Show '? mi t nrr rrr rvrfrmrrri r re rrrrf r irrr? SPOTTER SPARKS A NEIGHBORHOOD CLASH Clair Viyasx stood in Paradise comer street Twelve-year-olmorning long ago waiting through one more dawn for a farmer to hire him to harvest the fields for what little pay he could command lie d pick anything: potatoes beans berries An entire day’s labor once netted him a case of raspberries a sore back and 15 cents Today his hands would knead the dirt for potatoes on the w est side of Paradise The morning went smoothly and lunch break left him enough time to slip over to his grandmother's house for a teal meal served w ith a healthy dose of grandmotherly pampering But tcvlay the pampering w ould never come When he told his grandmother wliere he had been working that morning she stiffened all of a sudden “Something wry bad happened there and DON'T ask me any questions atvet it eitherf Well Clair Wyatt now a retired resident of Providence has been asking question ever since that day more than 50 yean ago The secret in his family's history is out of the closet and it’s not so shocking after all In fact the "very had story about the great grandfather on his mother's side Chariton Marcellis Golds-berhas become a new great odyssey that ties Kxh sides of his family together d IDS Church Fast Counselor George now presumed that die move was an effioetto escape foreed enlistment in die Union anny which was in die midst of Civil War fighting Goldsbeny wws not a Mormon at the time of the trip although he joined the IDS Church in Salt Lake City presumably to satisfy the family of the wvmn he wvuld many Nancy Wvattsavsnow Laura Bodtand The Goldsbeny? moved to Millville in VOTER REGISTRATION OFFICER 1 $71 and found their w ay to Paradise by 1SS3 CM Goldsbeny eventually went The tale of Chariton Marerlhs Golds-ben- y — CM Goldsbeny to those who to work for the federal government which at the time was in the midst of knew him — is a story of neightortkxd on Mormoa federal arresting and jailing Mormon pohga-pressure tetrayak mits and that's where his troubles lifoay les and an untimely perhaps began He wws appointed a deputy regis-C M Goldsbeny left Missoni in 1&62 tration officer for the Pan&e prednct duties due garnered him S3 per day in at age 22 to join a handcart company o heading across the plains Ctahlt is ry aaa-dentaLdc- Page 20 - Photo oourtny of USUSpacMCotoceon a Cannon ate among othwr priaonara tiM lor polygamy His primary responsibility was to reg- ister qualified voters— "disqualified" in these rime being anyone more than one spouse His secondary responsibilities however put him more in direct conflict with the Mormon Chureh and the community to which he belonged Registrars wtk expected to be “spot-ten" informants for die federal marshals about die presence of polygamists These were traumatic times far some families Wives were subpoenaed to testify against husbands: children were forced to point fingers at parents and upstanding community members were anested and sent to prison for adhering to die precepts of their faith Goklstary eventually w as anti-Morm- on See COLDSBERRY tm pa$e 22 sec ondary His responsibilities put him more in direct conflict with the Mormon Church and the community to which he belonged |