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Show Eightieth Birthday Occasion For Reminescencing ' Recalling many interesting ' incidents and circumstances circum-stances of early-day life in Springville, John H. Manwarint of this city, will observe his eightieth birthday Saturday at pin asBffl 111111 : " ,; mmmwmmMm wmm :::-:: . f .:;.:-:. . J I 1 in private homes when the only equipment was a slate, a pencil and spelling book. He recalled when the Springville Spring-ville park was surrounded with a high picket fence and was used for a ballground and a drive corral cor-ral where stock was driven in spring and fall. He was playing in the park when the mayor, Lyman Ly-man S. Wood, and other city officials of-ficials pointed out the spot for the building of the city hall. Mr. Manwaring as a deacon, kept fires in the vestry of the old white meeting house for Patriarch Pat-riarch John Smith, as he gave blessings to the people. John Smith was a brother of Hyrum Smith. He has served in numerous capacities ca-pacities in the church. He filled a two-year mission to the southern south-ern states and was a councilor in the First ward bishopric for over 28 years. He also served as city sexton nearly 30 years. v, Mr. Manwaring is patriarch of Kolob stake and from his earliest days has been active in various organizations of the church. His wife, Mrs. Anna M. Peterson, Peter-son, who he married in February, 1890, in the Logan temple, died in 1921. He has six sons and daughters, Zenos, Wilford, Maurice and Mau-rine Mau-rine Manwaring and Mrs. Helen Ashcraft of Springville, and Mrs. Zora Hill, Salt Lake City. He also has one brother, Albert Manwaring Man-waring of Ogden. his home at 488 South 4th East street. He extends an invitation to his friends to call on this occasion. oc-casion. Emigrating to Utah from England Eng-land in 1870, after his parents and older members of the family had joined the LDS church, he is not numbered . among the local pioneers pio-neers as the railroad had been built to Salt Lake City just the year before. However, Mr. Manwaring Man-waring recalls that he participated in many pioneer hardships and incenveniences of the. early-day settlement. He came to Springville when it took two and a half days to make the trip by wagon from Salt Lake City. There were no houses at Mapleton and only two stores in Springville. One store, known as the ZCMI, was operated by-Joseph W. Bissell and is now Woods store. The other store, located at the site of Phillips Garage, was operated by Milan Packard. All supplies were brought to Springville Spring-ville by wagon and Mr. Manwaring Manwar-ing recalled when word came that a sack of sugar had been brought to . town and his mother hurried to the ZCMI store to purchase ten cents worth. The sack was $25 and that was a lot of money. He remembers when Brigham Young came to Springville and people lined up on both sides of Main street to see him and escort him to the old white meeting house, located on the corner of Main and Center street, where he spoke for two hours. Mr. Manwaring went to school |