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Show Page Four - The Springville Herald - January 1, 2004 Ymirs&n x Wma Warn mnnm 1 - kV PS7 Erma Lee and Dick Bills 50 years together Richard "Dick" and Erma Lee Bills of Mapleton, Utah are celebrating their fiftieth wedding anniversary Wednesday, Wednes-day, Dec. 31, 2003. They were married Dec. 31, 1953 in Spanish Fork. Their marriage was later sealed in the Manti LDS Temple. They have four children: Stephen (Jayne Ann) Bills, Doug (Laurie) Bills, Alan (Karen) Bills, all of Mapleton, and Mary Ann (Paul) Averett of Springville. They are blessed with 14 grandchildren and five greatgrandchildren. great-grandchildren. They enjoy their grandkids and great-grand-kids and support all of their special events. Dick retired from Pacific States Cast Iron Pipe Company, where he worked for 45 years. Erma Lee retired from Nebo School District after working for 18 years. Their children love and appreciate them and all they do. They will celebrate this special event with a family dinner. V d&'Zfi' i From the DUP Museum by Mary Murray LeBeau I have loved this set of dishes form the moment I saw them but I think it is the small square dish on the very top of each place setting that I like the most. I have never seen such a dish like this one before and I was interested to think of what might have been served on the small plate. I did learn that the British often will serve a very small serving of fish as a first course at dinner. This is usually only for holiday meals and I do not know when it first started or when it was in vogue. Some friends who recently were in Yorkshire on a mission told me they had been served this way in the past five years. The owner of the dishes at the DUP Museum was Elizabeth Bocock Law Weight. She was born to William Bocock and his wife Sarah Brough in Yorkshire, . England on May 11, 1837. Clearly I needed to know more. March 28, 1857 was surly cold and damp when Elizabeth Eliza-beth and her sisters, Hannah and Emma, stood on the deck of the "George Washington" Wash-ington" as it moved away from the dock at Liverpool. The three young women were leaving behind family and friends in the land of their birth to relocate in the land of the new church they had recently joined. I wondered won-dered if the trunk in which Elizabeth had packed all of her worldly possessions held this set of dinnerware. Realizing how precious space was I rather doubt they were carried with the girls to Boston and then on to Springville. Sprin-gville. It is a matter of record re-cord that they did share that trip with Maria Robinson, her husband, Charles Law, and their two small daughters, daugh-ters, Elizabeth Ann and Mary Francis. The Law family were also from Yorkshire. After arriving in Springville all three sisters married Law. Hannah was first in September Septem-ber of 1857. Emma was only a month later and finally Elizabeth married Charles Jan. 31, 1858. It had been 10 months since they all left England. Tr was September 20 when tragedy struck the Law family. fami-ly. Charles died and by the end of October Elizabeth and her younger sister Emma had buried children beside their father. Emma's only living son was Francis Joseph Law age 3 12. Elizabeth's son. Charles Orson, was just a few weeks from his fourth birthday. All three sisters were widows and only Hannah Han-nah had reached the age of thirty. Our pioneer grandmothers grand-mothers were women of great faith and tremendous courage, Emma was the first to remarry. It was May 13, 1864 when she married Alma Moroni Blanchard. Later that year on the second of July Hannah married John James Humphry s. It was July 1, 1865 when Elizabeth became the third wife of Fredrick Weight. From my limited information informa-tion I think that she may have become the owner of these dishes in about 1870. I would love to find an expert who could more accurately date this treasure. Between 1866 and 1882, Elizabeth and her musician husband became the parents of nine children. Alfred was the eldest, followed by George Albert, Wallace Fredrick and the first daughter, daugh-ter, named Amelia Ann. Arthur Burgum and Alice Cora dirj on the 12th and 13th of February when they were 4 and 5 years old. The Regional Make-It-Yourself-With-Wool contest was held at Payson Junior High School this year. Contestants Con-testants in the event construct con-struct a wool outfit for themselves them-selves or for others. The outfits are jumpers, dresses, jackets and two-piece suits. Pre-teen winners from Springville were Caryn Cran-dall, Cran-dall, 1st place, and Amanda Groneman, 3rd place. Junior winners that placed at region and were able to go onto the state event were: Catherine Shaw, Hannah Serr, McKayle Bird, McKen-zie McKen-zie Bird, Laura Hatch, Audrey Aud-rey Baer and Lisa Jensen. In the senior division Bethany Serr placed and went on to state. In the Made I t?V: 7 "V I J lv"'W;: '7 7 L- ) ' ' r, 7, 7 ' j for Others category Nakecia Baker, Michelle Schaertl, Alycia Whitby, Ryan Shaw and Jenny Hanks all were able to go on to state. They each had made an outfit for a sister, niece or cousin. The state contest was held at the Sheraton Hotel in downtown Salt Lake on Dec. 3. Participants spent the day being judged on how the outfit looked on them, as well as the sewing construction. construc-tion. A fashion show was held where students were able to show off their outfits In the junior category, ages 13-16, Catherine Shaw won a special award and was voted the best in her category by fellow contestants. Hilary Hitchcock, grandaughter of Ralph and Deon Hitchcock and Don and Colene Giaco-mo, Giaco-mo, took 2nd place honors. In the made for others category Alycia Whitby took 2nd place. Lr This two-piece, 100 wool outfit was made by Alycia Whitby for her little sister. Alycia captured second place honors at the state contest. Bonny Groneman, sewing teacher at Springville Junior High, entered the Make-It-Yourself-With-Wool contest this year along with her daughter, Amanda, and her niece, Hilary Hitchcock. Earth n earing Sun. Sunday dishes Despite Utah's frigid temperatures this time of year, come Sunday, Jan. 4, at 11 a.m. MST, Utah and the rest of the earth will be as close to the sun as we're going to get this year. Astronomers As-tronomers refer to this point in earth's orbit as perihelion. "While it may seem counter coun-ter intuitive that we're coldest cold-est when we're closest to the source of heat, there is a simple explanation," says NASA Solar System Ambassador Ambas-sador to Utah Patrick Wiggins. Wig-gins. The difference between furthest from the sun and closest is actually quite small so the change in distance has little effect on temperature. The real culprit is the tilt of the earth. Many might remember that earth globes are usually Samuel Eugene, Charles Francis and Ralph Brough finished out the family. Elizabeth buried son Wallace when he was 10 and Eugene at age seven. Emma died in 1873 and Hannah in 1893. Fredrick died in 1901 and Elizabeth lived to the age of 79. She died in 1916 and is buried in Springville as are both of her husbands and several of her children. Part of this courageous lady lives on in the beautiful set of dishes on the table in our DUP Museum. I would still like to know what she served on the little square plates but I feel her spirit each time I look at the artifacts arti-facts that speak of her life. Everyone is invited to visit the Daughters of Utah Pioneers Museum and see these unique Sunday dishes. tilted. That's the way it is with the real earth too, it's tilted about 23 degrees from straight up. "During this time of year," explains Wiggins, "we are in the northern hemisphere hemi-sphere are tilted away from the sun, meaning the sun stays pretty low in our sky and doesn't stay up nearly as long as it does in the summer. sum-mer. This makes for short frigid days." On the other hand, during the toasty days of July earth is actually furthest from the sun. But at that time we're also tilted towards it, so the sun is much higher in our sky and stays there a lot longer. "Happily," jokes Wiggins, Wig-gins, "for those who don't like the current season there is a simple fix. One need only head for the southern hemisphere where the seasons sea-sons are just the opposite of what we have here so it's pretty hot down there just now." For additional information log on to Wiggins' Solar System Ambassador web site at http:planet.state.ut.us. r r- A7 J ', - -- i: ; ft ? jL ' ... 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