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Show ORANGEVILLE Aunt Jane Wilkin, who has been ailing ail-ing for the last year, passed away Saturday, Sat-urday, the 13th, and was buriei on the 14th. She was born in Scotland and came to the United States in the early 50's with her family and settled in Silt Lake City, where she married David Wilkin, decease!. She moved to Manti in the early days and helped to build up that thriving city. About twenty-five years ago she moved to Orangeville. where some of her children hai settled. She has been a continual sufferer for some time, but she was of a cheerful disposition and always had a cheerful word to give others in distress. She was in her 78th year and leaves a twin sister surviving her, Mrs. Margaret Moffitt of this place who is very feeble and sick at the present time. She leaves five children, Mrs. Belle Reid, Mrs. Mary Tuttle, -loseph Wilkin of Roosevelt, also Wm. W. Moffitt and Mrs. Fanny Fox with a host of grandchildren grand-children and great-grandchildren to mourn her loss. The speakers at the funeral were Elders A. C. VanBuren, A. B. Willey, Jasper Robertson, Bishop A. M. Reid and Jesse D. Jewkes, all of whom spoke in words of praise of the deceased for her charity and kindly disposition dis-position and benevolence. May her memory be ever green in the hearts of her family and friends. A mistake was made in the name of one of the contracting parties who went to Manti last week. It was Miss Melva Sampson instead of as stated in the last issue. i (Continued on last page) ORANGEVILLE John S. Curtis and wifti had a son born Tuesday 16th but the bab only lived a few h urs. It was their first child and they have the sympathy of the people in their bereavement. Snow in the mountain and about freezing weather in the valley. What is the matter with the weather now, doesn't he know that it is about summer sum-mer season of the year his resignation would be in order. |