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Show V w Tee VOLUME XXV SPANISH PORK, UTAH; THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2nd, 192G NUMBER 35 ES. Students Should William P. Evans SITE OF THE' FIRST PHONE MESSAGE Bibgraphical Sketch ; Pamyra Stake Primary Victim of Cancer of Elias Jones Register First Day Holds Conference f Funeral services are being helij at At 9 oclock next Tuesday morning registration will begin at the Spanish the First ward chapel this afternoon Fork High School. The first to reg- - over the remains of William P. Evans lster will have advantage In the se- who died Monday of cancer after' an lection of subjects and also the sel- Illness which lasted several years. ection of class sections. Rooms are Mr. Evans was born April 28th, 1860, limited In size, so that after a defi- in South Wales, and was the son of nite number have registered for a cer- Benjamin and Mary Elnon Evans. He tain class the regaining applicants came to Utah In 1880 and was marwill have to sign for other sections) ried December 1906 to Margaret Gardner. that are not already filled. Besides his widow he Is survived To avoid delay in registration, students should have enough money to by the following brothers and sisters: pay the fees which give them en- Evan Evans, Mrs. Margaret Davis, trance to classes. If this is Impossi- and Daniel Evans, all of whom are In Wales; Morgan end ble, the student should be accompan- still living 6f Provo; and Thomas Evans James ied by at least one of his parents or Evans of this and Evans Benjamin a legal guardian. The fee this year has been reduced city. Mr. Evans was a staunch Latter-daby the Board of Education by the amSaint, and took an active part In ount of two dollars, which In the past work until his sickness made church lias been called tuition. There are a few small laboratory It impossible to do so. fees, a library fee and a student body Feeder lambs, ewe For Sale tee. which must be paid in ordr that and rams. See Wm. ewes lambs aged of student the get the benfit special 3r d South, Phone E. 734 J. Johnson, equipment which makes for effici114. ency In the school plant. In most cases, the charge will not exceed five or six dollars, unless the student car- . Mrs. Ed. Stringer and daughter, ries an unusual number of laboratory Mamie, who Is a nurse at the Holy Cross Hospital In Salt Lake, and the courses. The teachers at the high school are Misses Gertrude and Florence Bogue going to make an extra effort to keep of Atherton, Missouri, were dinner in close touch with the parents, and guests Saturday of Mrs. John B. Evwill try to see that there are less fail- ans. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Bogue and ures among the boys and girls than sons, Delbert and Donald, of Atherthere have been In some .years that ton, Missouri were dinner guests on have passed. They solicit your co- Saturday of Mrs. Margaret Stringer. Mr. and Mrs. Bogue and family have operation in making our local schools completed an extended motor trip, all that they ought to be. and accompanied by Mrs. Stringer Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Richmond, Har- and Miss Mamie Stringer, 'have just ry Roberts and sister, Dorothy mo- returned from Bryce Canyon, Cedar tored from Salt Lake Sunday and vis- City and other points of interest in ited with the Fred S. Dart family. southern Utah. They stopped off at Miss Dorothy Roberts remained to Spanish Fork to visit with a number spend the week and accompany the of old friends. family on a fishing trip to Strawberry t winch was given in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Fuller of LaOrande, Oregon, who are spending their vacation here. Tho following sketch. of the life of Ellas Jones was given at a recent meeting of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers, by Mrs. Jana Hodglns, his granddaughter: .Elias Jones .pioneer of 1856, well deserves a place on the pages of Utah history. He was born of goodly parents tjohn and Anne Jones, in Neath, So! Wales, SepR 3, 1810. He was one of three children. Ills sister, Margaret, became the wife of David Evans, and his brother, John Jones came to Utah with him. But little is known of his childhood, so our story begins with his marriage .to Mary Williams one of the five daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Llewellyn Williams. Soon after their marriage this couple moved to Swansea, Glamorganshire, at which place a family of nine children, five boys and four girls, was born. :Mr. Jones was a baker by trade apd he owned a grocery store which Mra. Jones took charge of, she being a woman of a businesslike turn of mind, which characteristic some of y Weeds Make Eyesores Out of Beauty Spots T-- J ELVA JEX APPOINTED The writer was recently on a trip PROVO SCHOOL NURSE through some parts of Southern Utah, ' Miss Elva Jex of Spanish Fork, has been appointed nurse of the Provp City Schools to succeed Ruth Ward Mumford, according to the announcement of Alex Hedqulst of Provo, member of the executive committee of the Utah Public Health Association. ' Miss Jex is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Jex of Spanish Fork. She is a graduate nurse of the L. D. S. Hospital training school, is registered with the State Nurses association, and a member of the State Public Health Association. She has attended the national summer school bt the Utah Agricultural College at Logan the past two years, taking the public health educational 'courses there. Miss Jex has for the past year been public health supervisor and and nurse in the Sevier county school district. 4. STRICT TRAINING FOR THREE FILM STARS gentleman's agreement to eat no pies, 'cakes, rich pastries, and to smoke no clgarets unltl the picture was finished, was drawn up by Jack Fickford, William Haines, Francis X. Bushman Jr., and Oulnn Williams of the cast of Brown of Harvard, coming to the Angelus Theatre on A Monday. ' As everyone knows, football players do not smoke, neither do they eat chocolate eclairs while they are In Haines, Bushman and training. Williams play stars of the Iarvard team, and as football scenes were actually played by them, they could not look like weaklings beside the real football squad. Inrtduntaly the entire University Of Southern California football squad was used for the scenes of ('Brown of Harvard" and Ilalnes, Bushman and Williams were in perfect physical trim, having been in training lor several weeks before the beginning of the plcturo. The football scenes wero photographed in the Los Angeles Coliseum with long shots of last year's game Incorporated In the production. These were secured by director Jack Conway, who went cast expressly to secure actual shots of the game, and atmosphere shots of the huge crowds that attended the game. - Yale-Harva- rd where nature in her vast extravagance has painted some of the most bi&utiful of pictures. It is impossible to describe such a weried spectacle as is presented by Bryces with the wonderful color setit. To reach this surrounding ting wonder spot of nature, however, requires hours of travel over stretches of country which are somewhat monotonous because of a lack of productivity. It Is no wonder, th?n. that after such a trip that one, on this beautiful Utah Valley, Is thrilled by the wonderful fertility and the extensive variation of its vegetation Ye:, it wax like return, ing to Gods country.' What an oport,untty for a little city as It is like &pnnls hFo'fk, iu the center of this valley, one of tlli spots on artb, whew the most t! run shines througj atmosphere so cle"r that distant objects come st ih.se enough to be touched, a here canyon breezes rurlfy the air that we breathe until it la refreshing to the body as music to the soul, ahere the mountains tower in majesty as a protection to the man who treads the furrow below, vhere the clear water flows and gives life, to everything and makes it grow. , Anything will grow In Spanish Fork, osmetimes more thriftily than we would like. Vegetation Is very attractive, if It Is of the right kind and all kinds of vegetation are good in the right place, but whed a plant gets In the wrong place it Is just as much of a nuisance as a jail bird Is to society. Peculiarly enough, Spanish Fork has too many plants growing in the "Arent they the wiong place. weedst" Weeds, Is right." Most of us have seen them on our streets and walks and vacant lots so long that we do not see them any more. Take a trip to some of our southern Utah towns and see how clean and free they are from the unsightly weeds that line so many of the streets In Spanish Fork. After you have taken the trip, return , and the writer Is confident that the sldewnlK and street In front of your premises will Can-wo- slt-iate- al-i- n, Walter S. Gifford (left); president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, and Leonard IL Kinnard (right), president of the Bell Telephone . Company of Pennsylvania and Associated Companies, are ' shown standing on the exact spot where Alexander Graham Bell first talked over his invention at the Centennial Exposition 50 yearjf Ago. . In the background can be seen Memorial Hall, relic of the Centennial .and which is now being used as a museum. It was on this spot that Dod, Pedro, then Emperor of inventor and exclaimed, 'My God, it talks!" when Brazil, met the he heard Bells voice come over the wlrei The exhibits to be staged by the organization these men represent will be one of the great features of the International Exposition, which ppens In Philadelphia June 1 and continues to December 1 to colebrate thg 150th anniversary of the t i signing of the Declaration of Independence. Sesqul-Centennl- al Funeral Services for This year the Spanish Fork Kiwan-I- s Club will again celebrate Constitution Week" which occurs September 12 to 18, and will aid In carrying out Kiwani8 Internaitionals objective, inducing all citizen entitled to vote to exercise the rlgl t of franchise during elections and promoting and intelligent, agressive and serviceable citizenship. Observing with the local club will be 1505 other Kiwanis Clubs thruout the United States, which are also preparing extensive programs for school and community in emphasizing the need of a thorough study of the fundamental principles of the United States government. Officers and directors of the local club are now busy with plans pnd within a few days announcement will be made of the clubs outline for Constitution Week." This being the fifth year that Kiwanis Internationa! has observed the commemoration, many believe that results shown over the country will create a better undestanding of the principles of the Constitution. "In cooperation with .the other 1505 Kiwanis Clubs In the United States, we hope to observe Constitution Week in such a way as to bring good results in this community, not only from our club program but from public standpoint." DAVID HODGE, President. Mrs Annette Sumsion Funeral services were held athe Springvllle Third ward chapel last Sunday afternoon over the remains of Mrs. Anetta Evans Sumsion, who died on the Monday previous at the Provo hospital following an operation for gall stones. Smart presided at flshop Ralph and made a few remarks In closing. Other speakers were Bishop Ralph D. Morgan, David T. Lewis, L, John Nuttall, Jr., apd stake president G. R. Maycock. During the services a solo Resignation was rendered by Elmo Coffj man; Mis Ellen Jameson sang Absent," and the Mapleton Quartet sang "All Through the Night." The benediction was pronounced byPatrlarch Oliver B. Huntington. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Ilanlfen spent Sunday at Salt Lake City visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Marlow R.' Peacock. The Misses LaPreal Robertson and Clara Halverson returned Sunday from Salt Lake City, where they have spent the past three months attending the University of Utah summer schwd New Extracted Honey for sale now Mrs. Soren Peterson. UDVEBTISEStENT) In honor of the 71st anniversary Ernest .Young Pigs for Sale of the birth of Mrs. Nelsen C. Nielsen; Sheen, Salem. 41 relatives met at her home Sunday, REPUBLICAN PRIMARY August 29th. A delicious hot dinner was served and the rooms were decA primary of the Republican votorated. with early autumn flowers ers of the Spanish Fork Precinct will Soven children twenty grandchildren be held at the City Pavilion, Saturwere day, September 4th, 1926, at 8 oclock and three her Peter son, p. m., for the purpose of electing 6 oldest Nielsen, present. came from Paul, Idaho, Joseph Niel- delegates and 6 alternates to attend sen and family, Mr. and Mrs. James the Rerabllcan State Convention to Beddlngfleld and family from Eureka, be held at the Salt Lake Theatre, at Mrs. Don Kendall and Children and Salt Lake City, Utah, on September Mrs.Mary Kendall and daughter, Nel- 10th, 1926, at JO o'clock a. m at sen of Mapleton, and Marinus Larsen which convention nominations will was present as a special guest. The be made for a United States Senator time was spent in a social way and and one Judge for the Supreme Court of the State of Utah. all had an enjoyable time. Also to elect 6 delegates and 6 alMembers of the Spanish Fork Rifle ternates to attend the Second ConClub are developing extraordinary gressional Convention to be hold at skill In the uso of the U. S. army rifle. the Hotel Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, Many of those vho have participated at 3 p. m.f Thursday, September 9th, In recent shoots are displaying real 1926, at which convention nominamarksmanship and the prospects are tion will be made for a representative that we will have a Hussy aggrega- to the United States Congress. Also for the purpose of electing a tion to enter In the national tournaA government Precinct Chairman and Secretary of ments next year. soon be free from weeds. qualification course will be fired com- the Republican party of Spanish Fork There are thousands of tourists mencing at 8:30 a. m. Mondny, Sep- precinct, and for the transacting of traveling through our city. Lets tember 6th, under tho direction of such other business as may properly give them a better impression of Mr. Tipton of Iayson, who will give come before tho meeting. Spanish Fork by cleaning up our Informatlo non range work. All the J. II. SNELL, Chairman, weeds. JAMES NIELSEN, Sum-tary- . members should be In attendance. theit' posterity have inherited. This assistance made it possible for her husband to launch out in other lines, so; he invested in a coal mine, of which he became the superintendent. This mine was called the Saints Pit" because Mr. Jones hired Saints to work for him In presence to Gentiles. , The subject of our sketch joined the L. D. S. Church In 1849, having previously been a Methodist. Mrs. Jones did not Join until some time later,' When she became converted through thehealing of her daughter, Anne, who was restored to health by the administration of the Elders. concluded to In 1854 move his family to Utah. This grieved bis wife, for she was frail and delicate and she felt that this was a big adventure with eight children. About this time another child came to them. On July 16th 1854, when the baby was six weeks old, Mrs. Jones died very suddely, leaving the children to the care of her oldest daughter, Mary, then but sixteen years of age. On account of this misfortune, Mr. Jones concluded to remain In Wales until the children Mr.-Jon- Primary conference of the Palmyra stake was held at the Third warfd chapel last Sunday afternoon, with an exceptionally large attendance. Mrs. Annie R. Beck Stake president of the primary association presided. Representing the general board were Mrs. James Crawford and Mrs. Elinor ThomaB of Salt Lake City, who addressed the conference on "Recreation and Teacher Training" and A Glimpse Into the Future." Short addresses on various phases of the primary work in Palmyra stake were given by Mrs. Vernecla M. Beck, who also gave the address of welcome, Mrs. Elizabeth Huff, Miss Kate Tippetts, Mrs. Clara M. Skinner, and Mrs. Annie R. Beck. Exercises by each ward in the stake were given in the afternoon. At the close of the confereno a photograph of Mrs. Loul B. Felt, former president of the general board of the primary, ' was presented to the First ward primary association for having the best attendance during the summer. Sixty per cent of the total wool crop of the United States is produced In the eleven Western States, and in this group Utah holds third place, being outranked by only Wyoming and Montana. These facts are disclosed by a special wool report recently submitted by the federal bureau of economics ,by Prof. William Peterson, director of the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station and the Agricultural College Extension Service. Texas, Included in the South Central group, still ranks as the leading wool 'state of the Union with her 1926 clip totaling 25,804,000 pounds, but Wyoming, the western group leader follows a close second with 24,132,000 pounds to her credit. Montana la third with 23,100,000.and Utah Yourth with 20,322000. . Then eome Idaho, Oregon, California, New Mexico, Nevada, Colorado, Arizona and Washington. Ohio is the only state ontslde of Texas and the western group leaders that- - may be considered a high producing wool state, her 1926 wool dtp amounting to 16,044,000 pounds. Each of the &her North Central States produced less than 8 000,000 became older. pounds, and one of them, Nebraska, Two years later he married his barely exceeding 1,500,00 pounds. wifes sister, Mrs. Jlanah Hopkins, who had been left a widow with one Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Measom and son n cETld, Mary, who later married John Frank and Mr. and Mrs. Harry F. Beck. week son and Pershing, spent the Mr. Jones now regained hopes of end at Strawberry Lake fishing. coming to Utah and .In the spring of 1856 bh completed plans for the trip. Mrs. J. A. Lawhorn, who is la He and his family, with his brother Montana visiting with her husband, John and three hired people set sail was severely burned about the face form Liverpool England April 19th, and arms Friday while cleaning some on the ship, Sanders Curling. After clothes wlth'gasollne. The gasoline six weeks sailing they landed at Bos- exploded and her clothing caught' on they took fire. Mr. Lawhorn extinguished the ton, Massachusetts,-wherWhile Iowa for train City. the flames and a doctor from Butte was on the train the baby sister summoned, and dressed the wounds. died and was laid to rest in Cleveland She will remain there unler the Ohio. doctors care for two or'three weeks, This party of pioneers was detain- as most of her burns are serious ones. ed in the Iowa camp during the to help make handcarts for the ones who had no ox teams. In September of the same year, Mr. Jones and his brother joined Captain Hunt's company, which was composed of eight or ten family, among them beThe deacons of Second ward took ing the family of Grandfather Bowan over night hike last Saturday to en. well were eqbrothers The Jones the mountains west and south of the uipped. Their outfit comprised eight Spanish Fork Power riant. This was oxen, two cows, two wagons and a one of the best of the horse and buggy. The family rode In undoubtedly the buggy until the weather, became many hikes they have taken this sumtoo severe, then they were bundled mer. 19 boys accompanied by their into buffalo robes In the wagons.' class leaders, II. Eugene Hughes and The cows which were brought to Walter II. Moore, left Saturday afsupply milk and butter learned to ternoon. On the way to the mounfollow the buggy. A number of times tains the boys enjoyed a swim in the they were stolen by settlers along the river. At camp, games, explorations road, but they learned to come when of the hills, cliffs and caves were enthey wero called and several times joyed. Supper and breakfast were the oldest daughter rescued them by cooked by the boys, from 2 to 4 boys calling. Finally they were stolen and using a small fire. It was quite a sight presumably driven away, for they to see boys 12 and 13 years old cookcould not be found. This deprived ing ham, eggs, welnles, marshmallows the family of milk and butter, but and other good things to eat as tho tlioy were well provided with other they were veterans at the game. The foods. They never knew the want of boys enjoy these hikes and we, apbread, and the children never suffered preciate the cooperation of the parfrom the cold. ents in helping them go. The boys When the weather was fair, the are just as willing and anxtoua to do children took delight in riding in their duties in their callings In the their uncles wagon with Nanson," priesthood, as hey are to go on outthe woman who came to help them. ings. Let us all work together and Mrs. William P. Bowen was thus rid- help the boys arrange their work so ing one day when the cattle stam- that they can do the things they like peded. The trouble Btartod from the to do in a clean, manful way. A rear of the train. Llewellyn Jones cheerful salute, a word of praise and ' a big boy pal, all holps. 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