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Show PIONEER RELIC ROOMS READY FOR OPENING Hours and days of diligent planning plan-ning and working: on the part of the Daughters of Utah pioneers and city council lias changed the almost forgotten room on the second sec-ond story of the Springville city hall into one of the most attractive and interesting" spots in the c 'y. The room has undergone an almost al-most complete renovation in being made ready for the pioneer relic collection. Moving of the relics from the old fort house to the new location, began early this week under the direction of Chairman Julia Packard. Placing of the relics about the room,, the hanging of drapes ajid other details of arrangement will be completed this week and the room will be formally opened to the public with an appropriate program pro-gram July 24. The room is newly plastered and painted in shades of desert tan and brown. A new floor and gas heating heat-ing system has been installed and it is equipped with 75 new chairs and benches furnishing seating capacity ca-pacity for about 1U0 persons. These features and plenty of sunlight from spacious windows about the room, makes it an especially espe-cially attractive resting place for the pioneer collection. The old city counciT desk, surrounded sur-rounded by the vailing from the first council chamber will be placed in one corner. A pioneer organ, used in 1880 in the old white meeting house, will occupy a prominent prom-inent place as will the first L. D. S. sacrament table acd the first grain cradle and rake brought into the community. Numerous pieces of household, equipment, handiwork and pioneer firearms are included in the collection. Many more articles are expected lo be entered later on now that a safe and appropriate ap-propriate place of exhibit is secured. se-cured. Pictures of the first pioneer companies com-panies to arrive in Springville, in addition to numerous photographs of early pioneers will feature the art gallery. Old fashione'd wooden poles hold the drapes and curtains and some of the first hanging lamps used in this community will add to the decorative lighting system. Mrs. H. T. Reynolds, Mrs. Emma Haymond, of Camp Springville D. U. P., Mrs. George Dallin, and Mrs. Hattle Allan of Camp No. 1, are appointed custodians of the room and will arrange for regular visiting hours for the "public after July 24. there since that time.jMrs. Simpkins was a faithful member of the church ind had been a .Relief society teacher for 25 years. She was the mother of 10 children, eight of whom survive, as follows: James T. Simpkins, Provo; Mrs. Alice Gamier, Salt Lake; Mrs. Ella Harrington, Mrs. Mary Bussard, Mrs. Florence Phillips, Mrs. Emma Em-ma Taylor, George A. and Ray Simpkins, Springville. She also leaves Ki grandchildren, and one brut her and three sisl ers us ful-lows: ful-lows: Fred T. Gunn, Mm. Annie Joseph and. Mrs. Alice While, Beaver, Beav-er, Mrs. Lois Farnsworth, Ely, Nev. |