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Show Will Observe Golden edding 3 ' OS 3 3 S3 Pioneers to Receive Tonight aJIIHffffHHm'"!i!llftig RISUOP A.ND MttS. JD CHARLES WILSON WZ T; NIBLEY, who will celebrate tile fiftieth wedding anniver- 1 zzz sary at the Hotel Ltah this s J ZzL evening, from 8 o'clock to 11. LI f t W y S r t s s x o x te w s js 8 0 tL A g t S 8 H 4 S ' s x a .5 35g8SSfSSaSSaS X, i jf s sfcjrj.;-? ,a ai3ia88siiis2e r - ' ! a s "V"w " s i v s 4 t K t I ' ?. x I ? 4 f IS8 f Kf 4i - hJ "Hi si i , 9 ' i f - V f - I I - ; I i .ri . i r sPvi!' " i J Bishop and Mrs. C. W. Nib-ley Nib-ley Will Greet Friends at Hotel Utah. TWO of Utah 's prominent pioneers, Bishop and Mrs. Charles Wilson Kibley, will celebrate tonight, from 8 to 11 o'clock, at the Hotel Utah, the fiftieth anniversary of their wedding. By a coincidence, Mrs. Nibley 's birthday and her wedding are on the same day. Bishop Xiblc.y. who is the fifth presiding pre-siding bishop of the Mormon church, was boin at Hunter-field, a small coal .mining town eif;ht miles south of Edinburgh, Edin-burgh, Scotland, on February 5, 1849. His father -was a coal miner, "and it was only by the greatest frugality that he was able to maintain his family. In 1855 the Nibloy familv emigrated from Scotland to Ehode Island. Here they remained five years to accumulate means sufficient to cross the plains to Salt Lake City. Leaving Rhode Island in the spring of 1860, tbey arrived at Florence, Neb., in time to ."join a company com-pany of Saints who were preparing to cross tho plains under the leadership of J. D. Ross. Bishop Nibley related yesterday the following reminiscences concerning the trip across the plains by ox team: "It was a fine morning early in June, 1860, when our caravan, consisting of forty or fifty wagons and approximately approxi-mately 300 people, started its toilsome journey across the boundless prairio, which lay like an uncharted sea before ug. I was a boy of II; I remember what a flood of joy swept over me -as we started on the trip. The hardships and dangers of the trip were to me nothing but wonderful adventures. "We had little or no trouble with Indians, although they would come to camp and demand food rather impudently. impu-dently. Our stock of provisions consisted con-sisted mainly of beans, rice,, flour and sugar, which, with tho abundant meat br.ought in by our hunters, made an excellent ex-cellent fare. I remember that the Black Hills, near Kearney, Xeb., fairly teemed with buffaloes. "For fuel, we used buffalo 'chips,' which, when ignited with a handful of burning grass, made an excellent fire for cooking. We bad several cows with us; we generally milked them in the morning. The milk we placed in a tight-lv tight-lv sealed receptacle, which vas lashed to the side of a wagon. By noon we had butter and buttermilk, and it was thus that wo churned. "The journey took three mon-ths. We arrived in Salt Lake September 'A, I860, without suffering any mishaps or very little sickness. From Salt Lake our family removed to Wellsville, Cache countv, Utah, where we made a permanent perma-nent home. My first occupation was shcephcrding anil general, farm work. It amuses me to think how we did our .threshing during the first year. One of the jobs assigned to mo was to glean the, grain. In doing this, I would gather the heads until I had a good sized handful: hand-ful: then I bound thoje heads with a stalk of grass into bundles. Then to thresh the. heads, we had to rub them nn a washboard. To winnow the grain, we threw it upv in the nir; tho chaff would be borne off by tho wind and the grain would fall on a canvas. "Of course, io thoso clays we suffered many hardships. I am glad that I did. The rugged, outdoor life gave me splcD-did splcD-did health, aDd tho privations that we suffered have onlv enlarged and enhanced en-hanced my capacity for enjoyment. There is no real, lasting joy unless it is L'ained through effort. " "On March 30. ISfifl, Mrs.'Nibloy, who was at that time Rebecca Ann Xei-baur, Xei-baur, and I were married in the old Kudnwincnt house by President Daniel It. Wells. That morning wc walked from Second Fast betweeu Second and Third South streets, where Mrs. "Nib-lev's "Nib-lev's father, Alexander Neibaur, lived nt the time. Mar'h had been a beautiful beau-tiful spm'i.' day, hut in the night eight inches of snow had fallen, so we had to trudge through the snow, for in those days there were no cabs, no taxicabs nor street cars, ' ' The witnesses of the corcmonv were the bride's father. Alexander Neibaur, a well known Hebrew poet and scholar and the author of many hymns. The other witness was the "bride's closest friend, Miss Elizabeth Cain, now Mrs. Elizabeth Cain Crismon, who will help Mrs. Nibley receive her golden wedding guests Saturday evening. From 18(56 to 1S69 Bishop Nibley was engaged chieflv in business at Brighani City. In the fall of 1SG9 ho went east on a mission. Returning in March, S7f), ho again engaged in business. In 1873 he was appointed general freight and passenger agent for the Utah & Northern North-ern railroad. Ho resided in Logan till 1877, when he was called to accompany Apostlo Joseph 1' Smith on a mission to Englaod. During these two years in England he served as secretary of tho European mission. Ketuiming to Logan in 1879. he re-entered .business. With the reorganization of La Grande stake in 1901, Elder Nibley -was chosen first counselor to President Prank Brain well; this position he held until ho was chosen to succeed William B. Preston as pro-siding pro-siding bishop of tho church on December Decem-ber 1 1, 1907. Bishop Nibloy has mado numerous trips throughout tho United States aDd Canada with the late President Joseph F. Smith. IIo has made six trips to his old home in Scotland and four to the Hawaiian islands. To Bishop and Mrs. Nibley havo been born ten children, four daughter!) and six sons, of whom seven children aro living; one. son is living in Idaho, two in Oregon and two sons aud two dau;;f.tcr3 in this city. |