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Show V PACE FOUR SCOUT ACTIVmES 1 . I v Tire GOLDEN WEDDING CELEBRATED DURING YEAR 1923 For, ah journal, ' city, cactie county, uTAn Saiuidaj, January AIR. AND MRS. LABAN D. MORRILL Number 10) harvest season nd growing season as well Jsaw scores of Boy Scouts, members of the Cache Valley Coun-'coft he Boy Scouts of America, woikiag in the fields of Cache Valley, Utah, one of the garden spots of the Rocky Mountains, and it is conservatively estimated that the work of the Scouts saved the County in the neighborhood ofone xn!l- lion dollars as this county faces a serious labor emergency. This is one more phase of Scouting which, as all workers in Scouting know, has many sides and numerous activities. A - prom-is- q of a successful solution of the summer farm labor problem in countless American farming communities, at least a partial solution of the problem of the boys summer vacation in many communities, may be found be--I hind this latest and greatest, of the Scout projects of the Cache Valley Council of the Poy Scouts of America. "MR. AND MRS. LABAN D. MORRILL . ' If this may seem an exaggerThe be rememberal should it golden wedding of Laban selves' with many of lifes com. ation, that at first glance most Ug D. Morrill and Emma Wright Jorfs. In 1902 they located in and unusual projects seem to be was celebrated at their home in Without doubt Logan, Cache County, Utah, Idaho, then a new counexaggerated. the general run of farmers in Sunday, January 6, 1924. The try, where Mr. Morrill attendCache Valley thought, when the subjects of this sketch were ed the first land opening on the plan of having the Boy Scouts married at Summit, Iron County Twin Falls tract and was the of Cache Valley do their beet Utah, January 6, 1874. The cere- first man to take up land in that work for the majority of the mony was solemnized by Wil- great body of sage brush land, , which had never yet been own.. hoys were engaged in thinning liam Dailey. They are the parents of seven ed apd cultivated by man, Bv weeding and topping of sugar dint cf labor they developed an beets in 'this ... project during children: Dora M, Johnson, M, Morgan, Annie M. ideal farm and built an excellent the season was first suggested to them, that this would prove Johnson,- - deceased, Della M. home. ' to be not entirely practicable. Farnsworth deceased, Ida M. In 1919 Mr. Morrill sold out But if they did they are now in Scott, D.C Rupert, Morrill and all his holdings in Idaho and loa position to look back over the Rural Morrill, deceased. Thirty cated in Logan, Utah, where in season and congratulate them- on? grand children and thirteen the evening of their lives they are working in the temple of 4h.e selves that the work was done great grand children. Mr. Morrill Lord for their dead. This worin was born Keg economically and well, for the 1850. October Creek, Iowa, 4, couple are among the last suthy Scout boys under regular dis- With his parents hecame to of the old pioneer stock. They under Scout and pervision" Utah in the fall of the year 1852, have essentially been pioneers cipline as a part of their sum-mScout projects, did the locating in Springville, Utah. In all their lives. Mr. Morrill has taken an acthe summer of 1852 the thinning of the beets, the weed- of Mr. Morrill were called.parents astive to part in church and state ing and the topping on scores of sist in colonizing Iron wherever he resided. County, farms. Cache Valley prosperous in were three of their There Cedar fall Utah. The Utah, In fact, most of the beet work Mrs. Willis Johnson, to Johnmoved following daughters: they in the entire valley was done by where .Laban grew of Salt Lake City j Ida M. Scott, sons Fort, estimated is by to the Scouts. It part in all D. C., of Logan, Utah ; and Mrs. those who are in a position to themanhood, taking to pio- J. W. Trask of Logan, Utah ; two incident hardships Execuknow, according to Scout ten. children and a neer life. tive Victor Lindblad, that apfew Soon at the wedtheir after special marriage giests proximately two hundred and Mr. and Mrs. Morrill moved to ding. Mr. and Mrs. Morrill are seventy five thousand dollars Circleville, where most of their well preserved and the prospects ($275,000) were paid out by children were born. In this are good for many years of hapfarmers of the valley to the town home piness among their posterity and built a good they up is boys for their work. That where they surrounded them- - extensive relatives and friends. keeping money at home and in .this.case keeping -.- money at of the fifty boys from the Hyrum dishome is sound economically for had in trict of the council, and three which matter the the farmers, in many cases the group inhand. The plan was to have hundred and fifty boys from fathers of these very Scouts, ex.to of the boys transported ,to the the Benson district, also of the stead employ having and outside foreign fields and live there during the Cache Valley 'Council, were tensively la laid vjere lable toe giye ..'the tifne necessary for the work to Working in the fields, a total pf between eleven andi twelve hufi money forth e workrto the boys be completed, all of the time of the county who, by the wav. under Scout supervision and dis- died boys. The boys were undid the work as efficiently as it cipline. Mr. Lindblad was of the der expert, careful and sympahad ever been done before. This opinion that this could be done. thetic Scout supervision. Much of the success of the money helped to pay the boys Later, a meeting of the Counwas due to the efficient orplan way through the summer and ty Farm Bureau was called 4 nd of the Scouts Jnto ganization Scout Cache cona Valley Boy many experts were called in for is now attending school and pay- sultation. At this meeting the working groups. They were orinto groups of from ing his way with the money he matter was taken up and very ganized earned during the summer and carefully considered. About four to thirty boys, according to autumn of 1923. one weelrlater another meet- the needs of the farmer,' the to other auWas this work a regular, ing, at which the sugar beet size of the field, and thorized Scout project? Did the people, members of the Farm factors. The groups were under it?' How were they Bureau and Scouting officials thesupervision and guidance of Tboys enjoy for Almost two were present. Then the Scout patrol leaders. the work? "organized Scout Executive Victor Lind-1la- d masters met for the purpose of thirds of the boys camped out of the Cache Valley council working out a plan for the or in the fields in which theywere of the Boy Scouts of America, ganization of the project, At working and most of these did in a conversation with Mr. L. P. these meetings it was brought their own cooking, thus getting Peterson, some time before the out that the fanners of Cache valuable camping experience. work actually started, discussed Valley had, during the year The leader of the group, an oldthe advisability of having the 1922, paid over a quarter of a er boy usually and one who Scouts do the sugar, beet, and million dQllars to foreign labor could be thoroughly trusted, other crop work in the valley for work on the farms of the was responsible for the conduring .the summer. The plan valley. It was suggested that it tract and also for the quality of was first suggested,- - according w'ould be wise to pay this sum the work done by the boys, He to Mr. Lindblad, in the fall of to the boys of the! valley instead j also saw' to it that the boys were 1922 and, in the conversation if they could do the work for carefully cared for. If the work e above mentioned the question which the sum had been paid in; of the boys was, in arty way, worked the farmer meetwas raised as to the practicabilfinal at satisfactory, a past. Then, and through the lesuJer in ity of the boys doing the work. ing of all parties interested and Ohe of the most important ques- involved, it was decided that seeing that the work was done tions was; could the boys be or- the boys should be given the over and done satisfactorily. ganized efficiently for such a w'ork and be held responsiblejfor The Scoutmasters themselves large undertaking for, it must it in so far as they could supply were back of the w ork to a man be kept in mind that the boys the demand for the labor. and many of them made frewere undertaking to thin, weed, This is the genesis of the quent visits to the groups to see and help to harvest thousands plan. Did it work successfully? that all was going well. The of acres of beets and, by the Did it do w hat was expected it Scout Extcutive spent every way, the raising of sugar,beets could do? possible hour in the field with is one of the principal industries When the first call for boys the groups where he assisted of this large and fertile Rocky w'as made a mass meeting of all the boys in planning work, in r Mountain Valley. These two the Scouts of the district was directing and advising the leadgentlemen talked the matter held. Here the mattes was con- ers and in keeping up the morale sidered and, byrthe enLo the of the groups. oyer for some time. They carefully the means by first week, May 26, 1923, over Scoutmasters Dr. George R. which the boys could lie taken four hundred boys from the Lo- IIill and Professor George Stewr-a' to the fields and whether they gan district of the council alone, of the faculty of the Utah could live there for a period of were in the fields. By the end Agricultural College have Been time varying from two or three of the second week between five especially enthusiastic in their days to three of four weeks, de - 'and six hundred boys from the support of the plan and they pending upon the acreage to be Ixigan district,1 twro hundred and rendered valuable service in vis- - CAPITOL PRESENTS -- t U - i ' P i i u t 4 : f i.,i4 BY 1923 I IQ. Moroni Olsen Placers M R. PI M P A S S E S B:Y- IN ; -- ' . . , t , . t With Moroni Olsen, Leora Thatcher, Janet Young. A Play that will turn the corners of your mouth up and keep them there a long time ' The Best Comedy in Years - s Monday, Jan 21st " 8:15 P. M. - Kim-beri- y, Per-mel- ia er sons-in-la- w, , t l J d 4 -- - i 1 un-th- w-it-h con-sider- ed rt Ring and directing groups in (he ANNOUNCEMENT fields. Others of the District Machine Co., local Burroughs 1 Scoutmasters also contributed R. T. KILBY Cache Valley. much to the success of the pro, ject without which ajd Jt probaEccles Hotel, Logan bly would not have succeeded so well. - The part played by Scout Commissioner Norman Hamilton during the Campaign no means the case. The nature rir of the work in raising sugar needs no- explanation. He beets in such that, for two or on the job every minute. There were planted in Cache three weeks during thinning, Valley during the past season in weeding, and harvesting season, the neighborhood of twenty the crop demands attention but ----- -OF 7-r three thousand acres there are periods of many days beets, an - increase of about when the beets require little attwenty five per cent over the tention from any source but season before. The Scouts did from a kindly sun, soil and the the bulk of thinning, weeding, elements. So the Scouts had 125 RECORDS atJ. and topping these beets and the plenty of time for ' recreation j 15c 2 for l. 25c 100 RECORDS at...season was marked by an al- during the summer, and the j 20c 3 for... 50c 80 CLASSICAL RECORDS at 40c 3 for.. most entire absence of foreign way the boys cared for them- -' 00 SI. SALE COMMENCES SATURDAY MORNING 8.30 labor in the fields. Field men selves in the open during the1 CLOSES WEDNESDAY NIGHT 9 :00 P. M. pf the sugaf companies did all summer, states Scout Executive they could to get the - boys Lindblad, would have caused FOUR DAYS ONLY started right and their aid, cou- - Mr. L. L. McDonald, National pled with that from the Scout- - Camp Director, considerable and other Scout offi- - isfaction. Some of the boys earned as cials, did much to assure the complete suqcess of the season. high as ten dollars a day. These field men express themIn addition to the work in the (Quality Dealers) selves enthusiastically concern- beet fields. Cache Valley Scouts 39 South Main LOGAN, UTAH and of the the into w;ork boys organized ing groups formwork., urged the groups of scouts In the wheat fields and iit the with whom they worked to re- hay fields It would be obvious turn In 1924. that only the older boys did this At first some of the farmers work although the younger j were a trifle doubtful as about Scouts were perfectly capable tw of the boys had nev- - of efficient work in the beets. er done any beet work .ofany As the boys were finishing their kind. But, after the first week, weeding of the beets, a call was the boys settled down to real made by the Morgan Canning work and the work of the Scouts company, whose large and well in the fields of Cache Valley was equipped pea canning factory is so excellent that the farmers, located at Smithfield, Utah, a DAY OR NIGHT, EXPERIENCED. almost to a man, haVe requested town in Cache Valley, for seven-t- y five hoys to aid in the camthat the boys return next year. MEN. WARM WATER This enthusiasm of the farmers paign of the canning of the peas. is proof positive of the success The call was urgent and, in or-- i of the work and the efficiency der, to keep the big factory run-- j of the boys as farmers are not ning full capacity through this ordinarily given to throwing labor emergency, seventy five their hats, in the air and utter- - young men were taken from the ing hoarse shouts of praise and beet fields to the factory, thus HOME OF THE BUICK" a loss of many thoujoy without good causer Everything possible Was done sands of Hollars to the pea It to make the- - work enjoyable to growers of Cache Valley. the boys as well as profitable. It j Scout good turns in Cache must -- continually -- be kept in Valley often Jake such forms of mind that this was an official cooperation as this. Mid-Win- ter Scout project, that the boys Without full cooperation from w'ere constantly under Scout su- the Scouts, the council and the pervision and Scout discipline. farmers themselves, as well as Almost every night, states Mr. those who are actively engaged Lindblad, some sort of a camp- in manufacturing agricultural fire program was Tield by each products in the valley, such a Entire Stock of Seasonable Winter Goods Sacrificed to group and when it was possible plan as the one of the . Cache Make Room for our Big Spring Stock Soon to Arrive. various groups got together valley council could not' have, from some sort of a Scout jam- succeeded. boree. In order to make the The schools cooperated by ALL MILLINERY ONE HALF PRICE AND LESS " work. as efficient as possible closing for a short period during Ladies Fur Trimmed Coats, From $8.75 to $60.00 Form-er-ly and to eliminate the chance the fall harvesting of the beets, priced from $20. to $125.00. that some of the boys would be work missed being made up afChildren's Coats frorr $4.75 and up. The doing work of a more difficult ter school Ladies Wool and Silk Dresses from $7.50 Jo $39.50. Fornature than they were fitted plan has worked satisfactorily merly priced from $11 to $60.00 for, physically, the older boys for all concerned in Cache Val- -, Ladies and Childrens Sweaters One Half Price. were plated in the fields where ley. It would work as. satisfac-- , Uncrushable Wool Canton Crepe, Knife Pleated Skirts in the yield was heavy while the torily in other communities, grey, tan, navy, brown, and black. Value $7.50 to SeP smaller or younger Scouts' were given the same careful thought at $4.49. " placed in fields where the yield and planning. The objection) Also other skirt values. wa3 light. Very careful super- raised 'by some that Scouting Ladies Suits One Half Price" and many other items on vision eliminated the danger of teaches to play rather than to Sale. Come and see for yourself. any boy. overworking and ' the work has been silenced in Cache seasons work, 'combined with alley by meeting the objection other Scout activities, camping j squarely, artd disproving it s, SALE STARTS TUESDAY JAN.22 T etc., eonducedrt a fewvincinglyi hundred Scouts gaining ruddy Good Scouting teaches both, tans and physical vigor which' Toy balloons won a recent they appreciated greatly. No should get the idea that loon race for distance in France i the boys spent the entire sum- - against real gas bags'earryingi mer in the fields. Such was by1 pilots. 29 WEST ITRST NORTH, LOGAN. 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