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Show The Vol. No. 4. 1 SPANISH FORK, UTAH, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY Interesting Letter from Thorgeirson. J)K. W. E WARNER, and residence three Office and a halt blocks north of Drug Store. Utah. Spanish Fork, QR. Thistle, Feb, 7, 1002, In the first number of The Press H. SLATER, J- - Oilice and residence ip Benjamin Jiftaes residence. 'Phone Nu. 5. Utah. Spanish Fork, Aficl'jelsoii (P i p Dont' Kkf.i Wfi HEAD STONES. We Sell Them, That's All, LORENZO THOMAS FASHIONABLE Tailor, One block north of Bank, Ltah. Spanish Fork, ERDMAN & PARK, Staplo and Fancy fresh and Cured Groceries. Meats. Jihest Cush Price Fatt for (Idea and fells, t t Spanish Fork W notice fui article regarding the administration in temperance is hi5l1 article Fork, Spanish very fair, bat loses a good deal of its intended value by the author pot signing his uamyi thereto. Any man who takes a part in the discussion of any publio question, should be brave and sincere enough to back his sentiments with his own nama; for failing to do so he shifts the responsibility and the burden of the public sentiment on the editor, or else someone else, When on is an authorized correspondent for a paper, then the editor generally withdraws the name from the article, which is nothing but right, as he on many occasions uses the blue pencil very liberally before he sends the article to the composing room. Not so with such articles as afore referred to. In the second number of The Press I see the open saloon ordinance, and the repeal of the temperance one. Two years ago, when the temperance movement began it Spanish Fork, and a city council pledged to temperance was elected, I, like ll.o otheis who lent i helping hand to that cause, felt that we did so with the best of motives, and in sustainance to what was right, and I for ono, feel so yet. lie whose authority, few if any, of the present city fathers in Spanish Fork, doubt, said on one bccasion: They will not all who eay,.LorJ! LordF enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, but those who do the will of mv Father which is in the Heavens. In section 27, D. and C., vere 3, the same authority says: Wherefore, a commandment 1 give unto you, that you shall not purchase wine, neither strong drink of your eneThe italics are mino mies, Ono of the chief principles of tho gospel, as restored in these days, is: As man now is, God as God now is, man may be. This principle which the Prophet Joseph Smith announced .to the I Utah. T. JAMES, COSFECTIONEH, per pound and upward. Best candies can be secured here. Fruits in their right season. Cigars and Tobacco, caned goods and stationery always on hand. Call and supply your wants. Utah, Spanish Fork, Candies 15c. TORN ELLISON, V V. TISKHITD, A variety of work done in sheet metal. Manufacturer of Wash Boards. Head .quarters for all kinds of sewing machine extras. Bring your obi sewing machne and J will make it new. East side of Main Street, Utah,' Spnnlsh Fork, B. H. BROWN, Livery -- one-wa- Hack Stable. Meets all Trains s; world is very fiercely eondamned 'llJONE No. 12. Utah. by the Christian world: but when Spanish ork, in connection with this we read the following, which is found in the WE MAKE THE LOW I'KK'K ON Gems from the STAPLE HOOKS. of Joseph Smith, us recorded 11. paged in tho Compendium, no matter how unreasonable this assertion ?nd all our stek Is taught and is ffoiq a Christian view point.it is sold upon honor. in perfect conformity with tli laws Our Stock of of nature, or cause and effect. Says Maple Orneerles liei If you wish to go where God pry OomN, Hindu are, is, you must ho like God, or possess bents ( lot king and the principles which God possesses, Furnishing Bonds for if we are not drawing towards is full of good hollo'd values, God in principle, we are going from Him, and drawing towards hperlal Atlention Is given to Mines the devil. And at another time he and Furniture, said: There then is eternal life to know tho only wise ami true Co-O- p. God; and you hnye got to learn how to lie Gods yourselves, and to be kings and prints to God, the same as all Gods have done before Hut to make this still more you. worthy of consideration I wish to Ili-to- Quality - our motto, ry 20d-28- 9, Young Mens Consolidated Spanish Fork Co-Operat- ive Institutio- n,IValcrs In General Merchandise, Flour, Grain O and Produce. Manufacturers ot Harness, e,4 Boots ami Shoes. JOHN JUNKS. Supt. hpanl.li Folk. Utah. point out that the Prophet Joseph is not the only authority regarding it, for this is the way Henry Drummond explains it. Says lie: Tlis is how men get to know God, by doing Ids will. And there is no other way; and this is how men become like God; how Goda character becomes written um men's characters. Acts read upon souls. Good acts make good men; just acta, just men; kind nets, kind niii; divine acts, divine men. And there is no other way of becoming good, ju-- t, Ami there is no kind, divine. Heaven for thoc who have not these. The next quotation I make is from I he Salt Lake Tribune of March (1,1881. It seems to me it Ihj-Co- ought to ba engraved ou the finger nails and door post of every indiwho claims to be a Latter-da- y Saint, and at the same time does all he can towards making prohibition a failure, and in assistance of an open and saloon. Here it is: 1 rejoice when I seo the young Mormon hoodlums playing billiards, getting drunk, running alter bad women, any. thing ta break the shackles they were born in, Some of them will go quite to the bad, of course, but it is better so, for they are made of poor stuff, and since there is no good reason w hy they were begun for, let them soon be done for, and the sooner the vidual law-protect- 13, 1902. $1.50 per Year. LiMOLVX HIUTUDAY. lhe Paths of Glory lead but to the grave. Gray. Ninety throo years ago today, in one of the Rural Distcricta of Kentucky, Abraham Lincoln first saw the light. His parents were poor and uneducated, as were most of their neighbors at that time. They belonged to a pace of holiest industrious people, who were not afraid of tho denizens of the forest whether in the form of savage men or sayage beasts. The boy Abraham inherited from his parents throe magnifident qualities, viz: a strong pliysicial body; a brilliant intellect; and what was better still, an honbetter. esty of purpose whioh characterized Hy pointing these quotations out all his after life, giving color and to those who are so anxious about indurance on his acts both public having the protecting arm of the and His chances for eduprivate. law thrown around the malicious cation were very meager, so that grog dealer, if he will only let us when he arrived at mans estate he have some of the money, so we can bad a very limited knowlege of use it for public improvements. 1 what the people of the world called am neither condemning nor critibook learning. lie said of himcising them. Undoubtedly they self the little advance 1 luve upon feel jubilant when pondering upon the store of education. I picked their own superior wisdom, as comu from time to time under the pared to theirs who are ever ready of necessity. At the age to make any sacrifice wnateyer for pressure of twenty-fiv- e years we find Mr. the furtherance of the temperance Lincoln in the state of 1 Hi nqs, where cause, and desire that liquor traff- lie was elected to the Legislature ickers shall be classified apiongst of that state, where he remained lawbreakers, instead of honorable for eight years, yhile a member business men. of that body he applied himself There are two nr thiee more quoto the study of general tations that I shall make. One is deligently a ml at the end of two years, he law, that lutifer, whoa at the great was admitted to practice at the bar council in tho Heaven, offered to of that state, where in a short persave every human soul if only his iod of time, he became an acknowplan should be adopted, and him ledged leader in the profession. given the credit for being the au- In I8tfi, Mr. Lincoln was elected thor thereof; depending, rs he did, to the House of Representatives of on its superiority over the other tho United States. Which gave plan, which to him nppeared both him an opportunity to use the supfoolish and imperfect. The reward allotted to him for this LU keif erior abilities with which generous nature bud endowed him. On estimated improveMarch 4th, 1801 Abraham Lincoln ment on the laws of God, is too was inaugurated President of the well known to need any reiteration United States, The great Civil War here; but in place of that I desire was fairly begun, but he grasped to point out that his next move in the situation with a master hand a like direction, or for a similar and succeeded in saying tho Unioc purpose, was, when lie told Cain to from destruction. President Linoffer a sacrifice to God, as is recoln was a master spirit; a Irillant corded in the Pearl of Great Price, LI bankruptr gtOek. Must be closed out at once at prices to Suit f ""V , Ladies and Childrens Goafs and Reefers, To Close Remainder of Capes at Cost Dress Skirts, j Underskirts, Wrappers, j j Corsets, Fancy Apron, j j Gloves, i Mittens, Silk Hoods, j I So3ps, Hosiery, j Garters, j Under Vests, Union Suits, Corset Waists, Handkerchiefs, Waists, Stock Bows, Perfumqs. Ribbons and Laces Childrens Flannelleite Dresses. INFANTS WARE A SPECIALTY. In W. O. Creers Building, Spanish Fork, Ut. pre-requis- page 13, Liverpool edition of 1SS2, the ultimate result of which was an everlasting curse on Cain and all his posterity. Notwithstanding the apparantly good intentions in both God was sorely of these displea-e- d therewith, as they ignored II is Law and authority. John Thorgeiksox. The Spanish Fork Press has made itx appearance in tho journalistic world. It is published by Andrew Jensen. In making our This will not bo bow, it hays: a political nor a religou press, We are glad but a newspaper. to hear it, Brother Jensen, sincere, ly hope you w ill succeed. Wasatcli Wave. . genius endowed witliqualilies which are seldom given to mortals, He was a judge of poetry and prose, as well as music and the drama. His wit was of the highest order. In fact he possessed all the qualitto constitute the paties uoees-ar- y citizen. The riot, statesman, shaekels of boumlry fell from Three Million of slaves at his touch, and our nation had anew birth of freedom. The insttiution of property of nan in man is forever abolished from our fair land . A nd the bluck man rejoices in the jireciou loon with Ins white of Freedom Jex Lumbar Company, Bailed Hay & Produce Manufacturers Building Material. brothi'f. President Lincoln BROODS Spanish Fork, Utah Get a TIME CARD. Singer Arrival and Departure of Tralus from Bio Brando Weitcrn Depot No. 7. for Sprlngvillo, Irovo, Fait Lake nmt nil polip East mi. I West. 8.0.) a vq No. 29, fnrSprtngvilln, Provo, Suit liukc ninl nil points Ka- -t and We-- t, 3.42 p m No. 8, for Eureka, Mammoth and silver City, 0.40 p m No. 28, for Eureka, Mammoth and silver City, G:I5am co-equ- al is ensliriened in the hearts of all honest men tho world over. Though his end was u tragic one, he William B. Woods of Salt Lake, lives in our memories and will conin a letter to Samuel Cornaby.Bays: tinue to so live till time shall bo no I think that tho Spanish Fork more. Pres is a very clean little sheet, it February 12th, 1902. is something that the citizens Parents Heeling, ought to lie proud of and give it The purents meeting held I riday good support to keep it aliye, and in the Central School evening not let it die out, and more ho, ns well attonded. State House was it is the first paper that has been A. C. Nelson spoke printed there. My wish is that its Suprintendent mo- -t sanguine expectations mnv be in n very denr and forcible manner, more than realized. Long live The He advised the parents to introduce Press. tho child to the home, the teacher to make the school to represent the Fork has another Spanish highest moral intellectual and newspnpor. The plucky publisher social standard of our beautiful is Andrew Jensen, who recently and tho city, young men and bought out the job office there. If women to have nn aim in life, lie Mr. Jensen is wise and careful critised the present trend of our In will be successful. Spanish social education; showing that tho Fork people have been buncoed so dance hinders the teacher, parent often by unscrupulous newspaper and child in gaining knowlege, men that n square dial long conThe other purls of the program tinued is the only thing which will were rvnderd in a very pleasing appeal to them. This Mr. Jensen mannar. Prof. Stewart of tho will give them, niul if the 'people State University .has promised to will meet him halfway Spanish Fork will soon liayo a permanent speak at the next parents meeting, laee on the newspaper map of which will In given in nbont five I weeks. Jluli.Sprtngville Independent. of AND Sewing Machine Connections made In Ogden Union Depot with All 1 ruins of Southern Pacific and Oregon Miort l ine, OFFEKS CHOICE of 0? FAST THROUGH TRAINS DAILY. AND A. ft. John Pulmflu Palnee nud Ordinary Meeting Curs (0 Denver, Oinnlut, Kana Uly, St. I .otilnand Chicago wllhont When he Comes To Town Again. Thrco Distinct Scenic Routes. change, lining t Iinlr Car. Iermnitlly Conducted I A Pei fed Dining Cur Service, Dm Bet xmi-l'in- 1 Cor a. rule, folder, ete , Inquire of A. . Ml.l.Milli V, Ticket Aeentq. CIO. Ad, CiMH't mI AT. It Iti.-Ve- 1 MSI 7, f11 .Tj r hi . . if ;''" .a im 1. |
