Show the annual banquet of the tooele thoele commercial at club was hold in the new garage of the tooele thoele motor co last tuesday evening and wal wag a great success visitors irom from salt lake city were ex governor william spry F C richmond J david larson ex sena tor williams and joseph decker the boys who have enlisted in the marine co corps rp and leave this week for or the coast were special guests of the commercial club at the banquet the boys are harry hany hickman clarence baker jolin john hogan walter hornet ralph dillon cyrus brady con jones 0 A hixon william keough and cli clinton anton smith one of the black spots in the early history of new england eagland was the salem wa witchcraft witch craft craze a remarkable delusion which spread through the colony it was believed that the devil appeared to some people in the form ol of a black cat and persua persuaded aca them to enter his service aut d ailie write their n names ames in his ba big i k red book bo ok such guch persons persona it was said had power to bewitch and injure others by magic arts this athla belief was then common in many civilized countries and even among the leaned at salem it prevailed like a panic the wildest tales were believed to express doubt in witchcraft was proof of being a witch if the accused persons confessed that they were witches they were pardoned but it if th they ev would not tell a lie even to live their lives they were tortured and hanged persons of the highest respectability clergymen magistrates and the wife of the governor were accused one child only five years old lay chained in salem alem jail abating trial an old man giles corey was slowly pressed to death by heavy stones placed on hise his chest hest in about six months a reaction took place but not until 55 persons had been tortured unto confession not till had lain chained in prison not till 20 were hanged including one minister of the gospel the puritans were very much ashamed of whit they had done one old judge used to keep a day of fasting and prayer every year to atone alone for or the tins sins lie he had committed some Mat historians say that hat the causia of this strange outbreak of frenzy originated in the personal tredice of a min liter samuel parris he had a I 1 quarrel in hit his church about the selection of a new minister geurge george burroughs under the management ol of perris and the celebrated cotton mather minister of boston the superstitious ious of the people were turned against burroughs and aad his party he mas iwas hung and every evert one of those accused imprisoned or hung hu z was n sympathy with him in the church quarrel we do all kinds ot ol job printing from roro an envelope to in a theatre poster high council and home missionary appointments in thoele stake 0 of zion tor for sunday may 1917 bates all e hohri A lindberg and tester lester benmore jonathan H hole hale and john U hicks heckt cover cloyer alexander J shields and bishop john G shields i E H T alvin A walters and azile L england grantsville Grants ville isil owen owan H barrus Bair usand and william J dark clark grantsville Grants ville ad james L and leroy sutton Siut lon lake view Ben bendamin Benjam lamin ln L bowen and bishop edward dward E M atkin st kit juhn john E johnson and hit eil bennett tooele thoele north john A bevan and george H L In dberg tooele thoele south lyman A mcbride me bride arid and david L bowen vernon george morris s matthews and ray hammond TOOELE STAKE presidency by JOHN W TATE stake clerk |