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Show V . 4 ' .- Mrs. Michael L. Ohran . . . (Colleen Peart) Michael Ota, Colleen Peart Exchange tiyptial Vows in Ceremony at Minor A beautiful and inspiring marriage mar-riage ceremony performed by Bishop David Harvey on Friday, September 12, united in marriage Miss Colleen Peart and Michael L. Ohran. Relatives and close friends gathered at The Manor in American Fork to witness the ceremony. The bride is the daughter of Mrs. Don Birch of Ely, Nevada and Merlin Peart of Pleasant Grove. Parents of the groom are Mr. and Mrs. Donal Ohran of American Fork. To greet her guests the bride wore a beautiful white lace gown with long sleevas of lace. The full skirt of the dress was enhanced with white satin roses. The bride's long dark hair was topped top-ped with a crown of white pearls to which was attached a bouffant bouf-fant veil of sheer illusion. She carried a bouquet ofyellowroses surrounded by Lily-of-the Valley. Val-ley. Attending the bride was Elaine Huntsman, a sister, as maid of honor. Bridesmaids were Kathy Baxter, Shayne Adamson, and Carolyn Peart. The attendants wore dresses of orange and yellow yel-low floral print on a background of white. The dresses were styled styl-ed with empire waistline encircled encir-cled with yellow ribbons. The square neckline and puffed sleeves were trimmed with delicate deli-cate white lace. Stacey and Debbie Deb-bie Cedarstrom were flower girls and were dressed in yellow with an orange flower pin to accent their A -line dresses. Randy Hansen performed the duties of best man. Both the mother of the bride and the mother of the groom were dressed in green dresses to accent ac-cent the bronze and yellows in the floral bouquets. Decorations throughout the entertaining en-tertaining areas were caried out in the fall colors with floral arrangements ar-rangements of yellow and bronze mums and pale green ribbon bows. White pillars topped with floral arrangements were used to mark off the areas. The three tiered wedding cake was decorated decor-ated with yellow roses and white swans. Mrs. LaVell Boren acted as hostess at the refreshment room. French pastries trimmed with yellow rose buds were served with a pale green parfait. In charge of the gifts were Connie Dean, Carol Cedarstrom and Linda Lin-da Sweat. CARD OF THANKS Words can never express the gratitude we feel toward friends and neighbors. Expressions of sympathy and help offered so beautifully in our recent sorrow, the death of our beloved husband and father, Edward W. Burgess. He fought a good fight, he kept the faith, his work is finished. fin-ished. Mrs. E.W. Burgess andlamily The Swiss Alps have ice and snow even in the summer. Observes 88!h Birthdiy in Most mandolins have four strings. Today Mrs. Janet G. Bingham is observing her 88th birthday. Family members enjoyed a pre-birthday pre-birthday observance Sunday as they met for a picnic lunch In Rotary Ro-tary Park and then vent to Mrs. Bingham's home for an afternoon of socializing and a program. Today To-day friends and relatives will be welcome at Mrs. Bingham's home, 174 South 3rd East Street. Janet Bingham's life has fulfilled ful-filled her mother's teaching: "Let honor come to you as you earn it." By service and devotion she has earned the honor of her children and their children, oi her brothers and sisters, her church and her friends. She was born at Swiss settled Midway on Sept. 18, 1881, the oldest in the family of the eleven children of Moroni and Emily Jane Jacob Gerber. She remembers remem-bers well the delicious cheese and molasses made by neighboring neigh-boring families. When she was not yet seven years old her father was called to serve a mission. The family then numbered four small girls and being the oldest the responsibility respon-sibility of tending her sisters and helping in the home fell upon Janet Jan-et while her mother did the outside out-side chores. She well remembers the deep winter snows and how hard it was to get to school. She says, "I was really eight before I got a full year's schooling." She cherishes childhood mem-oreis mem-oreis of peaceful Heber Valley, the ward socials, family picnics at the Hot Pots. She remembers, too, the snake hunts for spotted blow snakes and an occasional rattler. She recalls the light spring wagon her father bought and how the children decorated it and the horses for July 24th parades. When she was 17 the family moved to Vernal and her father opened ageneral store. There she attended Uintah Academy (comparable (com-parable to today's high school) and with a sister and two girl friends attended Brigham Young Academy at Provo for two years. Janet Gerber first saw jovial George Bingham when he came into her father's store. Then as now young love had its problems. One Christmas Day they were in a crowd of young folks bob sleigh-riding. sleigh-riding. George Bingham drove the team. He asked her to go to a Mutual dance the following week and she said she would have to have her parents consent and they were at an aunt' s home and the bishop and his wife were there. Undaunted George turned the sleigh around and headed for the aunt's home. Janet slipped in and quietly asked her father's consent He turned and aloud asked the bishop if George Bing ham was good enough to escort his daughter to the dance. The bishop smiled and said, "Oh sure." Janet was 19. Thus their three year oft -interrupted courtship began. He was away summers at work and she was away win ters at school but they made wedding plans. Three couples in cluding George and Janet with two brothers-in-law as chaperones ' . 0 ' ,j "ill j! y , ' , iflll ' ' ' ' ill s -Oi'RVft J' VI. 1 .,". At the turn of the century mule or horse-drawn combines were the latest in harvesting machinery: ' In that era, UNION PACIFIC steam engines moved the golden harvest to waiting markets. Today, UNION PACIFIC'S new, highly efficient equipment works hand-in-harrd with modern harvesting techniques to insure dependability, service and market supply. Today, as in the past, western growers know that total distribution depends on total transportation . . . they ship UNION PACIFIC. YesterdayTodayTomorrow. Use the sharp new tools of Union Pacific. V i V i i 'I Mrs. Janet Bingham , left Vernal Salt Lake Temple bound. It was a seven day jor- ney. Preparations and sacrifices had been made. It was fall and the busy harvest time whan men and teams could scarcely be spared. Horses were shod, wa gons greased, household items packed (George and Janet were to stay at Provo to continue schooling). school-ing). Freshly baked bread and pastries, churned butter e"gs, bacon and ham were packed to gether with bedding and the pros pective brides in long many pet-ticoated pet-ticoated dresses and high buttoned button-ed shoes helped into the wagons. The roads were merely trails through cedars and sage brush, over ledges and through streams, up the mountains into Strawberry Valley and dowi. through Daniels Canyon. Breakfasts, dinners and suppers were cooked over camp- fires in Dutch ovens. It was a happy journey. They were married Sept. 2, 1903 and for George and Janet the beginning of 53 years of married mar-ried life. They lived in Vernal, Provo and Salem and in 1930 moved to American Fork George was a farmer and carpenter and built nice homes here. ' They were parents of two daughters and twin sons, one of the twins having died at birth. Mr. Bingham passed away June 8, 1958. A long record of church for Mrs. Bingham began when she was 14 and called to be assistant assist-ant secretary ofthePrimary.She has taught Primary and Sunday School, was Relief Society secretary secre-tary and until recent years a visiting teacher. She has been YWMIA counselor and a Relief Society theology teacher for 4 years, eight in Provo and sixteen in American Fork. She has been a genealogy worker. Mrs. Bingham is a faithful member of the First Ward and despite the frailities of her years attends her church meetings. Mrs. Bingham's children are Mrs. Emily Baum, who is sm-ployed sm-ployed at BYU's Helaman Halls food service and who resides with her mother in Am. Fork; Mrs. Albert (Rilda) Dattage of Las Vegas, Nev., and Dr. San-ford San-ford M. Bingham, well known Pi ovo dentist, prominent in church and civic affairs the. e. She also has 12 grandchildren, 20 great grandchildren and one great greatgrandchild. Mrs. Dattage Dat-tage spent last week here with her mother. I Urevities lUetfif THE AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN, THURSDAY, SEPT. 18, 1969 Half of the sweet potatoes grown in the U. S. are produced in Louisiana, North Carolina, and Virginia. By Betty G. Spencer The battle between the sexes h3 been In progress ever since Eve ate the forbidden apple, telling tell-ing Adam - in what must have been rather a petulant voice -they could only go on being together to-gether If he ate some, too. Women have been'gettlng eve" with their husbands" for real or Imagined wrongs ever since. For instance, say the little woman is aggrieved because her husband forgot her birthday. Lets suppose this same husband detests de-tests creamed vegetables. Feeling Feel-ing neglected, his wife might purposely pur-posely serve him creamed peas on Monday, creamed carrots on Tuesday, creamed cauliflower on Wednesday, creamed corn on Thursday and creamed broccoli on Fiday. By Saturday the dispute would either be settled or the husband would be eating out. Women have an uncanny ability to pick their husbands weak spot. This is where they concentrate the ammunition when the invisible invisi-ble battle lines are drawn. Hardly any wife finds is possible pos-sible to prepare an edible breakfast break-fast li she is secretly, or even, openly, angry at her husband. Invariably, In-variably, in the midst of a mis understanding, he finds himself to face with rubbery eggs, burnt toast, cold coffee and sour orange or-ange juice. If the husband happens to be a saver, the unhappy wife becomes a spender; if he is a loner, she throws a big party; if he hates her mother, guess who is Invited to be a house guest for two weeks? His father-in-law! Before the day of the automatic auto-matic washer, one of my acquaintances ac-quaintances learned that her husband hus-band couldn't stand to hear the clank of her wringer washer. He also hated the mess of the twin rinse tubs, the stateh pans and the blueing bottle. Whenever they had an argument, she would drag out the washing paraphenalia and enjoy his suffering. Most of their quarrels were at night and she claimed she hadn't washed In the daytime since six months after they were married. The most effective sacret weapon wea-pon however, was employed by my great Aunt Em. It didn't involve tears, shouting or losing your decorum. She simply applied the starch a little thicker on washday. First a little extra on collar and cuffs of Uncle Will's Sunday shirts. If he remained stubborn, she starched his work overalls, his socks - and finally -his underwear. She only had to starch his long -Johns once to get him to recognise the seat of the trouble. The battle of the seies is surly the longest continuing war of man. Ah, man. Ah, woman. Ah, misery! Mt. 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