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Show Page Eight - The Springville Herald - July 26, 1989 . r -"Sf, ; , 1 i . ",. i"'1""" """" 1 "" '""V . The July 24th Parade in Maplcton was bigger and better than ever. ' Shown above is one of the float entries. It best depicted the theme of the celebration, "Celebrating Life in the Land of Sierra Bonita." A paper mountain, trees, deer and lots of children decorated this entry. Former SHS Choir members to meet August 5 at Art Museum for reunion A recent poll ofl949 graduates of East High School in Salt Lake City showed that music classes were their favorite subject in school followed hy English. They also said that business and music classes did them the most good in life. Why music? Ask any graduate of Springville High School who was involved in the choir or band programs pro-grams and they will probably respond re-spond the same as the East High grads. Music did play an important part of their high school careers and they remember fondly their music experiences. That is why a group of old SHS graduates from 1952 to 1963 are having a reunion of the Springville High School Choir. They are inviting invit-ing their former choir leader back to Springville to join with them in renewing acquaintances and to sing a few of the old songs. On Saturday, August 5, all those who took choir under Glenn Mon tague are invited to attend the reunionattheSpringville Museum of Art. There will be a buffet and those attending need to call for reservations. The following persons are in charge of contacting graduates from their graduation year who took choir and any of them can be called: 1953, Ruth Ann Boyer Randall, 394-2158; 1954, Clark Fullmer, 489-9475; 1955, Ann Gappmayer, 225-5818; 1956, Linda Weight Cluff, 489-6394; 1957, Naomi Boyer Bonney, 561-4116; 1 958, Mary Ivory Brown, 262-7654; 1959, Mary Conover Cox, 489-5651; 1960, Gloria Sargent Collins, 375-8662; 375-8662; 1961, Lane Savage Child, 489-6819; 489-6819; 1962, Mary Jane Bird Pal-freyman, Pal-freyman, 489-8180; 1963, Martha C. Sargent, 489-6161. Mr. Montague left SHS in 1963 and moved on. He has been teaching teach-ing music at the Allan Hancock Community College in Santa Maria, Ma-ria, California for the past 24 years. Looking Beck by Lot's Wife Speaking of pioneers, and so many of us were this weekend. Speaking of them, being thankful for, singing about, pretending to be, and picnicking pic-nicking because of. Haven't you just been wondering about our own Springville Pioneers-tie first founders found-ers and farmers, the original "Springville clique" as we outsiders outsid-ers think of them. The first Hay-monds Hay-monds and Metcalfe, Packards, Aliens, etc. On my own, with no support from anyone in the publishing business, I bought that book, the one pub-1 pub-1 ished by the Springville Herald, by Mary Jane Chase Finley, about Springville history. It's a pretty darn good little book-and you can't say that anyone paid me to say that. I wish you could. This book was discovered by Harold and Marie Whiting who got ; it from Minnie Grosbcck, one of I the author's eleven children. How; is it that she had eleven children andstill managed to write this--and start PTA and be a school teacher. I guess if you wantsomethingdone, ask a busy person. Mary Chase Finley was born in Salt Lake City in 1857 and moved to Springville in 1858. Which makes her pretty close to a native, although some of her descedants might be a little put off that she really wasn't born here. The details in her stories are what make this book so interesting inter-esting These are first-hand accounts and Mrs. Finley must have been a good listener to get closed mouthed Utah pioneers to tell her their stories. sto-ries. . For example. Hobble Creek first got its name on the corner of Fourth West and Second North. Right on the corner where Oliver Huntington Hunting-ton and Barney Ward, a trapper, camped on their third night out from Salt Lake to scout the area as a future homesite for the LDS Church. Their "bell mare" broke her hobbles (get it?) during the night and led off the other horses. They followed the trail about a mile .and a half southeast, (down to the Art Museum?) where they found the horses knee deep in bunch grass and happy as pigs. The place was called Big Hollow. back m Sp ringville's pioneers WE'VE NEVER LOOKED SO BEAUTIFUL!! 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Don't miss this year's showing, THREE DAYS ONLYI m 220 South Main, Springville Member of the American Gem Society BRING IN THIS AD AND RECEIVE A SPECIAL GIFT THROUGH AUGUST 5, 1989. i What's on Big Hollow now? A1-. lens? Houses? Vern Swanson's office where he's still as happy as a littlc.well, he eats regularly anyway. any-way. I enjoyed going through the book and imagining things then and thinking about them now. To me, who up till a couple of years ago, thought ward parties were a commandment like not getting drunk and paying tithing when you were broke, only not as fun, the closeness of pioneer life would have been a little frustrating. Every morning the horn blew at 4 a.m. for wake up. I wonder if that's where the phrase "blow it out your ear" started? It then blew again after a preparation time to signal morning prayers. It was blown again in the evening at 830 p.m. for prayers which each family said together in their own wagon. Can you imagine if they did that in your neighborhood? neighbor-hood? The bishop in each ward would have to call a horn blower. He'd probably have to get a new guy every month because they'd kill the old one. The pioneers arrived here on September 18, 1850 after leaving Council Bluffs, the jumping off place into the west from civilization, on June 7, 1850. There were eight families originally, and I bet not a sleeper-inner among them. They built a fort, like the one at Cove Fort down by Fillmore, just east of the corner of Second West and Second North. Each family had a room 16 by 18 to live in and a shed to keep their tools and equipment in next to it. The fort was built in a square to better facilitate seeing what was happening across the street, an old Utah custom. Although the windows were covered in muslin which wouldn't be such a bad idea today. They had grass bedticks and a wagon bed table and a big stone fireplace. Everything that Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Little Carrie had on "Little House on the Prairie".' They also had mice and bugs and rain which dripped in full of mud as it went through the thatched roofs. I wonder how it was when the wind blew down the canyon can-yon like it does sometimes and scares our socks off? The first eight were soon followed by more. Lisonbees, Crandalls, Roylances, Huntingtons, Johnsons and Sanfords. They went through a lot to start this little place. If they had been near a bigger stream, there's no reason this couldn't have been Chicago or Kansas City. They were certainly worthy of a great city. The Indians were scary and mischievous, supplies were few and hard to come by. They worked hard and got along. I'm not from Springville, but I really enjoyed reading about it. Thank you Brother and Sister Whiting and LaRell Johnson, for making it possible to share Mrs. Finley's stories. It's fun to know all the Westerns aren't on TV! People believe to cure a cold, kiss a mule on the nose. 4 V-V. - Ik. j X 2 ,rs- . it til J" K 5 The Hafen-Dallin Volunteer Guild at the Springville Museum of Art have purchased several items to be used at the museum from money they earned at the home tour they sponsored. Ruth Nielson, president of Hafen-Dallin; left, Grace and Max Allcman, docents; Sharon Gomez, finance chairman; and Sydna Strong, past president, are shown above admiring glass and silver vases and a 17th Century chandelier made of silver and nickel with alabaster light bowls that were purchased. They also bought six large serving trays. The chandelier will be rewired by the City Electric Department and hung in the Main Entry at the museum. Li Car Wash coupon I 1 .AU9USt 4 - Non to 7 p m Rr ' I AjiS Pi 495 North Moln ' I i coupon : - J |