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Show Nolajane Green Takes Husband Nola Jane Green, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Green, Ephraim, and William Michael Perry, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Perry. Itasca, 111., were married on Dec. IS, 1979, at Mt. Pleasant, Utah. They will be honored at a reception at the Snow College Cafeteria on Dec. 22 from 6 to 8 p.m. Friends and family members are invited. The bride graduated from Manti High School . Messenger Enterprise, Thursday, December 20, 1970 Prominent Couple Plans Wedding and Snow College. She plans to attend Utah Technical College at Orem, where she will study accounting. Mr. Perry graduated from New Mexico State University in wildlife biology. He is employed by the U.S. Forest Service. For the past two years he has been stationed in Ephraim, but has recently been transferred to the Pleasant Grove office. The newlyweds plan to make their home in Provo. Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Rasmuson, Ephraim, are happy to announce the marriage of their daughter, Rae Ann, to Robert M. A husky baby grandson Tibbs, son of Judge and made the Christmas sea- Mrs. Don V. Tibbs, Manti. son bright for Gordon and will They exchange Jayne Van Epps, Ephvows in the wedding raim, when he arrived Manti LDS Temple on Friday, Dec. 7 in a Mesa December 21. A recephospital. The baby weigh- tion, hosted by the brides ed 9 lbs. 9 oz. and is the parents, will honor them third child for Richard and that from 7:00 Leone Pearce of Mesa. He until evening 9:30 p.m. in the has a sister Janee, and a Ephraim Third-Fourtbrother Tyler. Paternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Jones, Salina; Hal Pearce, Snowflake; Husky Grandson xw b i c h BUffiiKK Ward. Ann has been attending Brigham Young University, where she has been active in business organizations and musical groups. Robert is currently attending Snow College. He recently returned from serving in the Canada Toronto Mission. They will be making their first home in Mt. Pleasant while Robert finishes his education at Rae f' strummin and hummin your praises, we Snow. pause long enough to say how much we appreciate knowing two TOBfflDBJflGD) rj M Page 9 Mrs. Nadine S. Dunn, Boise, Idaho, and Mrs. Crandall, Mesa, Arizona. Mr. and Mrs. William M. Perry Snow Speakers Succeed at Dixie I? 0 you. The music of this festive season fills our hearts with warm affection for our friends and neighbors ... Joy to you all. TrinaAnn Girven and Helen Stott are rejoicing over the arrival of a new greatgrandchild born Dec, 10 to Bob and Rose Ann Crunk of Elsinore. This makes seven for the Stotts. The baby will be named Trina Ann. She has one brother and one sister. The Snow College out for many of the Snow forensics squad made a students and this taste of very successful showing at success is sure to spur the Sunshine Classic them on to even greater Speech meet in St. George accomplishments in the last week. They met stiff future. Next January 18, competition from the Snow will host to its own teams from Utah State tournament so the team University, College of members will be busily Eastern Utah, Dixie preparing over the holiCollege and Ricks College. days on into the New Y ear. Many individual memxx x v bers of the squad were singled out for high honors. The first place trophy for extemporaneous speaking went to Janet Severson. The team of Dave Green and Ken Welch took the second place trophy in debate, while Ken also won third place in persuasive speaking. The readers theater group received a third place trophy and Snow College ranked third in the overall sweepstakes competition. Other competitors who made final rounds were Reed Scott in persuasive and Laurie Jenkins in rhetorical anal $0f.&y.0ka, tun giow Rae Ann Rasmuson and Robert Tibbs wnaaw By Popular enuwiMmiwimmaimmwmi iTOlWmwWMMWMiWWRUlWWI rowmwwwiwuwb Demand . . . A Third Printing of Chugging in loaded wills holiday treasures and pleasures for all our friends. With warm thoughts of you we say thanks. W'o . Cover . . . Ephraim Pioneer Meeting House, completed in 1869. The walls were constructed of rock to offer protection from Indian attacks. The building was built according to Brigham a three-sideYoungs favorite New England pattern gallery. Nearly all the west wall was covered by a giant mural by the celebrated artist C.C. A. Christensen. Another artists masterpiece were the glass prism chandeliers, satisfying another pioneer longing for the best in art. The tntire Meeting House was a historical treasure. n I ysis.t This was the first tiroel Photo courtesy Utah State Historical Society. lloro's an oxcorpf ... ... A By , Grace Johnson Por Copy We will mail anywhere. Add 1.00 PER BOOK for postage and handling charges. Plus 24c Sales Tax Ephraim Author Writes New Book 6, 191) Ephraim stories are famous! At the request of the University of Utah a master'! thesis was written on them. Universities of national repute send emissaries to research this unique weatem folklore." The Utah Historical Society has wondered why Ephraim doesn't do something about it. Well, at last, somebody has. In a new work, Grace Johnson has written a book about them. It is titled ' Brodders and Sisters being the early life and times of the Mormon town of Ephraim, Utah, including, to be sure, the famous Ephraim Stories." For years Ephraim people have been telling and laughing at these Ephraim Stories" without realizing that they were of any importance. Then they began to come, emissaries from educational institutions, trying to record in some permanent form the folklore of the area. But they have had no luck. The have tightened up and refused to give." Emanating from such dramatic business as the Mormon migration, Indian warfare, the rigors and hardships of pioneering, not only because of the situations that this folklore is unique arise when the man of different language tries to express himself in the language of his adopted country, but in the Mormon situation itself. With a lay clergy, the bishop was no career churchman but a farmer who left off plowing to come to town and perform a wedding ceremony or other prerogatives of his office. "Actually," writes Grace Johnson, "no one but a native-borEphraimite can deal with the subject authentically. I don't pretend to have dealt with it adequately, but I can at least say I have tried." The work originally appeared serially in the Ephraim Enterprise and the Manti Messenger, and was later published as story-teller- The cherished joys of a family Christmas . . . may they be yours to share with those you love! We appreciate your patronage and wish you well. Uatky Parritaro 0, Volley Baildorc Gunnison stag Marital apfcaWai that art thit kaak atrifaa. The Battle of the Languages "Brodders and Sisters" Reprinted from The Ephraim Enterprise, dated Sept. Mb "... s a book. PICK UP YOUR COPY NOW FROM Brigham Young'a secretary looked up apprehensively as Brigham, a letter in hand, paced the floor of his office in The Lion House, his official residence in Salt Lake City. Only when there were major issues at stake did Brother Brigham pace the floor. The United States Army had crossed the continent to war against the Mormons and returned with red faces. Was the President of the U.S. planning to send another army? Had the Ute - and Shoshone Indians buried their old hatchet of enmity and joined forces to annihilate the Mormons? The secretary ventured a timid, "Sir?" Brigham paused and confronted him. "Tell me, if you had moved into a new country, what would be the very first thing you would do?" "Why learn the language of course." "Exactly!" declared Brigham, crushing the letter in a clenched fist. "Do you know what the Danish immigrants in Ephraim have done? Note that I have aaid, have done,' it's past. It's accomplished and I am not told until now. Instead of learning English, they have . reversed the procedure. Anyone who wants to communicate in Ephraim has to learn Danish. And what's more, they have! You can't buy or sell a cow in Ephraim unless you do it in Danish!" Americans had roared. The It was all too true. The native-borNorwegians huffed and puffed. The Swedes, the smallest minority, twittered futiley. But the Danish, who were in the majority, had prevailed. Brigham, to whom the English language was a close relative of The Star Spangled Banner, barked a directive: Tell the brethren that henceforth all Scandinavians will speak only English 1" But all this accomplished was to bring another letter and more floor pacing. "Listen to this!" Brigham shouted and read. The letter stated the Danish had tried with all their might and main to master the English language, and, which, after this great effort, they found to be the craziest of all methods of communication and which had brought upon them deep humiliation. So many words meaning different things, had the same sound so if you missed a letter like "T it could change the meaning from propriety to calamity. At for instance, when Brodder Yonson, eulogizing the dead in and so, considering all the Brodder Hansen's funeral said, vonderful characteristics of this man, I am more and more committed to that great and eternal principle, the immorality of the soul which he has practiced all his life!" And Brother Brigham might not believe it but there were sides in the congregation shaking with held-iand at a laughter funeral! A word in English starts out to mean something and with just a little change ends up with a disaster like this! "We do not believe that Brother Brigham wants anything like this going on and since Danish is clearly the superior language and since we are in the majority, we will continue to speak the great Danish language where there is no chance of anything like this happening againl" Brigham' pacing was wearing out a path on the office carpet. "Take a letter. This will fix it!" The letter directed the settlement at Ephraim to conduct all church services in the English language, which brought the following reply: The settlement would observe Brother Brighams instruction and conduct church services in English. But it would also conduct church services in Danish. Brigham issued a thunderous "NO!" which brought the following: Were the people of the Ephraim settlement to undentand by GRACE JOHNSON MESSENGER-ENTERPRIS- E OFFICE IN MANTI . |