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Show THE BOX ELDER NT5WS, PAGE TWO The Box Elder Hews Semi-Weekl- y, Now You Can Get a Box of Editor and Manager. Subscription Rates: $2.00 One Year $1.00 Six Montks 50. Three Months Entered at the Post Office at Brigham City, as Second Class Matter. C. WIXOM. leads westward to Hamilton, then north to Nauvoo, but we chose to s follow the road, actuated by the sentiment that It would be that way the sorrowing saints followed on their way back home with the bodies of their beloved Prophet and Patriarch. Arrived in Nauvoo, we found the main street all torn up preparatory to hardsurfacing, so we couldn't drive into the town. We managed, however, with some maneuvering, to get to the part of the town that is really the interesting part, namely that down by the river, where the homes of the leaders were located. We found a Josephite, grandson of John E. Page, in charge. He received us very pleasantly and took us about showing us what he regarded as the chief points of interest First was the house in which the Prophet lived when he settled there. Then the room Mansion House across the street to the east, the Nauvoo House, what there is of it. We were much interested in the house which Lorenzq Snow occupied. It is a double house Included in our Peach Day Special are the following items : and in a good state of repair. Also, is still Woodruff of Wiiford the home habitable. One thing he didnt show 1 us, but which we found later, was the home of Willard Richards, grandfather of Mrs. Lee. It is located somewhat apart from the others and 1 1 has been rebuilt and added upon by subsequent owners until it wouldnt 1 1 be known by the pictures of it of some years ago. On one corner of 1 button-bac- k 1 the lot is the grave of Jeannetta Richards, first wife of Willard Rich1 1 smoker. ards, and who was the first person 1 confirmed a member of the church 2 in England. Heber C. Kimball bap2 2 tised her and that evening said to his pictures. companion, Willard Richards, "Wilwife I today. lard, 'baptised your Willard said, "How can that be when (11 Elder Kimball said, I have no wife. Room "Ill say I baptised your future wife. And so it turned out to be. Nauvoo doesnt hint of its one time Terms if desired. greatness, having now a population of less than a thousand, but the site is there. And what a site! Surrounded on three sides by the mightiest river in the land and sloping gradually eastward to the bluff and high land beyond. I wonder if it wont some day come into its own. That site should support a very Pifn Hj Xnown for Dpomdahililu jtA'foWJ : beautiful city. We had now seen all the noted spots of interest to the time the BRIGHAM CITY, UTAH saints moved to these Rocky Moun- jjjj tains, and we were suddenly seized with a longing to get here; a sort of homesickness we hadnt felt until then. We should have stayed ip Nauvoo that night, had intended to, in fact, but it was so hot that we not bad roads. We found the roads progressing and all of the family enthought surely some other place that were impassable on Sunday to be joying good health. We felt quite News would be cooler, so we drove up the entirely dry on Monday, much to our free then to take stock of our trip river eight miles and spent the night satisfaction. There was so much and declare it good. We are not at Fort Madison, Iowa. We followed news and rumor of washouts and very superstitious but are always PLYMOUTH, Sept. 11. Mr, ud up the Mississippi River to Burlington floods that we were getting anxious. afraid to count too much on anything Mrs. Alma Johnson and daughter! next morning and headed straight Another thing that added to our an- until it is finished. I guess this is Vera and Ruth and granddaughter west as fast - as we could go. We xiety and desire to get home as due to that old admonition that we Eve Neilson of Manti, Utah, motored traveled nearly 400 miles before dark quickly as possible was a new grand- learned in our youth. Dont count to Plymouth on Tuesday to visit that night, reaching Omaha, Nebraska son who had come on the scene since your chickens before they are Johnsons daughter, Mrs. Royal Lionel We didnt dare ' to brag( Mason. . and ten miles this side to a camp in we left Utah. We got as far as Ly- hatched. They stopped here until Wethe country. It was still hot, but man that day where we .stayed over- about our trip nor even compliment dnesday afternoon and Mr. Johnson not so hot as it got a few days later. night at the Johnson Hotel, a sur- ourselves on our good fortune until and daughter Ruth and granddaugI read in the papers that the heat prisingly commodious place for such we could look back upon it as a hters Eve Neilson and Wanda Mason there reached the unprecedented a small town. .1 suppose there must finished enterprise. went on to to visit The fact that we went in the most Johnsons Grant, Idaho, mark of 114 degrees. But Omaha be a good deal of ranching thereEphraim. brother, bad a surprise for us. We had passed abouts, because the hotel would hard- favorable time of the year, saw all Mr. and Mrs.. Royal Lionel Mason through Omaha on the train at least ly be able to keep- going on tourist that we planned to see when we left made a business trip to Brigham four times and all we saw was an old travel alone. Ogden and Salt Lake home, had no machine trouble what- Thursday of last week. station building where we changed are only 150 miles away and Rock! soever; no sickness, no annoyance, Mrs. Clifford Jensen and children cars for Chicago; or for the West, Springs only about 65. puts a satisfactory finish- of Brigham City, and Mrs. Roy WeWe sailed right along next day ing touch on what was really a ven- bster and children as the case might be. As a matter of New York were of fact, Omaha has some of thei until we reached Echo Canyon, where turesome thing to undertake. We Sunday guests of Mrs. Robert Nish grandest homes in this country, well-ke- the land 6lide was still so much in look back upon it now with ever in- of this place, lawns and grounds, fine trees, evidence that we had to detour via creasing pleasure. The only thing Mrs. Robert Nish, and Mr. and splendid buildings and a generally Coalville, Parleys Canyon and Salt that could have improved it, as we Clark Rudd were in Brigham City prosperous air. She will have the Lake. We reached home in the middle see it now, was to have had a whole Saturday on business. finest station west of New York In of the afternoon and found everything caravan of friends along. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Niab, Ml to be in apple-pi- e the near, future order, business (THE END) and Mrs. Virgil Nish and Mrs. George highNow, we were on the Lincoln Smith motored to Ogden on Sunday ' way again. In Nebraska. Nebraska to .visit Mrs. Thomas J. Nish's son, IRA DERN has slept on her laurels, or something, Wren Mansfield, who is in the until recently quite rudely awakened HospitaL He underwent an operby the fact that tourists were detouration Friday for appendicitis. ing clear outside of the state because Mrs. David Hill and family of St of her roads. She got busy this year John, visited here last week with her putting' the Lincoln highway in somemother, Mrs. Hannah I. Wolverton. thing like the condition it is entitled Her husband accompanied her hoot to. The detours persist, but dont on Sunday. lead entirely out of the state. They James P. Christensen, patriarch of g back and forth following the; the Bear River stake, was present general course of the main pike. Im at Sunday school and at Sacrament sure we crossed the Platte River six meeting Sunday last times in this days drive, and all but once on detours. It Is 108 miles, by the highway from Kearney to North Platte, but it took us 128 miles to get there, the detours adding 20 per cent to the distance. We stopped at Ogallala that rght," and rain began NORMAN LEE to fall and fell all night We enjoyed that because it was the first coolness Bonded Abstractor we had felt in several days. But, next day . we paid for it. We wal REAL ESTATE, lowed through ten miles of the slickBONDS. est mud I have ever seen. This beNo. 7 West Forest Street tween Ogallala and Chappell. As we Brigham City. Utah were skidding along and around, trying to let people pass going eastward, 0. G. BARGERON a driver moving ahead foot by foot saw our license plate and said, Girls, REAL ESTATE - FIRE INSlK-no need of going on. Utah is washed LOANS - SURETY BONDS, off the map. No fooling. There Notary Public must have been a hundred cars or more on that strip of mud and every"I will appreciate your business Phone 6 body was laughing and joking, so we didnt think much of it But when we reached Cheyenne that evening, 5. E. H. MARBLE, D. D. we learned that it was about that time that you were having the first j DENTIST of the cloudbursts and floods here Anne1 If any of you would like to see what Office First National, Bank the Lincoln highway looks like in Phone W places in Nebraska, come in and Ill Brigham City. Utah show you a picture I took myself. I think Ive said that Cheyenne S. looked good to me. Well, it looked C. A. MUNNS, D. D. better than ever that night. We had "DENTIST only driven 185 miles that day, but I was willing to quit It was right Suite 6 First National Bak nice and cool. The Plaza Hotel was clean and comfortable and we enjoyed Telephone No. a nights sleep. If you ever have a chance to eat at the Capital Grill in JOHN W. PHILLIPS Cheyenne, do so. Its real class at reasonable prices. BONDS From Cheyenne on home we were ABSTRACTS traveling familiar ground but we INSURANCE didnt, feel, entirely at ease. The Accurate Work, Prompt Am agent of the bus lines in Cheyenne end Liberal Settlements tQld us that there were bad roads two places between there and Ogden. One of them being on the relatively C.H. BRYAN, D.D.S. low lands between Wamsutter and Rock Springs. The other being a nark land slide between Evanston and Popular Utah wrestler, who is matched with John Kogut of Chicago, in Room 22, First National Ogden, so we set out early on the No-3of contest the event the main to be held at the big wrestling and boxing Telephone morning of July 14th prepared, in our minds at least, for some poor if Armory building in this city, Saturday night beginning at 8 oclock. , Shari Face Powder for FIRE INSURANCE $1.00 The fire insurance industry has Tn order that people of made a splendid record in providing American property with necessary average means might enprotection at a low cost joy the added charm and youthful smoothness that The average rate of premium reShari Face Powder lends ceived by the companies for' each $100 of insurance written, has declined to .8008, the lowest point in our history. Last year their underwriting credit balance was 5.84 per cent. The most expensive thing we could have would be "cheap insurance, in the sense of rates not giving the companies a profit adequate to build up reserves out of which to pay the losses. The stability of American into the face, a new size of dustry is virtually dependent on inbeautiful the surance. Of equal public interest, is is being offered. The ;; insurance stock of fire the work the standard quality of the been companies in combating fire hazards, not has Shari powder fighting arson, and the like. in any way. You changed Their laboratories test and deterwill receive the very same mine the qualities of satisfaction thousands of women have had using the building materials, and the value of all manner of devices large $2.50 box. and appliances. It is safe to say that without this work our tragic record EDDY DRUG of fire waste would have mounted to STORE staggering figures. Insurance is a basic industry which THE REXALL STORE has quietly and efficiently done an invaluable work in the development storo Th a of our civilization. It is only through public cooperation in fire prevention and arson prosecution that fire losses can be cranks, but if 1 hadnt been afraid reduced with resulting savings to of the law that night, I would havei Joined up. We literally fried in our the public. our fat. I went out on the front stoop. Some men were there trying to get a breath of air. One of them said a man had come in that evening ACROSS with his brand new car all spattered with tar. The tar on the roads got BY so hot it splashed all over the place. They soon learned that I was from AUTOMOBILE Utah and xne of them said, Dont I they make soda pop out there? told him they did, and why the ques(By Norman Lee) tion? "Why," he said, a man in Van Wert, Ohio, wanted me to go out to Salt Lake City with him and set (Continued from last issue.) up a soda pop works; said they didnt intake it out there. Seems like next We were up early morning, our soda popers ought to advertise. one reason therefor being a desire to The night didnt do a "thing to the get through Cleveland before heavy heat, bo next day we were off to an must else traffic set in. Everybody early start, and bade fair to make a have had a like notion, for long be- record. A wind was blowing from fore we got right into the city, the the south; I had to have the window we werq open, and it blew against the side of highways were so crowded just crawling. We got discouraged, my face until there wasnt a sign of snalling along at about ten miles an a wrinkle, and I had an astigmatism hour, mostly Just stopping and start- in my left eye. Thats an awful thing ing, so concluded to spend the time to have in your eye. In a restaurant until the worst was We passed through Peoria, 111. over. We waited nearly an hour and it was no better so we got into the Thats of interest to the people of stream again and after about a half Box Elder county; especially to those hour of further crowding and Jam- of Tremonton. The Getzes and Somming, we got out in the open. E mers and Baers came from there. understand that Cleveland is one of Many of them returned, among them the richest cities of the country, per Louis H. Getz, who died Just a short Capita. It is also one of the most time ago. William and Philip Getz crowded, at least early in the morn- are still here, and Henry Baer, and ing. From Cleveland we drove In a perhaps some others, but most of direction gradually them reside In Peoria. They are southwesterly getting into the interior and away Interested in a great factory, the from Lake Erie, and it kept getting Keystone Wire and Steel company, hotter and hotter. At Findlay, Ohio, and a subsidiary, the Keystone Wire we got some sandwiches and drinks, Fence company. It is a very large lots of drinks, and thought plant located advantageously on the to find a shady place out of town, Illinois River, being well served by where we could sit and eat and drink, rail, also. I stopped and went into but It was too hot We kept on the office to inquire about the people driving; it wasn't so bad when we I had known out here, but the weathwere on the move. A day or two er was so sizzling hot, especially in later we read in the papers that those yards,, that I gave up seeing Findlay had run a temperature of them and hit it up for the west and some coolness, If' any were to be 108 degrees.' We reached Peru, Indiana, that night all fagged out. It found at all. was a fairly, long drive from Wil.There must have been a lot of loughby, Ohio, to Peru,5 Indiana, but Chinamen around Peoria. A few it was the heat that did us in. I had miles south is a city named Pekin. always until then, thought the nudists About thirty miles west is Canton, that you read about, were a bunch of and Ive heard that they used to Shanghai river boatmen on the Illinois. Its only about ninety miles from Peoria to Carthage,- which we reached PETERS JEWELRY about 3 o'clock in the afternoon. After a little hunting around the town we found the old Jail. Ill confess to COMPANY a little constriction in the region of 't the heart when I looked upon that place and went about examining all Famous for the evidences of the tragedy which took place there on that memorable day, June 27, 1844. We bought a Class at High Jewelry few pictures, kept for sale by the took some of our own with caretaker, Moderate Prices! the folks on them, then drove toward Nauvoo, eighteen miles distant northwesterly. The main highway silken-packa- ge fire-resisti- ve foxall THE CONTINENT , ; ice-co- ld : . - k 1930. cross-field- Published Every Tuesday and Friday. B. 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