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Show Aei Bile GaGT Cited By BERTHA U ML'IR Mrs. Armie Carr recently received a letter and citation honoring her for 63 years of membership in "The Neighbors Neigh-bors of Wood Craft." THIS is an insurance company com-pany in which many people of Bountiful were insured in the early days of the town. The organization was known as the Woodman of the World. The Bountiful people who were members held their meetings in the old Hales Hall building located on the corner of Fifth South and Second West. The building was owned by the Steven Hales family. THE HALE home was attached, at-tached, on the south side, to the dance hall. Many dances, parties and sports took place in this old lumber building. It was for many years the only one in the area that had a dance floor. Moving pictures were shown once a wetk and the local girls were hired to play the piano for 50 cents a night and a show ticket. Sometimes they got so interested in the picture that they forgot to play and were reminded by the manager what they were there for, THE MEMBERS of the Woodman group met upstairs. up-stairs. Most of the lime they took their children with them and all enjoyed a picnic supper and games. The dance hall was entered from the north side. There was a ticket window where tickets were sold and on the other side a dressing room, one on the west for the ladies and one of the east for the men. The giggling girls would wait for their partners to come for them as they waited at the west dressing room door. THERE was no running water but there were clean water pails and long handled dippers. The water was drawn from deep wells. There was no worry of disease germs as we dipped the dipper into the pail and all quenched our thirst after many dances. The dances were the waltz, the two step, the Virginia Reel, the grand quadnll and the waltz quadnll and sometimes some-times the Varsuvian and a tag dance. THERE were benches built on the east and west side where manv sat after each dance and tapped their toes waiting for the music to start again and for a young man to ask them to dance. As far as 1 know Annie Can-is Can-is the onlv member of the Neighbors of Wood Craft who is still living in tr . who remembers The ": in the upstairs ot'.T 1 Hales Hail home. : THE OLD hail P have long ince - down. The corner hV service station ar'V ; place built on it ' ' disappeared and nr ' ' " ' tiful bank buildsrg ., V ' built there. Orw(T Vpy"" next will be built ; Hales Hall corner b - ? ' |