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Show I William Rigby, Typical Of Early Pioneers, Endured Many Hardships , Buried The When B. Y. C. Class F. he had left England. He laid aikibieg in Pres. Young: house and did odd-jo- b and lived in an open wagon-bonearly polishing during the told winter that covered their sleeping bodies with snow practically every night. He and his wife moved to Lehi soon aflerwaid and lived in a dug-ou- t. They had their second child (the first one died at birth) June 28. 1857 and was appointed to preside over the Sunday and The life of William F. Rigby, ne of the earliest Cache may be said to be typical of early Utah Pioneers. He was a convert and an emigrant from England, met and was struck with the power of Brigham Young, helped found and pioneer various settlements, had his trouble with the government because of poiy- gamy, and even spent time In the state prison as a final result. His activities, his life and his , works show the spiritual feeling of those eaily day pioneers, and ' chronicles the hardship and the agony of establishing communl- ties and actually existing on what was once a barren desert land resl-ien- ts Thuisday reformation meetings that summer It was theie thut Rigby marneil his second wife, having both wives endowed and sealed by Bilgham Young the following year in the Satt Eake City temple. LancaBorn in Saddipworth, 1933 he Jan. shire 29, England, 1 was the son of Joseph and Mar t garet Littlcwood. His father was a Methodist minister. i His mother took great pains in fj having him read from the new MM. F. KILBY since he did not go , testament to school as a youth following year, and piiest two Reared In England years iutei. r, He was reared as a Methodist Two yeais later, in the com"In England, memoiwing veises pany of 21 others he left England and chapters from the Bible, and arriving in New Oi leans eight recalled, even In later life, hav-- 1 weeks later, lie left his wife at lng been In a Sunday School pro-- , home In England He was plated in charge of two cession at the time when Queen Vietorla wus crowned in 1837 and yoke of oxen and a yoke of cows J again when she was married to to drive and caie for on the road t Prince, Albert. to Utah shoitly after aulving in After his fathers death his Nauvoo. At Gieen River he was J mother married a cotton-shine- r given a note by a Captain Hi own i by the name of How art h. He went to take to Bughani Young, askto work at the age of eight at ing for teams and supplies s the fabolous wage of 13 cents a In the company of nine others he !' week. , walked 175 miles in five days, and When he was 15 he left his dpliveied the note to Ires Young i, 9 house to live with an about 4 20 on the afternoon of Sarah Wilson, who was a Oct 5, 1853 This was one of the i aunt, he ii member of the Church of Jesus hnpplest davs of my life, Saints Christ of Latter-da- y retailed in his diary He was baptized and confirmed lj Rigby sent foi his wife and they Ji in 1849 and oidained a teacher the were reunited six months after ! . step-fathe- rs U u DELICIOUS STEAK DINNERS A FEATURE OF GLAUSERS RESTAURANT r 1 ! Seven Cache Valley iews in Oil Painted by Henri Moser, Utahs Oldest Active Painter, Grace the Malls of this Popular Logan Restaurant. ( Comfortable Booths Countei Table WE CATER TO PRIVATE DINNER PARTIES Delicious Foods Propertly Cooked, Courteously Served Merchants Lunch Good Coffe GLAUSERS RESTAURANT Uvt Irops Grasshoppers wiped out -- U of the crop during the second yeur of their slay in Lehi, leaving the citizens destitute and as f that wasn t enough in the way of haid-ship- s the government of the US was plotting against us and collecting thousands of tioops and nfles and laige and small cannons etc. to set up against our at about that time people of Rigby was made adjutant Major Bt owns Iehl batallion and handled the supply problems when the gtoup moved out to1 Green River and Echo Dam He was at home seeing that piovisions and clothing weie gatheied and shipped to the men when the mass exodus to the south began and the federal wildiei began moving into the temtoiy. In 1860 Rigby alone with sevetal otheis moved to Fort Wellsville in Cache valley to set tip fanning land, bringing his family into the valley the following year He was among the first faini-ei- s in Cache valley and was named bishop of Claikston. He moved to Newton and was theie the following season and was bishop there for 17 yeais. His fiist two wives died during those years and aie buried In Newton. DiOughts, giasshoppeis, plagues and business failures hampered his efforts for several yeais before he was appointed first councilor of Bannock stake in the Snake River vaLley of Idaho. He had but one wife, Sophia, In Idaho when he was arrested on a charge of polygamy, but was released due to the fact that the other wives were still living in Utah. "It was almost impossible to proceed with the work that we thought ought to take place at this time", he recalled, due to government restrictions, so he returned to England for a year and a half of successful mlssion-- I ary wotk, returning to Utah Only to be arrested in January of 1888, tried, and sentenced to six months In the state prison on other poly-- 1 gamy charges. In all he had taken five mates. Released after five months on good behavior, he took the balance of his families and moved into Rexburg and then into the Teton Basin. He began the railroad, planning the route and right of ways, but before the railway could be taited his health failed him and he moved He back to Utah for treatment. lived with his daughter Lavinia in Logan until he died on March 1901 and was buued in Newton His descendants today aie a legion At the ptesent time he has 116 giandchildren, 79 gieat gtandchildren, five great-giegtandchildien. 39 children weie bmn to him by his wives. 18 boys and 21 guls West Center, Logan, Utah it-- ternal niacin yeais fioni , who had J BASKETBALL Here is the 1901 basketball team Bngham Young College in Logan Coach was A J team inembiis vvete A I. Olsen, Id Hansen Dave Allen Letgeson and Hyium Moms. Snappy looking bunch of movement DRIVE handl- of small operation. Delivers up its low cost in time and work saved. rgH New Improved 2,MULKEY-4- i FARM ELEVATORS Manilas BALED HAY i 701 South Main, Logan, Utah 'll! J P Sorwist t, Aithur laddies. Presbyterian Chuich came 1878 in to Logon Jutv 16 the pet ons of Rev Calvin VI Pai ks, Mt SVN Paiks and Miss Mai-gai- et A Paiks Cache Valley had been previously visited bv Rev. Sheldon Jackson, DD, who had induced Rev Paiks to leave his position in Washington, D. C and con e to Logan. An old fuimtuie stote house, which latei was temodeled and became the Lindquist Mortuary, was the first Logan location of the church and Piesbyterian school. Heie the fust sermon was preached by Rev Parks on SunSchool day, Septemoer 1, 1878 was opened the next day with seven pupil in attendance. In 1S79 a new church and school buddjng was erected on Center street. It served the chuich until construction of the fine chapel on West Center stie"t which is now the centet of Piesbyterian activities in Logan. The school grew rapidly and aftei twelve yeais developed into an academy At that time the thiee-stoi- y buck building still standing on West Center was built and furnished by the women of the Synod of New .Jersey, whence the name "New Jersey Eor Corn Academy In 1906 the women of the same svnod built and furnished a doinu-toinamed Honevman Hall in honot of the New Jeisey synodical piesident, Mis Honeman of Land In the spung of 1916, the board v, Plain-Boug- t and of the Ridgcv Small Crains PsrtsWa Bslsncsd Doubts Trough Custom Built 12 MONTH USE Chi DUT- Y- 6' Strustit SidM-Dou- bW id wroM Trough Comb 3 k Straight &VFUr Trough. I) bl I ham 1U across Cham. IS across also I drug hopper tlrmtort is any cfh sittUaM. Ovur DOOO Horn in Dm. HEAVY STANDARD Kemp, Moiy Sorensen Church Long Active in Logan The Piesbvterian bin, or feed bunk. Quickly repays i H Seated in the middle row aie left to ritr Lydia Baker Hogesen, Di. W. W Henderse. an unidentified woman, and Sam MckimvThose in the front low have rot bun OLD MAIN Hete is an unusual shot of the towei ot Old Via n at Utah State Agricultural college, taken with a telescopic lens. to 1,600 bushels per hour. Loads from ground to truck, truck to ELLIS EQUIPMENT CO. ?, 9 he Bt igl am 5 uung Colli ge LAs OF 1900 in 1900 had a graduating class of tin students They' aie shown above diessed in th r tim st clothes and showing a iopu an ol senousncss These in the bai L i os kft to l uht aie John the rinade 1910 to 19r0, ac-- 1 the laigest being In Dam imding to offtcial Buteau of the Lake, Tooele, Ltah, Weber Seventeen out of I tails 29 Census ftguies Substantial Eains Cache counties, iccoided in only 10 counties, counties lost population dunng i grain, shelled corn, ground feed We are always glad to explain the operation of the equipment we handle and work with the users to aid them in getting the best service possible for which these machines are designed. fistVy Fewer People ing! Makes EQUIPMENT LOT ON SOUTH MAIN ciitns , c Cut costs, speed up groin one-ma- n .-- 1 Snouwr a . i DELUXE CHAIN MODEL ELLIS the well silenced the 10 complained he had abandoned it. the old 'fair deal' President uma.i tic .ills of clictoi had pi esc lined seems now to be about as dead as slicing medic un for the nations was 1 DR s deal way back vondei internal ills 1 DR called the roll 3 uman s Mr congressional of 30 new deal temedies oi re- leadeis have JIM heaved overfill ms which had been wntten build foi this session a lot of hot into law in those yeais which the domestic legislation Then, he said the patient had Piesidc nt has been seeking with 7 a lemaikablv sustained lecord of a sei urns smash-u- p on Dee 1911, luoke Ins hip bloke his leg disappointment Spiral Grain Loaders ON THE j , GET THE JOB DONE QUICK AND EASY! SHOWS THE SNOWCO SPIRAL GRAIN LOADER two or thiee places broke a wrist and an arm and some ribs They didnt think he would live, for a while Old Dr New Deal didn t know nothing about legs and arms the piesident conHe knew a great deal tinued about internal medicine, but nothing about surgery So he cot his o take partner, Di W care of this fellow who had been in this bad accident The tesult is that the patient is back on his feet t DR said smiling and with a wave of his long cigaiet holder. That was how the late President buried the new dpal and pietty in iip Dunng 1933 tei 1913 QUALITY FARM AND INDUSTRIAL MACHINERY THE ABOVE ILLUSTRATION You Remember? 20c) satis-Iactio- at 5 - Do news reporters crowdI ranklin Delano Roosevelt s White House office on Dec. 28, 1913 to hear him announce the new deal was finished The 1 mtPd States then had been in Wot Id Wai II two yeais and 21 days The tide of far flung battle was beginning to tuin An allied landing on Noi niandy beaciies was less than six months away. The nation was blessed with n and gieat with the tiend of 'vents EDR but the new deal with a paiable. He said old Dr New Deal had been an expeit on inSome ed into t -I Ur FDR x, Hew Deal Of 1 900 I Sid, Herald-Journ- Printing Company's large, al pi3 For Distinctive Printing of All Kinds The Mil-Journa- PrintM Co l ht putehased the ground on Center street, adjoining the Academys land on the south The brick house on the property was remodeled for a doimitory and given the name Parks Hall" in honor of the first Presbyterian pastor in Logan. m A modern letterpress from the Letterpress Printing and Offset Lithography Advertising Printers 75 West Center Phone 50 T |