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Show VOICE THE Pare Six INTERESTING PEOPLE (Continued from page i ne) From the beginning we are sure that this i the tpe of man who-- e good eiua'ities are with closer acquaintance that probably much of his character is concealed even front those ,flusEst U him, . lie .has lie took of one who lives somewhat alone Ftom the sponin his thoughts. smile that infrequently taneous lghts his whole face and wechanges know his expression completely, that however hard life has been a deep for him, he still of the capacity for enjoyment hidthings which touch the inner Yc wonder if wc have den man. judged him correctly. Yes, he says, I'll be glad to tell you what i can. But 1 wish I had known you were coming so I could have had time to think up some things that would be more than what I can tell you' fre-hin- g. questions and a good deal of supplementary comment from Mrs. F'erguson who sat rather quietly (and seemed out of character by being quiet), on tbe other side of the stove. Mr. Ferguson tells the following story: Ily home has been in tbe river bottoms for fifty years now. I came from out here with my father Provo when I was about twenty. How old am I now? ' Seventy-threAnd this is the first year e when 1 haven't had a job. I'd still be working for the Utah Power & Light Company if I hadnt got in a car accident which helped to make my worse so 1 couldn't drive up the canyon where Jny job was. Subsequent investigation revealed that even last summer Mr. Ferguson worked with his team in the canyon and that his whole life had d jobs been filled with which he had performed with such strength ambition and unfailing that the job was bis as long as lie wanted it. And now he worries beafter a hard cause at seventy-threseige of the flue and an autoniobilg accident he has to take life a little easier, My father lived in that place just south of here, and the Bottoms was very different from what it is now. The only way you could see for any distance at all was to look straight up, the trees and under brush were that thick. And there were wild animals here too. .Skunks and coyotes and even wild cats. It was impossible to raise any thickens the wild animals would With frequent e. full-tim- eye-tg- 'man-size- e, "Then I got my okl job on the railroad bask and worked there that I for awhile. After home and got a job with Nunns and helyied them build their get them cut in the day time. So first power plant. I thought it was we clcaied a little land every year wonderful but one of the we pretty' and depended on the crops Nunns said to me one day, this is could raise for a living. a baby plant and some day I didn't stay on my fathers just we will build a real one. Then a farm very long but got a job on little later they showed me where the D. and. R. G. as a brakeman, they wanted a new flume jum right and lived jiu a. --boarding house-cm- ! a ruik cliff, and high up,, at Colton. Had to pay $55.00 a "through so they could move their pLrt was month for board too, which down to the moutli of the canyon. pretty high in base days. RailroadSo we built the flume. Narthen. lot different a was ing And Mr. Ferguson would have of for runs set no row gage, any dismissed the very difficult task of and engines us, little tars and tlfat through building a flume plenty of wrecks. I've seen a j?ood rock cliff. with no more words than many wrecks in my time but we that, when it was one of the finest didn't publish them as they do now. achievements of that day. HardWell, I'd been working for the ships have become commonplace 1 railroad for several years when to him. Only after questioning did got married. he that work in those days beHere Mrs. Ferguson's supple- gan say while the stars were still shincommore deal ment was a good ing and stopped when they were plete than Mr. Ferguson's. She again shining in tire evening. Ten said, When lie was home he saw hours a day with pick and shovel me going back and forth to school and a team. Temperatures so low and that's how.wc got acquainted. that ones h?ad was white with She was then Lillie May Richmond, frost and ice the full time; that daughter of another pioneer. boots had to be lined with gunnyI Mr. Ferguson continued, sacking to keep out the cold and or three two for boss days then had to be melted off at night; the said lie leave to get married and and to make things even worsj, to go ahead and take a few more snow slides often wrecked the day s if I wanted, and he even work and necessitated its being When himself. the to came wedding done over and in different places I got read, to go back to work, and ways. my wfe wouldn't go baA with Mr. F'erguson became quite a me. ' prophet regarding snow slides, and I was scared to live out there, the Nunns sought his judgment Mrs. Ferguson interposed. about them. His timely warning So I didnt go either, finished saved the life of a watchman one Mr. Ferguson, My father gave me who left his little station a building spot and I rented some night house and saw it swept away so Latland and commenced farming. completely that he was unable to er I bought part of the Baum find the slightest trace of it or its property. contents thereafter. in not was going easy 'Farming So Ive been working for the those times either. I can remember one summer when my crops didn t Ltah Power & Light Company, which succeeded ithe Telluride get a drop o( water the whole season. That was as bad a drouth as company, almost ever since. I was I've seen. And then there were with them when they began here and Id lilte to be working fot years when City Creek or the rivqr would flood us out. City Creek them still. I was team foi eman for was as big as the river in those quite a while and went around to forty-fiv- e quite a few of their days. "But it was good for one thing, plants doing work. I tended dams It turned my for a while too. If it hadnt been said Mrs. Ferguson, Mr. me. for washer Ferguson made for my eyes and this last sickness a water wheel and attached it to I'd still be working for them. And there is unmistakably a note that my washer with a big belt and saved me a lot of work. Wc had peaks as plainly as can be about One of them died, a loyal mant love for his job and ten children. but we raised nine of them. They discontent without it t!ie tragedy of having to take a back scat and are all married now and I get so watch the old life go on without lonesome here. him. tools Indian used to "I plow up Th is man's life has covered and grinding bowls, Mr. Ferguson years of the ninety went oil. "This country must have seventy-thre- e been a favorite Indian home at one that have passed since the pioneers came to the Salt Lake valley. He time. has seen the change from desert and wilderness to our present state. Could there have been a better period in which to spend a life tune? He ha; sec n the change from ox teams, tallow candles, calico and red flannel underwear to vast steam ships, air ships and flood lights and kilowatts by the thousands; satin dresses and silk lingerie. Mr. Ferguson has been one to help make this land what it is. Hard knocks, long hours and years of hard work have been his pleasure, his pastime his life has been his work. His work has laid the foundation for our present state of civilization llis kind have been the rock upon which our houses are built. And we ask you, doesn't this mans life carry all the senitiment, the humor and the pathos necessary for a great drama? again came Liquidation no-ba- of the MOSE LEWIS This Great Store Closed Saturday and the stock has been moved to our Provo Store. 4 $40,000 Stock JUNIOR HIGH CALENDAR To arouse an interest- in activities of the school a tentative program of the main, events for the Junior High is here outlined: Bebinning Februay 11, with the matinee opera the month of February holds some unusual students activities. 12 Production of February Junior High opera. Also Parents day, when children stay at home and the parents attend. 6 BasketFebruary ball games to which Junior high students are admitted free. February 17 Lyceum number. Washingtons February 22 birthday with appropriate exer- cises. February of MENS HIGH-GRADCLOTHING, SHOES and FURNISHINGS 26 Matinee dance. SHARON Smith. Hans JenBonnet!, Jamt-sen, Joint Me7cner, John Baum, Ruliaid Ilrereton, Abe Durfy, Joint Kudin ad, Charles Conrad and Wild. Samuil ClutT and his wife, Francis Worslcv. sold their home in Provo in 1872 and moved out about two miles into the appaient waste land. They built a shed, hastily and none too well, and lived in it one- during' the summer while room adobe house was constructed. It was done on the first of October, and not any too soon at that, for a few da s later their son, llarvev H. ClutT,, was born. One of the beauty spots of their district was the beautiful willow tree the Cl tiffs planted near the house, the only tree in the midst of acres of sagebrush, and which lived there for 53 years. To this d ly one of the most beautiful phases of pioneer life lives still in Pleasant View and Edgemont in the form of beautiful trees almost as personalized and as true pioneers as the people who planted them there. s (Continued from page one) and while I'm glad to mi" that nonsense, I did tv el awiu! funny going to chinch that way next day. o the I iutah Basin says one ok the smai test IhinRUjhe B.'Vr'V. tier did wa to hold a Leadership W eck program for adults every year. He says his children have all been to school at the Y, and that he and his wife Used to worry a little for fear they would lose their religion when they had a little of our modern education and that they pestered the kids with questions about blasphemies they might be hearing Now- - John Jones says they don't do tltat any more because every year be and his wife come to the Leadership programs and , get so enthusiastic that all they do for a month after is rehash what they heard and praise it all. And the kids smile and say, "Look out, these new fangled ideas will lead you astray! And Mrs. Jones says. It's too bad we didn't start 'strayFa and I know now t. ing' that the more you know about the facts of life' the bigger is your appreciation and the smaller is your chance of believing blasphemies. Ye surely do apAnd Pa adds. preciate the chance the I!. Y. U. gives us to see for ourselves how splendid a school it is. If your nuqther and me have any say so, all our grand kids will go there too. John Jones fiom be-fo- Water Problem The water problem was long a serious jnd inconvenient one for east bench settlers. The river was the chief source and many barrels were hauled from it. Then the Upper East Union Canal was made and except for the early breaks which cut off the supply, furnished water for all purposes. Wells were dug and supplied a generous culinary ration of the purest and sweetest water obtainable. "Dutch called John Winkler, John and of German parentage, was a colorful character of this period. He lived alone in a Edve adobe house where Long now lives. He owned a team of mules which he used in hauling wood from Rock canyon. Havthe ing no wagon, he harnessed mules directly to the wood and drug it down. John knew how to handle mules and clid it with unusual vigor. His shouting and imprecations were so hearty that residents could hear him coming from the moment ' he left Rock canyon: The available land was rapidly taken up which i not surprising when we know that 160 acres was a very frequent amount applied for and secured. The sagebrush gave way to fields of grain., garden produce, corn and sugar cane. There are many interesting stories .connected with these families but only a few can be told now. Contribution Serine Conrad In 1880, Serine Conrad and family moved out on the east bench. 1 hey were the fourth family out frame there. He built a house, and with his industrious Andrews Conrad, wife, Amanda began transforming tbe desert into a garden. They were especially famous for their delicious water- ntelrme Gnf of their hi rr diffin ties was the type of soil they worked with, rich and loamy and readily washed away by the water in the Trees were irrigation ditches. planted along the banks to hold the soil more firmly. Mr. Conrad was the man who introduced poplar trees in the vicinity. One large willow tree obtained for ditch-ban- k planting still stands and is the largest and oldest of its kind in the state. A little laterWE Conrad built new bouse. It bad an upstairs which was left in one room and which the Conrads gave to the neighbors for a dance hall. Although the room was small it was adequate for the number who used it and the orA year or chestra, an accordianst. two of living under a dance hall must have been quite strenuous and w'e can sympathize with the Conrads and understand their building a new hall on the east side of the young willow tree (now so old) and donating it to neighborhood fun. It was so large that four sets of plain quadrille could be danced at one time. The musicians were Joseph V. and Henry V Smith, and Henrys wife. Henrys one-roo- Edgemont and Lake View (Continued from page one) which ney would do well to secure rights. Many followed his advice and the river bottoms and the east bench were again settled, this time permanently. This territory had its share of sage brush but it was relieved by The other forms of vegetation. road from. Provo followed the foothills east of the river and was not much- - more than a wagon track. But there was green grass and long strips of wild roses growing along it, and the hillsides and sometimes even the roadsides, were covered with sego lilies and wild sweet peas. At the mouth of the canyon the road forked and one went up over the bench to the west, a territory that looked like safebrush desert wasteland in comparison with the verdant liver lands. But even this descret spot had its beauties, one that was brightly flaunted along the roadside in colors of bright yellow, deep brown and cool green: the stately sunflower. And to one who had eyes to see, there was nearly always a most beautiful prar-i- e sunset to glorify the evening sky. Beauty of River Bottoms The river bottoms were cooj and shaded by many native trees cotton woods, boxelder, rough bark willow, pussy willow and There were also delicious fruits (for people) in abundance, sarvest berries, and yellow and black native currants. Plant growth Was thick and wild and in its turn provided attraction and homes for bird life and even wild animal life. There were wild grapevines, hop vines and wild peavines that gave their peculiar odors to the air which also cherished a full scale of soft, musical water sounds. The river banks were and expanded with violets and lady slippers. Pioneers treasured the river bottoms as a store house for medicinal herbs. Nearly every pioneer woman gathered and stored different many kinds of them for use wdien winter sicknesses came. Early Settlers The farmers chose the river bottoms for their homes first because of its accessibility ?o water, but as the number of quarters increased, many of them took up land on the bench to the east. Some of these people were; John Mills, Oliver Haws, George Baum, Ncphi Pen-roAmassa Penrod, James York, e Bans Poulson, Jacob Young, Peterson, George F.kins, John Samuel ClufT, Thomas Winkler, Beesley, WilFam Andrews, James liaw-thorn- e. fruit-hungr- y choke-cherri- grass-overe- I Salt Lake City Store This and That OF d All-ton- two-r&o- m JOSEPHINE KITCHEN, L. amt Myrtle daughter Asay Kitilieti, died Sunday, Jan. V at the family home of complications following inflammatory rheumatism. She was born December 23, 1921 at Lovell, Yyo. She attended the public schools there and earne to Oiem whlTTur parents four yeais ago. She was a sophomore at Lincoln high school. Si viving besides her parents are five brothers and sisters, Norval Thomas, Hazel, Arlo, Larry and Beverly Ilene Kitchen, all of Orem. Funeral services were held in the Timpanogos ward chapel, Jan, 21. Many floral contributions and also the many splendid tributes paid by the speakers, expressed sympathy for the family. FRANKLIN A. BURNING-HA- 63, formerly of Orem, died the L. D. S. hospital in Salt in Lake City, Wednesday, Jan. ;i20, after several weeks illness. He was born August 9, 1873, in Bountiful, a son of Thomas and Ellen Hook Burningham. He moved to Orem in 1916 and was a successful farmer and fruit grower. He moved to Sandy in April, but durs ing his long residence in the ward he served in various capacities. He held the office of an s elder, was a member of the ward old folk's committee for 17 years, and counselor in the elders quorum for several years. Martha Surviving are his Lunceford Burningham, whom he married in the Salt Lake Temple, August 16, 1897, also, one son, Alvin Lunceford, and one daughter, Mrs. Alta Wilcox, Sandy. Funeral services were held in the Timpanogos ward chapel, Sunday, Tiinp-anogo- Timp-anogo- January 24. WILLIAM JOSEPH TAYLOR died in his home at Lake View December 30 of a heart attack. His death came as a great shock to the entire community. Mr. Taylor was born November 23, 1859, in Provo, and the son of William Joseph He was Mary Bouring Taylor. married to Abbie Jane Scott August 3,' 1883, in the Endowment house iti Salt Lake City. He filled a mission in the Southern states ftom 1888 to 1890. He served as Second ward counselor in the bishopric and was a high priest at the fime of his death. He established the Cherry Ilill Dairy at Lake Vtew and ran that His business for several years. son, W. W. Taylor took over the ago and still dairy several yc operates it. eleven children The following survive: W. W. Taylor, Mrs. Mary T. Dahlquist, Mr. Joseph H. TaylMrs. or, Mr. Scott A. Taylor, Ruth T. Johnson, Mr. Frank R. Taylor, (Raymond Canada, Mr. Mrs. Golden Taylor, (Payson), Glen L. Taylor (American Fork), Mrs. Ruby Olsen, (Murray), Mr Karl Taylor. Also 53 grandchildren, one great grandchild, two sis ters, Mrs. John K. Allen and Mrs. Rebecca T. Tracy, and one brother, Emory Taylor. The funeral was held Sunday, January 3 in. the Lake View chapel and was largely attended. Burial was in the Provo Burial Park. of Pleasant Grove, died at a Lehi hospital on Jan. 19 after a short illness. Funeral services were held in the John Swenson, Ground Up 15. of Thomas 58, wife, Loretta, played the dulcimer whily the men played violins. Cant Over the you he r them playing and see those plainly-dresse- d Waves to the couples dancing music of the most popular orchestra from any whete around in the most popular dance hall in the territory? This historic spot is now occupied by the home of Mrs. Charles Pulsipher. (To be finished next month). ftom page one) back into the soil putting some of tbe minerals which had been taken from it, Dr. Northern in raided better seed potatoes Maim-- , better grapes in California, Itetter oianges in Honda and better field crops in oilier states better not only in increased quality but also in quantity. He improved the quality of milk by increasing the iron and iodine in it. He caused hens to lay eggs richer in the vital element. hen he restored the mineral balance to part of the soil in an orange grove infested with scale, tlie trees in that part became clean while the rest remained diseased. By the same means he had grown healthy rose bushes between rows that were riddled by insects. He had grown tomato and cucumber plants, both healthy and diseased, where the vines interwined. The bugs ate the diseased plants and refused to touch the healthy ones. At least 16 mineral elements are indispensable for nor"al nutrition. Of these, calcium, phosphorus and iron are perhaps the most important. Calcium affects the cell formation and regulates nerve action. It coordinates the other mineral elements and corrects disturbances made by them. Among the actual diseases that may result from calcium deficiency are rickets, bony deformities, bad teeth, and nervous disorders. Dr. McCollum of Johns Hopkins says that when there are in the blood enough phosphates there can be no dental decay! Iron is an essential constituent of the g of the pigment blood; but iron cannot be assimilated unless some copper is contained in the diet. And if iodine is not present, goiter afflicts us. Each mineral element plays a definite role. The human system cannot appropriate those elements to the best advantage in any hut the food form. So we must rebuild our soils; put back the minerals we have taken out. It isnt difficult nor expensive. Any competent soil client. it can tell you how to proceed. First determine by analysis the precise chemistry of any given soil, then correct the deficiencies by putting down the missing elements. (Continued Kv HEALTH The most priceless gift of all t 365 days a year 30 . . . YOUR DOCTOR AND YOUR. PHARMACIST PLAN to 50 BUILD and . 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When he dies! in 1895 he left her 00 and directions for her to draw her will in favor of charitable institutious rather than leav-- re4ativesWrhtm ing itHenrietta scalawags. outlned her husband 30 years and died in a dingy house that had no electricity. She left no will hut only a scribbled note making bequests amounting to 62.000 00. The courts then discovered the $6,000,000.00 had increased to $17,000,000. 00 in 193U. Since then the estate has been fattened further. And now one of the worst cases that has ever plagued the American courts is being fought by 14,000 claimants to the fortune. There have been murder and suicide connected with the case and it seems impossible to arrive at the relatruth as told by the tives of the Garretts. And so conies to an end the mighty house that snuff bilt. COFFEE E Slashed for quick disposal. Price cut from . . . Around the World OBITUARIES Health From THONE 34 Palmolive Soap . Bar 5c White King Lg. Pkg. 29c WHEATIES . Pkg. 10c Quality MeatsHHH H |