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Show 12" Sunday,' January 22, 1950 SUNDAY HERALD Provo In Tha 1850s Bishop Blackburn Does Some Human Griping, and Scores 100 On His Court Convictions (Editor's note: Thl is the 14th in series prepared by William Wil-liam h. Callahan direct from the original diary of Elias Blackburn, Black-burn, first Mormon bishop of pioneer Provo.) w- wiw 1 1 im if c. AiXAHAN i I Kot out report for President , October 19, 137: "Received word from Colonel Pace. He wanted more supplies. Sent beef, cattle, etc - '::' October 15, 1857: "Visited the lick, and very busy Much overworked. over-worked. Sick but have to labor hard." November 1. 1857: "From October Oc-tober 25th to this day very busy in office. I married Brother E. Kellog and Sister Bird at 2 p. m." .November J. 1857: "I drove to Salt Lake City. Saw President Young." ' ' . November 4, 1857: "Rained all day and night. Very wet time . November 5, 1857: "Left Salt Lake City 8 a. m. President Geo. A. Smith came with me." November 7, 1857: "I decided a case between Brother and Sister Sis-ter Found. She got dissatisfied-wanted dissatisfied-wanted -a divorce .and property which I gave her." . November 8, 1857: "Feeling batter this morning. Captain Clark received orders to march at Colonel Alexander is on the move forthwith .to Salt Lake City. (Colonel E. B. Alexander was in command of the United States Army at this time). Colonel P. wV Conover said they' would not start until the next morning." Beef For Army November 18, 1857: "Killed two beefs for the army supplies. Filling Fill-ing orders that tame from the department.".; November 16. 1857: "President Snow . (J. C), myself, and L. N. Scovil drove to Santaquln to set-tit set-tit a difficulty between Johnson and'Carpenter. Johnson was very stubborn., We worked at the case alf night-until six next morning making twelve hours setting. The brethren confessed their faults and forgave each other ' November 17, 1837: An appointment ap-pointment at Provo. Took my pants, vest, shoes, gloves and sent them to the boys in the army as clothing was very scarce."- .(Note: This .looks like another case where supplying the army got close to the skin. W.H.C.) ; November 19, 1857: "Started five loads of , provisions to the army. Very busy getting off men and provisions." . ' , r- Complains About Mails December 1, 1897: "A few months ago the United States Government stopped the Utah mails and about this time President Presi-dent Young wrote to me to Tig up and run our mail from Salt Lake City to Salt Creek or Nephi. I took my own teams; one Span from Provo to Salt Lake and the other from Provo to Salt Creek (Nephi), both once a week. The President wished me to run it for three months, which ! did and at the expiration someone else would run it. After faithfully running it for three months I wrote him. He, President Young, wrote back that I had given good satisfaction and ha wished me to continue.-Now this was a great hindrance to me financially as there was no pay in H and .1 . had to furnished both (teams to run the mail) of the teams I had. I continued "to run fee mail with Brother R. C. Gibbons Gib-bons as driver for one year. I got the loan of a span of mules from Bishop Johnson' and a wild span from Bishop Craze for about three months. This was .about all the help I got It cost me individually a great amount The government afterwards . gave f 10,000 for the same services annually. I ran this mail half the .year to Cedar Springs now Holden, a distance from Salt Lake City of 140 miles. Nothing was ever said or done about me getting pay for this work. I trust I shall be rewarded for the services I have done the saints in this matter, In the world to come. Amen." , - MarglnaJ Note? "Running Unit- .Od states mans free for the good of the people." - - (Note: This statement by Bishop BiackDurn is tne nearest ap proach to a complaint to any- thing I have read in his Journal with respect to what he was ask od to do. wH.C.) Excommunications December t. 1857: "This day I Smith of all those that had been cut off the church in Provo up to this time. A long list not pleasant to remember. December 4. 1857: "P. W. Con- over was sent nome zrom me army "for not obeying orders. I was busy in office."- ' Marginal note states: "Some bitter feelings." December 5, 1857: "I called all the Bishops and' counsel together and set on various offenses in the various "wards. The number of offenders of-fenders was 41 persons. The of fense . of stealing, lying, and breaking open Southworths Store in Salt Lake City. A very inter esting court. lasting three days. All proven guilty. All made their acknowledgement to court and the saints on the Sabbath Day. Some paid fourfold." December IS, 1857: "Sunday. The brethren confessed their faults and were forgiven." . December 17. 1857: "I took sick with pleurisy and fever. Sick for three days." ' 1 - - December '20, 1857: "Some bet ter, being administered to by the Elders.' Felt well but feeble and weak." December 25, 1857: "H. Roberts Rob-erts and J. 'N. Jones -came after me with a carriage and took me to the party." Electrician Gets Color Television, For Only 30 Cents ROSELLE, N. J Jan. 21 0J.R) A 27-year-old electrician beat the rest of the country to colored television today at a cost of 30 cents. Forest W. Kllly did It by con structing a color adapter out of a few. pieces of cellophane and a discarded phonograph motor. Incredulous j Columbia broad casting system officials who visited visit-ed Killy's home to see for themselves them-selves admitted "it's true." "We almost droped dead, said a CBS electronics expert. This fellow and President ' Truman have the only home sets receiving color television In America." WCBS-TV in New York has been transmitting experimental color programs daily to the federal fed-eral communications commission and the President at Blair House in Washington. Kllly said he had been tuning in on these for two weeks... , ( "So Simple" f . , "It was so simple I figured everybody was doing it," he said. Kllly said he read In a 'radio magazine thai the network was producing the color programs for hearings being conducted by the F. C C. to decide whether color television shows should be produced pro-duced commercially. ' He said the magazine article gave him the Idea to build a color wheel . out of pie-shaped pieces of green, red' and blue cellophane cello-phane stretched on a 12-inch disc. He ' paid 30 cents for the materials. ma-terials. 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