| Show SP SPRING RINGDALE BALE ON THE VIRGEN SPRING sept 8 1896 As an Sp springdale ringdale has ba not been represented lo in your valuable paper for ma many ny long years perhaps it would be inter sting eating to of its 18 readers to read Omet binK of our situation Bitu atlon and proa perl ty our ward which la Is presided preal ded over by oliver D gifford as bishop and thornton Tn To ornton hepworth Hepwor tb and losse isaac H as an counselor tip commenda com menda at ai the forks fork of the rio virgen two miles milea above a little place called fiort bop contains alne tour four famil fa miller lep the name northop was waa given by a brother of captain dan jones who was waa widely known by the nauvoo sainte it then extends two miles up the north fork to the he meeting house budae then continuing two miles milea further up the river to oak creek or as an president mcallister Mo Allister named it Crawfor deburn this tain la in the end of the county road as a no ho other settlement can be reached by Uni tf aveling up the river Sp ringdale ward consists of 26 25 cami u alem or at goal we have a relief Stool society ety presided over by ursula urania U who la in nearly seventy years of age we have a sunday school that ie 18 well attended considering the be distance dia tance that some ome of the children have to iti travel ravel well now for something else alae we tave bad an unusually dry ary scorching summer ammer and fall bud and the rail fall though ft little cooler so 0 o far ar has riven given us u no moisture olure Ba during the ummer summer we d one quite wind and a more destructive or WM bart I 1 believe we had bad the bottest aguel take it all through that I 1 ever witnessed frequent rains raina through toe u miner in the abe tops topi of the moun awag gave us a considerable annoyance with our ditches and bad water yet with all these drawbacks we feel that bat we are blossei and have no cause to complain compla iv our crops baat mostly been good excepting tripe tree fruit some ome of which was wag out cut off by the spring prang froste some by winds and some by worms yet ret bome have an abound abuce oce of gone fruit the best belt of all ail io IN beneral good health though at present we have one quite a bad case our sund bunday by meetings mee tinga are well attended anea the people as a general are lull fall of the pure testimony tf or of the there Is ie but little drinking smoking or bad language used our children are free from the contaminating influences of the world for all 1 or of these things thing we are thankful this thia little place has one misel ooary on his way to a field of labor and two more ore will atari this fall there are more that should go but we are neither sleek block moo men beep abood woo men mor mer chanta nor bankers ban her and but very small farm farmery erst and no market sod and consequently no money we have the promise of a visit by apostle lyman tuesday evening next oue ofie more circumstance and then I 1 will close oo on the me night of the 3rd ard and uh lost the dwi dwelling tilling house bouse of squire hepworth Hepwor tb took fire and was discovered by a 10 year old daughter who was sleeping Ble up stairs with a sister of the same age they hurried down hafto ta irs the first brat having missed the steps and was somewhat bruised but not badly but bui she Im formed the father who was sleeping out of doors with the rest of the family the rather father saved the boy but the house with all its contents was consumed SAMUEL H GIFFORD |
