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Show S 24 BOX ELDER JOURNAL, Brigham City, Utah Thursday, December 14, 1972 ' Mantua Meanderings Cold Weather Freezes Town by the oven and put them at their feet to keep warm. By Joy Jepperion is cold in Mantua! What is even more unusual is that this It Warm Up They left their bricks at a friends home in Brigham who lived behind the old post office. After they were through with their Christmas shopping they came back to heat their bricks and drink hot chocolate to warm them for the ride home to Mantua. usually hits around January, but not before Christmas. We Ah, everyone says, are going to have an old weather Christmas. Fashioned A wonderful old fashioned time with icicles three feet long hanging from all the houses, and snow piled high. The town will be thus also decorated to usher in the holiday also Herm Jeppsen remembers this time in 1923, or around there. He was in high school and rode a bob sled to school in Brigham City. com-morati- the Saviors birth. Snow Scene The town does look like a typical beautiful snow scene found on the front of so many It Christmas cards. This cold brings back memories to many up here. They remember it being colder. In about 1923 Millie Jensen says It was 40 degrees below. Millie along with her husband and sister Annie Jacobsen went Christmas shopping to Brigham City. They rode in a bob sled, with many quilts piled on top of them. They took bricks heated NOTICE PUBLIC Cresta was cold. Sorenson Nelson also Orion and remember this time when it was 40 below. If we think it is cold now I guess we should have been in Mantua then. NOTICE Bids will be accepted until December 15, 1972, for a tract of land known as the Lynn LDS Ward Meeting House, approximately one acre of land located in the NWi4, NEi4, SEi4, Section 1, Twp. 13 N, Range 17 W, Lynn, Box Elder County, Utah. All bids should be submitted to President Joseph A. Gillett, Cassia East Stake, Declo, Idaho, on or before December 15, 1972. The Church reserves the right to reject any and all bids. Published December Next Cold Spell The next really cold spell was around 1936. Dorothy Jeppsen recalls that it was her second year teaching school in Mantua. was 33 The temperature degrees below. A boy came to school without a hat and by the time he got to school he had frozen ears. (Beware all you kids like mine who keep sneaking off to school without T shirt or mittens or hat or boots. But Arch Simms, the principal at that time, worked with the boys ears most of the day and in the years to come the boy had no problem with his ears. (I bet he never snuck off to school without something on his ears either, not when it is 33 below anyway.) Over Snowbank Dorothy said that this year you would have to climb up over a snow bank before going down into the school door the snow was so high. Darwin and Karen Hailing came visiting Sunday to help Bruce get the cars unfrozen, and Darwin said he could 1972. r f'ewfoToivn? 3 bedroom FOR SALE brick home, wall to wall peting, built-i- n garage, car- wash-er-dry- hook-u- p, built-i- er 257-558- friend where you see this sign. FOR SALE Opportunity Investment - Group of downtown rentals, stable business tenants, shown excellent return on investment with possible substantial increase. $15,000.00 will handle. Call us for details. Associates, Inc. After hours call 5 or Lang-ley-iMun- 723-854- 723-868- 723-830- 723-791- D-14- information For more call Phone FOR SALE Open House - Executive-typ- e Saturday home in Northeast Ogaen. Follow the signs from Harrison Blvd. to 1433 Hudson PM. Street (450 S.), contemporary with 3 bedrooms, two baths, double 3 remember when it was mighty cold. Their bedroom was upstairs in the home where Darwin and Karen now live. They took the heated bricks to bed with them to keep them warm all night. He does not remember what the temperature was but as he says it, It was mighty cold! Rita Nelson remembers after she was married they had qilite a cold spell in Mantua. Well that brings us up to the present time and to let you know how cold it was Sunday morning, out of four vehicles and a tractor, Jim Forsgren could not start even one. At Clair Hallings barn Sunday morning the old thermometer read 37 below at 4 a.m. His house thermometer read 32 degrees below, but his house gets heat. GRADUATES Navy SteKevin Forsgren and Mike ward Recruit Larry D. Ritter out doing the chores at an of Mr. and Mrs. son Keele, was found it hour very, early very cold and I guess it was a lot Virgil D. Keele of 26 West like these reports all over town. Third South, Tremonton, In the Box Elder canyon the from recruit Carrs read the temperature as graduated at Naval Trainthe training 32 degrees below. ing center in Orlando. We started the morning out with no water as the taps were frozen, and both truck and car cold weather had affected the would not start. shoppers. Not at all, she said. It took Bruce and my brother Everyone has the Christmas Bob half the day to get and is shopping and spirit running. something shopping. (That means that I To top it off it was our little Angela's first birthday. But the am still behind everyone else) Well in closing please do not awful morning turned into a fun start making plans for New with the grandparents, evening Years Eve. Do not plan parties Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Jepperson, Mr. and Mrs. A. Gorin Steed or dinners or other festivities because the stake Young and Blaine Olsen and daughter Carolyn all coming to visit and Marrieds have a treat in store for you. Look for the poster in bringing gifts and help. the church hall. All Mantua The cold did not slow down married in people are invited, so we were and Brighamites dont miss it. need of some cheering up. Town board meeting will be I left out Grace Noyes' last week on helping the girls with this Thursday at the old school their granny squares, and I at 8 p.m. Bring your problems to the was told she did quite a bit of and the town fathers meeting out. helping will help solve them. Willie and Carol Visiting a visit Southern on is Carols mother, Mrs. Vonda Cook. Mrs. Cook is here from Oklahoma because her mother is ill and in the LDS hospital in Salt Lake. Harvey Facer also took a quick trip to Des Moine, Iowa. A dear friend and old Army buddy died and Harvey went to help at the funeral. Ready for Holiday Well who is ready for Christmas? Dora Mae and Floyd are the early birds. They put up their tree right after will it Thanksgiving and have all their . Enough to do the job right, shopping done and wrapped. thats what it takes. Money, Now they just are enjoying when you need it, planned the season and snowmobiling a for the shortest possible lot. interest period. At Production Darn those busy bees anyway Credit we serve agriculture Dont they know that Jeanette with short-termoney. Its Rasmussen and I are still our specialty. We know what behind. Jeanette told me a few it takes... and we know how weeks ago, we had better get . to listen. Can we go to busy. As it looked like snow. work for you ? Little did she know that the whole North Pole weather was going to stop here. I asked Ruby Nelson how the seed. ..feed... labor... livestock... How much money take? Fidelity Industrial Credit Co. specializes in second mortgage loans. Call: ART PETERSEN 723-853- 8 or 723-897- 3 Dale James, Br. Mgr: UTAH FARM PCA North Logan, Utah 67 E. First 752-317- 1 The Co Ahead People 2 Duplexes opposite each other, good NW location, excellent condition, steady rental history, attractive terms, excellent investment potential. 4 - v k. K001 LICENSED ELECTRICIAN New construction and household wiring done. Reasonable C. G. 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