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Show Do You Remember? . . . By MAUDE II. BENEDICT po von ivmombiT, my doar read-,,s read-,,s of the older generation, that when the depot was on Main street, t was not where "Jack's" store Priscilla. I do not remember the one Barbara played in, but I do remember the time I took this part. I still have the copy it was such a lot to learn. I had a spinning wheel and knew nothing of how to use it, so I just had to pretend as best I could. It pleased mother so much she bought a picture of Priscilla and John on the shore for me, which I prize so much! "John Mendenhall's son, Thomas, played the part of John Alden, and a girl (I do not remember who she was) sang the songs between the acts. It was put on in the City hall, which room is now the Relic hall 1 of the D. U. P. camps. No doubt you have visited this hall, which has so many pictures of the pioneers pio-neers which bring back so many memories. Among the pictures is one of your Grandpa and Grandma Clegg, whom I so well remember." A note sent in recently speaks of Nell Kirkman's musical laughter, that was the clearest, sweetest music to the ear! It was not a loud laugh, but had a ringing quality long to be remembered. What a lovely thing to be said of one! And we remember Nellie Kirkman Wing's beautiful rosy cheeks and sparkling blue eyes memories from childhood days. We remember also Blanche Kirkman's lovely voice singing "Just Break the News to Mother," when that song first came out. On the bus yesterday we met , now stands, but right in the middle mid-dle of the street, in front of Harrison's Har-rison's hotel? One of our contributors contri-butors of this generation sent in the article which -proved to be in error, and we both apologize , Another contributor remembers that it was when the depot stood on Mam street and the old "wye" was on the Jefferson school lot that the president of the United States, W. H. Harrison, stopped in Springville long enough to give an address from the platform of his observation car, to which a large crowd of citizens turned out in welcome. This contributor also remembers that Lyman Wood was one of the first, if not the first, mayors of Spnngville, and that Mont Johnson held that office in the early 1900's That Mose Johnson, John Cdnover and James Weight held office as constables in the years ago. That James Weight has been and is now, so far as known, warden at the Utah state penitentiary at Sugar-house, Sugar-house, Salt Lake City. We regret that a few minor errors er-rors have been made in this column, col-umn, but it must be remembered that the things the writer has knowledge of are of her own generation. gen-eration. All else is from contributors contri-butors who conscientiously try to be exact as to dates and places. Should any further errors occur, that seem too bad to let pass, we understand that Mrs. Mary Jane Finley has written a history of Springville and we believe would be glad to. set readers, interested in asking her, right about these mistakes. Comes memory of the first hospital hos-pital in Springville. It was on the corner one block west from the H. T. Reynolds store. Its matron was Anna Kearns Johnson; its doctor, George Smart. When the hospital closed the building was used as a hotel. Will Emma Dougall (do not know her husband's name). She was always so gracious and lovely, and is still as we remember her in Springville days. Emma resides in Ogden now, as does Dora Coffman, who has bought a new home here. Springville Spring-ville has been loser to Ogden of some of its finest talent, but these talented ones are always proud to tell you, "I am from Springville." Do you remember? Kearns was proprietor and it operated op-erated as the Kesrns hotel. Springville Spring-ville folk tell us this is still a hotel, now called Valley Tavern, under new management. On the same street west of Main, Erastus Thorne had his livery stable and hack servicer We remember two very lovely friends of our mother in the long ago, whose services to the community com-munity will be recalled by many families. They were Aunt Mary iHall Johnson Whiting, and Aunt Sarah Hall Houtz. Many a night these women were called out to minister to the sick, sometimes staying with the family of the sick one for weeks at a time. It is with pleasure they are remembered, re-membered, for they were the kindliest, kind-liest, jolliest, and most helpful friends our mothers had. One contributor sends in to the column a tribute to Aunt Mary Hall Whiting, and tells of her fun-loving fun-loving nature how in the days when they held jubilees, Aunt Mary always joined in all. the games, races, and stunts. She was a large woman, rather on the stout side, and at one celebration ran a race and won a corest. She grabbed the first man near, who happened to be Alex Johnson, and put the corset on him! A lovely letter comes from Minerva Min-erva Bryan Weight, with comments on "Do You Remember?" She also wrote of taking the role of "Priscilla" "Pris-cilla" in "The Courtship of Miles Standish," which comes back to me now, and of how charming a "Priscilla" "Pris-cilla" she made. Minerva B. Weight has been one of Springville's most talented entertainers en-tertainers and one of the sweetest girls, also, of our town. Thanks, Minerva, you will hear from me more personally soon. Yours was one of three letters received with the stamp of the first day's cancellation can-cellation of the new federal building build-ing in Springville, and I thank you and the other two contributors for these souvenirs. Minerva writes: "I notice in the column you wrote of the play, "The Courship of Miles Standish," and mention Barbara Mower playing |