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Show Miss Conklin To Be '. Honored On Birthday Open House this (Thursday) afternoon after-noon at the Presbyterian chapel j is set to honor Miss S. Louisa (Conklin on her eightieth birthday anniversary. Friends and close j neighbors are uniting in sponsoring sponsor-ing the event. Miss Conklin was born at Cold Spring Harbor, New York, March 1, 1S65. a daughter of Johnathan and Margaret Wilson Conklin. The family moved later to Rosa-lyn, Rosa-lyn, N. Y, the summer home town of William Cullen Bryant, whom she came to know personally, person-ally, since they attended the same church. Entering the "service of her church as a missionary, she spent 3S years in Chacon, N. M. and four years in Havana, Cuba, teaching Mexican people. After 18 months at home in New York, she spent three years in Ganado, Arizona as instructor missionary to the Navajo Indians, before coming to St. George, Jan. 18, 1913 as mission school teacher. Many children in St. George have attended her kindergarten. She has also made a host of friends in carrying cheer to the sick and those in sorrow. Children and adults called to extend felicitations felici-tations to her during this afternoon. |