Show Story of Main Ma and Broadway Broadway- i To Be Told in Thursdays Thursday's T Telegram S s 's V r I 1 v. v 4 t i J 14 1 4 I Early Eary days of or f Salt Lake City are recalled in the next two instalments of bf t In the Beginning The Telegrams Telegram's historical feature Above is the old council house the story ry of which will be told in Fridays Friday's s Instalment Inset Orson M. M Rogers of Salt Lake City grandson of the woman who lived in the first hut at what is now flow Main street streel and Broadway The story of ot that little dwelling will be related Thursday Salt Lake Pioneer Pione r Days Will Be Described in Two Instalments I I five Eighty-five years ears ago where a B Johnson Schramm-Johnson drug store now stands at M Main in street land and B Broadway there was built a small hutin which lived a girl who ho was to become come the thel founder of the L. L D D. D S S- Relief society The girl then 15 later became Mrs Aurelia Aurclia S. S Rogers The oner room one om hut hu was was the first building at that site and the little pioneer lived there with wits her sisters Ellen and Lucy who came with her across the plains in 1848 Mrs Rogers who died 10 years ago in Farmington was the grandmother of Orson M M. Rogers credit manager of the Z C. C M. M I. I The story of the little hut and its occupants will be told Thursday y in inThe inThe inThe The Telegrams Telegram's historical feature by byJ J J. J Cecil Alter In the B Beginning Building Boom It Il was at about abou this time timea a building boom began in in eally Salt Lake City ity many other man other adobe and log dwellings springing up In 1848 it was wai decided d to build a council house and foundation work began November 7 7 IL The foundation and first story were completed in 1849 The story o of this building and other smaller ones is told in Fridays Friday's installment install install- ment mert me of at In the Beginning Although I am familiar with the pioneer life liCe of or my grandmother I Idid Idid Idid did not know she lived in the first building on that site Mr Rogers said aid He recalled his gr grandmother moved in 1851 to Farmington where his father father fa la fa- fa ther Orson T T. Rogers was born in m 1852 W Walked Across Plains Flain Mrs Rogers was born October 4 4 1834 in Deep River Conn She and her two sisters walked across the one of the pioneer com com com- panics Their mother was dead and their father Orson Spencer was on ona a mission Mrs Rogers was the prime mover in organizing the Primary association taking the lead in in August August Au Au- gust 1878 She was a leader in the women's suffrage movement journeying ng to At Atlanta lanta Ga in November 1894 to champion the cause She once published pub a book called Life Sketches Mr Rogers said his grandmothers grandmother's grandfather Samuel Curtis was the first white man born in New NewYork York City I |