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Show m uf I MINNIE BUGG JOHNSON - Mine V V November 1, 1962 restored ,, I Thursday, Live In San Juan County DEMOCRATIC ' TWO SECTION By Choice CANDIDATE 3uan Serorf STVir '? J s 1 f ' ' V 'v, s ' s v . . , Belong To LDS Church 1 By Choice - Mine FOR I STATE ' REPRESENTATIVE a . -- i v; y 2. O4 a f , t; yj , 1 if tm ':.sty f , ' Want To Be Your Representative By Choice - Yours VOTE ON NOV. 6 i m. I was born in Roanoke, Virginia, the oldest in a family of 13 children. There were eight brothers after me be""S fore I had a little sister. The state of Virginia was still emerging from the devastation of the Civil War. My first real memory is of our house burning Vo the ground, I was five. My mother took me and my two brothers and my dads little treasure box out under a large oak tree, placed two quilts around us and ordered me to stay with my brothers and the box. This I did and watched the house bum to the ground, befpre we were THIS HISTORICAL PHOTOGRAPH shows how the Salt Lake City Hall looked rescued by a neighboring negro woin the 18G0s, a few years after it was competed. The old City Hall had also man. I later learned we lost everyserved as a police station and as storage lor tne fire department. thing except what we had on and $100 that we had in the treasure box, and (Editors Note: This is an- - ter the City and County of the numbers washed off no insurance in those days. other in a series of See Building was built, the old and workmen often scratched articles designed to City Hall served as a police their heads wondering which Utah When I was seven I started to better acquaint Utahns with station, and finally, stripped stone went where. However, school. In February of ray first school their home state. The articles of her glory, she was used early day photographs of the year my father took seriously ill. It have been prepared by the by the city as storage space building helped solve the was more than a year before he could Utah Tourist and Publicity and as part of Number 1 fire riddles. walk. Between these two tragedies we Council. Each week a dif- station. According to Edwin O. Anwere broke. My mother took in boardto r, a son Norman Bugg holding his son Pat, Mrs. Norman Bugg ferent sector or subject ou As time went by, her dome derson, who directed the reFamily picture, standing, ers until my father returned to his Albuquerque, N. M., Darwin A. Jones, his son Layne and a daughter Marcia Jones, Grand Junc- Utah will be featured.) was removed, and for a num- storation, the original buildwork at the Clover Creamery Co. I tion, Colo., William (Billy) Bugg, Nashville, Tenn., James S. Bugg, Jr., Tucson, Ariz., Keith C. A grand old lady has ber of years her dignity was ing was designed by Truman Evans and son Clark, Orem, Utah, Mrs. Donald Bugg and baby, Allen Bugg, Nancy Bugg, Pat- proudly raised her head once soiled when the upper story O. Angell, the same pioneer helped my mother with our large family and went to sehoel until I was 15, sy Bugg, Donald A. Bugg, Seated Mozelle Bugg Jones, Minnie B. Johnson, John M. Johnson, again in the Utah Capital was converted Into a part of draftsman tfho designed the the city jail, housing women Salt Lake Temple, at this age I quit school and went to Etheleen Bugg Evans. Seated on ground, Nathan Bugg, Kim Bugg, Pat Bugg, Peggy Bugg, City. The Salt Lake City Hall work in a grocery store. Shes the elegant Salt Lake prisoners. Mike Bugg. Marlene Evans, Vesta Evans, Trudy Evans. City Hall, built by Mormon When the historic building was an expression of the culAt 17 I was married and went to live in Ohio. Here I met the name appeared in the' first edition of Whos Who in American pioneers exactly 105 years was torn down, the stone ture of the people who built Morman MissiQnaries .and became interested in theology and reWomen. ago and now restored aa work was found to be In re- it," Mr. Anderson said. She I have made a study of political science and the laws of the closely as possible to her markably good condition. The represents the architectural ligion. This I studied seriously renting books from the library and State of Utah. I have been a champion for the Democratic original frontier beauty. borrowing others. In 1925 I was baptised a convert to the LDS woodwork, however, because influences these people carhistoric pioneer build- of a leaky roof, had rotted ried with them across the Church. My little family was small and my husband traveled and Party and a loyal citizen of San Juan County. I have worked for Theonce located In down- away beyond repair. plains, mixed with the ' inI was alone in a large city. I had a lot of time for reading so my better schools with eye on future needs for classrooms and play- ing, of the rugged fronwas town torn Lake Salt City, interest led me to a study of psychology : I was fortunate to live The pioneers cut the stone fluences grounds and the proper location to fulfil this purpose. retier. stone and down stone by near a fine city library. There was no sewer system in Blandiag and Public Health is im- located a few blocks away by hand, quarrying It from The City of Salt Lake doRed Butte Mountain, just east ' My oldest child was now ready for school. For the next few portant. I pushed the need for a sewer system in Blanding near the Utah State CapitoL of the property. Private near Emigration nated the was and I with children the school work wisdom their of kept busy the years the then City Fathers. The mayor said we Her removal from the origin- Canyon. city parties donated the capitaL to was hauled the It should wait five years, that we were owing too much money and al site was necessary to. make Mr. Anderson said the prothereby gaining some knowledge denied me. construction site on the first that we could not borrow money for such a project. He said that .room for a new Federal Of--l railroad I was still interested in the church. The elders always visited In Utah, a short line perty and building will be held in escrow until the prous when going thru our city. They always found a warm bed and people were burdened too much already with utility bills. I pointed fice Building. as built by Brigham Young Is completed. Then deeds When the $250,000 restora- a out the original cost of a septic tank plus the upkeep of it each a meal and they in turn left with us some new knowledge from project to keep ject will be turned over to the is tion complete, possibly by people employed. their life and experience. year would far out weigh the cost of a sewer and the maintenance and said, You will be doing the citizens a great service not only the end of November the Workmen today on the job State of Utah. Along in the early thirties I went back to high school attending When finished, the building grand old lady will house of- marvel at the fine craftsmen, m cost but as a public health project. night classes for adults. My older children eared for the younger will rest on a base of polishfices of the Utah Tourist and first the displayed ship at home. by I canvassed the whole city and found that the people (all except ed, cut flagstone, forming a Publicity Council and will about 20 families) were ready for it and willing to put down serve as a historical museum. builders whose humble tools My home ties were broken now and in 1938 I came to Blanding walkway and set two fashioned these stones In feet above with the good wishes of Karl Lyman whom I had met in Ohio around $500 plus and monthly fee and if need be put in a private In pioneer days, she housed 1856-5the surrounding when Salt Lake City while he was a missionary there and his wife an Ohio girl from lawn. plant. After the wishes of the residents were made known the the Legislative, Executive was still a rugged frontier officials obligingly built a sewer system. and Judicial branches of the settlement a thousand miles The original walls were Covington. In September, 1949, I married John M. Johnson, president and Territorial government. I arrived in Blanding with $300 and six children to support. from the comforts of civiliza- made of solid stone two feet thick and plastered inside. Its Because the City Hall pro- tion. of Johnson and Youvan Drilling Co. of Naturita, Colo. Looking around for something I could do to support my family, I modern counterpart, in the bought the L. H. Redd family home and started a Home for TourSince that time we have traveled a great deal, Europe four mises to be an outstanding When the old building was Interest of economy, la made is tourist it attraction, being ists (Bugg4 Tourist Home) as it was listed in Ripleys Believe tom of the ornate, down, each times, Canada and Old Mexico, Alaska and nearly all of the featured in this weeks See stones was number- of smaller stone backed by it or not. I made a living and educated my six children. (States. This was the beginning of my collection which has ac- Utah series of articles, spon- hand-cu- t concrete block. cumulated into the Minnies Doll House Museum, a collection sored by the Utah Tourist ed so the structure could be San Juan County is my adopted home. I like it here the cliback together again. mate the people the countryside. I have taken an active part of dolls and things from all over the world. and Publicity Council and de- put The Office of Land UtilizaAt times, the general conin the social and civic life of the community. For many years I tion was established on April I am Vice President of the Blanding Chamber of Commerce. signed to better acquaint Jensen Construction tractor, wrote the Blanding news for the San Juan Record. For three 15, 1940 the Director 1 believe EVERY American should spend some time in public Utahns with Utah. felt like the pro- of Forestshousing as a part of the OfWork on the Salt Lake City Company, service if only in community affairs, both men and women, years I volunteered a day and a half each month assisting Mrs. puz- fice of the Secretary of the ject was like a Hall restoration Dorothy Bayles, County Nurse, with the Maternity Clinic helped progressed zle. During the winter, some I believe in Education, the best is none too good, to teach Department of the Interior. this summer and with Red Cross and Cancer Drives, secretary to the MIA and to by in the schools and make sure we have teachers who rapidly all of exterithe the Sunday School. From 1946 to 1949 I operated and owned the have faith in America. was completed, InCharm Shop, a dress and gift shop. I support our Congressional leaders in establishing Canyon-lan- d or work the cluding hoisting Into National Park. In 1942 I became interested in politics. There was need in of a ton and a half position I feel we should do all we can to improve the health and welBlanding for leadership in the Democratic party in the Womens copper dome or cupola. fare of our citizens in our counties and in the State, especially and went as a deleDivision. I became the partys In all, some 10 tons of Utah the mental health problem. gate to the State Convention. I have represented the party at copper sheathing have gone Assist the small businessman and regulate laws to fit his need. into the roof. A similar each convention since then. In 1956 I was chosen as a National , of copper went into the Legislate laws to protect the family size farmer, build dams to delegate to the National Convention in Chicago. In 1960 I served save our water runoff. on the Utah State Democratic Platform Committee. In 1958 my original building, but the Step up the building of new highways pioneers had to ship it by into our Primitive areas and more access wagons from the east as - , i j make-wor- k 12-fo- co-ow- jig-sa- mid-Octob- an . roads. I declare my loyalty to the United States and its constitution and to our two party system. I have no use for the extremists who profit on mens fears, who teach that all useful service for the welfare of people is socialism and that socialism is communism. All progressive legislation is not socialism. Evil will triumph in the world if good men and women do nothing. My Home and Doll House located in Blanding. Utahs copper mines had not yet been opened. Shell be the most historic in the West, said N. G. Morgan, Sr., as he watched the massive copper cupola being hoisted into place. More history transpired within her walls than in any other public building. Every historical civic advancement of Utah originated building philanthropist within her walls. Three U.S. presidents spoke in her chambers. A score of famous marched across the pages of her records and d documents. And the of Utah was celebrated from her walls. For a number of years af-tate-hoo- Paid Political Advertisement Philip K. Palmer Republican Candidate For County Attorney I pledge myself to the people of this county that if I am elected I will use my best efforts and devote my full time to the affairs of San Juan County and its citizens. I will appreciate year vela eo Vev. . |