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Show XDlie SprinavitL JJerJJ Paiji ZJnLte . . . now not a trace cf ter Anthon, live sn K another son, Ross 1; in Magna, andH Vanachee, Wash a AnV Clifford, died onlv nothp'V ago. Mr. AnthoSv:: eludes 18 grandchild,. great grandchildren. Featuring Histories and Pictures Of the City's Older Residents This In another in a series of articles and pictures of SpringrvUle's older residents, who are being saluted each week in the Herald. Anyone over 75 years of age ig being so honored. Only a call to the office, phone 57 and a listing of the name and age of the resident, is all that is necessary; neces-sary; we arrange for the rest without charge. All those who are able are asked to go to Snelson's Studio and have a picture taken. There will be no charge. The Herald will take care of that. Each person whose picture appears in the paper in this particular feature, will receive a bouquet of flowers as compliments of the Springville Spring-ville Floral, announces Dean Stewart, manager. ' ; i - -" . 1 f - - ' . Ed Anthon Wondering what to do when he retires has never bothered Ed Anthon An-thon who, at 81, hasn't thought of retiring yet, but carries on with two of the hardest jobs a man could choose. For many years, Mr. Anthon has engaged in brick mason work, and between brick laying jobs he shears sheep. Just last week he completed a job of laying brick on a garage at Mapleton and every now and then he shears a few head of sheep, mostly to keep in practice. With a chuckle, he told of being laid off from a sheep shearing job at which he had worked 31 years, seventeen years ago, because he was too old. He might have reached the age then when most men retire, but not Mr. Anthon. He went right on shearing sheep for other men. Rnrn in Ruaati ntnhfir 3 1R7H be seen in many buildings throughout through-out town. He worked on the Opera House, the Springville Bank and many other public buildings, and he built the vault in "the old bank building. He helped build the Mijan Packard home, the H. T. Reynolds home and many others too numerous nu-merous to mention. He also worked three years in California. In those days, he said, a brick mason received re-ceived 40c. an hour and usually worked 10 hours a day, six days each week. Making these good wages," Mr. Anthon decided as a young man he could afford to board and room in town and save walking back and forth from 'the family home which was in Swenson lane. Mrs. Van Leuvan at that time took in boarders in her home on the corner where the Utah Service Station stands. She charged him $3 per America, taking eleven days to come from Liverpool to New York. He has traveled by train and car, and recently took a plane ride to visit a son and family at Vanachee, Wash. Although he was 12 years old when he came to this country and at that time had spoken only the Swedish language, he readily adopted the English language after coming to this country and -rJlL All UVTWIl WV H. u. 1 t,, iuiv, he may have inherited some of his ability for brick mason work from his father, who was a stone cutter, and he helped to lay some of the stone streets in his native land. Mr. Anthon accompanied his parents, who were converts to the LDS Church, to Utah when he was 12 years old. Three of his sisters and two brothers had died previously pre-viously in the old country of scarlet scar-let . fever, and there were three boys left. An older brother, Nels Anthon, came to this country a year before other members of the family. Mr. Anthon recalls-they lived in a dug-out in the west fields and his father worked on the Lowell Harmer farm. The boys and their mother gleaned wheat that summer and when it was threshed they had 20 bushels. They also gathered ground cherries, from which they made preserves for the .winter. That fall Edward was invited to come and live with the Dan Alleman family and work and go to school. He remembers starting in the Second grade. After going to school for a time, he went to work with his brother in Spanish Fork. He stayed there only a short time and then went out to work wetm lur uuiiiu cinu room, turn iiik meals, he recalls, were really good. Mr. Anthon has always taken a special pride in his brick mason work and he has often been called on by contractors to do some special spe-cial or intricate piece of brick laying. lay-ing. He married Susannah Evans of Spanish Fork in the fall of 1892, and they had a daughter and four sons. Mrs. Anthon died in 1922 and some years later he married Mrs. Julia Friel. They lived to-'gether to-'gether until 1949, and after her death he married Mrs. Amy Donaldson. Don-aldson. They reside at the Anthon home, 640 South First East Street. Talking to Mr. Anthon, seeing him about town or watching him work, one would take him for a' much younger man. He has a keen, quick mind and remembers dates and events today as well as many years ago. He is usually busy, if not laying brick, it will be at some other job. He drives his own car and reads the finest print without the aid of glasses. In fact, he never wears glasses. During his lifetime he has experienced ex-perienced every kind of travel. He recalls the trip across the ocean by steamship when he, came to uu ma uwn, As a young man, he drove team on railroad construction jobs and later began laying rock for railroad rail-road bridges, working from Thistle to Salida, Colo. He laid rock for about 13 years before he took his first job as a brick mason. He recalls re-calls the first house he worked on was a 2-room dwelling belonging to Martin Perry. Years ago, brick was never laid in the winter, but only in the summer sum-mer when it was warm; so, if a brick mason was to have a job ' for a few more months, he had to I find something else to do. For this reason Mr. Anthon began shearing sheep in the early spring before j brick laying began. On his first sheep shearing job, he recalls clipping the wool from only seven head of sheep in all day and receiving 7 cents per head. After he learned the trade, however, how-ever, a good day's work meant shearing 173 head, he said. At one time he sheared sheep in Sanpete county for 4c per head and paid 40c a day for board. Now days a good shearer expects 25c and 30c per head plus his board for shearing shear-ing sheep, Mr. Anthon commented. The sheep shearing jo has taken tak-en him into several western states, including South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Nevada and in various parts of Utah. One of the best brick layers of his time, Mr. Anthon's work may |