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Show L. D. S. NOTES loin's of tbe Seconb Wlarb By MRS. BETH FISHER . ; : ;' I Fotheringham, from the Canal ' Zone in Central America, and j Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Gronning. Mr. Fotheringham is the son of Mrs. Shay Zabriskie and the I Gronnings, from Delta, are the parents of Bishop Carlyle F. I Gronning. Jane Lang and Francis Fran-cis Hollis also were welcomed back. Mrs. Lang has been visiting vis-iting in the Hawaiian Islands and Mrs. Hollis has been in Ogden. Stake Sunday School Board members visiting Sunday School on July 23 were William Firmage and Anthony Wood-house Wood-house of Beaver. Following Sunday School they held a Union and Teacher Training meeting with the officers and teachers of the Sunday School. Mr. and Mrs. Leland Thompson Thomp-son entertained the M-Men and Gleaner Fireside group at the Clinton Bond home on Sunday evening, July 23. Group Leader McCoy Williams presented a Book of Mormon lesson to the 19 persons present, after which refreshments were served. Glen Casterline furnished a vibraharp solo in Sacrament meeting on July 16th. The program in sacrament meeting Sunday evening, July 23, was a truly pioneer one A with four speakers, all of them past 70 years of age, taking part. The first speaker was John W. (Jockey) Myers, who was born in 1860 in Salt Lake City. At the age of four he moved to Minersville with his iparents, who made their home in a dugout in the sagebrush until they could build a house. Mr. Myers told some of his early experiences and said that he had met and talked with several sev-eral of the presidents of the L D S Church, among them Brigham Young. In concluding his talk, Mr. Myers said that he had been a tithe and tax-, tax-, payer since the age of 19 and was still paying, and was thankful thank-ful that he still was able to. Mr. Myers was followed en the program by Hyrum Davis, a "youngster" of 76, who also spoke about the early days in Beaver County. When he first came to Milford there were only three houses in the town. Main Street was only a swamp and they hauled gravel to fill it in. He helped sink the shafts for most of the mines around here and at one time he hauled lumber from the Beaver Mountains Moun-tains to Frisco. Following the singing by the congregation of the song "Come Come Ye Saints," which could , . very well have been called the theme song of the Mormon pioneers, pio-neers, the .parents of Bishop Gronning spoke. The children iin the congregation were especially espe-cially thrilled by Mrs. Gron-ning's Gron-ning's stories about the Indians. She also gave a stirring account of being blinded by boiling lye while making soaj in the early days of her marriage. The doctor doc-tor said that she would never see again, but through faith and prayer she was healed and enabled en-abled to rear her family and carry on her Primary work among the children of the church. Indeed, she spent so much time in Hrimary that Bishop Gronning said he got the idea as a child that he was born in Primary. Visitors at Sacrament meeting meet-ing on July 23 included Billy Members of the Frank Williams Wil-liams family of . Minersville were unable to present their scheduled program in Sacrament Sacra-ment meeting on July 23, due to a family reunion. Florence Beard and Cuma Goodwin, counselors to Ruth Lish in the Primary Association, Associa-tion, announce that the Primary Summer Festival for the Second Ward will take place next Monday, Mon-day, July 31, at 8 p. m. in the L D S Church. The children, dressed in costumes, will por- tray the habits and customs of the Scandinavian, British, Ha- waiian and Indian peoples in ' story, song and dance. They will also display their summer handiwork, which includes needlework and figurines which - they have painted, depicting ' the peoples they have studied. |