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Show nerald Salutes Springville's Older residents with Picture and Story Times Have Changed . . . . . If . : then and in the spring it was hard to get through the mud. "Later in life I took up farming and cattle raising and in the winter win-ter time I worked at the sugar factory in Provo, leaving home at 7 a.m. and working full 12 hours, driving back and forth with buggy and horse, for $2 per day. In the fall and early winter time, we hauled wood from the canyons for fuel. I helped wire houses in Springville for electric lights and also for telephones. "Farm work a few years back was all done by hand and long, hard hours were necessary to put in and harvest crops. "When I was young, we had to make our own fun, and when Hallowe'en game along, we amused ourselves with such things as taking tak-ing off gates, moving wagons and tipping over hayracks. "In later years, we enjoyed the Black Hawk encampments and church activities." Throughout his earlier life, Mr. Harrison has sung in choirs, first in the old White meeting house and later in the-Second ward. He has servecTas a ward teacher and is at present a High Priest. Several years ago, he underwent a serious operation, which confined con-fined him to his bed and later to a wheel-chair for a long time. At present, however, he enjoys comparative com-parative good health, seldom wears glasses and loves to visit with friends and members of his family. Mr. and Mrs. Harrison have eight sons and daughters: George B. Harrison of Salt Lake City; Mrs. Ada B. Krause, Leon Harrison, Harri-son, Mrs. Arvilla Carter, Milton Harrison, Mrs. Helen Measom, all of Springville; Mrs. Arlena Holley of Mapleton and Robert Harrison of Greenbelt, Md.; also 18 grandchildren grand-children and 25 great-grandchildren. A Hty born ami ronrod, And nomories bl,ng bllck tho f fli"'llips y0t cndonred. Rl whV'Sr tY. 01 th0 PilRrims. On Anril 7 '"ore pleasure in sitting in tol ockmg chair than working ,a 12-back 12-back ov"'Hle hnS time l think He says: aCtWe years- "When I was 10 years old, I accompan.ed my father to Ophir and Bingham canyon where he sold potables, eggs and, butter. At that time, there were only two houses ,n Orem and two big ditches crossed the main highway. Ve used to stop at the Jordan river and fill our 10-gallon keg with water which would last until we reached home. On our return trip, we brought a load of cedar wood for fuel. "I began my schooling in a little George W. Harrison red school-house on the corner of Fourth South and Main Street, taught by Mary Whiting. Later I went to the Second ward school house and the Elder's House for high school training. I also attended attend-ed the old Brigham Young Academy Acad-emy at Provo. "When I was young, my father purchased a half-acre of land on Main street, where the J. C. Penney Pen-ney store now stands, for $300. Then he paid $75 for an old frame building and gave 25 bushels of wheat to have it moved onto the site, where he operated a restaurant. restaur-ant. He became known as "Beefsteak" "Beef-steak" Harrison. The restaurant was just across from the D & RG railroad depot which stood in the middle of Main road. I recall helping help-ing my father prepare to feed the raidroad crew of five men (with beefsteak, df course) for 35 cents per meal and he waited up until 10 p.m. each night to do it. "I helped haul the bricks and adobes, the latter being made east of the old mill pond, to construct the hotel operated by my father for many years. At the rear of the hotel, he built a barn to house the horses and hacks "which met the trains and brought the traveling travel-ing men to the hotel. In the barn, there was also an ice-house and I recall helping to haul ice in the winter, to be stored in the icehouse ice-house for sale during the summer and then on Sunday, home-made ice-cream was sold from my father's fa-ther's restaurant. The ice blocks about 3 by 1 feet, were sawed from the lake and hauled by team and wagon for $1.50 per load. In 1893, with Erastus Thorn, I started a livery stable, renting the barn' at the hotel. In the winter, we had cutter-sleighs and horses with bells on them and fine wool robes to hire, and in the summer, hacks and fine carriages were available to hire for a ride. "There were no graveled roads |
