Show t I Utah Dixie of Today 1 rI rill n n n There Thera wa WIl a Ilm year aso hen Dixie Dixit was about and anti written about n 1 treat great real deal In those thoo days daYI do s It Il often oCl n camo to t o pass pits s that tho great groat men of or the Church spent th their lr winter there Brigham Young loved loell the Bunny e sandy land of Dixie And Anti Antipo PO to did that othur great heart henrt and big Snow What Whal wonderful times those wore were wereTh Th The long caravan would start out from salt Bait Lake Uke City President Young ID to hi his Concord ConcoN buggy In the tho lc lead d with Oreon Orton Arnold as Is driver came cornu President dent lleo A Smith and onel otter after trailed bUlgy buggy actor buggy bUGS women chil children d dren n always put ut In the most comfort uble places willi the tho whole party wore were In their holiday mood and on their l beat e l Th The along ulon the route roule crowd crowded ed to 10 suffocation l the Sunday school schoolchildren children lining tho thu village streets with bloom of youth anti beauty of bann ra and lowers the tho horseman coming coaling cumin out to 10 moot meat the tho party tourlY anti thun 1 Into Inlo the Iho town tOWI tho the brass braes band blowing Wowing Its hardest and loudest whilo th the HIt people stood with loving eyes e s watching Batching the approach of Ions Zions lead lund leaden lunden leaders en ers All Alt thin tills was in 11 the long ago The towns town between Salt Lake and Dixie Dille are oro silent lont now almost forgotten Other Othe Interests other oilIer duties have nb ab absorbed sorbe the passing hours Hut But mem memo ear In Is I open ollen anti the tho echo of ot those long lang kona one happy days ilaya da rings lings Its lis chime I forever In the loyol loyal heart Young George A Smith anti and Snow SilO have hao gone Hut But many of those who knew kne and loved loed them I well tf 11 are still In Dixie and In the tho towns town I Ij j leading there The black ridges anti and Hie IIII white unite anti red tabled hills ore are there and Pine Valley mountain still looms loom winter and grand over all nil tho the Cantu Ion Bien of or sand and lava rock rack which the dubbed dub bed as ao Dixie The road rOIl bumps and Jabs and knocks and tumbles lumble you pretty much ns n a of or orore yore ore anti and although the twist has hns been boen taken out of ot the tho Dameron 1 ameron Valley pass tore now III Is le still enough twist left to un l tho ras of ot any anyone one not to the Dixie road born There Thero Is pone como ou dust dUlt t left lert also although our party parly took enough away Oln 5 some of ot them th m thought to make a n tidy bit of ot real estate c tate In any smart northern town Looking away nay down Into that lake of It ml nil anti black as seen from the top or If Dameron Valley some lame one strange to the country sold said whet I cant see a a spot of at green anywhere do you raise In this country e what hilt do you ou raise In this country eny Y now haw 1 11 and how ho do you raise It IU tuck Lack as no thought came camo the answer President Young told us once that tor crop hwe our chief crop In this country we would raise ralso Saints Sainte and wo find they nourish flourish pretty well on Blot gle and privation Of Ot course COUrso true too but an as our happy PW party drove droe Into Inlo tho rho north end and or of the he I tiny tin vale which holds St SI in Its center e we wo were w ro surprised to seo ter many of ot prosperity and I There Th ro are no signs of ot real roal rhoal poverty anywhere Thrift and hops have Me Ive kept k pt up fences whitewashed I n ht houses and made this lonely desert dett to I hlas lo om em a ns nil n 1 veritable rose For tor ForA some back we wo were told A fairs Dixie in Dixie were nt a 1 very low 7 ebb b but bUl evidently the upward turn lurn of 1 the i wheel has hos bc begun un for n her r faithful an and d d deserving Wf people The ne sink Stake conference waa lUI on and as 18 soon oon as IR the dust of travel was as ed we 0 13 hastened d down to the tabernacle Ah that at familiar wading through tho the and We had not noticed It Il years ago AEO go i but now It came camo back not only on aa ns an un annoying present tact fact but Jut also as a 11 distant memory of or the peat past Thor 1110 not Mt many man more moru stores on the tile two t wit V aura loro t streets l but there thero are two ilyo new doctor anti and two vary nr now lOW saloon Thu old Coci Coop Is still there thero but Lund Judd are only a n mem mein 01 oty Oly y Th The beautiful old red sandstone tab c r le ono one of or the Iho c costliest and n most units onus In the State stale Is ns as trash fresh looking outside na Us It newly erected It ItIn Itin t tIn In now embowered In trees tree and tho the hest chinking water waler In SU at St Is l dipped out of o the hugo huge barrel Jorrel which stands under tinder the tho eastern trees In the tho front yard How Ilow natural everything overy thIns looked In II Inside side aide only one ono change tho the choir lies liesborn born boon brought blought front from the tho eastern eastom gallery gall rY tn to a n place back of ot the tho enlarged pul 1101 i pits Hut Ant overhead still watches the i seeing Eye Ep With the ho familiar hand handclasp beneath cleat clasp beneath Wo We looked with eyes eli for far the tho forms of ot President nt Young I dent Snow Sno President Jacob Gatos Brother Milo Mile Andrus and anti John D T McAllister All gone from their familiar seats Keats Brother nether D D Mc Me McArthur Arthur was there upright HH as of yore but with sightless s eyes Brother James Jamesa 0 O BIeAk Was there precise anti and refined as n ever yet yot bent bont a little with the weight of or public care oare President David H n Cannon was there thele but bUl his raven raen hair and beard bear were white while with many win winters era Anti And n who are arc these presidents and antl High Councilors Tell 1011 us Uli their hale names for how can cun wo we VII know them Edward EdwardH J JH H 11 Snow president of ot tho the Stake son sonI of Apostle postle Erastus Snow Ah Alt I right Wo We and BC so 1 do tho the peo people l eo That ns it should be And next plo of Brother Brother Thomas Thomas C Son of at Thomas Cottam tho the good old chair maker Well good gOOt goat too He lie was n a good men with nn an excellent wife Wo We like that also And next Brother George Whitehead Son of ot our Adolph Adolphus and anti his wife Nary God Goddard us dard darll Whitehead Well well And Just right too And these lire are re your Stake presidency Dixie ought to thrive with such Buch leaders And million James Andrus son eon of or eloquent old Milo Andrus It If Jim Andrus has haa I made up u his hla mind to be a n Bishop he will do 40 it t ns na aa nanny any on man liv living II leg ing People wont bo be allowed to go fo to sleep Bleep while ho has hns the t reins David Morris Morrill bighearted hrh and hustler that ho hoIs h hIs hos Is s we wo know him well And two new feces Twins So The Brothers Miles Mlles active In Sunday school and Mutual Improvement work Good Goad Then do tell tall us who these High Councilors are What Alex Morris Morrl Mix Mac MacArthur MacArthur Arthur Brigham Jarvis Dear dear how the hays boys ho have changed change Do Po their mothers know them We should not nol God bless them oil nil How flow Sitting that nil all these should rise up 1111 and bear off tho the burden of the King Kingdom door dom Wo We miss colas Willard Erastus W Ar AT Erastus I B n Moroni Tone marle Die and Dub Sam anti and antia Susie buele nut But I ut we know where they are a re some somo gone SOlie onward others working out n peaceful salvation elsewhere and some Mme rising surely In III lifes progress to the tho Infinite Linda and Oscar Oacar and Charlie are left lion How tender recollections recollections flood the heart henrt as ns wo sit nit be beneath neatly neath the familiar root rood Hark the choir sweet and old fash fasli fashioned toned as us of old They have havo not net forgot forgotten forgotten forgotten ten tho the restriction made mado by that famil familiar tar old ohl musician John McFarlane Wo We want no Yankee screamers In our choir choh But Brother Drother is le gone now and null only a n few fo of tho the older sing era erl ate left Brother Orton Just the tho same heavy hen base bans as aa ever over Services over It Ills Is a delight to gather under the trees treel anti and greet tho the dear old friends Theres Charlie Walker Me anti t pears and briars St 81 George Is II sure suro to bo be a n place that every one admires Quaint old singer linger In Israeli How flow sweet will be your songs when your our harp Is tuned In heaven And nil all the tho other friends both old and now new Heres lIeres George with two of the best bet Dixie girls over grown on And heres heros Sister Woodbury none nono more moro valiant nor gifted sHIed than she eh But theres theros no Aunt Hannah Perkins Anna Calkins nor Miner Minervia via Snow Resting are they Yet hero here Is Sister Crosby looking twenty years younger And An Aunt le ulster Bister Lucy H n Young and Aunt Emma Gates antes are arc all alive and active In other fields nehls It Is la not Sunday and we VIS will willie walk walkabout about the tho streets and seer see se all we may Many new and tasteful houses house have been built since we were here full twenty years ago alIO And one thing that hut marked St George then marks It now the houses are all substantial and good goodNo goodNo goodNo No temporary shells nor dilapidated makeshifts They are built of as a rule rul and anti look clean cl nn and cosy In their restful grays gras Let us walk down to the Temple We can see Us its white dome domo from almost any of the tho streets How HolY beautiful It Is In Its white elm sim simplicity No other temple templo exceeds exceed It In Inthe Inthe the tho atmosphere of at brooding peace which overshadows Its towers and minarets And see lice Here Is change chanK and progress The barren sandy block blockon on which It once stood Is la now a 11 bower Jower of at floral loveliness How like a temple of ot pearl It rises from Its sparkling bed Jed of at emerald and colored Jewels Nothing could be more beautiful With solemn steps tep we pace tho the grav graveled graveled el d walks end and at the tho door a 1 now new face faco greets greet us UI there is II no John O 0 Angus Angusto to make us welcome with his gruff heartiness lie Ho Is s now no a 11 doorkeeper in inthe Inthe inthe the House of his hla God aDd Rut nut In the President David H lt Cannon greets us u warmly and makes us welcome to 10 the tho sacred precincts Then Brother Bleak comes cOm s forward find and adds his gentle word wont of ot eternal fellow tellow fellowship ship and we waso go from room to io room room with memories crowding like doves about the warm ann door of our hearts We see 41 the with th the tiny marks marka upon It reminiscent nt of ot the dedication In Jan 1877 The chair on which Preal President dent Young wits was carried carded At that time the tho denk desk at which he wrote and many tr H I HH HI N H I HH H I I II HH i P rob robs robe s f b j e r t S V t r a Y u s sV 1 11 t 1 i NEW PUBLIC SCHOOL HOUSE AT ST GEORGE wA v another sacred nerod memento We Wo miss Dro Bro BroJ J D T McAllisters handsome face but he too Is busy in other fields Frank Farnsworth Is 13 writing rIling at nt an another another another other desk now but Clarence Jackson Is la still nt nl his post From room to room and through the tho halls we 0 go 0 In deeply deply reminiscent mood Life birth death what have they not nol wrought for us since wo we 11 first rat passed under these sacred portals Changed so changed are ore we and ours But Dul like the life lito eternal this magnificent cent edifice In 11 unchanged and Immovable Immovable able Wo We turn away at nl last our hands full rull of at tho the blossoms plucked for tor us by the tho presidents thoughtful hand from th the glowing beds heds about aboul us UI and we retrace our steps In to the small city our hearts calmed and our spirits rested res led by bytho bytho bYthe tho the sweet communion we have tasted ta ted tede there e If It you ask the people what Is tho the reason for tor the spirit and active life which greets you everywhere some will tell lell you Its because tho the men mon and women wo woo men who came hero sero of ot the tho strong strongest strongest est elt and best which ZIon Klon could pro produce produce duce It was some Iome of at tho the cream of t Suit Salt Lake City and the Church which wile was taken ort oft to settle up St George That for us the very unusual air of ot which marks this small email city of ot 1600 Inhabitants President Young made no mistake ml when he settled up n a country which none nonn but hut Saints would over oer subdue Others the younger and more final will tell loll you that It Il Is II the mines which give IO an all air bf of life and activity to the lite town It may be the mines which have opened the saloons anti on If It Ort art IB is so 80 heaven hO cn ordain that both loth mines and saloons will soon be closed nut Hut It the mines which has built the magnificent school house which graces the northwest corner orn r of ot the tho public square It Is le the dollars of or the people who began this work In April 1897 1891 What ht St George poor or asleep with such a beautiful modern school house just ready for tor occupancy ancyl Impossible Cut stone atone It Is 18 a and and that too of a II hard durable red rd sandstone No liner finer school house houle stands In the West eat Simple yet el very It Is within and without a model of ot modern school art r In hi April 1897 the people 11 of ot St StGeorge Sta StGeorge George a were called together and voted a 2 J per cent cant tax for that year tho limit It of ot the law to bo be used for tho the erection of ot a new modern school building Tho The site chosen choson was the northwest corner of the tM public square The city council granted the tho site and work Immediately began flInn Cash was waa very ver scarce 2 21 mills only of the tho 2 percent was wn payable in cash the tho bat bai ance In labor and produce at cash rates rales By Dy the end of ot the year nearly had hall been b en spent In iii putting In tho the foundation Tho The excavation had to be tamped t and andas andas andas as the tho ground Is impregnated with mineral the foundation was laid with black volcanic rock and that was all nil allcut allcut cut too The next year yonI another tax lax was as voted of or 2 Z per cent The Tho superstructure sup was vas built of ot pink sandstone harder and moro more durable than had been used In the tho Temple or tabernacle It was out cut lit III pitched ashler uhler style by b Jas 0 G Bleak Jr of Salt Lithe and n a 1 corps of ot Dixie boys bos to whom hom ho taught the art urt The Tho building was erected anti and super supervised su er by b local mechanics upon plane plans prepared by b Jas Jal Monson of at Richmond Cache ahe county Utah U Each t b byear year for five years although money waR till the people voted 11 u special school tax lax until 94 0 4 PIT per run cent tax tm lind hod lindi i h voted This year of 1901 in n addi addition tion to the 96 per nor cent tax ax bonds bomb voted and the building was corn com completed The for tho the completion was awarded to Grace Bros limos of ot for The building has been eon named the tho Woodward school In honor of or George Woodward ono one on of the pioneers plon to 10 and St Georges philanthropist Ho III has hit his all nil to 10 the public good In addition n to n over OU four thou I s dollars which ho has hu given Iven for Church purpose purposes he line has donated 13 3 3 tOO can to 10 this school building anti and served the r on the Iho school board during It lt Ito on INC of ot erection without tim Rt Ft George to honor Ge |