| Show VISIT TO AMERICAN FORK irand sunday school review items picked up on the train last sunday morning when our pencil pusher arose he be could see that the indications were those of flue fine day something very rare as he concluded clouded to visit one of the southern settlements always having felt that we young people are arc not so well posted on the towns and co counties of utah as we should be I 1 thought though I 1 would attempt to visit some of thein when ever an a opportunity presented itself aud and relate in ilmy my simple way what I 1 isee see and hear bear each trip I 1 had bad partially decided to visit lehi but while on the train I 1 saw brother goddard the sunday school superintendent and other oilier sabbath school workers are on board and over heard them say they whre going 0 to american fork so I 1 immediate immediately y decided that was the place for me to go also I 1 might state that the ina man joseph ward was talking to the above named persons and I 1 heard him tell them under what difficulties lie started the german paper and what it cost him annually for postage stamps on the papers that lio in sends bends to europe and the old world lie said 1 I tried to get gel a job writing for some of the leading pal papers ers of 0 f salt lake city after I 1 had bad returned from my mj mission to german many from which country I 1 had written these papers nui numerous nerous letters while absent but could not get a job so I 1 decided to publish a german paper through which I 1 could preach the gospel to that class of german speaking people that the missionaries cannot reach tile difficulty dilli culty that now DOW confronted me inc was that I 1 had no german type so 8 0 1 I went to eurt eureka ka and told the people collie there that there ft as such a 11 nice little german baby born in ill salt I 1 lake ake city but there was no clothes for it brother luck bick offered the proposed pru posed new bew suil and agreed to take lake it il out ul in advertising unit and others gave liberally so EO the type was purchased and the raper pap C r commenced commence I 1 its career cir he also stated staled that lie spent for postage slumps la last sl year and that returning missionaries claimed ci ailred talat the paper was bein being c lead I 1 ead by persons lit in baigh positions vilio would not look at a tract but would readily rend read an american newspaper IF ten en minutes in past nine we arrived uta al Sin merican erlean fork station having lin be been otte onu li liber ur and fifteen minutes going from Sait lake city TIA old clock which hung 0 oil the wall above the stand in a large abarge nicely decorated room of the old T shape meeting louse house indicated that it was 20 minutes past ten when we arrived in that house where the twenty ninth anniversary of the american fork sunday school was celebrated that day while the opening exercises were going on oil I 1 viewed and compared the internal appearance of the house to the appearance of our house of worship tile the benches resembled ours only in being badly scratched T were pioneers in in every respect t tile the ceiling is lower than ours and an the chandeliers also differ from those we have looking upon tile the platform which was built directly of the stand and about the same height 0 the writer write r could see sec that american fork had its share of hest best crop an excellent program was rendered and while it i was being t carried out much better order was kept than our school can boast beast of on like occasions from the review one would judge that the leaflet had been carefully studied by the advanced students of that school the remainder of the program was made up similar to ours that is of songs recitations questions and answers etc there is no doubt but what the school his a set of very efficient teachers headed by an able superintendent during the day clay very appropriate speeches were made by local and visiting elders perhaps the most interesting speech was the one delivered by elder Pax smail of that place who said how well he could remember tile time that elder abel was presented to the people of that ward to be sus bained as superintendent of the hie first sunday school in american fork the school commenced with five pupils said he aud and now we have more inore thau five hundred in speaking of the finance he said 1 I went around with a wheelbarrow trying to make some collections and all I 1 got was a pound of butter everything has changed 0 now we have better methods more books good teachers numerous scholars and all 1 I more liberal givers elder was one of the superintendents counes elors from the report read by the secretary it was learned that there ate two departments in the hie school the hie primary and the ridvan advanced ced that there are pupils and fifty one teachers during the noon hour the writer met an old resident on tile the sidewalk near the principal part of town who informed him that american Amei ican fork had been incorporated for a long time and that james chipman is ii tile the present mayor ile he owns bilat large store over there said lie he pointing 0 to the alie left and across tile the road we have several stores liea but none that to do such an extensive business as lie does pointing 0 almost straight across the street lic he said that is the city hall it reminded me inc of the ihu old iati dan meeting house with its bell in the tower back of that and a little to the right just in the rear of f the meeting house stands an it clearnt brick school house with substantial walls walh and plain which I 1 was informed had bad been built during the last winter by a provo contractor I 1 also learned from this gentleman that four or five district schools schoola had been kept there during the winter anti ami that tile hie city is favored with two drug stores rive five hotels one livery stable one millinery shop and two or three doctors at 4 I 1 left tle crowded sleeting house and hurriedly moved Oy cowards ards the D R G depot but bill the being L fitly fifty minutes late gave we me a i little time lime to look down upon tile limpid waters of the beautiful utah lake with its charming mountain scenery surrounding it the scene was sueh as could only be surpassed by the charms of lake lucerne just before getting on oil the train I 1 noticed a creamery which one of the men inc said had beet been shutdown dOw lint but would aou id be running runn ilig again on oil viewing the mileage book I 1 hado had 1 noticed that ilie alie conductor had detached sixty four oue one for e rach tell mile which LOW loll lol l me ilie 1 that alberic an I 1 fuik aik is fiut st I 1 thirty two miles mile from bait lake cit cici from the large number of passengers on board which a seat mate who frequently travels from salt sail lake to frcho said was nothing unusual I 1 child see that tin the D R G is well patronized south of salt lake |
