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Show 00 mm mm wp w - s .. $$.. i wartt.& Z. Casse Gray, J ZSL1 t Tr i y T&'! Sagebrush Lady O 8fca :S& mp 38& i m t ' $$ mi, $ 1976 1, by Casse Lyman Monson January On the tenth of January the Old Settler would have been 96 years old. I came into life when he was a boy of 24, a bridegroom of two years, with a cute little -- girl wife two years younger than he. Long before he married Mama, he rode over White Mesa and stopped his horse short as he viewed it for the first time. He felt the unmistakable thrill one feels when coming home from a long journey, and never from that time did he consider any other place to be his permanent home. He come in his eager youth with very little more than dreams, wife and child, bare hands and determination, to build a town. He poured his heart into San Juan and B landing in particular, and did all in his power Old Settlers go for their rest. If he really had a code by which he lived, it is probably embodied in this poem which I found in his writings: Record Concrete sidewalks all remind us are making sidewalks, too; Leaving written there behind us Records of the work we do. We Juan 4 San Records mute, whose shouted story Fills us with a sense of shame. Or assurances of glory EVERY GRADE makes a good picture at the annual elementary school programs around the county, so we hope youll accept and enjoy this one as representative of one of the more pleasant experiences of the season. In a loved and goodly name. Yesterday is ever with us As a sidewalk set in stone, Stretching ever there behind us Faults for which we must mt WO atone. to promote the little wilderness place. He loved the man who came early and stayed to sweat and ache with him, and without whose stanch and loyal help his efforts would have AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY been doomed. He always claimed that God intended him to be a big man and that the many illnesses of his childhood stunted his growth. Considering their scanty fare, when he was a child, and that he had to learn to walk again when he was seven, the idea is not so He had to return strange. early from a mission in England because of ill health, and EMPLOYER mm ay U I can never remember a time that he was not concerned with ulcers or some other agony in his stomach. Looking back, it is amazing that he could endure the harsh, back-breakin- g, heart-breaki- ng manual labor he was forced to do to maintain his family. I don't believe he ever weighed more than 150 pounds at the most, and his hands were the delicate hands of an artist, for he did live art, literature and music. How often have I seen Mama doctor his bruised and bleeding hands. He longed to go to school and spent every spare minute reading and He could not get studying. along without a pencil and paper any more than he could get along without shoes. He left a ponderous stack of journals, histories and stories for his posterity, most of which rest at the Brigham Young Library. He said that, should fate have let him have his dream of education, he would probably have had a measure of success, but never could he have had the huge satisfaction that came from his efforts for and with the people of San Juan and his huge family. His efforts did not always meet with success and sometimes he suffered at the hands of those he thought to be his friends. Although Ive seen him sick with discouragement, Pve never heard him complain nor lay harsh blame on another, even though it may have been jusitfied. His ambition was never to aggrandize himself. He was completely unselfish in the causes he lived for; they were: his family, his church and the people of San Juan. He worked far beyond his strength for his Indian friends, and his white friends, too, in any cause he could espouse for their benefit. It is not beyond the imagination to think he may stiU be vitaUy interested in their welfare in that place where all Hawaii Alaska That's US, all right. We're one of the some 1,640 Independent, publicly-regulate- d telephone companies in 48 states serving half the communities and half the geographic area of this country. Together one out we serve over 26 million phones of every six in the nation. Our lines are tied in with the Bell System areas to form a nationwide telecommunications network. Like all the Independents, we're committed to providing good service at reasonable rates. Call on us to help meet your modern communications needs at home or business. Continental Telephone of Utah The |