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Show Pink and Blue Peoa Group Tabes Extended Tear OAKLE- Y- of Pioneer Trails from Echo Area for oncoming 4 this and pioneers, was inch a 12 x7 12 gem a copy. In item for $5 going in was so it demand, some fact, would have given $25 for it- -if they'd had the money for the item which was at that point unavailable! You see, he sat down and figured the arithmetic for all these trail point stops from previous camps, from Winter Quarters and from Great Salt Lake City. Then he added explanations. Here are two exi grants Guide FEOA-T- he Gospel Doctrine class of Peoa Sunday School took 24-pa- the an extended lesson tour (after a luncheon in the Cultural Hall) of Pioneer Trails from Echo Canyon. In charge of the tour, Glen Walker and Moroni Marchant described why Echo Canyon was given its name, and then they proceeded to demonstrate how the peculiar formation of the rocks caused reverberations of sound back and forth until the original noise Anally diminished to nothing. (It was like Carbon 14 dating, casting off half its energy with each degree of change.) There is a soldier in every hole up in them rocks, complained Col.AlbertSidney Johnston's army in November of 1857, and it is easy to see why they thought so. The red amples: , ter- . croaching army watching from the boggy creekside. Johnston considered turning north, so that by outflanking the Echo Canyon defenses he could enter Great Salt Lake Valley via Bear River from the north. This move rejected, the whole command moved out for Fort Bridger. (They made Mormon History, by Day, pgs. Another point, now covered by the railway was Pulpit Rock. Weary immigrants had camped before that natural lecturn, upon which Brigham Young had put his Bible, and from which he had preached them a Sunday nt. her aspirins, and relieve her paining eyes We enjoyed the trip and we felt compassion and respect for our forebears. Only one note was jarring. That was that vandals had stolen four or five cast-bron- ze plaques, along the trail through East Canyon, places mounted on stone monuments by remembering and appreciative descendants. Come on, somebody, bring back the plaques and put them in placej because the Best of America should stay best! -- Lily Meldrum Marchant, pres. sermon. due course, the wagon had gone towards Devils Slide. Scouts had reported its impassibility, and. the group had started up East Canyon. William Clayton, besides being secretary to Brigham Young church property, steward, and official record keeper, was the mile accounter for his company. Well, after counting 360 revolutions of a wagon wheel for a number of miles, he together with Orson Pratt, devised a primitive odometer from which they recorded their distances. Not only that, but from his Journal Clayton prepared Em- - Hoy tsville News Roofing Supplies SHINGLES IS LB. FELT I I FELT I I I HYDRO-SEA- L I at UINTA LUMBER & HARDWARE Phone Coalville Kansas 336-22- 09 1 783-43- 52 . Shadrack Roundy, my grandfather, came onascoutingparty through Peoa, said Jesse Roundy Stevens . . . My right eye hurts very much and I didnt take my aspirins before 1 left. I cant take them now without water. said Mary Mar-chaSo someone found a can of root beer so she could take . NAILS Cache Cave and head of Echo Creek: altitude 6,070 feet (20 3 miles before Echo-L.Win34 miles; 965 milesfrom ter Quarters; 66 miles from Great Salt Lake Valley; Cave in the bluffs north.Several springs along the road, before you arrive here, and one a quarter of a mile south from the Cave. Plenty of grass, and a good place to camp. (Fourteenth Later Entry) Summit of mountain: Altitude 7,245 feet; distance, one mile; 1013 14 miles from Winter Quarters; 17 34 miles from Great Salt Lake Valley; the view from this height is utterly magnificent, but did the early travellers have strength to think that? 210-21- 1). 30 LB. Re- . men marched around and around one hill, changing coats, hats, and shirts to make themselves seem different and of a far greater than actual number to the en- In Points and M.); ritory, early Mormon train Prominent marks: conglomerate cliffs are weathered into innumerable caves. In defending their ge, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Rees and children, Renee and Jeff, made a trip to Lubbock, Texas last week to see their son, Kenny graduate from flight school at Reese Air Force Base nearby. The happy occasion was saddened when Renee was hit by a car and received a broken leg. This happened on August 2 which was Renees tenth birthday. Renee will have to remain in Texas for a couple of weeks and would probably enjoy hearing from some of her friends. Her address is: Renee Rees, Lt. Kenneth Rees, 309 Mitchell, Lubbock, Texas, 79416. Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Johnson and family of Arcadia, California visited this past week with his mother, Mrs. Ivan Crittenden. George (Bill) Gunn of Phoenix, Arizona visited around Hoytsville with friends and relatives this week while he was here to attend the double funeral of his brother and his brothers wife, Everett and Florence Gunn.. The big news for Oakley was the arrival of a brand new little daughter to Phil and Karen Lefler. She arrived at the LDS Hospital on August 3 and weighed 5 lb. 9 oz. and was 20 in. long. The wee miss will answer to the name of Wendy Lark Lefler. Proud grandparents are John and Joyce Mitchell and Ray and Maxine Lefler of Las Vegas. Great grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Ross Lefler, Kamas and Florence Mitchell of Marion. THE SUMMIT COUNTY BEE 4 father,' Paul Staples. . The Bernard Williams had their grandchildren Cathy and Jeffery Miller of Salt Lake for dinner on Saturday, then onSun-da- y their son and grandson Mark Williams of Salt Lake took them up to Holiday Park where they visited their old friends, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Pratt, Mr. and Mrs. Chester Pratt and the Bill Snow family. A real fun day. Linda Goss of Las Vegas is here visiting her sister, Ina Crandall. Cumorah Brinton attended a luncheon and shower Saturday at the University Club in Salt Lake in honor of Teresa Hicks. . Peoa News Leo and Carla Greenwood and Orlando and Coleen Crandall hosted their grandparents to a luscious outdoor fish fry. Owen and Margaret Wardell and Vera and LaVern Crandall were the lucky guests of honor. Mary Eldredge of Roosevelt and her daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Wiscombe of Provo were guests Sunday at the R. L. Crandall home. The David Kohnake family of Chicago have been here visiting Davids grandmother Edith Barmun. Brent ami Joyce Gibson of Salt Lake were also cal- lers. Sincere sympathy is extended the Barney France family on the death of Mrs. Frances Coalville, Utah Thursday, August 9, 1973 California. Eric and Dixie Everett and family have just returned from a fun vacation in Idaho and Wyom- ing visiting relatives and friends. ' Mr. and Mrs. Everett Prescott and family and grandma Marriott are vacationing in Alabama with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. A1 Shafer and ' Trancis Hews Grace Lemon and family at- tended the Hortin reunion in Sugar house Park onSunday, enjoying luscious food and visiting with folks. Jerry and Allie Woodard are back to make their home after living in Las Vegas. Welcome home. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Johnson and family from the Y Camp spent some time Sunday visiting with Alma Atkinson. LeAnn Hotsenbeck of Oakland, Calif., has been visiting here in town. She has gone to Wyoming to visit Ted and Ivy Hallam before returning to . children of Cottonwood, Idaho were house guests of Ralph and Erma Prescott. While here Erma planned a family reunion calling Inez Murry, the Roy Lewises in Salt Lake and Harold Giles of Heber. Dixie Davenport and son from North Carolina has been here visiting grandma and grandpa Prescott, Ralph and Erma. Ralph and Erma spent the weekend in Wyoming with Mary and Rex McDonald and Ann children. The average tornado in the United States wreaks its havoc along a path of about four miles, the National Geographic Society says. But in 1917, one twister left a trail of destruction for nearly 300 miles through Illinois and Indiana. |