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Show THURSDAY. DEC 20. 1973 - THE CITIZEN - 11 North Cache Chronicles by A. J.Simmonds PART TWO Settlement on Summit Creek ( The first members of the Wright party reached Summit. On May 11- they started to Creek on the evening of May 7, plow. Apparently discouraged 1859, after a hard days drive by the rocky soil, some families from Logan River. The rest, left the next day to return to probably the horse-draw- n wagons, did not arrive until the next day their travel delayed because of the marshy ground along the present route of US Highway 91. Their camp was established on the south bank of Summit Creek, near the present inter- section of Center Street and Fourth West just south of the Smithfield ball park. On May 9,. 1859, John P. Wright, with oily a compass and a carpenters j rule, began a crude survey of. farm and town site and a small ditch was dug from Summit Creek to irrigate the lots. Canal construction was a simple thing. John F. Wright plowed a furrow along the canals course, and the other settlers deepened and widened the furrow with picks and shovels. . - Providence and Wellsville. The loss of settlers meant, that the farm survey had to be constricted and some of the new fields along the creek abandoned. The new settlement was beginning to take shape on May 25, when an express rider arrived from Peter Maughan warning of impending Indian troubles and urging the settlers to withdraw to Maughans Fort. John F. Wright later recalled the evacuation: . . . a man came from 1 . Wellsville with a note from Peter Maughan that the Indians were about to make a raid, and instructing us to quietly gather our stock in the cottonwoods, and prepare to leave for Wellsville as soon as it got dark. We did as instructed and returned to Wellsville during Trenton Trippings Smithfield by Carolee Beckstead Mrs. E. W. Bingham annouc-e- s the birth of her thirty-nint- h d a to Vivian born and daughter of Twin Falls. Evan Sorenson Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Allred of Dietrich, Idaho, and Glen Sorenson of Castle-forIdaho. great-grandchil- d, five-poun- d, Lu Lott, Nola Griffin, Melva Cottle, Norma Reeder and Ethel Rawlins presented a Christmas cantata at the Weston LDS. Ward. Primary party Wednesday. Ms. Rawlins spoke the dialogue, accompanied, by Mrs. Reeder at the piano. .The same group sang the cantata again at the Logan Elks Lodge on Thursday for an audience of retired people. ' Daughters of Utah Pioneers. Mrs. Joseph E. Atkinson gave a Christmas party Sunday afternoon for her brother and sisters and their families. Dinner was served to Mrs. Ken Lamb and her son Kim of Logan, Janet Powers and her two children, Mr. and Mrs. Dean Phillips and their son Larry of Preston, Belva Skinner, Patty Skinner, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Skinner and their two children,. Kathy Blanchard and her child of Logan, and to Mr. and Mrs. Ross Buttars and their son Dennis of Clarkston. body-buildin- After spending the summer and autumn at Twin Falls, Johnny C. Andrew is home - ef1 Littledike, Lorraine Hansen,' Faye Anderson, Althea . ET We wish to i very Merry Christmas and New Year. PRESTON'S AUTO DODY PAINT & GLASS SMITHFIELD Fors-gre- n and Vesta Hansen. Vesta Hansen enjoyed a bus trip to Ogden recently, to visit' her daughter and Colleen and Richard Jensen. She also attended a Christmas concert at Weber State College, in which the Jensens' daughter Caroline was piano accompanist. Caroline also sings in the college choir. About a hundred women had a good time at the Sixth LDS Ward Christmas party Thursday. The bishopric were guests. A program was presented under the direction of Glenna Payne. There was a duet by Gail Taylor son-ih-la- . thank you for your pa- tronage during the past year and to express our warmest wishes for a by Evelene Moody SMITHFIELD Portlanders Stella and Milford Chase, with their daughter Laurie Jo, are visiting his parents, Zula and Nephi Chase, for the Christmas holidays. Lucille Chase of Millville is also spending the holidays with her parents. The LDS Relief Society held their homemaking day Wednesday under the direction of President Helen Chambers. The g prolesson, on was teins', given by educational counselor Janet . Rich. Crafts were demonstrated, as follows: mailboxes by Peggy Stewart, teddy-bear- s for tree decorations Lorraine by Hoyt, homemade candy and Mother Goose popcorn by Vera Pinson, Swedish tarts by Janet Rich, and Swiss bread by Cleo Stettler of Logan. Luncheon was served by chairman Marjorie Hullinger, assisted by Aleen Facer, Bonne Mrs. Elbert Himes. Guests were the board members of the North. Cache chapter of the Mrs. Joseph E. Atkinson attended a luncheon in- Logan visiting his mother, Helena Thursday at the residence of Andrew. . Marshall Hunt, Ira Merrill, .Robert Langton and Mrs. Thothe night. The next day John and ox yokes. John Edwards mas Walmesley. The village Nelson and I returned to also found, still yoked together, had also been named. NovemSummit to get two yoke of cattle the bones of a pair of oxen. ber 28, 2859, Apostles Orson .. that we had left.' We his in a Hyde and E. T. Benson wrote to That fall, Seth Langton and the editor of the Deseret hollow all day and in the News, Robert and John Thomley from The settlement on Summit evening found the cattle and drove them to Wellsville during Salt Lake scouted Cache Valley Creek, six miles north of Logan for a place to settle. On October we named Smithfield. the night. 10, 1859, they camped at the The men left their families at Summit farms of the Logan In Cache Valley we are far too Wellsville and returned to settlers. They quickly negotiatSummit to finish putting in the ed for the sale of the garden and apt to think of Wellsvjlle as the crops. On June 6 they returned farm plots belonging to Logan, mother settlement. At least in as far as Logan River where spent a month building a log this instance it is erroneous, house and cutting wild hay. because Smithfield certainly they decided to settle. While their built their houses After a quick trip to Salt Lake gave birth to Logan. It would be in Logan,, they continued all. City to retrieve their families interesting to know if, in the summer to go in small parties (and enable Robert Thornley to grinding toil of digging the to Summit Creek to tend their get married) they returned to Logan canals around the bluffs crops. Apparently it was a good Summit and moved into the of Temple Hill, any of those settlers who left Summit Creek year, for Morgan Samuel Evans cabin on December 1, 1859. in the darkness of May 25, 1859, acres four at planting reported Other families had mean- had cause to regret that flight. Summit and .harvesting 111 while settled at Summit; and bushels of wheat a phenomenal yield for 1859. It was during eleven families spent the winter Next week we look at that the summer, while tending their of 1859-6- 0 in the new town: Seth fields and gardens, that the Langton, Robert Thornley, John most prominent topic in the settlers found an old cache and Thornley, John G. Smith, Dud- Valley at' this time of year:. dug up a number of log chains ley Merrill, Virgil Merrill, North Cache Winters. w, Sixth Ward of Smithfield; and Toral Erickson of Scottsdale. Arizona. Mr. Yearsley, a carpenter by trade, states that the family wished to locate near an LDS temple, to serve a church mission which they have been called to do, and demonstration instructor for to be near their children. Louise Young gave demonstrations of holiday foods and Yuletide buffet dishes to about 2500 women these past two months in Brigham City, and Cache Valley, for a total of 24 shows.' She is Tre-monto- n, Mountain Fuel Supply Company, and homemaking instructor at Smithfield 6th LDS Myrle and Joseph Timmins and their son Garth, along with Ward. In LDS religious services Sunday, under the direction of Bishop Donald Williams, the Gloria and Ralph Holt family gave speeches on Christmas and Happiness. Children par- the Timmins son-in-la- w, daughter and Lois and John Sor- ensen and their daughter Joanna, drove to Sacramento to visit another daughter and Mary Alice and Sergeant ticipating were Nancy, Ned, Larry Cook, and their sons Hugh, Niel and Marjt Holt. The Larry, Jr.'and Jonathan. Holts are relative newcomers Sergeant Cook is stationed at Mather Air Force Base. The to Smithfield. Also in these services, Milford party was gone five days, Chase played Divine Redeem- during which time there was a er at the. organ. He birthday party for Larry, Jr. He was five years old. the choir, which son-in-la- w, . also-accompanie- d was under the direction of lone Dailey. . After church,' an 'lesson for the Relief Society, led by Janet Rich, and assisted by Judy Roe, was presented to twelve women. Their topic was Types of Teaching. visited her Faye Ina siter and .brother-in-laand William L. Bennett, in ilo-kell- ey w, Preston on Saturday. On December 23 at 4:30 p.m. the Smithfield 6th LDS Ward Choir, under the direction of lone Dailey, will give a Christmas program. Christmas thoughts will be. spoken by the youth of the ward. The program will be at the stake center, 189 North 1st East Street. Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Moody enjoyed a drive to Pocatello Tuesday to visit Lamont Harris, Mavis Kirkman, Rose Cook, and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Leh- and Edna Berg, who sang Secret of Christmas, accompanied by Jeanette Clark. Kathleen Chambers read a man. On Saturday the Moodys poem, Willie and. Annies called on Mr. and Mrs. Allred in Prayer, after which Carolyn Garland, and Sandy Harris in Timothy played .Christmas Tremonton. The Harrises will Rhapsodies at the piano. The leave soon on a move to the Singing Mothers then sang East. three compositions under the direction of Leola Elwood, Myrtle and Lewis Clawson accompanied by Jeanette are newly located at 61 North d Clark: Rudolph the 44 Street, having formerly Reindeer,'. Far, Far Away on resided. at Huntington, New Judeas Plain, and Come to Mexico. They are the parents the Stable.; A planned potluck of four married daughters r supper was enjoyed by all, after Betty Rose of Farmington, New which Santa Claus arrived with Mexico; Mrs! Frederick (Edna) a gift for each guest. Berg and Lorraine Tillison, both . ...and from all of us to all of youv the best of the holiday season. Thank you for your patronage. i Red-nose- FANTASY HAIR FASHIQN y.t (.V RICHMOND., .,,, . |