| Show A PROPER thanksgiving HOLDEN miliard county nov 80 0 thanksgiving day was a great sue cess as is usual here bore it Is a custom for the relief belief society to provide the very saed and the mission agriest wives with firewood tor for the win ter to accomplish this they arrange for a grand supper an ana dance corn com mittens are formed composed of young ladies and the mothers lo in israel israe to cook the poultry meat and vegetables in the relief society ball abile abe pastry castri and a score of other dainties daintie a are being prepared and sent lent up in due time each good load of wood impald is paid tor for with two tickets entitling the holders to barquet bacquet and dance those who do not mt burnish wood are charged a dollar each therefore wood hauling ns become a commendable fashion on these ocoa alons and many bainy a thankful one jo 18 heard beard to exclaim god bleu bleas you boye bolcs I 1 i in audition addition a large band of youngsters are engaged to out cut up wood and these are given a feast ana dance the day following consequently there w quite a rivalry amongst the smell of at the axe to got get a claim in on that pie lalo and calie and every male tot ants to take hla his little hatchet batchel and carve ao an historic name upon the widows wood pile the supper as usual was a grand display of the bounties of this god blessed land is a ruyal royal feast of generosity gen eroil to in a good cause some incidents in connection with this wood hauling that bat came under our notice way may be worth ite recording Cording A young man and hla his brother drove up with a load the faber being on a foreign mission the committee told them to take the wood home and gave them tickets As they started oft off the younger boy with a merry twinkle in his big eye said we got the crops nest neat but did riot not bring the egge A couple of 16 year old boys boya cousins brought io in a good load of toe the father of one of them is on 00 a mission in the southern states triese were given and we the driver was told to take the wood t fj his bis mother no air we can got gel my mother wood jay was the reply I 1 happened to see that mother when told tu ld of the incident without a word her eye voiced renewed admiration of lier her son oc that kind of a boy will surely make an honorable man joda and jemmy jammy peters are two boy standing no BO higher than the wheels wheel of their wagon and are the chief rustlers for a widowed mother with six children these little fellows wanted and wanted badly to earn a right to me ha stood things and struck out for wood they came in at night in the dark without the load having a give coulp out team eney wt re out next morning early and brought ia fia the prettiest load of nice dry wood that bad appeared in own cown the boys nad had placed the buts butis of trees f tea at the front and ana back of be rack and built the load square up to the fop of the stakes they were congratulated given tickets told act to take the load otwood of wood home to their widowed mother their father died in a hoe boo pital attal in salt gait lake city about a year abdis bait since when wa w are asked to read descriptions of millionaires daughters daughter sand and given their width and breadth and we the jenoth ot of their loot foot and hand band the shape of their nose the color of their eyes and the sze size of their earp descriptions reminiscent ot of the waye slave market previous to their transference to a foreign land and also asked to admire those parlor creations creat lone the boys boyc who whenever never tid a lie nor filched a a watermelon we turn with admiration to these little thinly clad braves bradee who venture loto into the snowy to fetch the widows widow a v wood and are amply paid by dancing out the joyous satisfaction of their nature we want to pat judas juda and jemmy on the back and ana ask their more favored neighbors to encourage the boys boya to come to sunday school and the future will reveal the good results of their labors 1 there are oine nine missionaries in the field from this thia little town none ot of them to going but some ot of them thought everything of theirl would be at a 10 until they returned I 1 have in mind one friona who was such euch a worker that he seemed to think the wheels of the universe un iveree would stop it II he be quit working he be must plow and haul manure almost to the last day before starting when he be got bis missionary hat bat and coat on bf be 1 appeared app ered lost without a shove anti ana when he got to president kimball advised him to have his beautiful auburn beard cut off A group picture came and some of us bouju I 1 hardly find tur our friend alend thereto therein had he returned with that picture the disappointed looks looka upon ane fame ot of that wife nd children would have driven him into the woods until his board beard had bad grown to respectable proportions again well the seasons have rolled on the same since bince he be left as before the land has been fruitful fu the calves have kept corning we the children childr tn are well fed and schooled the boys are becoming responsible and manly the wife looks thoughtful and happy especially who when she gets a letter from the jot that he has owned for sixteen has a now new nest neat fence around it and the house bouse is in repainted this to is but a fair sample of the condition of all the married missionaries ta families miller and the single ingle men are spoken of with reverence ence ebythe by the virgins betrothed whose it arp ercul devotion should spur them onto on to valorous energy in the work of 01 god the facts are that ment men a are re not so go huoh a necessity for success at home as some of them imagine success depena ka upon devotion to duty in the field assigned signed ae them for labor their la families milles are safe in the councils ol of toe the priesthood bood the spartan mother 1 if sometimes flome times offered as an example to the world but her counsels were often coarse and brutal compared with the prayerful devotion of mormon mission arleto mothers and A F |
