| Show i OUR PIONEERS 1 AU OF GEORGE A A Continued From From tart Lart We Week I He made out alist a list of seven se sub sub- sub subjects I bought the seven books J JanC I anC my tuition As I lugged n m cargO carto of latent knowledge back to the shop hop hop I was Q hering with ith excitement I tin tin- fin I J I 0 shoeing the horse and start start- started started started I ed for home What a R a fool I had hadd been What a selfish egotistical fool I To think that I should for I for for- forget for forget get my poor feeble fr-eble fp parents andl and do a thing thine like this 1 I would sim sim- simply simply ply have hare ot of trend tend all aU of ct my ms time working this winter By the time I reached home hom r I had fully de- de decided decided de decided that 1 I was wa going freighting morning and had donated about t enty dollars to the Din UIn- UIntah tan tah Stake Stal-e Academy I hid w my m books booksin booksin booksin in the wacon sagon because I was vas asham asham- ashamed ashamed ashamed ed to take them in the house My mind was vas III itt at ease because been use of othe the money I had spent and fin fin- finaU fin aU any I told my mother a foolish thing I had done She vas sas vasso sasso wasso so happy she almost cried She had hoped and pra prayed prated ed that I might In some rom a say nay secure the education I Iliad had missed Yes but even the stake pre presidency presidency i- i dency knows you iou ou couldn t spare me to go so en on a n mission How How- How Some day she cut In you vou 11 c have ha another chance to go SQ on a mission andou and you ou 11 be much bet bet- better better bet better ter prepared Besides e ue ha e the farm started now and I Im m sure It se e can get along alon Father agreed with her and I knew knes I had the grand grand- grandest grandest grandest est patents in the world I 1 had hed h d plenty of or chores to do but by getting up bright and early earl e w- w wery ev every ery morning I managed to get through in time to drive e one of my I sixteen hundred pound work sort hor homes hitched to a wheel two-wheel cart the five miles mUes to school This start lasted two ye years without Aa BAs remember I I t misled mIs ed three thre school days and that was waa when my I mother wai as at ill III illIn In 1892 the school could not run for It want cant ant of or money I had had some some- something something some thine thing very cry Important on my mind for quite a time v-n v so now that I vas w It as out ot of school she Rachel Ray Ray Goodrich and I ere d in the Logan Temple on 29 20 1892 In November ember 1896 I was sas elected elect elect- elected elected ed County Commissioner by the Democratic Party without having taken any pUt pert in the election or I having been asked to allow my name Ito to appear on the ticket As I was eras wasI t I I still attending school and expect expect- expect I expected expected ed to graduate from the Academy I that year sear ear and attend the I University University sity sUy of Utah the following year sear ear I thought they had made a mistake I by electing me a mere boy to suc such sucha n a responsible position I protested but they Insisted that I qualify quality I I i It added a new responsibility which I prO proved ed to be a good schooling of itself The Th re responsibilities pon of the I County Counti Count C Commissioners were sere unus unus- unusual unusual unusual ual at that time Immediately after I i Utah had been granted ranted ted statehOOd The county is was as thrust unavoidably unavoidably ably Into debt in the change frOM fran I territorial u to state government It pro proved ed no little tittle task to straighten matters out George D Merkley John 0 G Davis and I were the new new- new J 1 1 ly elected e board rd The business was all new to us but Peter Hansen was County Clerk and having held the office for years proved to tobe tobe tobe be of great assistance to us We studied the law and adhered strict strict- strictly strictly ly to It Jt and came out all right It was in 1907 1007 and 2908 that r I attended the University of Utah i I took my wife and three children with me Franklin five walked to school with me every morning He attended the kindergarten depart depart- department department department Hel ment and I the normal During the I winter our fourth child chUd was born he wa was wai J very frail fraU but he grew to tobe tobe tobe be a fine boy My second year at the University University University sity was Just drawing to a close when I received a call from the Uintah Stake Board for a six six- six months month s a ml mission slon in the Interest of I the Young Men Mens s Mutual Improve Improve- Improvement Improvement Improvement ment Association My only excuse was that I would have to leave my I wife wite and four children My good wife gave her consent willinglY I however as she always did when I my Interest or the interest of the Church was at stake I soon found myself mingling with filth a fine group or of Elders from all stakes of the i Church gathered in Salt Lake City for for Instructions prior to being as- as assigned assigned as assigned signed to our various arlous fields of la- la laI labar la labor I bor bar Lorenzo Snow president of I the IDS Church was the concluding concluding concluding ing speaker at the final session He told us that were VI were sere ere the most thoroughly instructed body of missionaries the church had ever sent out |
