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Show t Tune IPaissoirn Clhipoimnejle VOL.XXXVII., PAYSON, UTAH COUNTY UTAH, FEBRUARY 22, 1929 No. 8 OLD RESIDENT PAYSON LIONS HOLD NOTED AUTHOR GIVES LECTURE REGULAR MEETING Thu regular meeting and luncheon of the Payson Lions Club was held last Friday evening at the Elite Cafe with 1 resident Tolhurst in charge. Lee R. Taylor, President of the Straw berry Water Users Association, was the speaker. The association operates the Power plant in Spanish Fork canvon which .is a part of the Strawberry Project and Mr. Taylor explained the association electric power rates as compared with the rates of the Utah Power and Light Company He also gave a report of the 1928 crop census covering the land under the project. were urged to supFIRST WARD M MEN WIN The themembers lectures to' be given by Dr. port HONORS DIVISIONAL Adam Puffer of Boston which were being sponsored by the club. The Payson First Ward M Mens PAYSON LIONS WIN blsketball team, winners in the Nebo OVER SPANISH FORK Stake Contest, were entered in the which in tournament district started The Payson Lions overcome the tie Provo Wednesday night. The district with Spanish Fork for second place comprises ten stakes and the tournadivision by defeating the ment will continue for four nights. in the Nebo in a hard fought game The local boys were scheduled to play Beatdiggers in the Junior their first game with Juab Stake at last Thursday night Spanish Fork jumped 9 p. m. Thursday. Friday the semi- High Gym. lead early in the game 2 a into finals will be staged at 7 and 8 oclock tied the ecore and the final combat will take place but Paysons fighting at the end of the half. Close at Saturday at 8. All games will be defensive work featured the remainplayed in the Y, gymnasium. der of tthe game and the final score in Paysons favor. The NEW BOOKS in the LIBRARY was visitors team was a very different The American Novel, by Carl Van one from the one which played the lioren. This book is meant to serve first game with the Lions and was ' a chapter in the history of the a real threat. Patten was again high American imagination. It undertakes to do more than to recount and crit- point man, scoringl8 points. Following is the score: icize the work of eminent novelists new the PAYSON links It writers with their forerunners, and traces the developments of the novel from the colonial times to .the present day. The survey Patten, rf is both critical and historical, com- Olson, If plete as to .contents, penetrating in J. Wilson, c its analysis of works and men. The H. Wilson, rg spirit and significance of Hawthorne, Searles, rg Mark and Howells, James, Henry Twain are folly revealed: the author Snyder, c discloses the gifts of Cooper and Melville, and the strength or weakness of the many lesser men and Dr. Adam Puffer, noted author and and lecturer from Boston, spoke before a large audience in the Nebo Stake Tabernacle Tuesday evening on the subject Making use of your leiOn Wednesday he gave sure time. lectures to the students at the Senior and Junior High Schools, his subject He is beng Choosing a vocation. a very entertaining speaker and delivered some very splendid material The in a most intersting manner. lecture series was sponsored by the Payson High School and Payson Lions Club. 15-1- 22-2- 2 AMERICAN LEGION TO LIGHT OPERA WAS PASSES AWAY HOLD BIG CARNIVAL Mrs Alice Crandall Manwill, who has been a resident of Utah for the past 75 years, died Sunday evening at her home 191 East 4th North Street. She was born in Iowa on December 2, 1847. Her father was John Crandall a native of Iowa apd her mother was Mary Ann Daniels a native of England. When she was six years of age she crossed the plains with her parents. Her husband was a Black Hawk War veteran and they resided for many years at Koosharem. She is survived by the following children, William and Franklin Man-wi- ll and Mrs. Sarah E. Sorensen of Mra. NolHe Hancock Koosharem, and Neldon Manwill of Payson. Surviving also is one eister, Mrs. Johnson of Provo, one Elizabeth Contemporary American novelists, by Carl Van Doren. A careful keen of American novelists, which supplements, The American novel" The volume includes a review of the dwindling cult of local color and writers; a comprehensive treat of emergent types: an interesting discussion of the prominent new group who are voicing the revolt These essays are from the village. discriminating, substantial, informative; for the novel reader this book is a guide to the best contemporary American fiction. The development of the American tshort story, by Fred Lewis Pattee. 'The first attempt at a definite study, mt the one literary form America fans given to the world. The short story is shown to be the deliberate inevitable evolution brought about by innation of no single writer but an unique conditions during a century. Tie book, in its wider aspects, is a history of American literature in its most distinctive and original areas. (Our short story writers, by Blanche Colton Williams. Popular criticism f modern authors. Useful for quick information and work. Dr. Williams Includes in her book biographies and Loncritiques of the following, Jack Alice don, "O Henry, R. W. Davis, Brown, Struthersi Burt, James B. George W. Cable, Dorothy Irwin S. Cobb, James B. Connolly. Margaret Deland, Edna Ferber, Mary Wilkins, Hamlin Garland. JoFannie Hurst, seph Hergeshheimer, Brander Matthews, Melville Davidson Post, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Wilber Daniel Steele,, Booth Tarkington, and Edith Wharton. The Pronunciation of Id, 000 Proper Names, by Mary Stuart Mackey, and is Co-be- ll, Can-fiel- d. DAUGHTERS OF PIONEERS HOLD REGULAR The Junior Class at the High School presented the following program at the weekly assembly which was held Thursday, jue to Friday the regular day and also annual Junior day being a holiday: piano duet, Reva McKinney and Ella May Barth-olamevocal solo, Ray Chatwin, play Reva McKinney and Howard Stevens; reading, Merilda Hudson, A Japen-es- e student at the B. Y, U. played Mrs. Garry Stevens left Sunday for Montana where she was called three native Instruments and also exby the serious illness of her daught- plained the native costume in which er, Mrs. Hosmer Webb. he appeared. A reception and welcome social was given in the Community Church Wedin honor nesday evening f Rev. James O. Arthur, the new pastor at the church who recently came here from Roseburg. Oregon. The succ essful affair was arranged by the ladies of the Social Tea and members of the Mens Club and all friends were invited. The entertainment included a program, lunch, and contest games. Ne-o- oranJatbs Recently, and at various times In the past, transients have solicited the men, representing themselves as, disabled veterans, k victims, etc. At no time should veterans extend aid without first taking up the matter with the officers of the American Legion. Veterans are urged to present clm for adjusted compensation or hospitalization as soon as possible, but to present such claims through the local post of the American Legion. In no case should the applicant permit a stranger to fill in his application blanks, and under no circumstances shojld he entrust his discharge papers or ether service records to any strangers. The local post of the American Legion can handle all cases involving veterans of the World War. The monthly officers meeting and social of the Second Ward primary was held Monday evening at the home of Mrs. Stella Forsey. file ieason was presented by Mrs. Forsey after which progressive keeno was played-MaybetReynolds was awarded the merit prize. Refreshments yer served by the hostess. The Sunday School officers and teachers and their partners from the nine wards of Nebo Stake participated in a very successful social in the Second Ward Amusement Hall Wednesday evening. It was arranged by the Sunday School Stake Board, Pay-so- n First and Second wards and and was the second in series of three similar affairs to be held Contest games during he winter. were played under the direction of L. W. Peterson followed with dancing Refreshments were served. mi -- - and - present Spr-ingla- ke hi The Missionary Tea wag held Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Mrs. E. G. Maryette Goodwin Mackey, Famous Emma G. Wickiser. T'Ographical and biographical names, Breeze read a paper on Korea, and r.imet of books, works of art, charac- Mrs. B. F. Ott led in devotional. ters in fiction, foreign titles. Planned Luncheon was served by the hostess help the large number of readers vhO often wander far. afield in the Mrs. Sid Coray entertained a numworW of books, and who know but ber of friends at a dinner party Monlittle Pf any language other than day evening. Baskets of red and their own. iNew and revised edition. white sweet peas formed an attractiThe Fatter, by Katharine Holland ve center peice on each table. Cards in were Frown, awarded the $25,000 prize placed for Mr. and Mrs. Laban Mr. and Mrs. M. Burdick, Mr. and the Woman's Home Companion-Jo- hn Father Mrs. Charles Cloward pay Novel Competition-T- he Jr., Mr. and (colorful period Mrs. Arza Page, Mr. and Mrs. John pictures vividly that the detroubled F. Oleson, Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Nelson in American history, cide before the Civil War. It pre- Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Street, Mrs. A. R. sents a new portrait of Lincoln, the Wlson, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Powell. unaware of Mr. and Mrs. R. W. McMuIlin, and struggling lawyer, still claim him. Mrs Clara the destiny that is to more Page. appeal-lin- g and Put more importantreveals a vital rethan this, it Mrs. Sargent Barnett was hostess and lationship The relation ofm father to the Sorsis Bridge Club last Thurs a shown deeply is here dauehter, Valentine decorations day evening. tender aspect. and favors were used. Special guests included Mrs. Fern Hales of Spanish NOTICE Fork. Mrs. Melba M. Cowan, Miss Rhea Wilson and Mrs. Ellen Barnett. meeting for all who are interest- Mrs. Cowan received the guest prize ed jn furthering the dairv inteWs and Mrs. Weston Bean the club prze I rf ou community and vicinity, will be In the basement of the Stake Mrs. Grover Montague entertained Tabernacle next Monday night at oclock p. m. Thero will he at a delightful afternoon function Her guests included Thursday. mi'eh of interest to business men as last the ladies of the Utopia Club. The of dairv products a producers season was suggest in the Please keen this meeting in mind valentine and menu. decorations be JR. PROM will'!he shell-shoc- The three Payton Camps, daughters of Utah Pioneers held their regular monthly meeting Jast Thursday Camp No. 1 met at the home of Mrs. Maud Carson Searle. She gave the history of her mother, Mrs. Jane Mathewson Memmett. A reading was given by Lorna Cowan and a song Mrs. Ann J. by Marie Ferguson. Loveless discussed Music in the eariy days of Payson, Camp No. 2 met gt the home of Mrs. Mary F. Brown with W1"8- - Yna Mrs. Done as the assisting hostess. Brown read the liistory of her grandmother, Mrs. Polly Brooks Fairbanks; Mrs Aurprg Nebeker gave a paper on Indian troubles in Payson. s Sego Lily Camp met dt.the home of Mrs. Annie L. Curtis, program included a reading by Miss Lor-en- e Daley; instrumental duet. Neva Pickering and Melva Curtis; discussion of The Oregon Trail, Mrs. Pearl Bigler; sketches from the early history pf Payson, Mrs. Aurora N. Wilson. ANNUAL On Friday, March 15, Payson Post The presentation of the light Elaborate preparations are comNo. 48 of the American Legion Bohemain Girl, by the opera four plete for the annual Junior Prom of of Payson in the Payson High School Class of hold its big Barnyard Carnival Dance tv,' Fndav and Sat 1930. The affair will be held tonight ernacle..,?.st in the Payson Pavilion. Heretofore urday a success. Hun- - (Friday) in the Junior High .Audithis carnival has been on of the big- dreds of music torium and lovers out- MEETING aid of local JUNIOR CLASS PRESENTS PROGRAM Funeral services were held in Sunday for Mrs. Thomas Smith, mother of Mrs. Page Peery of Payson. Mrs. Smith died in a Salt Lake hospital wehre she was taken early in the week for medical treatment. DISTINCT SUCCESS al-rn- lie REVEREND JAMES O. ARTHUR HONORED ON BIRTHDAY PREPARATIONS FOR from Payson gest local events of the year, but and the surrounding settlements were a real musical treat. Prof. C. this year, it will far surpass any given O. Nelson as director has devoted of the others. Special music, hun- weeks of intensive training to the dreds of dollars worth of prizes, and splendid chorus in addition to the time reouired in many new sfunts and features are perfecting the work of the principals. The chorus of being planned. seventy-fiv- e voices showed the result Post No. 48 has over six times the of their conscientous training in the membership it had last year and all really wonderful presentation of their are pledged to support its activities. numbers. On Commander James Clove is chair- Grade Friday afternoon all of the and Junior students were man of the Carnival committee, and nermittej to attendHigh the Matinee performance for committee members are Glen Cowan, the small admission Clifford Harris, Louis Bates, Roe Gro charge of five cents, The attendance was very good at brother, Garry Stevens of Payson, esbeck, Ben Roe and Dr. Frank B. both evening performances and 47 grandchildren and 28 Wheelwright are in charge of gr who attended on Friday nightmany returned for the following performance rargements. One of the enjoyable features was The body vu taken to Koosharem the splendid orchestra of fifteen pieserfuneral Tuesday afternoon and ces, including some of the best local t WAR VETERANS vices were held on Wednesday talent in addition to a number of musicians from B. Y. U. 11:00 A. M. under the direeton of ARE WARNED The woric of the the principals in the Claudin Funeral Home. 36-3- 3 women. $2.0,0 PER YEAR Compound Interest The GHFT That GROWS other gifts are used up and forgotten, ACCOUNT with the STATE BANK OF PAYSON will be growing more valuable day by day. Start an account with us for that young person whom you want to see encouraged in habits WHEN of thrift RiiiiiiaiMBiiiBBsaKaBiaaiiiaiHiiiiiiin every instance waa splendid. The leading roles by Mrs. Blanche Hansen and Freeman Bird were in a manner that was delightsung in every particular. The five year old girl. Aline, was cleverly portrayed in the first act by little Edith Powell who appeared with her nurse, a character part by Miss Elizabetth Simons The characteh of the father taken by Dean Wightman was excellent and all of his solo numbers were received with enthusiasm by the audience. Mrs. Iren Provstgaard was the Gypsy Queen and her lovely voice was greatly appreciated, Jack Zeeman supplied the comedy and George Barnett made a most imposing Gypsy chief. Mrs. Lucille Stowell as pianist did much of the arduous work over the entire period of preparation. To every person who took any part or assisted in any way to make this fine musical entertainment a success, much praise is due and it" is to be hoped that the community will have the pleasure of a similar offering at least once each year. promises to be the standing social event of the school year The decorations are unusual and very beautiful with a Japenese flower garden motive. Dale Wilson is the Junior Class president and Erma Wilson is Vera Pfeiffer is the chairman of the decoration committee and Roy Johnson is program committee chairman. Others on the decorating committee are Erma Hansen, Mildred Curtis, Melva Curtis, Lillian Hurst, Ann Clayson. The class advisors who are wording for the success of the affair includes Miss Virla Birrell, Miss Elsie John- son, Gene Hillman and R, D. McKell. The patrons include Mayor and Mrs. D. Stewart, President and Mrs. T. F. Tolhurst, Superintendant and Mrs. Melvin Wilson, Principal and Mrs. James Clove. COURT OF HONOR HELD BOY SCOUT A Boy Scout Court of Honor for Nebo District was held in the Ficst Ward Chapel Sunday evening under the direction of Dr. A. L. Curtis, chairman of the Court of honor. The program was arranged by Scoot Boyd Wilson and was as follows: piano solo, Helen Blair; reading, Edna Hill; violin solo, Lionel Montague, accompanied by Helen Blair; saxaphone solo, Fielding Harris; talk on scouting, Dr. Curtis; awarding of honors to the following bv Louis S. Bates, scout commissioner for Nebo District: Lynn Hurst, silver palm for Eagle Badge and Merit badge for farm home slanting; Milton Beck, Merit badges for pathflnding, scholarship and Metal work; Grant McClellan, star badge; Glen Mayer, star badge and Merit badges for handicraft, leathereraft and public health. Twenty Merits which were due were not awarded as scouts were not yat Ray Monsen of the registered. Court of honor was present. Announcement has been made of the birth of a soft to Mr. and Mrs. on Claybourne Wilson at their homeforUtah Avenue, Mrs. Wilson was son A Kinder. Under the direction of the finance merly Miss Emma bom last week to Mr. and Mrs. was nmmittee of the Cottas Chib a big Sam Bellows at their home in Lake Bridge and Rook card party is being Shore. Mrs Bellows was Miss Eleeta y , Drollinger. given in the I. O. O. F. Hall M. 2 P. at A patriotic program in honor of An invitation has been extended to and Lincoln was given Washington every lady who desires to attend and at the regular weekly assembly at tickets are being told by club mem- the High School last Friday, Presibers. They will be obtainable at the dent Lee R. Taylor was the speaker. door should anyone desiring to at- The remainder of the America; pray tend fail to secure one. In addition as follows: Singing, D. McKell; "The Flag without a, R. to the game the entertainment will Mrs Dorothy Feland; read-Evelyn include a high class musical pro- stain, ing in honor of Washington, pram and refreshments Kerr; reading in honor Anna Moore. Fawn Cowan; reading, Sat-qrda- PETEETNEET SCHOOL NOTES The Fifth Grade is studying South America ip geography. We are trying to find out: of what value is South America to us. In our music we have learned two, two part songs, and like them very much. In language we are writing to boys and girls of the hot zones, telling them about our winter sports. The Fourth and Fifth Grade room are reading stories that Longfellow wrote because his birthday comes this month. Marjorie Pone and Merl Lym Elmer have the front seats this week as a reward for getting 100 per cent Fridays spelling test The other fourth grade is studying about all the men who first explored the west, in history. We are working very hard this week. We are having District tests. On Thursday we are to have a program in our own room. One of our classmates, who left U3 in the fall has come back to school. The third grade is going to start studying how our homes are made. They have made pictures of Colonial people. The other third grade has been studying about George Washington They have dramatized two stories about him. We have studied about the flag and made flags. We have also made Colonial people. The second grade has finished the flower stand for the flower we received as a prize. We are making shields and flags of red, white and blue to decorate the room. We are studying the life of George Washington. CHURCH PRESBYTERIAN : SERVICES M. Bible School. Sunday, 10:00 A. A. 11:00 Morning Worship. Sunday, Midst. The Child In M. Theme:-Th- e And He called to Him a little of child, and set him in the midst unto you I them, and said. Verily say litExcept you turn, and become as enter wise no in shall tle children, ye Matinto the kingdom of heaven. thew 18:2-3- . Young Peoples Meeting. Sunday, :30 P. M. Topic: Why is Christianity The Only Adequate Religion. John 3:16. Acts 4:8-1Prayer Meeting. Tuesday, 7:30 P, M. Subject: Philippians: The Joy 2; Epistle. Rev. James i O. Arthur, 'Pastor. The Elders Quorum of the Payson First Ward gave a very enjoyable Tuesdancing party in the ward hall day evening. Lillian Huish, the eleven year old Hudaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Omar ish of Salt Lake died in a Salt Lake hospital Tuesday from spinal meninA. gitis. Mr. Huish is a brother of visited have K. Huish and the family frequently in Payson. In honor of Helen Bown, who has been ill land confined to her home since November, a group of her school mates arranged a surprise and spent a happy afternoon at the Bown home on Wednesday, Those participating were Aline Badham, Ruth Cox, Ruth Hill, Lois Powell, Betty Taylor. Jean Marie McKell, Leona Winne, Ada Butterfield, Blanche Daniels, Maxine Wilson, Dorothy Arrands and the guest of honor. |