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Show SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1930 V AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN set AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN )fflo-nAlpine Fablishinjf Company Buildin-one 85 A PEOORESSIVB, INDEPENDENT PUBLICATION Entered in the Poet Office at American Fork, Utah, aa aecond claw natter. Subscription ratea $2.60 per year In advance. Advertisement ratea: Diaplay, 30 eenta a column Inch. Legal mr,A wi MtA at 10 eenta Dr eiriit-Doint line per in- aertion. Want ads. Rate 2 centa per word each inaertion. Payment muat accompany advertisement v,, A. P. OAISFORD, JB ULEDITOB n Cost of Gcneratirur Power Brlghtm Olty has found what it coata W I funeratn lactrlcjr - with ! dlesel engines. ThaM figures are not aahmttted br (ha Utah Power ft light company, bat were takaa tram tha records and ware made pert of the mlnaUa of tha city council in aeealoa here Monday night These figures ehow that tt costs Jbocaa a trifle over eight cents per kilowatt hoar to generate eleotrie energy with two new dleeal engines. It costs Murray. Utah, 4.31 eenta to generate electrio energy with dleael angina equipment It coata Elko, Nevada 1U cents to generate electrle energy with dleael angina equipment , Why the wide difference -between tha coat at production at Logan and lfurray la not explained. The high production at Slka over t,MJM kilowatt hours-4s tha main reason for the low eoet of production In that city. Brlgham'a need la conalderably less. The Important thing la, alnce Brlghami owna her own distributing system, why pay 118 eenta to gene rate electrlo energy when you can bay it on the open market tor two eenta, pine a guaranteed aenrtoe; no rapalr bill to (ay, and no depreda tion coata or Intereat to meetf Consider the matter from the atandpolnt of good, builneaa rather thin prejudice againat ' the power company equipped to fnrnlah the en orgy at a reasonable coat to the coo earner Box Elder Journal. Warren B. Smith By Garth Chtoman. When Warren B. Smith came to Utah) moat of the eUt was a feeding ground for "' buffalo and antelope. There wag very UUle -pink In the desert then, Assiduous tabor, ta-measurable ta-measurable eacrtfloe an" purnoneful thought have transformed the" taking wilderness Into a rich and fertile land. When tka hlatory of our elate "i told, that part which deals with the story -of tha pioneers shall loom largo anC complete. : Warren B. 8mlth wan born at Kaa-vooy Kaa-vooy nilnoia, In 1144. Ha came with hla parent to Utah In 1850. He re-membere re-membere well the grasshopper and cricket war. Be tella that after the deatruotlon had been wrought by the peeta, the people lived for a season oi' wUd-berrtes thistle tops, aegoee and weeds until new crops could be raised. , When he was twelve years old be came to American Fork to Mve with his sisters, Mellaaa Mott and Martha Chlpman. At the age of nineteen, nine-teen, he hauled grain for horses used In the government overland mail on a route covering a point 125 miles GAMEO THURSDAY SATURDAY, MARCTtr t (y - e 2 :J:"; Present 1 A Romcantic Western Comedy 66 Cowboy The Indian and The Lady" By Charles Alden Seltxer LAUGH AT TOBY as "FRECKLES" He has more troubles than he has freckles and if he's got one freckle he's got a million. years and was a member of the Brass Band for ten years. Mr. Smith's activities of life have not only been of a religious nature, but he also has taken an active part in riTic affairs, for thirteen years he was superintendent of the American Fork Coop, store and waa a member of the city- council for on term. He has built four residences la this city and has at some time occupied them with members of ; hla ! family. For thirty years he served faithfully as an employee of Chlpman Mercantile Co. and for five years waa time keep er and paymaster of tha 8aH take 4 ItV Your Bank W want you to feel at home here. Every service we offer saving, checking,, commercial, com-mercial, trust, safety deposit is yours to command. Every employee and every officer is eager to assist you. It's YOUR Bank. Bank of American Fork 39 Years Successful Banking west Having lived here for over seventy years, he is an authority on the early history of the state. Aa a boy he drove cattle to a pasture on no less a place than our present Ualn street of Salt Lake City. ' Warren B. Smtth'a Ufa has been rich la varied experiences, but his religious affiliations and adttvttlee are the most salient features of his Ufa He hs been acquainted with all the presidents of the Church since Joseph Smith. He gave tha following des cription and impression of Brlgham Young: "He was about five-feet ten Inches In height, with broad should ers. He had a light complexion and very striking features. I heard many of his speeches, end I have lived to see many of bis prophecies fulfilled. He wm the moat practical speaker rve ever heard." Under Brlghani Toung, Warren B. 8mlth was a member of the School of the Prophets, a group of men who discussed and worked out the deeper problems concerning the Mormon Church. During the , years 1877 to 1879, he worked aa a missionary la England, ((residing over the London conference and baptising seventy per sens. Before ' leaving England, he waa made custodlaa of the Book of Ifonnon stereotype plates, which were made la London In 1878. He waa counselor to President C. W. Nlbley in bringing a company of saints from Liverpool. Tears before when he was nineteen years old he drove an ox team 1100 miles' to the Missouri Riv er to get Mormon tmmlgraats). Front 1887 to 1889 be worked as a mission ary In the Southern States. It is In teresting to note, that during tha two years of this mission he spent but thlrtjrwflv dollars tor personal necessities, and ten dollars of that amount paid tor a". suit which ha bought from a fellow missionary. a home missionary he has covered all of Utah county. He was la the presidency over all the Seventies la Utah county with Karl a Maeser and Isaiah Cooma tor eight yean. He waa hlahop of the Fourth ward for fourteen years; senior high counselor In the first Algine Stake; chalrmaa over the Bishopries of Alpine Stake for twelve years; superintendent of the Sunday Schools here for sixteen years and was a member lesser priesthood of American Fork for twelve years and was a member of the Salt Lake Tabernacle Chair for four years. Mr. Smith save many years service fat temple work, both tor the Uvlng and the dead. It may truly be said that he has given service ser-vice In most of the offices of the L. D. S. Church. Warren a 8mith studied harmony under the well known anthem composer, com-poser, Evsn Stephens. His musical ability was outstanding and he did much to further community interest in music in American Fork at that time. He was choir leader for over thirty years, and directed most of the singing at funerals during that time. He said that his muslo haa enabled him to serve the oommnnftr mM than any other thing in his hfe. Be sides leading the choral muslo he directed the Marshall Band for eleven Park Ctty.ILB.-Co. In th Constru Uon o,f the r American Fork canyon ii about 1868, and he waa conductor oa tha train. In 1868,- Mr;: Smith t enlisted as a volunteer; to 4efand'j the settlers against war-like Indiana. . After fifty rears, he" waa awarded srvernment pension, a Just reward for the aervtos rendered.. . :;!; . Ha was at the head of three faml-Baa faml-Baa slmuttaneoualyv being the father of twenty-four children. He married Elisabeth' Bv Mercer, .1868, Mary B. Tyrrell Beager, 1874, and. Harriet A. Harrington'to 1884. In accordant with the principle of plural marriage aa stipulated by Joseph Smith (Doe V Con See 188). y ffha third wife, Harriet... Harrington, died ; ronng tad left' a family of email children. For six year Warren B. &nl& took tha it of father; and mother to the family. He then . married Margaret Crompton Enshton, who helped him year- tha famlljv-. . ..V . ", -'-; J Throagh ,tha anforoemanti ot . the EdmtauU-Tucker ana-polrgamy , Uw. Warren Smith was enforced Into ex. Qe for three and, one-half years, .H lost ail ot bis earthly possessions at that time and wu flnaUy oast into prison for six months. Ha waa later pardoned by tha President of tile United States. , I For elucidation of the Edmunds-Tucker Edmunds-Tucker act and for noma detail of the eondltlona at the time of IU enactment, enact-ment, I should tike to give the follow-Ins follow-Ins excerpta from an article written by a woman lawyer (Belva A. Lock-wood), Lock-wood), which appeared In a. volume for 1888 ot The Millennial Star" a Latter-day Saint puhHcation brought out In Liverpool, England. - (TUh waa organised as a Territory Terri-tory more than thirty-seven years ago, and for more than a Quarter of a century the Federal government tolerated polygamy in its midst until it became a fixed fact and Institution; received and sworn in as delegates to represent the territory ot avowed polygamlsts; and then, with a sudden Ipasm ot virtue, commenced an attack at-tack upon the system war ot extermination ex-termination which for vimlcncy and bitterness for aUsrepreeentaeloa aad oppression exceeded the horrors of coercion and eviction In Ireland. . - The government, under the Edmund-Tucker act, disfranchised not only all polygamous Mormons of the male pertuaslon. but all the women. By a vigorous execution ot the Edmunds Ed-munds law, polygamy was nrpressed. But not more than two per cent of the whole number of the people were ever:nracflcI J misu).! ':'v.vX' '.v I; About 187t Brtgham VwLJ nratel a refonnatlon in the t which ' called for, rebaptUa . Utter-day BalaU. .Warm 1 1 assisted in earrylnf out tu, and be baptised mann peopu old lffli;Cwl ; ;, Warren SmfthS roligioui V ties were consummated wh ordained a Patriarch by Francla M. Lyman, October U, Up to the present time he kut 1708 blsasingav y- h . Ot hla life's occupation 1&, J says: "Need I make aay ap aaylng that my first bisueaj ( haa .been to my God, Hl ehnrd, 8 the saving of soul at t hoa, abroad, in publld and privata 1 temporal way, Mr. Smith's tka" occupied In farming, sheep W and nMrchandlslng. , u nas peeu ue pnae ot ay be honest with tha Lord tab ment ofmy Uthes and offertnn ; Belva A; Lockwood, in o$ article from which I havs Quoted,' describee the Mormot i of that tuna aa being frugal, kf rlous, moral and honest "T their co-operative stores, sulk 1 in ii ii f iiti u taa Itiat rt. .k.i.J to the unemployed; they ail pnbUo1 schools Into which the ren were gathered, open to all The men do not swear, or toxicants or smoke". Warren 9. Smith's life these pioneer ideals. He has Irv ed his capacity for doing a&l ing by continuous effort and by lng toward the ideals in whlck perfect faith.!"'-: ' At the age of elihtr-fir sight and hearing are In condition. He reads m some current' magaxlnes an! j tons books. He etUI keeps a r 4 UMH , 1WIWTWIIIH U, WW fifty years, a - Orfoa F. Wbttney in hU the Mormon Pioneers says: "Nor . gold nor glory their quest who. won for Ei . wide unoontiuered West They tolled o'er fro ten crest, O'er parching plain Forever in remembrance let ftW And It Is Una that gold uil ara. indeed trivial compared l life's services and experience! 1 liksrWarren B. Smith who hsn! through the most testing truf to any people. it. DuringMonarch Demonstration $10.00 DOWN Monarch Malleable Ranges Aim YOUR CHOICE OP THE FOIaLOWINO PREUITJIISFREE AS LOW AS $89.00 Your kitchen floor completely covered with a beautiful de luxe floor cover A fine quality set of aluminum ware. A beautiful 42-piece dinner set. YOU MUSt BUY NOW in order to take advantage of ihis wonderful offer. The factory has authorize! us to inve these Dremiums dnrinp' this taotmir r J uwuivujuauuil VUIY, WHEN YOU BUY A RANGE BUY THE BEST OWN A HONABOH Use youx credit. Convenient terms easily arranged. 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