| Show Moab's Pioneers Worked Hard but They Also Took Time Out to Play Days were long and filled with hard work for Moab's but still they had timeto time timeto to play Following are slightly edited excerpts from a paper on early social events prepared I by Mrs Airs J. J W. W Hawks for the Grand County 1 Camp of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers My parents Alma Lutz and China Stewart Stewart Stewart Stew Stew- art Lutz were early of Moab and also of Randolph Smithfield and Salt Lake City Mrs Airs Hawks writes My mother came to Salt Lake as a child about 4 years old in 1847 My father came In 1852 as his father had been left in winter quarters by Brigham Young as a bishop over the ward My people arrived In Moab on July 24 1884 I was born the following October My mother died two years later leaving my brother only 2 days old He Ile lived to be 4 2 years old My father r In early ealy days wa WAS was on one of the first square dance callers He Ha also taught the young people how to da dance nee From the time I was 4 4 Y years old I was taken to the dances as my sisters all went and I had no one to tr stay with We lived a amile amile mile from town and we always went in a wagon In the early days the dances were given I mostly in private homes and only two or three couples could dance at a time lime They would make tickets and put them into a ahat ahat I hat and each man had to draw for his num num- ber and then dance when his turn came When the cowboys were In town they thy used to come com to the dances daneel end and were wre usually filled with wine win wine or liquor end and sometimes caused lots lotsof lotsof lotsof I of trouble One night said Mrs Hawks a gun gun- toting outlaw named Thomas Roach became angry because he didn't get first draw when the tickets were being passed around He lie struck the hat when hen his turn came and knocked tickets all over the floor The dance broke up Later said Mrs Hawks Roach killed a aman aman aman man In a at Monticello and left the country When they had any kind of party or celebration said Mrs Airs Hawks my father and sisters had to sing When I got older I sang with them The Spotted Fawn Is one of the songs they used to sing also The I Texas Ranger Kitty Kilty Wells and Gathering Up the Shells From the Seashore On the Fourth of July and the Twenty- Twenty I fourth my father with Angus Stocks Will Bliss and two or three others used to go out at daylight in a wagon and serenade the town own playing music on every street Lots of times imes people would come out and bring them something to eat Big community dinners dinne were a part of each said laId M. M Mrs Hawks We would have tables made of lumber clear down the sidewalk In front of the dance hall All the ladies ladles would bring cake pie bread butter cookies ch cheese ese pickles and everything that was eatable The men folks would furnish the meat and they would have a big barbeque They would have a whole beef a mutton and a pig all roasting the night before Three or four men would be chosen to watch it and keep fires all night I remember er er Mr Air Thomas Trout was always one of the cooks as he was such a good hand One time In the parade they dramatized the Indian trouble and had the old chief and his its band steal one of the pioneer children while the pioneers were camped to cook their dinner Another time we had a big bowery built and Uncle Norman Taylor talked at that program He Ile was the boy who drove the second wagon into Salt Lake valley In 1847 A girl named Linda Young and I had to step They encored so much we had to dance the second time and I was so bashful bashful bash- bash ful ul they had to pull me out onto the floor I didn't want to dance anymore but the theother theother theother other girl just laughed about It She wasn't afraid They threw money out on the floor to tous tous tous us and I wouldn't even pick mine up So Soshe Soshe Soshe she picked it all up I. I |
