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Show , . v' ' .? . ' y. , .. ' ' , ' '.'. , . , . I .... t-. .. . , u ( , . ' 1 - , , r ' ' ' '- w ' ' ' " I r,.. -f i tali At,, ) SMEiaNWfi. Ufiii, tiallftY, Al'ItiL 5, 1935 NUMBER T r " n I - i . ' 1 astles Clark and Lyman Point Way to Happiness I crowd was In attendance jut sessions of the 155th Conference held last ( and Sunday In the Alpine lemacle. President J. Reu-k Reu-k of the first Presidency of lib and Apostle Richard R. ere the representatives from authorities of the church, riesthood session convened 1 at 7:30 p. m. with Presl-fford Presl-fford E. Young In charge, jp sang, "How Firm a Foun-and Foun-and prayer was offered by Derey. The male glee club Igh school, under the directs. direc-ts. J. Bird, furnished special numbers. Miss Lue Oroes-Bighland, Oroes-Bighland, gave a vocal sola snt Earl S." Greenwood wel- Itcee present in behalf of the residency. He expressed a iai all appreciate tie " privi- bearing the priesthood and if testimony to toe divinity of fM,, Kelly., .of .SAnjtony, i again to meet with the peo-he peo-he Alpine Stake. He spoke jail to the mission field and jr much thought on the eub- decided in favor of going bn school. e Richard R. Lyman spoke mried experiences he had in the stakes of the church. stories and the scriptures f many fine thoughts on the wisdom ana now me cnurcn : to produce a generation of i j women perfect by adher- the laws thereof. the singing of the 'Doxology,' was offered by Samuel F. j second session of the confer -livened at 10 o'clock Sunday with Apostle Lyman In nee. The stake choir, under action of K. J. Bird, gave some 11 selections at the morning iemoon meetings, lent Jesse M. Walker wel-the wel-the people and expressed a o send more missionaries Into d. Mrs. May Marsh of Al-ake Al-ake Primary president, spoke penny collection drive for the : the Children's hospital that fa place in the next few weeks. . t. M. Kelly spoke briefly ex t his Joy at being in attend 1th the people of the Alpine He gave Incidents where I the word of wisdom has beneficial and asked for the pd prayers of the people to f him in his work in the mls- Jd. lie Richard R. Lyma.i, after ting a brief song practice, r' the value of religious teach-the teach-the life of any person and Oly the young. He asked for pport of the parents in be- the Primary and Junior and seminaries. He placed religion most important subject in the lim. pent J. Reuben Clark of the Residency and Apostle Richard fan were the speakers at the ton session which convened at lie Lyman sooke of .iha ad Is the people of today have pse of a few years ago. Even trying times, he said, let forget to be charitable. aent Clark spoke at length need of the young people to tnose teachings that are with f understanding. Many there o try to explain such things origin of man and he urged pple not to become confused Jrbed because of these things we cannot understand but to ler the spiritual side of Hfe. Mh .wWJe thmga f ufe are Ings we cannot buy and of we cannot be robbed but will us when we pass to the aeyond. '& . u evening session under the of the M. I. A, had the I attendance of the confer le Lyman presented th ban. merit to the "M" Men of the ward and congratulated them It splendid work. This team the Alpine division champ-I champ-I for the past five years, tie Lyman continued, epeak- the subject of courtship. The a of every boy and girl before ?ach the marriageable age Is re to make a living, he said. e of the necessity of living ie teachings of the Oospel of Christ to be able to enjoy a Jfe. dent Clark endorsed every. uu had been said and spoke I on his experiences In the world. He said he had aad occasion to deny his mem-I mem-I in the church or to partake strong drinks in order to win Pct of his associates, dent Clifford E. Young ex- Wl appreciation for this con- nd for the visitors. numbers were given by IE the ladles Quartet of the B. Y. U. under the direction of ' Margaret Summer nayes. . p o General nGonfor ence Opens In Salt LikeJHiisWeek The 105th general conference will be held Friday, Saturday and Sunday In Salt Lake, with a series of church auxiliary sessions being held throughout the week. A large number of local people are planning to attend conference. First of the scheduled auxiliary sessions is the annual conference of the Relief Society, which opened Wednesday at JO am. wilfo . ; meefr lng for stake officers, hoard members mem-bers and mission presidents In the AssemHylEsllZll) sions were held In the afternoon. TJml .first jesskm . T burs da y 'was r:;rpi:breikf ast "fo'rt ak presidents In the Lion Bouse at 1 a- m. A general session, open to the public will be held in the tabernacle taber-nacle at 10 a- m. Another session will be held at 2 p. m- The first session of general conference con-ference opens Friday with sessions at 10 a m. and 2 p. m. during Friday, Fri-day, Saturday and Sunday. Conference of the Deseret Sunday School Union will be held Sunday evening at 7:30 o'clock. There will be no meetings held in the various wards of Alpine stake Sunday, wHu the exception of 8un-day 8un-day school, which will be held as usual Sunday morning in the various var-ious wards- Leland Priday -Wins Editorship Honor at "Y" 1 " ,.- t-s.. h VI '-" 1 " The IL L A. session of general conference will be held Sunday morning at 8 o'clock. All M. I- A- workers are Invited and urged to be in attendance. i i i o Emergency Grop Loans Field eupervlsor B. N. Chrlstensen of the lanergency :'rop' and "Feed Loan Office of Salt Lake City states that applications for emergency crop loans and feed loans are now being received by the clerk of the County Loan Committee, with offices located at Co. Agents office Provo City. In accordance with the Act of Congress authorizing the loans, and regulations issued by Governor W. I. Myers of the Farm Credit Admin' istratton, loans will be made only to farmers who are unable to obtain elsewhere seed, fertilisers, supplies, feed or the necessary credit to pur chase such items. Loans will not be made to applicants who can obtain credit in the amount needed from any other source, Including the pro duction credit association. Any farmer who has the necessary security should apply to the produc tion credit association first. If the association is unable to make him a loan In the amount needed the farmer will receive a statement to that effect and will be considered eligible to apply for a loan from the emergency fund. unecxs in payment of approved loans will be Issued by the Regional emergency crop and Feed Loan Office at Salt Lake City: and not by the field supervisor or the loan committee. Applicants, in order to avoid delay de-lay in securing loans, should have their tax notice or deed; that will enable, them to give the ntfcmurv Ma. iii l .... tuwjnpagn on ineir land,"-.- j. LELAND PRIDAY Leland Priday of American Fork, Junior student at Brigham Young university, was elected editor of the Banyon, school year-book. In elections elec-tions terminating Friday of last week at the university. Elections were heMfor Uetir BaiiyannancT"TT News editors. The Y News is the weekly paper of the school Elections- in bch instances were exceptionally close throughout the primaries, although the finals were won by convincing . margins. Mr. I Priday eliminated Evan Nelson of Perron, in the primaries and Fred Washburn of Provo, In the finals. Mr. Priday is probably the first American Fork student to ever hold this particular office. This fact makes his achievement and exceptional excep-tional one. He has been very out-starring out-starring on the year-book staff since he began school, having served in practically every office except editor edi-tor at some time or other. He has also served on the Public Service Bureau staff for two years In ar ranging outside programs as well as appearing on them. The Y News contest was won by John Damina of Aberdeen, Idaho. His opponent In the finals was Milton Mil-ton Nelson of Provo. Life-Lcn Resident Resi-dent of Am. Fork ; Gcc3 to Reward - Mrs. Emma Paxman Miller, 76, died at Che family residence here Monday at 4:43 a. nt after an illness ill-ness of several months. She was porn in Boston, Massacheutu, January Jan-uary 12, 1559. the daughter of W1U-lam W1U-lam and Ann E. Faxifrmn. With her parents she earn taf Utah in 1862 and settled In American Fork, where she has lived until her death. ha has been active in the L. D. & Church, working iin the Relief Society for forty year and acting as treasurer, lor part;of that time. She worked lot twenty years on the Old Folks committee-and has a record rec-ord hi the Primary work of this community. com-munity. Besides .doing nursing for many years, Mrs. -MlUcr was in Charge of thi laying ".put of the dead and making clothes for the same. . She is survived" fcyf her husband, 'Jcse"1JniB,1htetms' and three daughters Joseph W.. Sciplo; John IL and - JenetU - J-ISlcr, American fork; James A, Miller and Mrs. Clifford Clif-ford O. Strong, Salt take City; Mrs. OiicMcDanieVtA1?111; tMT brothers and on Sister: E. M. Pax- man. Provo: James1 W. and A. R Paxman. Salt Lake City; C. W. Pax- man. American Fork:, and Mrs. George McCune, Nephi; also nine teen grandchildren nd four great-; grandchildren. . Funeral services were conducted Thursday at 3 p. m, in the Second ward chapeL . , j Impressive funeral services were held at 2 p. m. Thursday in the Second ward. Bishop Joseph H. Starrs conducting. The opening the Relief Society chorus, May Hal-Hday, Hal-Hday, Edith Young, Roxie Richards and Cleone caeghorn, with Lydia Olsen accompanlng. Prayer was offered of-fered by President Monroe Paxman of NephL "Lay My Head Beneath a Rose" was sung by Herman Mc- State Liquor Store Plan Settled The man on the street and the politicians in their offices also the distillers are still talking about the recent legislative liquor bill, enacted into law by the signature signa-ture of Governor Henry H Blood, a week ago. The task of 'carrying out the provisions pro-visions of the liquor Control Act will fall upon Hugh B. Brown, Democratic attorney of Salt Lake City, as chairman; George M Whit-more, Whit-more, Democrat, Nephi; and Adam Patterson, Jr., Republican. Mr. Brown will be the full time member mem-ber and was appointed for a six-year six-year term. Mr. Whitmore was named for four years and Mr- Patterson Pat-terson for two years. Governor Blood announced the appointments Tuesday at midnight. .The constitutionality of. the new straighttrict state stores law is another moot subject under dls-cussion. dls-cussion. Those who dislike the system sys-tem are basing their hopes on the new statute being declared uncon- Work on Deer Creek Plans Progress; Ordinance Passed (Both Salt Lake and Provo Clues ordinances Wednesday.) Further progress has been made the past week by the. Deer creek steering committee for the construction construc-tion of the proposed $7,000,000 project, proj-ect, which has outlined procedure for the creation of metropolitan water districts to permit Utah county and Salt Lake City to subscribe to waters to be impounded by the project. Pour points have been agreed on by the committee as follows: 1. ReoommemdaUons that Salt Lake City and Provo City commissions commis-sions adopt this week Initiating ordinances or-dinances for the creation of metropolitan metro-politan water districts of Salt Lake City and Provo. 2. Recommendation that the Orem stttullonar, " 3. Recommending thai ordinances Topical Index ' "ewi1 Review of in mi - J Current fiventg B COWARD PIOKASU) HltUr ptaanda Ktara mt OImIml Air Naval Parity Pafcral KipaMHtaraa Saarini Natiaaal Dtfanaa Prasraat Haavar Saaaenlr Prajatta BlauaU late Mm Palltlcal Plctara Marakall Jf PlUtdl laaatarataa DMateraala tt Palaa4 " Slip" Bill Flaallr Paaaaa W Saaala Valaa RalhaU Maa'a Pay Raatera ItSl Laval Jaaaa Stapa Oat Of Laataa af Natlaaa toaaWrir KM BlU fcy" Vate af W l In Thts Issue Lapis IssulL aa odirm m. stone, was what the people of Pai estlne sod Greece called sapphim Cuen, acoompanled by Howard Pax- Mothers Enter tained by Stake Junior Girls The annual Festival of the Junior tfrb of the Alpine stake was held Wednesday night In Flrmage w-il The four wards of . American Fork were represented with their mothers who were the guests of honor. During the lunch a program was given. Opening prayer was by Bessie Bes-sie Brown, an address of welcome by Mrs. Henry Ohipm&n of the Second Sec-ond ward, and a vocal solo by Emily Em-ily Curry of the Third ward. Lillian asrand gave a toast to - the mothers and the response was made by Mrs, Mary Pett Short talks were made by Mrs- Moral Steele, Jr. and. the stake president, Mrs. May HalBday.-- :' -The foject'for thejunlor gblS was the rnaktag xt a took called "My Strand boob were entered bf Buby Peck, Edna Aadersonand Reva McDonald and an award gly- en . each girl - After the luncheon a program was fiven to the amusement haH. a piano solo by Jean Nlcholes and "Un MdMp Robinson started start-ed the program. A onect play, iunoien Rose Jar," was glv- u uj uie gu-is or the Third ward rn DT Margaret DunMey -"u Vinson was followed by - cwiu MOT? DT Hasnl tnilamm. The Fourth ward class gave a' one v py, -Husband Hunters,- and a trio number by Edith CTiadwh. Affara McNeil and Jessie "ndred' Tayer was offered by Mrs. Bernleee Adams Jtiere were no present, all of whom enjoyed the splendid lunch-on lunch-on and the ntwram -o i rOUBTH WARD MISSIONARY BENEFIT BALL of Opening remarks were made by Dr. J. P. Noyeev? Be spoke of the deep attachment that had grown up between himself and the Miller and Paxman femiliejiFarren Sagers played a violin selection, accompanied accom-panied by Lydia C'-n on the piano. President Cliff onTB. Young spoke of the family of Mrs. Miller as a living monument unto her. A qua: tet under the direction of Ernest Paxman Of Provo, sang "One Sweet ly Solemn Thought". Closing remarks were made by Bishop Starrs and the Relief Society quartet sang "Sometime We'll Un derstand." The benediction was of fered by John Robinson. Interment was mad In the American Amer-ican Fork' City cemetery v. here James W. Paxman dedicated the grave. The numerous and beautiful floral flor-al offerings together with the large attendance at the services bespoke the love and esteem In which this good woman was held In our com munlty. The Elders Quorum mamx. Jy interesting entertainment to be given in the tabemani r day, A full evenln nt wmet and dancing has beecare. ruMy punned to make this an out-standing out-standing event The nmM. i to to furtter the missionary work. Stake Drama Festival and Hobby Show The mutuals of the six wards "of the Alpine Stake will meet in Firm-age Firm-age Hall next Tuesday to enjoy the drama festival and hobby show. The wards have been working for some time to make this the biggest event of the year and feel they have some very worth while material for this dlsplayr-''-""-. - . . .. . The-Flrst ward, under-the direc tion of Mn A. F. Gaisford Jr, will present i Andante" trjth Mrs. Alton Stiner, George Moss, Howard Bush, Mack Cunningham and Margaret Dunkley taking the parts. ' The Second ward, under the direc tion of Mrs. E. A. Pearson, will pre sent "Pink and Patches," with Christine Chris-tine Pmsay, Lillian Wilde, Violet Peters and Phil Harrington In the cast The Fourth ward have prepared "Teapot on the Rocks", easting Leon. ard Kelly, Wood row Cunningham, Owen Rkhlns, Afra MoNleL Lois Parduhn and Spencer Beck. The play la directed by Mrs. William Holds-worth. Holds-worth. The other three wards of the stake win be prepared with some very In teresting Hn-fcetween-act numbers and all the wards will be represented represent-ed In the hobby display which will be In the basement Each ward will have a space allotted to It In which many Interesting things will appear. Don't miss the Free Drama FesU- vaLand. Hobby ; Shonext Taiesday. o Mr. and Mrs. Irving L. Pratt and daughter. Mrs. Olive Briggs,-motor ed; to Salt Monday, After attending at-tending to their business they visit ed with their daughter, Mrs. Ethel Brown, and with Mr. and Mrs. An gel Mrs. Angel is the president of the ladles auxiliary of the Salt Lake Firemen's association. dinance to create a metropolitan water district of Orem and all other Utah county municipalities that are interested in subscribing to waters from the Deer creek project have received a severe setback in the declaration of Attorney General Gen-eral Joseph Chez that the law is valid and will stand court tests. Knox Patterson, assistant to the United States attorney general, served notice that he would file suit to test the law's constitutionality. constitution-ality. He proposed, as a private citizen, to combat it on the theory that its legality was in doubt because be-cause it had been passed by the legislature with the clock stopped. Mr. Patterson contends that the blulwssed both houses dnTfhe W-" ty-fourth calendar day of the legislative legis-lative session, four days after the twenty-first Legislature had officially offi-cially ended- He served notice on the legislative officers to make the tmimuls show the bill passed on the sixty-fourth legislative day. According to Mr. Chez, there are many court decisions to show that Journals of legislatureswith the last day extended by stopping the clocks have been accepted without question and are conclusive as to the legality of measures passed. pass-ed. With this opinion in view, it Undoubtful If Mr. Patterson will proceed to test the law on this basis. o Local Students Enter B. Y. U. Contests Stake Play Pleases Large Audience The Alpine Stake play, "Big Hearted Herbert" presented Monday evening at the' Cameo by a star cast from this city approached mighty near the professional production. pro-duction. Ray 8helley, Mary Wal ton, Raymond Adams, Mrs. E. Ray Gardner, Arthur Gordon, junior Mitchell and Laura Tunpson, the principal characters, all did a splen did Job as did Bessie Keiiy, io Meredith, Norman Wing, Mrs. Violet Peters and West Hammond and Beth Hutchlngs. The production has caused much town .board, pass, thU week v an or-l comment to American .Fork, some Several students of the American, Fork High School have been entered in the annual speech tournament being be-ing held at the B. Y. U. this week. Professor Earl T. Pardoe Is directing the contest. Under the direction of Miss Bessie Newman, Helen Hicks was entered in the oratorical contest held Wednesday Wednes-day and though not winning the first honors she gave a very splendid talk. Helen Green will represent the girts and Arnold Terry the boys in the dramatic reading contests. Miss Newman is also entering the one-act play entitled "What We Think," with Edith Clarke, Mary Walton, Jack Bunton and Paul Wiser in the cast. The debating contest conducted yesterday and today was entered by Wlnnlfred Babcock, Irene Glddings, Barbara Pett and Phil Jensen. These people have been coached by Edgar Booth and are well prepared for the combat. be passed by Salt Lake City, Provo and Orem, which will ratify the initiating ini-tiating ordinances and call special municipal elections on Tuesday, June 18. at which qualified electors will vote on the creation of the various metropolitan water districts. 1 Institution of friendly suits by taxpayers of Provo and Orem to test before the Utah supreme court the entire metropolitan water district act as passed by the 1935 legislature, The entire program of the steering committee U designed to permit starting of construction of -the- proj ect by midsummer. Indorsement of the program and approval of the form of ordinances to be passed were given at the meeting Tuesday afternoon after-noon in the office of Mayor Louis Marcus, chairman of the committee. Salt Lake City commissioners will probably pass the initiating ordi nance this week, with the Provo com mission expected to take similar action ac-tion at the same time. The form of the ordinances recom mended for passage by the Salt Lake City and Provo commission! and the Orem town board declares that "public convenience and necessity require the incorporation of metro politan water districts for the pur pose of providing adequate water supplies." NewsT" German Mission Pres. Visits Here of the men even beginning to wonder won-der if they might be greeted some . night by a plain family. Ray "Bun" Shelley, the self-made business man who was proud of the product gave gurj uneoiaJed presentation of father Kamess. Mrs. E. Ray Oardner, as mother Kalness, gave many of the women In town an idea of how to handle father. The rest of the Kalness family. Alice, the pretty daughterrwho ls ln love with a college man, much to her father's disgust was ably play ed by Miss Mary Walton. Junior, (Arthur Gordon) who wanted to go to college, and Robert, (Junior Mit chell) got a big kick out of watching the rest of the family toe the nark SPECIAL STAKE OFFICERS MEETING A special meeting of all stake officers, including bishops, counselors, counse-lors, ward clerks, high counselmen, presidencies and secretaries of all the Priesthood quorums. Auxiliary Board members, including Old Folks committee, and stake Genealogical workers, will be held in the Second ward chapel Wednesday evening, April 10th, at 7:30 sharp. President David O. McKay will be present to address the meeting and all stake officers are urged to be present Following Fol-lowing the meeting, a social will be held and all stake officers are asked to bring their wives or husbands. a CHEESE DAY AT AMERICAN FORK Thursday, April 11th, has been declared Cheese Day at American Fork by the Mutual Creamery company com-pany and from 10 a. m. to p. m. the public will be received at the plant on East Main street Cheese products will be displayed and the process of making cheese will be shown the public. We have a. modern cheese plant here and the public should be acquainted with It and 1U products and reanee Just what this means to our community. Visit the plant next Thursday and team something about this com munity Industry. Dr. P. M. Kelly, well known former resident of American Fork, has accepted ac-cepted a call to labor as president of the Swiss-German Mission. Dr. Kelly will be remembered for his activities in this community both for his church work and the prac tice of medicine. He moved his family to St. Anthony, Idaho, in 1926, his daughter Eleanor having remained for another year to finish her high school work here. Since making his home in Idaho Dr. Kelly has been very active in that community being bishop of a ward at the time of his mission call. Dr. and Mrs. Kelly and daughter, Connie, were here last Sunday and Monday bidding goodbye to their many friends and relatives. They will attend the General conference in Salt Lake this week, leaving on Monday for the East where they will visit with their daughter, Eleanor, now Mrs. Bob Anderson of Washington, Washing-ton, D. C. I The boat will leave New York April 20 and make a stop at London, England. They plan to visit their son, Ralph, who te now doing mU-sionary mU-sionary work in Germany and from there they will go on to Basil, Switz erland, the mission headquarters. o HIGHLAND M. L A. TO PRESENT PLAY The Highland ward M. I. A. has prepared a three-act play to be presented pre-sented In each of the six wards of the Alpine Stake as the April numbers num-bers on the budget exchange program. pro-gram. This program as It has been carried out this winter has proved very successful, the people enjoying every preformance. The play 'Tutting on Airs" direct ed by Mrs. Dean White, is reported to be of a very high standard and Andrew Goodrich (Raymond Ad ams) was the college man who sought the hand of Alice Kamess. Mr. and Mrs. Ooodrich (Norman B. Wing and Violet Peters) and the Lawrences' (Bessie Kelly and Leo Meredith) an did good work in their efforts to promote the romance of the young couple. In the last act Mr. and Mrs. Havens, played by West Hammond and Beth Hutchlngs, are the ones to witness the come-down of the father, who insisted hU was a plain family. Mrs. Dena Grant and Edgar Booth, who directed the play have been receiving re-ceiving congratulations on it's, successful suc-cessful presentation. The Apollo orchestra or-chestra and special numbers given by Karl Bennett and Howard Nelson Nel-son and by the Russon sisters of Lehl, added to the success of the performance. ' , Q ' i PcalUritie of Alligator The alligator on rare occasions U known to take on a characteristic" of Its prehistoric ancestors, writes R. R. Wlckstrand, Mokokcbung, India, in Collier's Weekly. When badly frightened, this heavy, four-footed four-footed reptile sometimes runs on Its bind legs like Its dlnosaurian forbears for-bears of long ago. Ten Years Ago Now (Taken from files of April 4, 1925) The Ku Klux Klan held their first meeting here Tuesday evening in the Realart theatre. Mr. Yen, national organizer, spoke for about an hour, giving history of the klan organization, organiza-tion, its purpose, beliefs and accomplishments. accom-plishments. A request that all those in favor of the klan arise met with the big majority of those who filled the theatre arising: A membership drive followed. Tea Year Ago Now- -The J. L. Flrmage home grounds. which have been selected as the city's demonstration home in the beautification drive, was recently parked and planting completed. As soon as nature can bring out the lawns, flowers and shrubs there the place will be one of the most beautiful beauti-ful corners in the state. Ten Years Ago Now The first allotment of fish, 7,500 rainbow fingerlings from 1 to 7 inches long, is ready for the American Ameri-can Fork vicinity. The local sportsmen sports-men will receive them the first of the week. Ten Years Ago Now A boy was born last week to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Strasburg of Highland. High-land. Ten Years Ago Now-Complimentary Now-Complimentary to Mr. and Mrs. Burton Greenwood, whose marriage it U with a great deal of anticlpa tlon that we await its presentation took place recently, Mr. Greenwood's in the wards. mother, Mrs. Wm. R. Greenwood en- The schedule as now announced tertained at a miscellaneous shower wUl be Highland, April 10th; American Ameri-can Fork Second, April 11th; Third, Friday, April 12th; Fourth. April 17th, and the First ward April 18th. The date will be announced later for the play to be given in Alpine. o '" Saturday night Ten Years Ago Now, Eldon Sinclair and Helmer Bloom-quiet Bloom-quiet took a tumble Monday morning when- the scaffold on which they were working at the American Fork Co-op. broke letting them both to' the floor. Neither suffered any severe Injury, the greatest damage? Half af Coatiaaat Th fTnltad fitataa af Rraxll takaa la nearly aalf tke trial am af, a BmU |