Salt Lake Tribune | 1901-02-20 | Page 4 | Local News

The freedom of the city of Winches t ter England was tendered Lord Roberts Rob-erts In a casket made of wood of a Danish Dan-ish galley destroyed by the soldfers of Alfred the Great and oak from the old roof of the cathedral built in the lime lme of William the Conqueror That was not so wonderful as the achievement of old man Mather of this city When he came here in the long ago he planted an apple tree The apple tree grew and flourished bore fruit for many years and then went into a sort of innocuous VI t desuetude S the old man cut it down t whipsawed Jt made a chair from it which he has polished and he declares J i that nobody knows how pretty apple I wood Is until they have planted the J seeds raised the tree and then has cut i I It down sawed It up and polished i