Show the in california 0 the latter day saints ot of tips tills vicinity celebrated jul july 24 pioneer day dav with appropriate exercises f music 01 irions and recitations at social hill hall in colony no 4 the exercise exercises were followed fol lowel I 1 by a picnic dinner with contests in sports an i a i dance lor for the children in the afternoon the day being concluded by a dace at night 0 er COO persons communicant and friends of the local church pined in making the occasion occa ion i fitting cremeni berance of tl e g of the stirs nd it d ati apet in silt ailt I 1 il it e N alley anh jul 24 4 1847 b the haht murm n pioneers this day is generally celebrated b the mormon people as an all occasion for recalling the tile lations hai bar I hips and hei her asins of their fathers in conquering the inter mountain ni hilderness ild erness A song lar it these celebrations is called hard times I 1 it is a pathetic apostrophic iphil to hard times to come conic again no more and contains the nery ery quintessence of all that is pathetic strenuous and out trying truing in pioneering the ii way ay tie audi ence asir u tah ill johnq oin in the retrain hard times b hud ii d times I 1 come again no ni re rep I 1 I 1 shows their appreciation and I 1 now ledge of thoe hard time of 1847 among th e present nas nias mrs tailor of oad n utah now noa visit ing her bon AIN alburt rt taylor i gridley merchant mrs tailor railor N who bo now past 80 was one of the band of exiles who in the spring ot of 1847 in walked the long trail in westward from omaha pushing C nta n taming ining their worldly possessions although this little band reached leached the present site of salt lake city late in the summer as july 24 immediately ran shallow furrows the and soil oil and irrigated a patch where potatoes were grown before frost that fall this in ignation was nna instituted as the very ba basis bais is of fanning fal ming in the and arid west and those first firt billow on the desert in 1847 were the real demonstration of the feasibility of irrigation the first humble beginning of our gleat great modern sa s tern of irrigation aspeci e ally in the intermountain regions it is remarkable that thoe early mormon pioneers wholly unac quain quainter ted with irrigation practice for irrigation at that time was nowhere DON chere in the world except in a few i emote remote unknown spanish h C california ili fornia settlements settlement sl b hue i e without tuition or instruction sei ela ed upon a method of liu husbandry bandry 0 o essential and so successful under and arid cor editions tl TI e gridley colonies of saints are growing rapidly new settlers corn coil ing in constantly from other states states the gridley branch winch is the largest in califor nia is now engaged in building a handsome church in gridley this church when corn coin plated this fall will be the largest chaich structure tuie in northern call forma fornia it will seat 1000 1 persons george ceorge tolley is tl ti e efficient and popular president oi of the gridley branch I 1 am a gentile ma myself sell but I 1 have hane associated intimately with tl e alor mon people some fifteen years and I 1 have hae this to bay say of the chuich church of I 1 attel da dan saints it I 1 is one of the ino most inot t virile aggred ive io and arid gioi growing ang of modem modern churches it does not practice race suicide 0 ginev stably it will outgrow from itself my iny gentile church having a constantly decreasing sunday sunda school membership the moi 1191 mon inon mother of fie fio ten tn gwehe eixe children chil dien n nay av well inell smile with satisfaction over the futile puttering ng church worl of the childless i woman oman in the churches ral raising ang five ten tell twelve children forthe for the church beats beat in im way I 1 know knon of foi for building up rapidly a power ponner ful homogeneous church member ship also be it noted the men not a handful of women and one lone one pie pi ibber run the mormon church it appears to be a man 9 chuich church conducted conduct cd by men on oil business busi neos prin ciple ou in iv call it sacred izing business or commercializing nn im as vom bout prejudices dictate but the fact remains that it produces pio duces a powerful powei ful and virile church in these days of empty feminized churches it is worth going a long way to see a pulpit rostrum odowd ed etith N ith men young an I 1 01 oh 1 f firm irm ers tire meol anica u men con ducting sun 1 iv after sunday ig ie lai jub vices while their women tend the little ones donin dow n I 1 il I 1 the an au hence avell ell you can see that any iny sunday out at social hall in the moemon colonies ray me intyre 1 lying ing in the xi idley call forma fornia hebald july 27 |