after they moved to Hooper. She stayed and became the wife of Joseph Arave. May 21, 1902, while returning home from a dance in Roy, Mr. McDonald, who was driving the horses died with a heart attack. Catherine McDonald was left with nine Children to raise, a task which she admirablf accomplished, without ever having a mortgage on her place or going into debt or buying on credit Showing in Roy County Relief Society Plan 'AUTUMN FROLIC7 18 Letter The new Roy Lions Club will meet Thursday Oct. 2 at Mas and Pas at 7:30 p.m. cheese was only part of their duties, they also visit group and present school assembly programs where tsey demonstrate various ways of serving cheese. Presenting Mr. Stahle with samples of cheese were pretty Carol Ralphs, left, Utah State No. Interest Sought Liens Club in Roy TOURING THE STATE of Utah, visiting local dignitaries, and letting them taste for themselves the superiority of Utah Cheese were the Dairy Princess, Carol Ralphs, Weber County princess Rosemary Wangsgard, and her attendants. They visited Roy Tuesday where they stopped to see J. Howard Stahle, publisher of The and Mayor 0. Dean Parker. Giving samples of Vol. 5 devouring as they went, leaving One of the most dramtic chapthe denuded, dry brown earth only ters in the pages cf early Utah in their wake. history is the story of the crickets that descended in devouring hordes Frantically the settlers fought on the fields, laying waste to the them till many fell weeping from crops the first group of settlers despair and exhausted upon the n the Salt Lake Valley had so ground. They beat them with shov- Home la the child first achool, explain Mrs. James C. Parker, whether president of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers, Point Barrow, Alaska, or the continental U.8. Here, Chicago achool children examine picture of Eskimo family standing under proclaiming strips of caribou meat outside their far north home. InMrs. Parker October as P.T.A. Membership Enrollment month, soon to become points out that development of P.T.A.a in Alaska, the nations 49th state, parallels the organisations pioneering day in this country. teachers and government work- equally well In this dynamic new ers regularly make trips "back in state, Mrs. Parker pointed out, as the bush" to hunt and fish for in its member organizations food for their families and store throughout the continental United States, in Hawaii and on Amerit in modern freezers. Where the airplane is the ac- ican military bases in Europe. For the primary purpose of cepted means of travel between the of number P.T.A.," she explained, "is to the where but cities, safeguard children, to build for sled dogs is increasing. Where teachers in schools the future in such a way that In with large Eskimo or Indian pop- every community the lights of ulations must teach a seepnd lan- home may always shine out. In designating October as the guage English to many of their membership enrollcharges, while other Schools, es- period for called upon every ment, she pecially those on U.S. army bases, member to knock maintain typically American lib- parent-teache- r on the door, and at the raries, theaters and bowling al- once more so that leys as part of their recreation heart, of every American, may of all us, together, working program. Aims of the National Congress make America the best possible membership month will apply home for all our children. lta In us, to build a personal monument no man can over deface. EDUCATION HELPS children to posses the indomitable courage courage that overcomes any and all difficulties. IT GIVES THEM A MIND AND AN IRON WILL, A BALANCE OF TALENT AND CHARACTER THAT IS RARE AND PURE. Education strives to instill a personal desire to be eminently fair and just and to be trusted; To weave the web of all the qualities that make for a great American. WE HONOR all of our school teachers and pray for their efforts and success in the moulding of young ideals and life. Education must provide leadership and put to rout the forces of for an uncertain age and Critical habits which challenge the student to think and improve personal responsibilities need be included in education for tomorrow's living. . . . Teachers should interpret the educational program proto the public and participate in formal or informal Miss Rose Claffey, grams which deal with changing perspectives." address to the American Teachers Federation of Teachers. Milwaukee, Aug. 24. 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