| Show I Ma Mann Mant nil Woman Preserves Panr P Yesterdays Yesterday's newspaper usually usually usually ally finds rinds Itself in the Incinerator incinerator incinerator a h handy wrapping for potato peelings and carrot tops Sometimes It is saved and bundled up turns yellow with age in some old building or dusty attic Not so with Mrs N. N H H. H Elva Her bound volume of the 1856 issues of The Deseret News is a treasured treasured treasured treas treas- possession She likes to turn Its fading pages read a a. astory astory story here and there and share with friends the glimpses it gives of another day Its pages tell teU us so much of Utah's early days she she says It gives us pictures of a way of life that is fast vanishing even in memory Mrs says there is both humor and tragedy Inthe in inthe inthe the volume Theres also she claims inspiration And always there is human nature The News was weekly in 1856 It was published every Wednes day in according to its masthead masthead mast mast- head Great Salt Lake City It contained some local news but only a s smattering matterIng of national and international news It contained contained con con- editorials advice for farmers and for mothers whose babies had colic Jokes poetry and advertising The advertisements were Quaint by modern standards This one appeared in the Feb 18 issue over the name of JC Little Chief Engineer of ot Fire Dept G. G S S. S L L. L City All persons who have subscribed subscribed subscribed sub sub- scribed for the Fire Engine are requested to make immediate ImmedIate payment to me that I may be able to complete the arrangements arrangements ar arrangements ar- ar entered into In the absence of cash Wheat Grain and Store orders win will be received On the last page of the same issue appeared an article en entitled entitled entitled en- en titled Value of the Field Pea as a Renovator of Exhausted Soil Soli and the results about three months late of election The electoral votes of the 30 states were listed Buchanan won with votes California had cast its four votes for him Although New Yorks York's 35 votes went to Fremont his total was only Mrs acquired the volume in an unusual way for It was once in the personal library ry of President and Governor Governor Governor Gov Gov- Brigham Young r When her grandfather Richard Richard lUchard Rich Rich- ard Pickering and her mother Emily a girl of 14 came from England to Salt Lake City in 1867 as Latter-day Latter Saint converts converts converts con con- verts Pres Young befriended them He knew of Richard PickerIngs' PickerIngs Pickerings' Pickerings Picker Picker- ings' ings assistance to missionaries missionaries missionaries mission mission- aries in England and of his abil abilities lUes as an organizer and man man- ager Emily became the close friend of his daughters and Richard became the manager of Chases Chase's Mill Mm a flour mill that President Young owned in what is now Liberty Park After Emily married Christian Christian Chris Chris- tian Andersen and the young couple prepared to leave Salt Lake City in 1871 to make their home in Manti President President President dent Young called Emily Into his office Emily he said I sI 1 would like you to choose two books from my library as a keepsake keepsake keep keep- sake Maybe he thought E Emily mily would choose some of the leather leather- bound volumes of poetry or novels or even of theology theology theology theo theo- logy or history Instead she chose the 1856 and 1857 bound volumes of The Deseret News Along with the volumes President Young gave Emily a photograph of himself dignified cane in hand seated by a table And that Is how Emily's youngest daughter Elva came cameby cameby cameby by the 1856 edition and why it is still a treasured memento memento memento mem mem- ento of ot an earlier day in Utah r r rb rr b r f 1 I h y Mrs Nels Nets Elva of ManU Mantl is shown holding a keepsake given to her mother by Brigham Young |
