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Show Pres. Heber J. Grant Visits In St. George President Heber J. Grant with his daughter, Mrs. John Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. Antone R. Ivins and Hon E. Kent Kane, legislator of Kane, McKean county, Pa., were surprise visitors in St. George over last Thursday evening and Friday forenoon. They were covering cover-ing the old Mormon trail to Dixie and on south in honoring Mr. Kane grandson of Colonel Thomas L Kane, early friend of Bngham Young, leader of the great pioneer pio-neer trek to the west, and of Erastus Snow, George A. Smith, James G. Bleak and many of the early members of the church. Mr Kane with Mr. and Mrs. Ivins were guests of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Pace at the former Lucy B Young home, Mr. Kane occupying oc-cupying the room in which his (Continued on page ten) President Grant Visits (Continued from first page) grandfather slept on occasion of his visits to this section. Intrigued with a sudden desire to attend the conference at Salt Lake City, Mr. Kane boarded a plane at Pittsburg, Pa., leaving certain interesting in-teresting correspondence between his grandfather and church and bringing with him the original manuscript, written by his grandmother, grand-mother, wife of Colonel Kane, and promises to furnish the original correspondence to be recorded with photostatic copies for the history of Utah and the Church. Just what part Colonel Kane played in the settlement of difficulties dif-ficulties at the time of the invasion in-vasion of Johnson's army may never be fully known, but that he was truly a friend of the besieged territory following his first visit in 1856 is remembered by many. |