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Show 100 PAROWAN TIMES YEARS HISTORY OF PAROWAN Volume commonwealth . A hundred years have come and gone memorial day when they pitched camp on Center Creek all may have more knowledge nf these Pioneer. no se may keep alive thetr memory and nuire lntellegeutly our coming centennial the Times is printing jn weekly of their coming and many activities as jltncntK the story of Parowan, as compiled by Andrew inwi In the Hiatary o,at Historian. Church INSTALLMENT NUMBER .VINE W Jan 27. Twenty six teams started to haul logs for the ijnj house, while otheis worked on the foundation. hauling 'laying rocks. day six i of our brethren arrived from California and after day took the dtizines mail to G.S.L City. Jt.,day Jan 2k. Under this date George A. Smith wrote to the a 0( the Deseret News" as follows: last coinmunication w Have made some explorations we of where anu have made our locations; vicinity be valley have found plenty of timber in the canyon, most of which is size The canyon is opened and the timber easily obtained; fine quality and other rock an abundance of lime rock of The land continuous to our settlement or building purposes. as far as the opinion of our nest farmers go, to be the quality with all the advantages of variety. The feed for our is abundant and proves to lx- of a very nutritious quality, attic are gaining very fast, and truly our prospects are flat-fc. as regards the slaply products of ihe eaj-thOur camp is The weather is fine, not a cloudy good health and spirits since our arrival the thermometer ranging 22 at sunrise, 6 oon and 42 at sunset. ;,nce my i'AHOWAN TIM 1 near jjjat e Iriiuur of the settlement ef Parowan and Iron County our thoughts go more and more to that noble band ens who braved the winter iow, hardship (guiger arul to come here to establish homes aud carve Inconvenience Ceil twm in tit Thirty-Fiv- - g ... day seems to develop the many comforts and conven this valley. Many seem to like the valley better tha ri Sn they came, as they see the size of the timber in the can ,. the excellency of the farming land... A great portion of with sage of large size, rabbit and desert valley is covered Last ;d. some alkali Saturday we raised a liberty pole it with our land, cattle jut 6ft fee' in length) and dedicated ourselves to the Lord, the God of Liberty, who controls th iicies of men. Our council house is now going up and soon Some will assume an appearance of comfort. settlement ithren who have been exploring the canyon have just come in report the discovery of a species of hemlock, which posseses cry in . . To PERSONAL NEWS NOTES Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Ceua and family, Robert, Donald aud Kathy, returned to their home iu Sun Leandro. Calif. week-enlast after spending wo weeks iu Parowan visiting with the Ernest Onous anil with other relatives and friends. Gene is manager of Foreman & Clark's Department store iu Oakland where he expects a much larger store to be built in the near future which will deadd a ladies ready-to-wepartment. Bessie Ann Doltrusky accompanied the Cenas back to the Day Area and will remain with .hem until she locates employment and is definatelv settled. j d aturday, Feb. 8. The settlers moved from the old camp ground location of the fort. Halterman was also Feb. 9. A meeting was held in the new camp at 11 which occasion George A. Smith named the new location Misa" in honor of the first woman (Miss Louisa Beeman) who married into polygamy among the Latter-da- y Saints, and the j j a Branch of the Church called the organized into Pisa Branch with George A. Smith as president and James wis as clerk. The Branch was also divided into four Wards ii Anson (Jail as Bishop of the first, Tarleton Lewis of the ond, Daniel a. Miller of the third, and Joseph L. Robinson 'be fourth On motion of George A. Smith the brethren themselves into a quorum of Elders consisting of all esthood in the fort with Elisha H. Groves as president. day. Feb. 16. The weather being favorable, no meeting was was in camp, to the Feb. 23. President George A. Smith preached camp. (Saturday, March 1. New Samuel Mr. and Mrs. G. D. Van Aus-cia- y Whitney, a son of Francis and zissa child and family are back in Whitney was born in the camp, he being the first the after spending Parowan fn in Iron County. Mr. V .Sunday, March 2. where at summer Sunday. Logan every held were regularly Meetings Sunday, nts in . n moie activity iu both stake Members of Parowan Pre- j general missionary work, cinct No. l will cast their votes o more oi me Latter-da- y gei at the County Court House; auuu boys iutu the Au ionic District No. 2 at the basement iicsliioou quot ums aUd lo hold of the City Library; and Distueir lutesest with Scouting rict No. 3 at the Elementary auu anu other activities, lu si hool building. mwouuce more religious trainme If a voter expects to be out ing iu Ute Homes, tor Parowan of town on that day, he is mice projects by auiuoii-- ! advised to secure au absent nUtae introduced voters ballot from the County lies at Stage Quarterly couier-cui- e held here lust Sunday. Clerk at the Court House. President Oscar A. Kirk hum oi the First Council oi Seventy icpiese tiled the general Church authorities and William Walsh, the Church Welfare department at tile meetings. WlUiaut Gruysou Gun was Alias Alaikella Phillips, of Air. and Mrs. Oliver 8,l npari by Pres. Kirkbam as tV. Phillips of Paipwan and one of the Presidents of the to Murray Ashdown, sou of Mr. 69th. Quorum of Seventy of Glenn take who place Sagers nd Airs. Leonard Ashdown of Stake. thear lias moved from the Cedar City,, surprised Alma Lawrence was also ordainSfriends Sunday b; jumping of the Seventy inead of their wedding dale aud ed a member Quorum. a wife iu becoming man and Alls. Berta Burton was susceremony performed by Rev. R. as activity counselor tained in li. Hughes in Las Vegas. The the Y.L.M.l.A. Stake organizayoung couple spoae their vows in a weduiug chapel aud were tion with Airs. Ruth Board man Airs. was being given her release. The bride unattended. was Mitchell also made Bertrude gowned in an afternoon frock of navy taffeta with a corsage second counselor iu the Slake Relief Society, taking the place of orchids pinned to her of Airs, Nellie Bentley who resigned to become president of immediately after the cere- the Parowan East Ward group. mony, the justweds left on a Mrs. Bertha Matheson was alhoneymoon trp which includ- so released afier three years as ed Boulder Dam, Arizona, Grand Cont. On Back Page Canyon aud the Southern Utah Parks. They are now at home To temporarily in Parowan whiile the is the groom employed by 12 Open Utah Construction Company at Sept. 12 has been set as the Iron Mountain. date for opening the Parowan The new Mrs. Ashdown was Ward Primaries for their regular fall work after a mouth a member of the 1950 graduating class from the Parowan vacation, according to Mrs. Jean Stake Primary High School where she was pop- - Hendrickson, president. Parents are urged to Continued on Page Four have their children there for the first meeting where an introduction of the new year's 1, work will be given, it is also suggested by oranjzation officers and teachers that the childhas been An announcement In mind the fact that ren keep made by Mrs. Leone Lyman of them will have activ- many to be will able children that bandlos to purschool lunches starting ity hooks and obtain Teachers' chase. meetings will Tuesday the first day of school. be wards at 3 30 in both held as same be the The price will on Tuesday, Sept. 12, and the last year, 15c per student. regular Primary meeting will commence for the children at 4 'oclock. I i Primaries Sept. a School j j undi Starts Tuesday : I nion Meeting Sunday ew Arrival The first Relief Society Union meeting of the season will be held Sunday at 2:30 p.m. in the West Ward Church in conPriesthood the nection with leadership meeting, Mrs. Edna S. Hatch announces. She urges s. all executive and special cers and magazine represent-- 1 atives, as well as class leaders to be there to hear the lessons for the coming year previewed. has Mrs. Delbert Mortensen been iu Orem the past week helping to care for the family of her son, Grant. A new arri- val on Thursday made a trio of little boys for Grant and the who was the former Mary Manning, summer been attending has Smith preached at the meeting held today. U.S.A.C. the school at Tuesday. March 25. Up to this date the colonists on Center eli had sown four hundred (400) acres with wheat; about Mr. and Mrs. Wilford Edling acres of farming land had been surveyed. and family of Los Angeles have 191 census of Iron County taken April 1, 1851, showed visited during the past week -- and llfi females, 360 souls. E. J. Kings. Also enThe arrival of a little black with the n :,riday. April 11, Parley P. Pratts and Charles C. Rich's haired girl at the Dee Memorthe hospitality gracious joying c of settlers bound for California began to arrive at Paro-ial Hospital in Ogden on AugContinued on Back Page different They kept of ust 25 broke the line of blonds arriving until the 19th in companies ;s and camped in the vicinity of the fort. By the 28th they and Mildred for George Lynn ,f all OF Proceeded on their journey. None of them could be in- - REX LLOYD NAMED of Sahara Village. Halterman ted to rernain at Parowan. although the state of health of She also makes girls in the BOULDER MINE BUREAU PLANT e nf Ihe travelers and the condition of their teams seemed in the household bring- majority of Rex Lloyd, veteran metallurgist ake it BOULDER CITY, Aug.llnecessary, but all seemed bent on the sunny climes number now to t ree. in& , California. the bureau of mines, today was named chief of the local electro-Robert- and sisters brolher diedlHer the late C. W. Davis who branch to succeed Minday, April 13. P. Pratt, Charles C. Rich, George metallurgical Patricia and Sharon, have spent Parley mith addressed the camps. The Saints traveling towards uoydhTbeen acting chief since the death of Davis and was the past two weeks in ParowanR. 0rnia constituted a large number of the congregation and a with their grandparents, the notified of his permanent appointment by H. C. Miller, director L. Haltermans and with Mild.id Puffing was enjoyed. FranSan 3 with headquarters at "day, April 20. The settlers on Center Creek joined the of the bureau of mines region red's sisters, Maude Halterman 5 cisco. address-camps on Summit Creek in meeting, which was Huidah Hulet. Big broth- and The new head of the local laboratories came to Boulder City i er Keith, stayed on the job at Parley P. Pratt, Amasa M. Lyman, Charles C. Rich and the Inivessitj. of Utah from ire A. Smith. in 1936 followed his graduation He spent a year with the bureau of reck a move still farther south this year of 1851, Apostles school of engineering. on powerhouse installations at the dam and M' j Pyman and Charles C. Rich were called by President lamation working a bo.are,v tip. California Electric Power Company, servmg as a. the to moved to go at 6 ,bs made 'ounK Lake City to organize a company in Salt r aufornia for two years. mama of Gam and and a and form the nucleus of a settlement at Canjon powerhouse operator papa He joined the staff of the local bureau of mines plant in 1939 and e Whrp they were to cultivate the live grape, sugar-cana Junior chemist. He has advanced through the ranks 1ncei tB"The original intention was to have 20 in this company as his to to present position. number, however, reached 500. This little fellows Hospital. The rush to travel with his family at 1330 Denver street and is m- resides Brtlla Was He are John evidently as it not randparent8 Young President ac, approved by club and chamber of commerce In LDS church, Lions tive parowan rnipted 't1 Kold craze. tivlties. CONTINUED NEXT WEEK Continued, on Back Pae Rex Lloyd is the son of Cora Lloyd of Parowan. George A. offi-j-Mr- j CHIEF - j ' b-- v rwr Number Thirty I' Iron County's three-da- y Fair and Horse Show is now m full swing with all of the Judging completed Thursday. Exhibits in most of the depart meats art ns large and Iu some cases, milch On Friday evening a Faregreater than on previous years well Party was given for the according to Caudt men who were leaving with fair committee chairman. the National Guard and for Thursday was 411 Club day those who have received their at the Full' and Included work ails from other branches of of some 15 dull members aud the service and are leaving In 45 leaders in the County. The the near future These men and day including Judging of exlii their families together with the hits during the morning us well I it mi lies of those who ure al- us u 411 Judging couteat in ready in the serveeg were es- clothing At 1: p.m. there was pecially honored by the except- a demonstration contest among ionally large crowd in attend- ten of the dubs iu tile county. ance at the Hurial. The style dress review was A fine program was presentat 3:30 p in with 20 girls pared and dancing was enjoyed. ticipating. Winners of all these Continued on Back Page events will be eligible to enter the Utah State Fair contests, according to iris Noble. The arts, crafts and hobbles have came inlo their own at the Fair this year, with the Members of the Joseph Stevens Sr. family elected new of- largest display this department has had in the history of the ficers of their family organization at the recent reunion held County Fair Judging of all livestock and In Paragonah and at the Yankee Meadow iu Parowan. Joseph crops took place all day ThursE. Ward was elected as the new day, with the sheep, dairy and beef cattle and swine receiving president to head the group for most of the attention. An ex the coming two years; Mrs. season has made Emily Riding of Salt Lake City tremely poor the hnd fruit displays crops was chosen as 1st. smaller than usual. Chester Stevens of CowInterest of many local folks ., ley, Wyoming, 2nd. Js focused on the horse show and Mrs. Pearl Russell was and parade which will lie held r. secretary-treasureon both Friday and Saturday The secretary reports that in afternoons. with a Anyone the recent account of the rehorse is urged to groom h'm union that the following peqple 1 a bit end to thtitjAwe's fha. j up wen in attendance who Tj eat geralla and Join the pronot included: Mrs. Parkr M. cession at the southwest oic Ward and her four children and ner of the school block at 1:45 Miss Mary Ward of Sait Lake p.m. on each of the afternoons City; Mrs. Paul Cason and two for the march to the track daughters of Cedar City; Mr. where the show will be held. Carlyle Hulet and children, The finest and most thrilling Miss Ivy Ward, Miss Mary Caris promised of entertainment ol Lemmon and George and both the participant and the Chester Ward of Parowan; and the spectator. Such novel events children of Mr. and Mrs. Dale as chariot races, tractor rare Dobson of Minersville and and ridiug of wild bur roping the famiilra of Mr. and Mrs. ros and brahma steers will livGeorge Halterman and Mr. and en usual fine liors up the Mrs. Page Knell of Cedar City. races, calf roping, bronco rid She states that 63 of the famIng, hurdling and other gsmes members enjoyed the day ily and sports. A thrill a minute spent at Yankee Meadow. is assured by Mr E. J King Absent because of Illness was and his corps of assistants for Mr. George Stevens, who had j (hft ahow just returned from Salt Lake A rare treat is promised at where he had undergone twoeach of the afternoon hvv major operations in the L.D.S.wth exhibitions by some of the hospital. Mrs. Lydia Stevens WorId cham,)ion Arnerican SadOrton, another members of the dlers which are being brought original family was also unable to Parowan their owners, by to attend because of her poor Mr. Lee Flint of Layton, exhealth. Mr. William M. Stevens pressly for the occasion. These and his family of Cowley were aristocrats of the horse kfng-alsunable to mak'e the trip dom will be worked both with and hence were not present. Cont. On Back Page minorities Outline Paragonah i ro irrts tor Service Mien SltUif Of ttflIUf lit (iven larpu p to stimulate more interest iu . uau-ght- on P Voters of Iron County ure reminded of the Primary election which will be hold on this coming Tuesday and at which time several successful candidates for the In general elections November will be chosen, A copy of the ballot is printed in the Times and every voter is urged to consult it and to remember to Hxerclse his Sights as citizens. Hfd In Las Vfgas visitor from his base at Clearfield. Charles (Chuck) Bentley is back on the job as manager of the Utah Service Station after an absence of several weeks, His back is now in a brace which enables him to get about although a bit carefully. Members of the Thursday evetheir ning sewing club and husbands enjoyed a Five-Mil- e supper party Sunday which was Max given in honor of Major Dailey, who left Tuesday night with the National Guard. . Markotta Phillip. Murrav Ashdown 2.50 per 3 -- Day Iron County Fair Celebration Now In Full Swing Hold -- week-en- d unday, 1950 1, I Escaping serious injury last Saturday was the little daughtMrs. LaMar er of Mr. and Matheson of Midvalley, Utah who was rushed to the Iron after being County Hospital run over by the front wheels of her father's car. Exrays revealed that she had no broken bones but was bruised considerably. The little girl is the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Waldo Taylor. Bud PAROWAN, UTAH SEPTEMBER lllHlion TuomImv. So ii I. Mr. and Mrs. Orland Ward and sons. Tex and Rickie, have .... visited in Parowan during the week. While here they past have been guests of Orland's sister. Ortell Rasmussen. Orland in the physical is instructor the education department ai Larat of Wyoming University properties for tanning; they report that they saw sufficient amie, and has been in charge av to make 20 cords of bark. (News 1:211) recreational of the school's summer. the They camp during tlday, Jan 31. Two special meetings were held in the camp behere down trek made the which President instructons about George A. Smith gave terms. tween Ming the fort and the council house. The camp organization o be continued a little longer. Bishops Daniel A. Miller Stevens is home Cpl. Dick ph L. Robinson and Anson Call were appointed a committee with his folks in Parowan aftsurvey a line for a ditch. Some land had already been sur er spending several months in Germany with the U.S. Army. . esident George A. Smith announced there would be no pub was down Parcells Homer work for that day. Therefore, each went to work to get logs from Ogden to spend the past for their own houses. here. in the camp week with his folks unday, Feb. 2. George A. Smith again preached the H KS. Axt-un- I hd SIimis f amily Reorganize vlce-pres- I I ' I I ah Big Game Soaon Gel Gwod Star! n Opening date of the elk hunt began on one district of Utah on Saturday, August 12. Twenty elk or either sex authorized to be taken in Rich County adjacent to farm lands This hunt was staged as a control measure in areas where elk had left the mountainous areas to come down and feed on farm crops. Other hunts of this nature are to be held in several other sections where deer and elk are causing damage ao agricltural lands. These special hunts are participated in by those sportsmen lucky enough to have their names drawn at the public drawings. Of the twenty elk authornzed to be taken, nine have already been bagged. The first lucky hunters began coming frorn the bills early Saturday morning. Jesse W. Wulf of Corinne, Utah as among the nimrods who were first to bring their elk out. the hunters was the handicapped veterans of Unusualamong World War 11, Ed Rawley, a student of the U. S. A. C. Game Management Division. Rawley bagged his fivepoint bull Sunday evening. The war veteran has remodeled his own rifles and made adaptations upon them that make it possible for him to handle them with greatest skill and dexterity. pre-seaso- Other Hunt To Follow The East Nebo hunt, which is another hunt to be held as a measure against crop eating elk will be started Saturday. Augu-- t 19. Following that, Manti Mountain will be hunted from September 30 to October 8. The first deer hunt to be held in the state will be a special hunt in Browns Park from September 16 to 21. The special elk hunt and the Antelope hunt will also be held in that same area during the same period. On the sportsmens agenda also is the state grouse hunt which is also a controlled hunt with special permits. It will be held September 30 and October I. The next special hunt for deer will be held in the La Salle Mountain area in three units begining October 14. Elk Ridge special hunt will begin the same date. |