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Show FORMER LOCAL TEACHER AND WIFE CELEBRATE FIFTIETH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY Surrounded by their posterity. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Walton of Provo Monday celebrated their golden wedding day at their home on the Walton ranch northeast of Trovo. Fitly years ago today thev w- married in the St. George temple. That was in the days of the unimproved unim-proved roads and the covered wagon, wag-on, when nothing was known of tho automobile and tho airplane. Eleven days prior to the marriage, mar-riage, Mr. Walton ,who was then one the dashing young men of Provo, drove a spirited team of horses hitched to a large covered wagon to the entrance of the pros mt Belmont apartments, tho home of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Jacques, fchosc charming daughter Emma tie had wooed ond won. The 300-mile 300-mile journey to the Dixie L. D. S. temple city required nine days in that primitive mode of traveling. Today, with paved or improved dirt roads and gasoline buggies, the same distance can be traveled In a day. ' Mr. Walton was born in Alpine, October 10, 1855. At 15 years of oge he came to Provo where he has since resided continously. The last 20 yeai-3 Mr. and Mrs. Walton have lived on their large ranch in the Pleasant. View district. For 34 years Mr. Walton taught school, five years in Springville and 29 years in Provo. Ho started as a teacher in 1875 in the pioneer adobe school house where the Parker school stands now. When the schools of Provo were consolidated into one district, he taught in the first consolidated school, the present pres-ent First ward Social Hall. He also has beon a teacher in the Franklin and tho Parker schools. Thousands of the men and women wo-men have become intimately acquainted ac-quainted with Mr. Walton in tho school room and honor and revere him for the inspiration he has been to them. Recently he served for four years as a member of the board of education edu-cation of tho Alpine school district. Mrs. Walton was born in Provo January 10, 1857. They arc the parents of one son. Borne Walton, Idaho Falls, Idaho; three daughters, Mrs. W. W. Bennett, Ben-nett, Los Angeles; Mrs. IClmo Brereton, Provo, and Mrs. Rhea Freshwater, Ogden. |
