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Old Folks HonoredThe HonoredThe Honored HonoredThe The old folks of Moab are be beImg being being Img ing entertained entertamed at a banquetand banquet banquetand banquetand , and program at the LDS recre recreiatIon recreation recrcation iatIon ation hall today given by the theDaughters theDaughters Daughters of the Utah PioneersFollowing PIoneers PIoneersFollowmg PioneersFollowing : Followmg Following the banquet served servedshortly servedshortly : shortly after noon the group group'assembled groupassembled groupassembled 'assembled assembled ' for a pro program ram of mu mu'SIC music music 'SIC SIC ' sic dancingA dancmgA readings readmgs and dancing dancmg A feature of the program was wasthe wasthe wasthe the reading readmg of the following followmg po poem poem poem em composed by Mrs Henry EBaty EBatyA E EBaty EBaty Baty BatyA A Tribute to the Pioneers of ofMoab ofMoab ofMoab Moab : for the Old Folks Folks'Reunion FolksReunion ' ReunIon April Aprll 19 1945By 1945 1945By 1945By By Mrs Henry E BatyThe BatyThe Baty BatyThe The word pioneer as meant meanthere meanthere meanthere here is anyone who with a astrong astrong astrong strong heartbeat heartbeatHas heartbeatHas I IHas Has withstood trial tnal and hard hardshIps hardships hardships shIps to make their lives andothers and andothers omers others ' - 1 I I I ' - M More ; ; -orthwhIle orthwhIle ; worthwhile and complete completeLiles completeLi/es completeLi es Lues Liles / of great men oft remindus remind remmd remindus remmdus usWe usWe us usWe We can make our lives llves subhme sublime subhmeAnd sublimeAnd sublimeAnd And departing departmg leave behind behmd us usFootprmts usFootprints usFootprints Footprmts Footprints on the sand of tIme tImeThese timeThese timeThese These words are e a er before me meas meas meas as I take up my pen to wrIte wrIteOf writeOf writiOf Of the pioneers of Moab of theIr theIrserVIce theirservice thei : mightHow service of their mIght How they have builded bullded up a acIty acity i icity city from a little httle desert nook nookMIdst nookMidst nookMidst MIdst hunger tears and sorrow sor sorrow row would fill a wondrou wondrous wondrousbook wondrousbook ; i book bookAnd - { as we paused to read the thepages th < ' lAnd thei i pagesWe pages pagesWe , We would find fmd each his partwho partwho part partwho who made a contrIbutIon contributionIndelible Indelible Indellble on the heart heartThere heartThere There is splendid Dr Williams WIlllams Williamswho WIlllamswho Williamswho who traveled far and n nearTo near ar arTo To nearTo aid the sick and wounded o : : leave a word of cheerHe cheer cheerHe He ttake hadn t a streamlined streamlmed car to totake ti titake t o take him on his way wayBut But only a horse or a buggy to togo ti tigo t o ) dayAnd go by night mght or day And among the women of Moal Moab Moa Moabare Moaare Moalare b - are two shining shmmg examples of ofmotherhood omotherhood o omotherhoodDear f motherhoodDear motherhood motherhoodDear motherhoodDear Dear Aunt Mary Day and her hersIster hesister he hesister r WestwoodMr sister Martha WestwoodMr Westwood Mr .u u . 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' industryWill Will leave his mark , . lasting lastmg and andlong am longSome longSome long Some were stalwart church churchworkers churchworkers [ workers as was Mrs ElvIra ElvIraLance ElviraLance ElvirLance ElvirLanceAnd a Lance LanceAnd LanceAnd And Mr and Mrs Mart FISh FIShhelped & [ Fishhelped helped out in m music and 111 in 111dance indance i : danceMrs danceMrs dance danceMrs Mrs Lydia Watts plays pla s her accordlOn accordion ac cordion cordlOn so wellThe wellThe well wellThe The tears come up into mto our e eyes eyesor es es esor e ; ; or our hearts with raptur rapture raptureswell raptureswell swell swellMrs swellMrs rapture/ rapture / ( < Mrs ' < US LoVLLIe Lottie Lothe Lottre ' < ' < US LoVLLIe lJarsen ana lVIr , ana anaMrs Mrs John Barker tooBUIlt tooBuilt too Built interests mterests glad about the theIr theIrhomes theirhomes r homes and were so bright ar an and andgay angay d gay gayThat gayThat That people just came in m to say sa y helloAnd hello sayhello helloAnd helloAnd da3 dayMrs And remained remamed with joy all day da- da - Mrs Ida M Waddell of gard gardeners gardeners cners eners she s a queen And queenAnd lovelier roses than Mrs MrsEssIe s Essie Shafer s are seldom ever everseen everseen ev ( > r seenMr seenMr seen seenMr Mr and Mrs Frank Shafer were wereactors wereactors e actors in 111 an earlier earher day Whenever they wanted to have havefun havefun hav havfun ' fun funThey'd funThey'd They'd Theyd ' ' get a bunch together and andJust andjust just rig up a play England John Holyoak from En Enland Eng ; land crossed the ocean wIde wid and blue blueCame blueCame blueCame Came here to Moab produced produceda a family tried and trueOutstanding true trueOutstandmg trueOutstanding Outstandmg Outstanding in 111 the cattle bus buss bussness business I Iness ness is Mr Andrew Somer SomervIlle Somerville Somerville SomervilleAnd vIlle villeAnd vIlleMr ' And Mr and Mrs John Peter Peterson Peterson Peterson son hold places no others can canf1l1 canfill carfillThe f1l1 fill f1l1The fillThe The years have made Mrs Dors Dora DorsHolman DoraHolman DoraHolman Holman very good and sweet sweetAnd sweetAnd sweetAnd And the record of Mrs Irene IrenePowell IrenePowell Iren < Powell is mighty hard to beat beatSome beatSome beatSome Some meet life hfe frowning frownmg somi some somewIth somewith with a loving lovmg song songDear songDear songDear Dear Mrs Mabe and Mrs Anna AnnaAllred Ann AnnaAllred ; Allred are among the kindlie kmdher kmdherthrong kindliethrong r ; throng throngIJesus throngJesus throngJesus Jesus said If ye would be liki hke lik hkeMe likMe likiMe e IJesus Me be as a loving 10vl11g ChIld ChIldAnd childAnd childAnd And that reminds remmds me of the two twoI twoMrs tw < I Mrs PrewersIWlth PrewersWith Prewers PrewersWith , With IWlth their manners manner gentle an d mlldThey mildThey mild mlld mildThey They all have their accomplIshed accomplish ed places placesMrs placesMrs placesMrs Mrs Alice Ahce Miller is everybody s frIendAnd friend everybodyfriend friendAnd friendAnd And as for Mr Lon Robertson Robertsonworkmg Robertsonworking Robertsonworking workmg working habeen hasbeen for the public has ha been his trendMana trend trendMrs , - , , _ , , _ . , , - - - - - ? Mrs Mana Maria Somerv1l1e Somerville - - and - Mrs - - - - - Caddie Robertson Roberfson--ea Roberfson ea each h-h h has a aface , faceWhere faceWhere face faceWhere Where goodnesshave gentility and goodnes goodness . ' have mingled mmgled long with grace graceMr Mr and Mrs Titus ' were pIOneers pioneers pion pioneers eers so I ve ye been told toldIn toldIn In building bUlldmg southeastern Utah Utahand Utahand Utahand and gave little llttle time to gold goldThe The George Winbourns Wmbourns and the th MerlmgsWIll MerlingsWill thMerlings theMerlmgs Merlings Merlmgs twoI Will be remembered here as tw two i I IWho couplesIWho Who couplesWho beloved have couples forged forward wIthout without with out fear fearLIttle fearLittle Little fnenboth frIendboth Mrs Cooley is a frIend fnen 3 both kind kmd and true And trueAnd sweet Mrs Alvma Alvina WIlllams Williams Williamsis < - ; , througtAnd throughAnd is a lady through and through . And McConkleshow McConkreshow the fine fme Russel McConkie McConkles McConkres ; strivenAnd stnvenAnd how nobly they ve ye stnven striven And Mrs Lilla Winbourn Wmbourn much muchJOY muc muchjoy joy to friends has given NobIlIty givenNobIlIty tdwell todwell has proudly come to t dwell on the Will Hawks an and d Huffman andHuffman u countenmC'Pu u.uuu uuuu . : ' u u.uuu uuuu . u.uuu.vuuu \.vuuu .vuuu \ . = uaul , ; ' " And Mr Frank Silvey has WrIt ten WrItten hIstorIes hIstorIesOf historiesOf Of lives and circumstance circumstanceMrs Mrs Fletcher Fletchers smother s mother httle little httleMrs Mrs FellIs FellIs Fell FellIs Is teaching teachmg us a lesson in m health healthWe We should remember long and andwell andwell wellMrs wellMrs well wellMrs Mrs greatlove Amy Allred Allredshows shows gre great ; laborAnd love in m kindly kmdly laborAnd labor And thougunseen the Don Taylors though thoughunseen thoughunseen thoug unseenWIll unseenWill unseen Will neighborMr always help a neighbor Mr Stone Rutledge has a char character charaster acter aster splendid as his name And nameAnd the Bunces have reared reared rearedfme rearedfine fine fme chlldrenAnd childrenAnd children chlldren childrenAnd And never fought for earthly earthi earthlyfame fame fameAnd fameAnd And surely though they may ma 1 1not not with us theIr theirgraceDont p pih ih ihgrace grace pgrace graceDon graceDon Don t forget the loving hA llves lives of Mr and Lr livesPace ' Mrs MrsFrom "lrs lrs " PaceIFrom Paceof Pace J * From afar came Mr Scorun Scorup IFrom ScorunMr Mr Goudelockwho Goudelock who in jn i incountry jncountry country have wrItten [ TheIr writtenTheir names so wenuPon wellupon well wen uco uPon livesThat hves lives hvesIThat livesThat That they will not IThat be ere gottenThere gottenThere gotten eregotten ere i There characterold is a fine fme character characterOl i Ol Olold RayWhose old Grandpa Ray Whose edthIs story is mscq inscri.bed inscribed inscred . ed 11 $ 11this this and yesterdayOh yesterday 1 > ' Oh all you fine fme pioneen PIoneers m IIoab Hoab Itoab HoabA ItoabA pioneenIIoab > InAnd A tribute loft we give t 1 { In And fonowclosely Jclosely pray we may follow fonow J n nclosely closely your examples Is examplesAnd IsAnd And ourselves more ' of 'M M wn Mori- Mori - Morilive 'MlIve oflive live -And And - hi I lIveI ( ( And liveAnd now if there are 0 o oLi , 0whose I beBut ifBut whose n mes should be if the'eRemember theeRemember dRemember But are not among theoe these theoeIRemember ' d Remember it ] is S due to lack lac { Br lackspace IRemember OHrAnd etAnd space and perhaps OHr o overs et ; And is not intentional pI pl pli plbi ple 1 i bi |