Show S BLUEBELL S 'S S SA A birthday dinner was given ghen n 1 Tues Tries da lay clay after afternoon Mrs on Ut at the he home of Mr 11 and I S In honor of Mr Ir S S Wr birthday lay All Mi their children and T were wre IH Present sent namely M 1111 r. r William Dickerson on and a ba baby bahr u Mrs l vr Gu Guy Hollenbeck 1111 uel Mr tr and Mrs Charlie and son Burdick hab anti and baby nil all of f Duchesne also ne Mr Mi- 11 anti and Mrs T 11 Burdick find and famil family of Mr 11 Walter WaIter Remington to has hns o gone Rono to tomen Vernal where lie he has found employ emilo men merit Mr lr W. W S B B. Woodruff who has hns had iid a n severe attack of pneumonia and MV Mr Leslie B. B Goodrich Co who lm Im t hom of th u.- u. from the fever fe ti are both on the roae road to recovery The list of ot Roosevelt Roose visitors this week includes and Mrs Frank R. R Smith Miss Edith Bird Mrs Laura Seeley J John ohn I L. L L Anderson lind anti and son sou on Ray Un Mr Mi un and l Mrs Mis Calista Cook and I son Ora George c Woodruff and ond the Misses Margaret larg let Woodruff and Cleona Larsen Mrs Hannah Larsen Iarsen and son Bill Mrs Irs Clara plara E. E Hancock Mrs Alice D. D Gaje Cile Mrs Urs Martha Thorsen and Mr 11 John X Anderson Were eJe all visitors at nt the W. W B. B Woodruff home last week week week- Sunday morning Mr Mi- and Mrs Frank Smith took the In th the school bus to Duchesne where they I gave ga a demonstration of the missIonary missionary mission missIon- ary work Those who went were Gardner Gar Gar- Goodrich one of the instructors I the Misses Alta Altu Waters Cleona Gleona Larsen Larsen Larsen Lar Lar- sen Margaret Woodruff ff Garda Goodrich Goodrich Goodrich Good Good- rich Nellie ellie Stevenson Ste anti and Naomi lOmi Marray Murray Mar Mur- ray and the Andrew Jones Porter Merrill Flo Floyd d Goodrich Bill Bm Larsen Bird ird Smith Afton Alton and Ellis Murray Miss Dora Dorn Lloyd the stake Sunday School secretary and und Mr Ir E. E II L. Murphy stake superintendent bothof bothof both bothof of Upalco vere were also present The Tho George ge Woodruff Ja Jas Ja C Cook ok and son Ora went to Arg Argyle le Saturday Saturday Sat Sat- urda evening e Mr and Mrs 1 R. R E. E Miller of Myton l were visitors at the home of Mr 11 and Mis' Mis W W. Yo B. B Woodruff Sunday after- after noon distance of eighty miles at an average average aver er age speed of twelve and one half miles an hour including peny pony changes In western terminus of the route an equally elaborate celebration cele cele- bration announced the departure of Henry Henri Roff ROff- ROff the first P Pony ny Express press I rider out of on the same da day April 3rd All business was suspended sus and the cit city was decorated for the event ent Frey rode a jet blackhorse black blackhorse blackhorse horse out of St. St Joseph a pure white steed dashed ou out of Roff Iloff covered his first twenty miles in fifty fifty- nine minutes s changed horses at Folsom Folsom Fol Fol- som in ten seconds and rode on to Placerville the end of his bis run The total distance ridden by Roff hoff was five fifty miles miles time two hours and I rive forty minutes with part u of the country countr very hilly There was a longrun long longrun longrun run through Fort ort Churchill Smith Creek and on to Salt Lake City which was reached from the west on April and from the east on April For the first time in its history the west was able to communicate with the Pacific coast and the Atlantic Atlantic Atlan Atlan- Atlantic tic coast in a a. few days Previous to that time it required from four weeks to three months for letters to reach different ent parts of the west from the Atlantic coast President Lincoln's first inaugural address was was carried from St. St Joseph miles in seven days and seventeen n miles in seven da days s 's and hours S Animals used on the route have hn usually us us- ual been referred to as ponies but they were were for the most part t fine American horses I Eighty Eight riders iders were ere employed on the I route and und at times er C every one of these men was in the saddle fort forty going west and fort forty going east It was necessary to cover covel miles ever every twenty four hours da lay day or night rain ruin or shine The ht weight of the letters was limited limited limit limit- ed cd to twenty pounds and nd the total weight of rider and equipment was presumed not to exceed pounds The mail mall was sacked into four equal equal eq ual parts The Ibe mail mall pouches were locked when d delivered to the tIle rider ider and opened with Uh duplicate ke keys s 's in the posse possession slon of officials at each end of the route or at designated station A charge e of ot five tie dollar was made for each half ounce ounce of ot mail mali and on this basis each through mail mall pouch earned twenty four hundred dollars Later the rate was reduced to one dollar dol dol- lar InI per half halt ounce Letters were wrapped wrap wrap- ped pei in oil silk as a pr protection against swollen streams and tuu hea heavy heay y r rains The mall mail wa wn of more Importance than the rider and on one occasion an express rie rider er was killed and scalped scalp scalp- scalped ed but the pony POlY escaped with the thc mail mall which was brought safely through to the next station The pa pay 0 of Pon Pony Express riders ranged from fran fifty dollars to one pun pun- undred undred un- un dred fifty a month with board Only those who performed unusual feats or incurred special risks were paid the top price Receipts of ot the Pony Express amounted at times to to tooer over oer a thousand dollars per pel da day Notwithstanding these seemingly high receipts the thc ervice ervice ervice er- er vice lasted less than thun eighteen months and nd in iii financial failure The Pacific Telegraph sounded sounded tl the e death knell of the Pon Pony Express the most romantic letter carrier system this country fas has ns ever known |