| Show Mt II u uI I Is DEDiCATED I AiE Handsome Place of Worship at lona lana the Scene of Big Gathering a STORY OF GROWTH OF WARD WARDI I I ii iii I a it I u llac I iii e He lie I to Arid La itil ii iii Hn Iii tiler S I C orr I O ONA A Idaho Aug 16 I Quarterly lOll eon I I tere of tl the tako of o oZion Zion Aon convened nt Ht tile Ida en on th the and td Ith ln lest t There were present from front Suit lithe VI City It Riders Rid Hudger of the of or twelve Iele anil Joseph W of the th first INt o of o v Mt ity Don C I Walker of the Black Blackfoot foot duke Iak presidency and a nd many amity mill oth uth others ers from front different ports of Idaho The Tile of the stake presidency and aM of the th auxiliary organizations showed the stake to lw lea lwIn heIn In fairly fair good I condition spiritually and anti andIn andIn In very ery Of good condition temporally rally as sit A the hf crops lire are excellent all nil over OU the Make The Th meetings were wert not so 10 well 4 11 at attended tended Saturday evening evelln owing to the extremely bul busy s season aM n but on 1111 o Sunday the large meetinghouse of lOll bus was wa Inadequate to hold the Immense m lt crowd During 1 the afternoon session mi on Sun Hun day the general rind and local authorities of the th Church Chunh were presented by b rue ident Id nt Jas Ju IC E Steele and ant were nore ouI sustained by b then thon e it Th The inns lona uw wits U titan dedicated to 10 the Lord Clam sun ot offering the dedicatory pray prayer r The Th spat given by 10 the tho k Tf was as timely limel ami situ much elated A mi must mt m excellent spirit pro pre prevailed pr veiled throughout the The Tilt TheIon lena Jona Ion choir was a 1 fIt d very cr highly for lor or ortise Uw tise splendid music furnished l under unter the leadership hI II of David D vW W V Jeff Jeffs J I Saturday night tIght th the choir gave a concert In the lees lorn house which was waa wa well ell 1 TIll The la is good goed work the able direction of I Thomas ThomA H n Uc Luc OK Oo ION hA J hAloon A loon JOM which mears inN l anti and which was wat named by ity petIe John V Taylor Talor was orIginally kiM nn as III Sand reek C HIM and embraced a II tract of country l s of ot Idaho Palls FaQ II Li miles north end ami Ih and smut wren seven miles oa MU cast t ami 1 tf M running In It a 1 northerly and ansi scull seuth direction Ion The first II rAt t was wan made midI In I 1 by It th tie following emigrants from Utah Joseph Joeeph 8 S II n W V Nor Norto or to toe loa r e l and J 1 Owens Owen George p I Ward lS id W V 4 sad r d oy Olay 01 Olsen Ob n H II tai Dal I al J 3 c r Heyn ItI oct M thus Bros and others and lid practically all of them had hid all aU of 0 this thi worlds goods which be longed to In them In their June Jima l 1 14 Wilford Wi Wood od rut ruff usher J i Grant Orant soil and President Thomas K I RId Ricks visited the th saints Mints of Sand Creek and all held an open air meet Ing Ina at the ranch nf of n 11 W v Norton and Ilk am organized a branch of the Church with Owens as presiding elder eider and attached It to the llie ward Immediately thereafter they began brgan to build houses anti make Improvements on Ill 0 their fauna farms The same Fame month the B J gp Hock Bock ant and Willow 1110 Creek canal was ivaN surveyed and so JO far completed comple 1 that water vater wan was obtained through It to irrigate Irrigate gate the crop erol of or On the of May Ia Apostle postle John JohnW JohnW Johnw W Taylor and Acting cUn Stake President L I I Bybee D U Field FJeld l sled 1111 and Imd Bishop R B K F J of Len Jew visited the tho Sand Creek branch and organized the lena lona ward vard with James Jamea K I 1 Steele ni as bishop and J 3 C anti and Owens Owen as counselors After the organization thi th lb first ward want meetings meeting s were held in Cud Cad lid alcInor Owens hou In III the tho fall fail of o oH 1116 H 6 the brethren assisted Is Oley Olse Olen Olento to put up his hi log house 16 IS by b 6 this house houle watt wan aK used for meetings Sunday and day school On Jan O 0 5 the Sunday school thool was as organized with John K J F Shelley su lilt superintendent and atil 1111 George P 1 Ward ard as II first fiNt assistant a Aug 1 I IS G the Belief society f lelet was wait organized with C t I Steele president and Shelley Shell and Mary A Owens oun olor TO In the till rail of J I lo ii lu of if acres was lIIK surveyed by b Joseph Jo A anti and laid lak off ort Into DIU blocks with situ lIh six Nix rod running east and west I nail north MiNi south eight lots iota to the block In February 1557 m the Young oun Indira Mutual was Wil with c I president lo and fOIK and anil ant free Ir e HH as 11 counselors un tor In the tho Young Yong Mens as was WR organized with John Johi F I Shelley president and Preston S Free Ald aid W V F Jo OH Owens ens a as 1111 counselors lun The h long lo e having bo be b bm tome m Inadequate It I was uati drained deemed demtd best to build a larger one and on May I a 21 l 1 the priesthood of the ward decided to 10 build huld a rock fk and tho the tailoring following brethren woi PI appointed ah am a building committee for Its ts 11 erection J JC JI C I J S 8 P 1 i Ward Wani all and d W V F J Owens Olens The house was waR no eo 1 far completed that meetings were nero erp I held heki hId In It II the following fall and I and Kd was Wa used u as an nn all ni lurl house The first Or Ml grain graim of less leu than thal 10 bushels sits as 18 tt l l In 1114 by 1 U n W Norton The harvest haMet of ISSI was 1 as ai I follows heat iUS U bushels bu oats eats Olt im 21 bush buh flu eIt corn I rr t i bushels barley 31 5 hush hueh cia els rye re live five 61 bushels bushel t Potatoes COS CG bushels alfalfa hay h lit as tons tOM wll niki II i h hl hs y 71 iJ 7 tOi Who When this crop was u raised miN lona boa I the territory comprising log ing the Ihl wards of Tollman otman life 11 Vii Wil low II Creek Ammon Taylor and Lyn In coin The pf p Mit MII dimensions of if the ward IK is 2 by h 4 mile and In 1 l ISh H i ap a 1 ly lm bushels liM hl c grain bushels h potatoes liC tuns tOi sugar beets Ue tons hay l J W bushels app s 11 live bushels peaches pounds honey hO besides other grain and am RO CrOpS crop Bishop Jarnot Jamies K E I Steele was to art act I as a sw second nd counselor to 1 Kicks of the Bannock stake nail and on Oct 19 14 li H 0 Joseph S S was Has 1 wt act It apart as al bishop of or lane olla with wih John F I Shelley stud and Alfred J IId as Alred coun counselors Uh scion IH In ISSI 1192 I the lona Intia 1011 Mercantile company was Wa incorporated with a capital stock of or I This stock flock ha h baa been heen In tn to 10 and branch store lorN established at Idaho falls JJ Lincoln and the parent store torl being at al Inns lona STAKE STARR In i John p Jo I Shelley sHley resigned and P 1 I Ward War was 6 chosen chose ChO M as a Perot c an Ml HI counselor to At t I the organization of the stake tak June 8 1 ISM ins Jas Ja H K Steele MM use 1 IH se et sport Mart as a pr president with U J 1 Hi Aft KM at al a nt first t and Jos Joa Jo as III a counselor At this date tai Gorge P I Ward ard ws tas il set lot apart as a bishop with A J and C J 1 as Mart adore In Iii the spring 1111 of or au a mo me mye a cun was A male made md to secure fUr a t section of land near the th to town IOn n Ile sIte e and hold tn the Paine IM for o desirable settlers settler who wim ll might wish l I b h to 11 Ur homes by b Prent Prest Irell 1 Ht le This land was 8 not nt held for speculation lots but hut was u told rc cd at exact eur eon cost O t in 11 Bishop Ward WAd ard resigned In the fall nf ot HM nil Hf and on K 21 1 A J Stancer Stanger al A i t chown ho n as a bishop w hop with sith wih laser lAa Oyd bunsen and an r C C J Owens as U counselors Oui In Jr the Ih spring of W the th Ions was vas Wa organized on nn the co to oi operative pUn plan and nd the Ihl hyl tI i net nf m 5 TIlde nde n de that lr PI I 81 member of the ward want matter Ju f fo few sheep he owned uld become l mf a stockholder and shari har in n the Jon of the Ihl herd This Thin fur employment for many Inan Thi and AM a market for My hay ho and nd ha b lies roved proved a great I tu to n the a and I a fIning In I L lion lon to 10 this company compau many private poe par lit lie ties tics tel own large herds of sheep and immiti cat catlie I tl In the tall fall of 1900 ld the Ihl Religion class clan was organized with C 0 W as a president On Feb Keb 11 Ii 1 Ml Bishop A AJ AJ J Stanger was IB coiled called to act as ns second counselor to President Ire S Steele elo smut HIKI Charles V was Wi clusen sis as 11 bishop GOr P 1 Ward Wan anti ami ln as a counselors counselor In Iii II the Ih spring of work vork was lS resumed on ott Of the thene new ne meetinghouse e which had been under Bishop Stanger St ner nerThe The following year It 1 was 8 completed at lit a I cost It of nearly nerl So The Tho Th t build building buil lag ing III II Is of oC cut gray rr sandstone Ti l 7 hy by h M 10 i feet with seating capacity of or TOd TO M Is 18 heated with wih furnace train from rm the tho base b c 1 It I Is IR conceded concede InI 1 to 10 l I be the mot moat t commodious and lent host lt d house lionet hou of worship In the Snake and certainly Is II a R credit re to the tho people pOle of or the SChOOLhOUSE BUILT JUIT During the summer of or Ho a n large bati beautiful brick w 1 we s built bui and a situ when hIl fully ful I t ete ivill 1 40 On April 1 12 13 h of nf this year 1 was aM laid mit the tie cornerstone of the Idaho Sugar company beet bl su in sugar ingar u gar ja factory falor In the n part rt of ut Ir this Hid Ih ward Iam am mind 11 which Is II destined to 10 revolutionize lionize the farming Industry nf of the llio valley The Th lle of or lone Ions 1011 urn ncr rt alive aliveto to their Interests In securing the hors lorn I rl lieu of this gigantic enterprise In uil their ward and took tok hold hoM nith lh H a MUlI zeal that wan rat aK commendable lo to secure fUI the Ih n I retry rf acres of beet t t to insure the th building of the factory suit and are now 1 reaping the he b l of or their efforts having In HOt IMS takwi over oe for lor their beet bet crops In the closing ln days dA of fr IMI Itu Bros Jm was l with a II capital stork of r 0 and nied bids bd fair to 10 become a growing nn ant 1 remunerative nt Jeff Kros rl ros ax at f contractors and nad builders are ar fut fail be becoming b coming coating one OIO of the staple Institution In of nf the ward wan and amid nd Intend In lii II the near nar fu In future fuI tune ture I url to purchase an apparatus to tn gen crate electricity to furnish light I for forthe fo forthe the I bt town ton They Tie have ha Y also all added to their business hUlln a press Ire brick factory lumber yard stat ami a shop to do ito general mill wor wol work There Ther are arc two lenGI who are kept busy There bU ar are no sa loons and III there Is I no 0 use U for tor them The Te I grove grov and am pavilion 1101 affords afford aorl a beautiful pleasure rr rt tithed with lh a commodious Qua ous hall hiatt with stiff and OUI barbed lal Ih scenery at al At the worlds wo fair at II St S Louis exhibited many 1 of o the th products product of nf the I village and aDd no less Ie than th rix Mx x gold and aid I medals mea are arp at now low IO hehl heki by b I for such u h At Al U I m It meeting lt of f the th of the wool ward July I 3 me Jc resolutions wro wre re passed and amid a I subscription subscript tan started lo to purchase r the Ih rock mk schoolhouse II t built In ing nf for or the im nw ll af of ff the Ihl auxiliary o I n of If the ward an Hn and It I will wili wi be 1 merle theta them themOn anet and comfortable home bor for On oil Aug Au i l t the e mt was wag dedicated hy by b Chinson at al which time the house l e was wag crowded 1 to t Its lii I capacity hv liy friends from an all Jl r forts of ff ho the stake itak In tl thee fh of o this hoU house every evary f family fi maul I I tJ both bh Mor Moe mn twin n and nd tm IMmon tent but two Iwo hays hav hl contributed of lt their menus means All 1 of or the auxiliary of o the Ihl ward wanti ar HAY hare hl contributed of o their m IMn n In n this direction ton The Primary PrimM AssocIation 1 Hla pre seated the Ihl ward rd with a 1 beautiful lon liver fre Sacrament Ml et t |
