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Show 0UIDJ mTniinrrrirnriirrr " 1 ' it W ,t-- in Centennial Trek earn or C By J. E. JohjMton fy iec As Johnstons army came toit was ward Utah in feared by the young and old. It was the subject of conversation at meal time and in the evenings in front of the fireplace. Little children were especially frightened for they had been told that their homes might be destroyed and their food taken away. This was impressed on their minds in all its grimness when their parents began hiding food such as flour and bacon, and they were told that perhaps they and their mothers would also have to hide in the mountains while their fathers and brothers were fighting the soldiers. But fortunately no one was hurt and after all, the coming of the army was really a blessing as their camp made a market for 1857-58- , Continued From Preceding Page John William Smith of who made the Centennial trek this summer, was one of the older members of the party of descendants of the pioneers. He was 79 years and eight months old, and has followed the vocation of farmer and stock raiser. A widower, the father of four sorts and daughters, he is a graduate of the University of Deseret of the class of 1887, and, tie adds, of the school of Hard Knocks. 1947. It is doubted that this last degree refers to the pioneer trek, for in spite of the lac t that the trip was deliberately made under conditions far more rugged than those encoun it red by the average tourist in these das, he was one of the most entertainingly witty and cheerful members of the company. Smith served as superintendent of schools for Salt Lake county, and as superintendent of Granite school district and Jot dan school district, and is presently president of the Emeritus club of the University of I rah Both of Smiths parents were . I tah p oneers His father, Smith, arrived in Great Salt as it was then l.nke S.IDLU J.O b JScf r Cc S VJ--L - 4. . 4', fox 4 t cor 4.4. .. ' 84.4 JSfptemlx5 (lie produce of the early setdid tlers. enabling them to purchase us so frightened that all clofhing and other needed sup- was to follow father and mothplies that would otherwise have er from place to place, looking been unobtainable. into their faces for a word of and a look of cheer. comfort who a lady Many years after, a at was that time, One morning father told us little girl told this story: that we should leave with a We packed all vve had in large company in the evening. father's one wagon and waited He said little more. There was for the command to move. At packing and the making of the middle of the night we lay dow n to sleep, not bread. In scattered leaves and knowing when word would day father come of the army which we straw in all the rooms, and I mind thought was coming to destroy heard him say, thisNever home has Mother went about the little daughter, us. house placing everything in or- sheltered us. it shall never shelder and mending every bit of ter them. I did not understandof as we went out clothing vve could find, for we him then, but and the come joined all the would time yard the knew that when vve might be In great other people on the main road I need of food and clothing. There learned for the first time that were seven of us children in the the city was to be burned, army family. We put away all our should the approaching playthings for the days found attack the people. That night w-- e lit, IN God. As dropped asleep, I heard my mother whispering that the Lord had heard our prayers, X and that our homes should not he burned. I cried and cried, but at last I dropped to sleep. New Roof for Mormons OREENSBURG, Pa. (U.P.) Overly Manufacturing Co. here has announced completion of a 60,000 foot aluminum roofing Mormon job at the Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, Utah. The roofing project, started during Easter week, was finished just in time for the Mormon Centennial Year, PockwcU. Adolph Madsen Reeder is a son ol George B. Reeder and Caroline Madsen Reeder, and was one of the Box Elder trek-kers of 1917 mother. His NO SHEAR FIN Madsen Caroline Reeder, walked the entire distance trom Faificld, la., to Salt Lake City when a little girl of 11 NO DOWN PAYMENT Only jears. His father, driving an ox team aeioss the plains in 1853, walked to Fort Box Elder in October, 1845 He became the first herdsman west of Bear River in 1862, having 1,300 head of cattle in There were no bridges across ihe Bear River in those days, and no habitation west of Box Elder, now Brigham City. Promontory was then a mountain of waving grass, and it would have been possible to mow a continuous swath of glass from Corinne to Point Lookout. During the Cooperative days of Bnghain City, in the 1870s, Reeder planted a small bag of alfalfa seed on the farm, and produced the tirst alfalfa in this area. hay Co-o- $9.68 Per Month RADIOS his care. STROMBERG-CARLSO- N MOTOROLA CROSLEY EME RSON SONORA in . CONSOLE & TABLE MODELS COAL p ROYAL LION Helps Tire Changer Then Robs Him COMPLETE DEPARTMENT RECORD COLUMBIA MUSICRAFT ' Ala. (U.P.) BIRMINGHAM, The "good Samaritan who offered to help F. B. Foster fix a flat tire on a lonely road near Birmingham turned out to be something less. Two men pulled up in another car vvh.le Foster was struggling vvith h.s tire and one of them obligingly held a flashlight for him while he put on a spare. When Foster turned around to thank is helper, he found himself looking down a pistol barrel The good Samaritan then telieved him of his pocketbook, which contained about $550. Foster said the two men then debate'! whether or not to take! his ear but decided against it becaus they were afraid he hadn't fixed the flat very well and that they might have more 1 ARA OKEH SONORA from 53c WATER S0FTNERS PERMUTIT PEERLESS from $139.50 WARM MORNING HEATR0LA Heats all day and all night without refueling. Holds GO lbs. coal from $54.95 up Convenient Credit Terms j tire trouble About 95 percent of the people of Eire are members of the Roman Catholic Church. PHONE "ONE' tr ... at ten oclock every soul with bowed head knelt in prayer to MERCHANDISE QUALITY 'J' 1947 we camped on Willow Creek, in the south end of thevalley, and 5, 1853. His mother was Hannah Christina Jensen, who arrived in Salt Lake Cit it: October of I860, after having walked 1,185 miles bare- I noted. She was a little girl of II at the time. Smith was acquainted with Porter Young and Brigham "' r 3, Sau-rit- known, on October SB-- |