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Show htnmnm Rigby, Typical Of Early! Pioneers, Endured Many Hardships William I . A w ''4 , , . 1 . ! Vi ' The life of William F. Rigby, ane of the earliest Cehe residents may be said to be typical of early Utah Pioneers. He was a convert and an emigrant fiom Fngland, met and was struck with the power of Brigham Young, helped found andploneer various settlements, had big trouble with the government because of polygamy, 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 early day pioneers, and chronicles the hardship and the agony of establishing communities and actually existing on what was once a barren desert land. Bo-Lancain Saddleworth, shire England, Jan 29, 1933 he was the son of Joseph and Margaret Littlewood. His father was a Methodist minister. His mother took great pains In having him read from the new testament since he did not go to school as a youth. Reared In Ln gland He was reared as a Methodist verses In England, memorizing and cimpters from the Bible, and recalled, even In later life, having been in a Sunday School procession at the time when Queen Victoria was crowned in 3837 and again when she was married to : 3 Hil Prince Albert fathers After his death his mother married a cotton-shine- r by the name of Howarth He went to Work at the age of eight at the fabolous wage of 18 cents a week. When he was 15 he left his house to live with an aunt, Sarah Wilson, who was a member of the Church of Jesus Saints Christ of Latter-da- y He was baptized and confirmed In 1849 and ordained a teacher the Btep-fathe- rs he had left England, He laid adobies in Pres. Young's s hou-,and lived and d.d in an open wagon-boneatly perishing during the cold winter that covered their sleeping bodies with snow practically every night. He and his wife moved to Leiu soon afterwaids and lived in a t. They had their second child (the first one died at birth) June 28, 1857 and was appointed to preside over the Sunday and reformation Thursday meetings that summer. It was theie that Rigby married his second wife, having both wives endowed anrl sealed by Brigham Young the following year in the Salt Lake City , temple. Lest Crops Giasshoppers wiped out all of the crops during the second year of their stay in Lehl, leaving the citizens destitute and as f that wasnt enough In the way ct hardof the ships "the government U S was plotting against us and collecting thousands of troops and rifles anC iaige and small cannons etc. to set up against our people" at about that time. Rigby was made adjutant of Lehl batallion Major Browns and handled the supply problems when the group moved out to Green River and Echo Dam. He was at home seeing that and weie provisions clothing gathered and shipped to the men when the mass exodus to the south soldiers began and the federal began moving Into the teintory. In 1860 Rigby alone with several others moved to Fort Wellsville in Cache valley to set up farming land, bringing his family Into the valley the following year. He was among the first farmers In Cache valley and was He named bishop of Clarkston. moved to Newton and was there the following season and was bishop there for 17 years. His first two wives died during those years and are buried In Newton. Droughts, grasshoppers, plagues and business failures bampered his effort for several years before he was appointed first counstake in the cilor of Bannock Snake River valley cf 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 x, . ' 'V I if 4 . Jfe v ?v' r tip S i C - .,-Ini F. M. RIGBY following year, and a priest two yeais later Two years later, in the company of 23 others he left England at riving in New Oi leans eight w eeks later. He left his wife at home In England. He was pla ed in charge of two yoke of oxen and a yoke of cows to drive and care for on the road to Utah shortly after arriving in Nauvoo. At Green River he was given a note by a Captain Brown to take to Brigham Young, asking for teams and supplies. In the company of nine others he walked 175 miles in five days, and delivered the note to Pres. Young sbout 4 20 on the afternoon of Oct. 5, 1853. "This was one of the he happiest days of my life, retailed In his diaiy. l.igby sent for his wife and they were reunited six months after OF GLAUSER'S i. s J& a v RESTAURANT a. r ? ! V f V 'h r fi v ) mmm minify rVr- - Hevea Cache Valley Views in Oil Painted by Henri Moser, Utahs Oldest Active Pain tar, Grace the Walla of this Popular Logan Restaurant. Comfortable lootfcs Wi Tablo Cojntet CATER TO PRIVATE DINNER PARTIES , Delicious Foods Propertly Cd Act', Courteously Good Coffe Merchants Lunch GLAUSER'S RESTAURANT Some 200 news reporters crowded into Franklin Delano Roosevelts White House office on Dec. 28, 1943 to hear him announce the new deal was finished. The United States then had been in Worid War II two yeais and 21 days. The tide of far flung battle was beginning to turn. An allied landing on Normandy beariies was less than six months away. The nation was blessed with and satisgieat faction with the trend of 'vents. FDR buried the new deal w ith a paiable. He said old Dr. New Deal had been an expeit on internal medicine During the 10 yeais from 1933 to 1943 the old doctor had prescrioed Iibez ally of strong medicines for the nations internal ills. FDR catled the roll of 30 new deal remedies or reforms which had been written Into law in those yeais. Then, he said, the patient had a serious smash-u- p on Dec. 7, 1941, "broke his hip, broke his leg k t Served r Snotiwr Spiral Grain Loaders CHAIN-DRIV- DELUXE MODEL Cut costs, speed up grain handl- ing! Makes movement of small grain, shelled corn, n'Mind feed a operation. Delivers up one-ma- n to 1,600 butihels per hour. Loads from ground to truck, truck to bin, or feed bunk. Quickly repays its low cost in time and work saved. THE ABOVE ILLUSTRATION SHOWS THE SNOWCO SPIRAL GRAIN LOADER nULKEY ILEVATORSj We er always glad to explain tha 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. Handles BASED HAY Ear Corn SmI Crains stsrtaWe sEsUncsd ELLIS EQUIPMENT CO. L - fh I, is - , 4 . mh ; OWIt i - , urJ H. Kemp, Mory Sorensen, and J. P. .Sorensen. Seated in the middle row are, left to right, Lydia Baker Hogesen, Dr. W. W. Henderson, an unidentified woman, and Sam McKinnon. Those in the front row have rot been identified. CLASS OF 1900 The Brigham Young College in 1900 had a graduating class of ten students. They are shown above, dressed m their finest clothes and showing a proper air of seriousness. Those m the back row, left to right, are John ithe Main, Logan, Utah Cts MatsDseUsTreutb 12 MON i H ttun lb hiY-- fTftftMJrs-Co- D Oi A'fr,vsforw h -- DoORN Btnifai ok Sskt USE Otoxfll Trough. laddies. Presbyierian Church Long Active in Logan ecroee Chem 9 tTomTronwb. ns us.dr0 Imtfh 1 1 The Presbyterian Church came to Logan July 16, 1878 In the persons of Rev. Calvin M Parks, Mrs. S V.N Parks and Miss A. Parks. Cache Valley had been previously visited by Rev. Sheldon Jackson, DD, who had induced Rev. Paiks to leave his position In Washington, D. C. and come to Logan. An old furniture store house, which later was remodeled and became the Lindquist Mortuary, was the first Logan location of the Presbyterian church and school. Here the first sermon was preached by Rev. Parks on Sunday, September 1, 1878. School was opened the next day with seven pupils In attendance. Mar-gai- et In 1879 a new church and school building was erected on Center street. It served the church until construction of the fine chapel on which is now West Center et the center of Piesbytenan activi-U- s ir Logan. aesr f-q- i ij iff A modern letterpress from the Herald-Journ- o I : . . f r7 -- Printing Comptmys large, plant. st-e- In 1906 the women of synod built and furnished tory, named Honevman honor of the New Jersey pi evident. Mis Honeman the same a dormiHall in synodical of Plain-Boug- For Distinctive Printina of All Kinds The lleuld-joiirn- al Printing I ht land In the spring of 1916, the boaid purchased the ground on Center street, adjoining the Academys land on the south. The brick house on the property was remodeled for a dormitory and given the name "Parks Hall In honor of the first Presbyterian pastor In Logan. m mb hiMm. Otw aooe of the Ridge, Arthur The school grew rapidly and after twelve years developed into an academy. At that tune the thiee-stor- y buck building still standing on West Center was built mid furnished by the women of the Synod of New Jersey, New Jersey whence the name Academy " Now-Impro- ved ON THE ELLIS EQUIPMENT LOT ON SOUTH MAIN S' 4 v Win-the-w- Here it the 1901 basketball team BASKETBALL Brigham Young College In Logan. Coach was A. J. team members were A. L. Olsen. Ed Hansen, Dave Allen, Bergeson and Hyruin Moiris. Snappy looking bunch of A--V; 701 South M j 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 ot ways, but before the railway could be tarted hi health failed him and he moved back to Utah for treatment. He lived with his daughter Lavinia in Logan until he died on March 1901 and was buried in Newton. Hia descendants today are a legion. At the present time he has 116 grandchildren, 79 great grandchildren, five great-gregrandchildren. 39 children were born to him by his wives 18 boys and 21 gills. GET THE JOB DONE QUICK AND EASY! vj Deal didnt know nothing about legs and arms, the president continued, "He knew a gieat deal about internal medicine, but nothing abou, jrgery. So he got his ,o take partner, Dr. care of this fellow who had been In this bad accident. The result is that the patient is back on his feet FDR said smi'ing and with a wave of his long cigaret holder. That was how the late President buried the new deal and pretty well silenced the critics who had complained he had abandoned it. President Truman's "fair deal seems now to be about as dead as was FDRs deal way back yonder. Mr. Trumans congressional leaders have just heaved overboard for this session a lot of hot domestic legislation which the President has been seeking with a remarkably sustained record of disappointment. fL 4 Of 900 decade 1940 t9 1930 ac' the laigest being In Davis, Salt coiding to official Bureau of the Lake, Tooele, Utah, Weber and Seventeen out of. Utahs 29 Census figures. Substantial gams Cache counties. counties lost population during pera recorded In only 10 counties, QUALITY FARM AND INDUSTRIAL MACHINERY eww in two or three places, broke a wrist and an arm and some riba" They didn't think he would live, lor a while. Old Dr. New $f Ftwer Ptmnla CfJJalC at 5 West Center, Logan, Utah - Do You Remember? B. Y. C. Class this time", he recalled, due to government restrictions, at he returned to England for a .ear and a halt of successful mu don-ar- y work, returning to Utah only to be arrested in January of 18.38. tried, and sentenced to six months In tb state prison on other polygamy charges. In all be had taken i f .i, tri Os V n Hew Deal dug-ou- DELICIOUS STEAK DINNERS A FEATURE When FDR Buried The odd-job- n s' F. Letterpress Printing and Offset Lithography Advertising Printers 75 West Center Phone 50 v n. |