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Show v y' ,'erJl THE PAY VOLUME XXXIII NUMBER 11 PAYSON, New Street Lighting System Receives Endorsement of the the Citizens City Council and Hands of the Lighting Committee With Power to Act. Proposed Matter Is Placed in the to Install Seventy-tw- o Lights oooooooxxoooooooooooooooooooooooo ANGEL OF DEATH of the consideration, of increased .. lighting facilities for the business soction of Payson, at the meeting of the last Monday night, the matwas ter placed in the hands of the with power to act. committee light It is probable, therefore, that Main street, Utah avenue and First North streets will bo and First South ablaze with luminous arc lights before spring. It is proposed to iSstal about seventy-twlights, each on a substantial iron post, the light to be Iay-soencased in an opaque shade. best the be will then among even and state the in cities lighted Salt Lake will not be superior in this particular. Fifty of the posts and lights will be placed on Main streets, from the Tabernacle corner south to the southern limits of MemThe balance of tuc orial park. will be placed on the cross lights Utah probably, havavenue, streets, ing the larger number. The cost of instating tho posts approximately and lights will be This will include cost of $7,000. It placing the wires underground. is also probable that some arrangement can be made with the Mountain States Telegraph & Telephone company whereby the telephone poles and wires may be removed from the main streets of the city and to a considerable extent placed underIt is understood, however, ground. that no objection, will bo made to using poles in the alleys. As far as public sentiment has thus far developed there is not a property owner who will oppose the It better system of street lighting. is the general expression that lay-socannot afford to be backward in bpch an important movement. The ' coramerieal progress of a city is reflected in its business streets, nml to the stranger the impression is lasting. The cost of instating the propose! street lighting system is small com. pared to the benefits to bo derived and will fall but lightly on the It should not individual owners. be necessary, in the opinion of some of the leading business men to create a lighting improvement district, but the cost should be placed in the hands of the city by individual con tributiou by property owners bene-fitteby it. earful After Jk Uit n x d AGED COUPLE CELEBRATE THEIR GOLDEN WEDDING In celebration of their golden wedof the ding anniversary forty-twmembers of the family of Mr. and JMrs. O. H. Olsen gathered at the home of the latter in Sahitaquin last Sunday. A wedding dinner was served and the veteran couple were presented with - a magnificent rockDuring chair and a- purse of. gold. ing the day the ward bishopric called in and extended congratulations. the evening the happy couplo were serenaded by tho ward chojr w$iich Count sang, among other selections, Mr. and Yur Many Blessings." jtfrs, Olsen were married in the endowment house in Salt Lake on 26, 18, o, the ceremony being d by President Joseph F. rperfirm ' Smith. Among the living descend ents are eight children, thirty-twgrandchildren and three great grand, o De-nb- o children. ' The Payson postoffiee was one of the busiest places in the country few days preceding during the From December 21 until Christmas. r and including Christmas dav, A. K. Huish, the .iioJBce handled 145 sacks of incoming mail and more than FI0 sacks of mail were sent out, all In addition to parcel post matter. the regular first and second class matter, 15,000 postal cards were sent out through the local office. aeenrd-'-maste- - Telling Address is Made by Oscar Kirkham Who Urges Citizens Generally to Encourage the Boys of the Nebo Stake to Become Members of Local Posts . JUNIOR WIGHTMAN DIES AS RESULT OF AUTO ACCIDENT Nerve Shock, Coupled With Internal TAKES ESTEEMED CLOSES IN DEATH OF Mrs. Lillian Betts B&adsgaard cumbs to Heart Failure. Suc- Com- Mourned by Hosts of Fnends. munity is Deeply Shocked. Closing a most useful life, devoted to home and family, following a serious surgical operation, death came late on Christmas day to Mrs.- - Cuns-- i in n mi Elizabetu McDowell, wife oi David 1. McDowell of this city. Mrs. McDowell was born iu lay. son on March 18, 1809, the daughter of Mr. and ars. William lovvcil, residents of this section for many Mr. She was manred to years. McDowell oil April d, 1JUl in fcalt e There were issue of the l.ake. two daughters, Lottie and Km imf McDowell and two sons, Povvall who survive mid Frank McDowell, lOlie also leaves six biotlicrs her. and one sister and her mother. ... As an active member of the lie uecoa lodge of Payson, Mis. Mcfalie Dowell was highly esteemed. ..as a woman oi high ideals wtio carried her splendid conception ot life into her daily career and it 'was for those magnificent traits of coupled with a admirable simplicity, that she became endeared. to all who knew her. Her demise is mourned in many households in Payroll as well as in other putts of the state. The fuueral will be held this after uoon at 2 oclock iro-the Second ward meeting house. Bishop Hut will preside. Among the speakeis will be Charles H. White, Bisfiap .) A. Loveless aud Frank Salveutory. Internent will be rnadd in tho city cemetery. In the flower of young womanhood and with a future full of promise, Betts Baadsgaard, Lillian Mrs. Mrs. John A. of Mr. and daughter Betts, died last Tuesday evening at Shore. the family homo at Lako Death was duo to heart failure and was sudden, although the young woman had been ill for sometime nnd subject to heart trouble. was Mrs. nearly Baadsgaard twenty-onyears of age, having been She was born on January 2, 1900. Her mother preborn in Payson. ceded her into the great beyond about tw'o years ago, succumbing to the influenza. v, Mrs. Baadsgaard i is survived by her . father, John A. Bette, city marshal of Payson and by one brother, Leslie Betts, living at Winter Quarters, and six sisters, Mrs. Myrtle Hawking of Benjamin, and Jennie, and Helen Vciiotn, Edna, at in homo Betts, living Payson. She was one of the most highly esteemed of the young matrons of this city and loved by a largo circle of friends who mourn her early demise. Tho funeral took place on Thursday afternoon at 2 oclock from the First ward mooting house. It was largely attended aud me floral offer, ings were many and beautiful. Injuries Causes Death of Popular Payson Citizen. Injuries received by him the early last week while driving from hitoirs t0 Helper, resulted last Tuesday in the death of W. C. Wight man, pait of Immediately after the accident, the truck iu which he was riding being ''turned completely over, Mr. Wight man was rushed to It was found .Stoirs for treatment. that scveial of his ribs wore broken, as well as liis collar bone, and it was believed that ho would retoThe shock, cover. however, internal with injurgether probable ies, brought death. Mr. Wighlman was about sixty-fou-r ais of age, having been born in layson in May, 1856, the Bon of V. U. Wightman who survives him He also leaves his wife, who was who in the accident with him but serious injury, miraculously escaped aud ono son, Lynn Wightman of Payson, and the following daughters: Mrs. Harriet ltoss of Salt Lake, Mrs. Genevieve Ellsworth, widow of the late C. W. Ellsworth of Pleasant Groe; s. Pearl Davis of Provo; Mrs. Laura Spalding of Provo," Mrs. Carl O. Nelson of layson and Mrs. Glenn Simmons of this city. At the time of his death Mr. who was familiarly Wightman, known as Junior Wightman, was employed by the Knight interests as electrician at Storrs. With his wife, he was on his way to Payson to spend tho Christmas holidays. - The accident oceured in the early morn Lug, and there being no lights on the truck, it was difficult for the driver to keep the road. The truck went into tho ditch. Mr. Wightman was ono of the most of this highly esteemed citizens city, substantial and dependable and for many years had been an import ant factor in tho progress and ad vanccmcnt of the city. His taking awuv Was a severe shock to scores of friends in Payson and other parts of the state who had know'n and ap. pieieatcd him as a splendid type of citizen for many years. Mr. Wightman was married on May 24, 1875, to Miss Harriet S. Tho funeiat will be held Jones. II o'clock from Friday morning tho Second ward meeting house. Jr., of this city. a-- splendid representa- ' That much interSunday evening. est is being taken in the affaire end 'activities of the boy scouts was BELOVED MATRONS evidenced by the large number of parents and sisters of the Paysoi The boy scouts at the meeting. As the Hills Fell Into Darkness on iiur was presided over by Dr. L. N. Ellsworth. Christmas Day, Mrs. Sewell Clow-aTho principal speaker of the evenPasses Into the Beyond. ing was Oscar . Kirkham, executive secretary of the Boy Scouts, with in Salt Lake, who urged headquarters Just as the hills in the east, under their mantle of snow wore falling the boys to greater achievement and into darkness on Christmas day, tho laid out a program which will aid angel of death visited the homo them materially in their 'work during of j3owoll Cloward in this city, claim- the next few months. The boy scout movement is not ing the central figure of the happy household and carrying the bolovcd merely one providing amusement for but wife, Mrs. Deon Dixon Cloward into tho boys, said Mr. Kirkham, that realm from which none return. it is an institution on which is The shock of tho announcement was foundod better citizenship and true Americanism. The boy who lives Buddeu and piorcing, the young mathe scout to oath cannot fail her brief boy tron, during life, having up enjoyed the confidence and csteom in '.oyslty at home, to hs country of a large circlo of friends. . and to the flag. It ia the modern " Mrs. Cloward was the daughter of foundation on which good government Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. F. Dixon is built. of this city and was born in Payson Everything which we do tells on May 11, 1899, being the eldost what we are, continued Mr. KirkShe was married to Sewell ham, child. and we ean no more hids Cloward, son of Orson P. Cloward the mark than we ean stop the ran of this city, on May 27, 1918. The sconting idea Be. from shining. sides her parents and husbanu, she is to live fair and square and to is survived by her small son, Quinn be able at all times to look our She leaves also seven .neighbors in the faee without fear Cloward. brothers and throe sisters. The tit criticism on our character." , . Kirkham Mr. brothers are Charles Hyrum Dixon, spoke in .a highly now in a mission in South Dakota; entertaining manner of the trip seonts which made abroad the boy Douglass, Quayle, Blanchard, Junior, Sheldon and Paul Dixon. The sis quite recently, telling of tho eouu--trio- s tors are Bernice, Louise and Jean ot Europe and battlefields visited. He were all which told how in Dixon, living Payson. Of tho most amiablo disposition, the American boy scouts were Te. Mrs, Cloward was loved and admired Jreived by tho English and French, In her homo and how, even though in some inby a host of friends. she was a devoted wife and mother stances tho boys spoke different and around her revolved a happiness languages, tho heart pulsated the . which is rare in the home circle. samo and there wng a feeling of She was a devoted member of the kinship which drew nnd bound them church and up to tho timo of her logoi her. One of the most impressive marriage she was secretary of tho of tho meeting was tho raisFirst ward Sunday school She was also an active member of the Y. M. ing of tho flag on ft polo which hn.i , M. I. A. been erected in the Tabernacle, The funeral services were presided reaching from the floor to a height . and was one of tho most largely of about thirty foot. As the flag attended of any of recent date. was unfurled and slowly rose to tie-to-p Business houses generally closed their of tho polo, every boy scout attention doors that employees offer on tho floor stood at might In this the boys were final tribute of respect and love. The and sainted. in the build floal tributes were unusually numer- joined by every person ing. ous, theso tokens of regard completeA brief lecture on tho flag was ly enshrouding the grave in natures given by Ben R. Johnson, scout master of tho Payson ward, in which most beautiful creations. the proper uses of ho flag were deThe funeral serviceswere pesided fined, as well as the proper mm over by Bishop J. A. Loveless. The ner of salute. Tho language of the a; icakers were Dr. Hughes of Spanish flag tins also explained, . showing Fork, and Charles II. White who how the letters of Jhe alphabet 1...1 v dwelt on the splendid character and be formed with the proper waving. exemplary life of Mrs. Cloward uml At the conclusion of the meeting offered words of and Mr. Kirkham spoke before a gathersympathy courage for the bereaved. ing of the scout masters of the Nebo stake, urging them to definite work STORY HOUR FOR KIDDIES in directing the boys, offering to AT THE PUBLIC LIBRARY give everv assistances necessary to promote the boy scout idea and to Ho snid inceraso tho membership. Miss Mabel Wilson, ono of tho most that it was tho ambition to cubit Nobo district in librarians of Utah every boy in the enterprising bnv scout vork and ho declared th-county, has inaugurated tho story 'bis would bo possible if the proper hour for tho entertainment of chilMr. Kirkhn-dren between tho ages of five and effort were expended. work of preparing that the urged That eight years. they may fully for tho annual outing next summer enjoy tho kindness of Miss Wilson, to bo taken up at once arid offered the littlo folks are invited to visit the library every Saturday morning somo vahmblo suggestions along at 11 oclock. Iffie story telling hour will begin tomorrow morning. Tho following new magazines have UTAH COUNTY FARM BUREAU ELECTS OFFICERS FOE YEAR . boen received: Tho American, Literary Digest, Saturday Evening Post, St. Womans Homo Companion, Nicholas, Tho annual election of .the Utan . Tho County Fnrm bureau was held, in American Magazine, Outlook, L. I, PnnnoU Delineator, The Worlds Work, New Provo Inst week. Republic, Boys Life, Ladies Homo of' I.akeview was , presi Journal, McClures,' Tho Library Jour- dont.; L. M. Atwood of Mhmbi. New nal, Magazine, J. F. Bkinnej . of Spanish Harpers Scribners, Fork, secretary Magazine, and treasurer and Geographic Modem Priscilla, American Boy, Cliarlea H. White ' of Fawnti was Out.door Atlantic Monthly, Life, elected a member of the board of Century Magazine, Life, directors. later meet mg At Survey, Colliers, Independent, Review of Re- woman member of the board will be views aud North American Review, i elected.,.-- ' OF Most Highly Esteemed Matron' Responds to Call and Her Demise is was tion of the boys and young men of the Nebo stake at the Boy Scout gathering in the Tabernacle' last DEATH CLAIMS ONE BRIDE OF A YEAR MRS. D. MDOWELL PAYSOllS MOST m -- mur-nug- chai-acie- r, n FREIGHT IS WRECKED NEAR TOWN OF GOSHEN Tho regular freight on the Denver Dio Grande was wrecked between Eureka and Goshen late yesterday afternoon and it was after daylight A STRANGULATION ROUTE TO DEATH ADOPTED BY STRANGER this morning before it was cleared In up and traffic could bo resumed. curve in tho canyon a around going he Leaving nothing by which John two of the cars left the track and might bo identified, Billy sou of Mauznnola, Colo., brought his others were piled up on top of career io an end sometime lust week them. , None of tho train crew were The mail, however, for bvhanging hunsclf to the limb ot injured. was Payson, delayed nbout twevlo a tree on the Tanner farm, north- hours. The body w as west of layson. discovered by two boys out hunt- NEW YEARS DAY WILL BE QUIETLY OBSERVED It was later ing for rabbits. iu lain tho identified, alter having New Years day be observed in morgue at Provo for several days, Payson in the usual quiet way, and by Bcoit Nelson of Vineyard. joys of tho homecoming will remain It was clear from tho condition ' only a memory. Owing to the proof the body that it had been exposed valence of measles, smallpox, and diseases, frausini to the leather tor buveral data other isolation of so many famib , when found. Tho man had tied rjg not probable that any watch night a necktie about hia nocK aud with services will bo hold in any of the Open house having another tie had connected himself churches. with the limb of a tree overhead, become obsnloto because of the re there He had then slipped off the slight rirement of Old Barleycorn, JtiANY CELEBRATIONS MARK be the visiting tomorrrow 'l0 embankment nnd had become stran. '' THE ADVENT OF CHRISTMAS that in tho old days marked the gj0(j of tbe first holiday of the to reports Johnson had raRRn According The advent pf Christmas was mark worked on tho Elmer Pol Father Timo will yield . Holladay ranch J08I1 rYkfl and scepter ns usual e,! by special programs in the var- at about a month or six clock tonight, .and husky ious wards and by tho Presbyterian weeks ago, and had gone under tho kl I ape ko Maxwell. name son of was He the In tho First ward Sunday school, ceremony, perhaps, C. W. Johnson of of ivlaiizuiiola, tho tieo celebration was held on but vvith tho same guiding hand that Colo., to whom a telegram has been will lend a happy peoplo through Second in tho Thursday evening, and seut announcing the suicido. n nether prosperous year. ana Third wards, in Iho Second ward amusement nail, on Friday PROGRAM IS ARRANGED FOR STORK IS THOUGHTFUL . MUTUAL CONJOINT MEETING Tho evening.-lresbjtcnan celebra tion also was held on Christmas eve, Santa Claus was a prominent figure Assuming tho roleof Santa Claus, program or exceptional merit the Stork visited Payson on his at all of tuc celebrations and tho hasA been for the conjoint fiowny wings on Christmas, day and little folks enjoyed tho occasion, meeting of arranged the Mutual Improvement fter giving the city tho'ofice each being piescnteu with sweets associations of the three wards of over selected the homes of Mr. and Iavson for next Hunday evening in ami small gifts. . Sid Corny nnd Mr. and Mrs. Clcn Fairbanks for the presentation Two of the happiest kiddies in the Tabernacle. The program follows: of holiday favors. At each of these on the city Christmas day were Ode to Nebo Stake homes he left n handsome Quartette baby boy. two little Mexican children, Petnta Hanna Jones, Blanche McBeth, Willis Gale, and Daniel Webster. ami Nellie Padilla, who are living MRS. FAIRBANKS IMPROVES Oliver Cluyson nnd at "the home of the ltev. aud Mrs. Duet Ernest Marcil. Mrs. C. M. Fairbanks, who has s.ildniau Murphy, On Christmas Reading Hazel Gardner been seriously ill of pneumonia for day they were taken to Mammoth Talk..., Braxton Barnett several days, was reported this morn where they spent the week with their 0 Her Oborhansly ing as improved. greatly mother. Duet Daniel Webster and Willis Gale ultimate recovery is anticipated. mi-no- -- I HEAVY MAIL BUSINESS Meeting in the Tabernacle There o u Impetus at Well Attended Grateful for the splendid patronage that has been given to the Paysonian during the past year, the Paysonian Publishing Company takes pleasure in wishing every citizen of the, Payson valley and surrounding country a happy and prosperous New Year, MOST USEFUL CAREER proposition Boy Scout Movement Given A HAPPY NEW YEAR OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOGOOOOOOOOOGOO in the City . PRICE, FIVE CENTS. UTAH, DECEMBER 31, 1920. i 1 - .b A rore-monio- s : A Jk rl . ' i - - - a' , J. - w VVi3. 1 W4 xV--i |