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Show DUP Schedules, "Know Your Living Pioneers" Week, Mar. 9-15 The Daughters of Utah Pioneers of the state have designated the week of March 9 to 15 as "Know Your Living: Pioneers" week, and are urging towns- people of every community to become be-come better acquainted during the' week with the few remaining early settlers who opened the way for our present-day progress. A number of D. U. P. camps throughout Utah county are observing ob-serving the week with special programs pro-grams to which the pioneers, both native and original, will be invited, in-vited, according to Mrs. A. W. Cherrington, Utah county president. presi-dent. SpringviUe camp meetings on Thursday, March 13, are planned to honor the pioneers who will be given special invitations to attend these meetings. The centennial year is desig-' desig-' nated as an appropriate time to honor the pioneers, not only on special occasions but at all times, D. U. P. officers point out. In going over the records of D. U. P members in connection with observance of the "Know Your Pioneer Week," it was found that Mrs. Aileen Vane Weight, a member mem-ber of Camp Hobble Creek T. U. P., has two grandmothers both of whom are original pioneers of. Utah. It is believed that Mrs. Weight is the only D. U. P. member mem-ber who can claim this honor in SpringviUe, and perhaps in the state. Her grandmothers are Mrs. Lu-cina Lu-cina Clark Vane and Mrs. Josephine Jose-phine Pennington, both of whom are original pioneers. Mrs. Pennington was born in Oslo, Norway, Aug. 23, 1862, and came by ox-team, crossing the plains and arriving in Utah in August 1868. She is a charter member of the Camp Hobble Creek D. U. P. Mrs. Vane was born in Appo-' Appo-' noose county, Iowa, Nov. 22, 1856, and came to Utah with her parents par-ents in 1864. She also crossed the plains by ox-team and has made her home in SpringviUe most of her life. |