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Show It Pealed in Nephl Tower 1 ,e- ((' U' "? life)".. ' BELL CALLED CHURCHGOERS, CHILDREN S. T. Ricketts tries tone of 57-year-old bell Voice of Bell, Now Silent, Rang Out Half Century Ago A bell that called children to school on week days and the faithful to church on Sundays 57 years ago was in temporary retirement Thursday in the garage of S. T. Ricketts, 344 East rirsi aoum street. The huge bell, estimated to weigh about 800 pounds, recently was removed from the tower of the Presbyterian church at Nephl, where It was Installed when the church was built in 1882. When property that the Church stood on was sold, the bell was brought to Salt Lake City to be given to some other church In need of a bell, Mr. Ricketts said. Unrusted, even though It was exposed ex-posed to the elements for 57 years, the bell was used to call children to school during school terms, and on Sunday to Sunday school in another portion of the same building. build-ing. It bears two Inscriptions. One reads, "Let him that heareth say come,'' while on the opposite side raised letters say, "Presented to Huntington chapel, Nephl, by the Ladies' Benevolent society of the 2nd Pres. church, Cleveland, O." |