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Show west:;;;; ;,:.:ericana of U. Library UNIVERSITY S.L.C. Utah 9 OF UTAH UMMIES 4112 OCT SERIALS 14 1374 OROER DEPT i VOL. XII NO. 40 OCTOBER THURSDAY, 10, 1974 SMITHFIELD. UTAH 84335 Smithfield Celebrates 15th Birthday 1 . I ' Smithfield residents are in for a treat this week as their town celebrates its 115th Founder's Day. The festivities will begin at 6 p.m. with the formal initiation of the new tennis courts in Central Park. The major event will be a VIP tennis match featuring Mayor Oral Ballam and council-meRobert Chambers, Bud Low and Glen Oliverson. A highlight of the evening will be a return match of the champions from the 1920's. The original tennis courts were built in the spring of 1925 and were used as the base for the new courts. The ribbon cutting ceremony will be held at 6:30 p.m. and visitors are asked to enter from the park's south entrance on Center Street. A town meeting will be held at 7 p.m. in the Youth Center. Exhibits will also be on display from Summit School, done as an outgrowth of a Social Studies unit that the elementary school children have just completed on Smith field's history. Historical Smith field's Heritage Society will also have a small pioneer exhibit at the meeting. In the public library from 4 p.m. and also on Saturday the Historical Heritage Society will exhibit histories, old photographs, tapes made by the Society and a slide presentation on the community prepared by the Society. n, THIS BEAUTIFUL PIPE organ once stood in the Smithfield tabernacle, now the towns youth center in Central Park. When the building was remodeled to be used as the youth center the organ was disassembled and moved to the Smithfield 2nd Ward building. Photo courtesy Smithfield Historical Society Thursday at 3 p.m. a special guided tour will be conducted by members of the city council and of the historical society for Richard Sorenson, executive director of the Utah State Committee and Mel Smith, director of the State Historical Society. The same tour will be available for the public to take on Saturday Oct. 12. Tours will leave the Youth Center at Central Park between 1 and 4 p.m. The tours will include historical points of interest throughout the community. These tours will be conducted by members of the Historical Heritage Society. A tour of the modern points of interest will be conducted by past and present members of Smithfield city councils. A foot tour will also be conducted just around the city's Central Park area. It used to be known as the town square and contains many interest ing historical points itself. To culminate the two day's festivities a square dance will be held on the new tennis courts with Elbert H. Garce as caller. The events have been correlated by the Historical Heritage Society and the City Council. Members of the Historical Society's execu- tive board are Theoda Downs, chairman, Lawrence Cantwell, Milton C. Abrams, Joseph Timmons and Wanda G. Nielson. Scout Pow Wow Slated The annual Council Cub Scout leaders Pow Wow will be held Nov. 2 at North Park School. The meeting will last from I to 5 p.m. All Cub Scout leaders in the Cache Valley area are asked to attend. Need a Job? Here's a great opportunity for housewives, students, or retired folks to earn some extra folding money and do a valuable service for your community. The Citixen is looking for responsible peo ple in Richmond, Hyde Park;' and Cornish to spend a few hours a week writing the news of those communities. Its an easy part time job' with rewarding fringe bene0 to discuss fits. Call wages and job details. 563-590- Questions Answered in Cloumn . THIS INTERESTING shot was taken sometime between 1906 and 1919. The choir, composed of Smithfield Second Ward members, performed musicals throughout the Valley for years in order to raise money to buy the organ pictured above. They performed such classics as "The Captain of and The Mockingbird, "Dolly Varden, Plymouth, Mad Cap Princess." A full orchestra accompanied the group. The performers are: (left to right) Front, either side Kitty Tool son and Cora Ashton. First row- - Lucille Snowball, Maud Roskelley, Eva Kearl, Ruby H. Sorenson, Sarah McCracken (director), Ingra Toolson Hurren, Marion Richardson, Ethel Mathers, Lillian Low and Donna Capiar. Annie McCracken, Millie Dangerfield, Second row Agnes Thornley, Nora Kirkbride, Millie Nilson, Sarah Romney, Margaret Romney, Rinda Chambers, Julia Peterson, Margaret McQuarie and Birdie Downs. Iran Nilson, George Merrill, William Third row Cantwell, Gilbert Vaughn, Richard Roskelley, James Thornley, Lamont Pilkington, Richard Pilkington, Joe Watson and William Scrowther. Fourth row Oliver Nilson, Sylvester Low, Mary Smith, La Von McCann, Lydia Hansen, Bishop William L. Winn, Belle Purser, Nora Nilson, Ruby N. Hillyard, Wallace Winn and Arvel Griffiths (?). Herbert Saxton. Viner Griffiths, Lew Fifth row McCann, Wayne Smith, Martin Roskelley, Willis Smith, George Thornley, Osborn Low and Charles Collett. Photo courtesy Smithfield Historical Heritage Society Summit Creek: Lifeblood of Community The clear, pure water fed into Summit Creek from snow covered mountains to the east was probably the main incentive drawing early settlers into what is known today as Smithfield. The earliest settlers came in the spring of 1859 but were scared back to Maughan's Fort (Wellsville) by Indians. On October 10 of that same year Seth Langton, and Ro- bert and John Thornley came north from Salt Lake City looking for good farm land. They decided to move their families to what was then known as Summit, named for the creek that was the lifeblood of the nren The town site was surveyed in 1860, the blocks consisting of four lots of one acre each. , The settlers didn't lay out their town in fort lines as they had been advised to by Brigham Young, but on July 3 of 1860 they were forced into fort lines by Indian attacks and stayed that way for three years. John Glover Smith, was calk'd as the first bishop of the town in 1860 and it was in his honor that the town was named Smithfield. They brought wood from the nearby canyons, always traveling in companies to protect themselves against Indian attacks. They fashioned mostly one room cabins from rough logs, many of which can be seen as parts of homes in the city today. The hardships and endurance A these early Smith-fiel- d residents may certainly have inspired this year's Founder's Day and state theme, for they certainly did strive to improve the quality of their iives and of those to follow. Statistics show that in 1867 the town had a booming population of 676. By 1920 that figure was up to 2,708 but it dropped between that year and when the population of the community was 2,512. The latest census, taken in 1970, revealed a population of 3,342. For a more current figure a look at the water hookups shows in the town. 1145 hook-up- s This could be a fairly accurate estimate of the number of families in Smithfield, realizing that some homes may have more than one hook-u- p for outbuildings, etc. According to city records 50 new tappages are added in Smithfield every year. A possibility of 50 new homes a year, and the little creek Is still being described as the lifeblood of the community. 1960, Next week The Citizen will again feature The Mayor's Response, a column written by Mayor Oral Ballam of Smithfield, in response to questions raised concerning points of interest to local MEMBERS OF the Sky View High School Milk Quality and Dairy Foods judging team citizens. Next weeks topic will be the proposed mos- practice for the national FFA judging contest to be held in Kansas City, Mo. this month. Am alga; Rodney Munk, Benson; and Lyle Hoffman, quito abatement district with Pictured are: (Lto R) David Hansen, reference to the general Benson. election ballot proposition soon to be put before Cache Valley voters. If you have questions concerning any phase of Cache Valley life give us a call or address your question to The Cache Citizen, P.O. Box 846, Smithfield, and well see that your question is answered, either by Mayor Ballam, the mayor of your community, or some other knowledgeable person in that particular field. Sky View FFA Chapter Heads For Kansas City A total of School 16 Sky View High students will travel to nati last Saturday, and should arrive sometime this Kansas City, Mo. on Oct. 15 to participate in the National Future Farmers of America (FFA) judging contests and convention. The Sky View chapter is one of four schools in Utah to receive the national FFA chapter award. This high award is based on activities and awards won by the chapter during the year. Sky View will represent the state of Utah in three of the six national judging contests held Oct. 15 through 18. The Poultry, Milk Quality, and Dairy Foods and Dairy Cattle judging teams won this honor by winning the state contest at USU May 11 and 12. week. Construction Whitaker Co., operating out of Brigham City, has been in charge of the project and has completed all of the work excepting the installation of the pump and one connection in the line. "All the work left to be done could be completed in two days, Mayor Harrison said. The new sewer and lagoon are already completed, he said. This is the fourth consecutive year that Sky View has represented the state in the national contests. The school's Crops judging team also won first in the state and will represent the chapter at the convention and serve as delegates. Because of the wide variety of crops throughout the fifty states there is not a national crops contest. Sewer Nears Completion Lewiston residents can expect to have use of their new sewer system sometime in the immediate future. Mayor H. B. Harrison told the Citizen Monday that the pump meeded to complete the system had apparently been shipped out of Cincin- -' The judging teams consist of: Jeff Olsen, Michael Allen, Verdell Kidman, and Mark Falsev, Poultry; Grant Gordon, Roy Whiting, Terry Spackman and Bret Hillyard, Dairy Cattle; Lyle Hoffman, Rodney Munk, David Hansen, and Larry Payne, Milk Quality and Dairy Foods; Shane Munk, Kent Erickson, and Alan Rindlisbacher, Crops. In the national Poultry contest the boys will judge live birds for egg production, birds grade ready-to-coo- k according to USDA standards, grade eggs for interior and exterior quality, judge pullets for potential cottage cheese samples to be scored on flavor and odor, sediment pads to be scared on degree of sediment, cheese samples to be identified, milker head units scored on defects present and a written test on milk production and marketing. Curtis Maughan is one of four finalists in the nation for the agricultural Electrification Proficiency Award. He won the Pacific region which includes the western 14 states. Slides of his work in electrification will be shown at the national convention and he will receive a plaque and a 3250 award. Winston Larsen, Vocational Agriculture teacher at Sky production and breeder View and Irel Eppich, Vocabroiler females for breeding. tional Director for Cache The national Dairy Cattle School District, will accomcontests will consist of nine pany the boys to Kansas classes of four animals from City. the five major breeds of One of the highlights of the dairy cattle; Ayrshire, trip will be an address by Brown Swiss, Guernsey, Ho- President Ford. He will be lstein, and Jersey. Five of the accompanied by Earl Buts, classes will be cows and four Secretary of Agriculture. will be heifers, with the boys While in Kansas City the giving oral reasons to the group will have the opporjudge on one class of cows. tunity of attending the The national Milk Quality American Royal Livestock and Dairy Foods judging Show, the largest show of Its contest will include milk and kind in the world. |