Show LOA us A Jubilee Anniversary of or f tho shin Omit mil mill Ion or ni Kilns nicks lucks Special Correspondence Loa Ioa Utah March 25 On Wednesday W March h It was fifty Ort years since President Young 1 laid aid his Hands on the head hend of ot Ellus HIcka lIick Blackburn of or this place IlIac and anti ordained him a BIshop and anti bet tet him him apart to pre lire over oer time the Saints In Provo City In commemoration of that event the time good People ot of Loa Lea 9 met In ho school house wit well n tIlled mica n lunch basket amid n a nicely arranged program to surprise our worthy worth Patriarch The arrangements were perfected by hy his and earnestly entered Catered Into luto by I hm tho the entire community District court being In session on that day and time the court room being In close proximity to 10 the time school chool house hoU the tho many vehicles led hod around excited no comment corn mont or suspicion lu In time tho mind of or Brother Blackburn Und hind when whelm all was os ready n a messenger was 89 sent at nf ter him to come conic to the school house hOURI on lin some omu business pretext The Tho surprise e WH complete te and he hI was a 1 l to tIme the stand anti and seated his hh eons sonn and while the choir was singing an appropriate hymn nr timing passed off ore nicely Part of ot tho tim program was rendered then refresh refreshments meats ments men Is were served and before we se 0 were we of ot It tIme the stars tars began to twinkle and amid warned tho assembly It was lIas time to break bicak up tip the tho gathering Fifty Pitt years a BIshop is II a II tarn timing In ZIon Sinn anti and while not mini acting In that capacity nt at present his hili ordination II holds hold good as ns it line has never hen been taken from tn him For many years he was WM the sun of ot Loa IOa und when h his Imis B were needed In other othor places he was ns re no roo leased from the arduous duties of ot a Bishop and ordained a n Patriarch antI and given a tt mission to 10 bless the people anti and It was waR the th writers privilege to be pres pre emit ent hen he ho was thus thins ordained and he ho hewell hovell well vell remembers r that It H was promised him mm that he lit should stand second to no Patriarch In tho the Church and the hun drotis of or blessings ings ho Imo has hams given lothe ii the Saints In Won Ion extending to 10 the time north anti attest that this hue promise Is In being l ln verified Another promise him at that time Wits that l lie hc should hould have power lower to heal through faith that dreadful disease Ip aso time the cancer ancel and since that time he hI has administered with good 1001 effect to scores of ot people many of ot whom have havo been beon healed through his administration Brother has hns tilled filled many ninny I of ot f trust rust other than thim I I cal The Tite title of ot lIon Hon rightly precedes his Imle name he having In time tho past pant been numbered among the thc law lal makers of ot Utah U In is I the father of at n a largo large filmily family amid when the time against polygamy was wn at Its itA height ho lie hofelt I felt to buss bow in ill to the tho laws of oC his hum country rind and mm himself to I tho lImo marshal who took look his word to meet him at nt nt tnt n ii specified time timO Brother was there according to tn and so was nn nil extensively petition signed alike aUke by h Mor Mormon Simon mon Gentile askIng n Judge Ander Andor Anderson sort son to 10 not geniI gend him to the pen but vet per permit limit mit him him to return home bOrne again ns os his hs services fi na as u ii physician were constantly needed In the community where he ho lived hived and the judge simply lined fined him and permitted him to return home again Personally time the Patriarch carries lila his ago ngo well ell and although past paRt the lie allotted age nF of or man mali bids fair to 10 remain with us many years yet and his imis ninny friends Join In the hope that the balance of ot his days may ma be as n a pleasant as ns his present ones are ara full rull of ot usefulness |