Show OF THE PAST tn rn a new Magazine Fruit Garden Carden Gard Card en and Home there is it an interesting article about the birthplace of Old Glory and in reading about unsung heroes we are reminded of our oW own community and the old land marks mark that are being torn tom down to be r re replaced replaced re- re placed by new This nil ia is an age of ol substituting the old by the new in all cases casu 44 The old gray mare ia is being replaced replaced replaced re re- placed so reads a advertisement I noticed recently It is a singular fact that our unsung un ua sung heroes are our greatest bene bene- factors Common ordinary folks going about the days day's work with simple unaffected faith in the goodness good ness of life adding life adding their little deposit deposit de posit to the commonwealth as the coral insect living unsung dying unwept unwept un un- wept they are the real miles stones atones of th the worlds world's progress The writer of the article referred to in telling of his visit to an old cemetery in Philadelphia Phila delphia where the graves of some of our greatest Americans are speaks of the ashes there as being the wit and beauty the brawn and brain of I Revolutionary Philadelphia In looking over the over the graves in the Cedar City Cemetery we can say the same of those who were the wit and beauty the brawn and brain of their day My fy mind reverts back to when in listening il ad as a a child child to Aunt Sarah I and Uncle John Chatterley Uncle Uncle Un cle Will cle Will Corry and wife John Parry and wife The Coulett Cosslett Brothers Joe and Gome Come and many others other singing Make Home Beautiful and Uncle Dan Macfarlane being on tho the Program for the of July every year to sing All Hail flail All AU Hail nan the Twenty Fourth The Day of Pioneers Pioneers Pio Pio- etc or Just Fifty Years Ago ABO 04 H I The Old Social Hall lIall would be decorated with Holyoak and asparagus asparagus asparagus agus agus plumes and lInd the various committees committees committees com com- would try to out do each other in making the celebration a al success Unlike the Home of Betty i Ross which is being preserved but almost crowded out by large buildings build ings on either side making it appear appear ap pear like a doll house OUR oun heroes homes are are being torn down to be replaced by other large buildings as aa iu e in the case case of the old Home where the Leigh Furniture Store now stands which was a gathering gathering gath ering place for the old and young I Ifancy Ifancy Ifancy fancy I see the lion Hon Robert Heyborne Hey Hey- borne or Bro Francis Webster anxiously anxiously waiting for the mail mall to arrive and eagerly reading the news especially especially es es- es- es that o of the Legislature and th-c th report pi pE tf the wool growers growers' A AssiF And Ant 1 J Parry fatty arry pre preferring pre pre ferring to read the news paper paper- to joining in the fun that others m might be having We children would go thru cross lots Iota ov over r the stile to the Host Bost office Chatt to to steal a Vide Snide back home on the back backof backof backof of the stage coach dropping off at atthe atthe atthe the gate tile so driver would b be none the wiser Then I Isee see Aunt Ellen Lunt coming comingo o to hc he dO door f with n a message message message mes mes- sage for tor us-to us deliver dellver in a hurry as the party was waiting in the Telegraph Telegraph Tel Tel- Office in Salt Lake City for foran nn an answer Father would be busy with the stage horses or talking to seme some stranger who had come to look over over the possibilities of an R. R It It being built into this sector seeton They did Jid make their homes ful Cedar cannot boast of a u flower garden and hot house such as was to be found at the old Perry home on the corner which is known now as the Twin Pine House From the east cast gate to the door was a bower of roses on the south were roses and flowers of every description that would grow out doors and back backof of the house was a hot house where the more delicate plants and flowers grew in profusion Every Everyone one had lilacs and fruit trees in variety which have haYa not been replaced by new i ones pones to any great extent and the theold theold lold old ones having died for want of proper care caie or been cut down leaves a shortage of fruit trees hi in Cedar When the writer was a child our pr-I pr orchard orchard or or- chard was at its best There were winter and summer apples enough to I last the year round Jound Pears Cherries plums apricots English currants also wild currants in great quantities in various parts of or town What could be grown then could now if the same interest were taken in those things After nearly fifty years of talk about the R. R R. R being built the work has commenced and no doubt it will wi willbe willbe be as common place to the young children as the old stage coach was to us Let us ever be and cheerful like our heroes of the past and never tire in building both homes and characters for the benefit of future generations Perhaps at I I tunes times we fee leel that we are not lot ap appreciated I ap i that our oar efforts effort are aTe wasted as a. on the desert air In these moment let Jet us remember again agam the seamstress of Arch Street who never dropped a stitch in her I I lowly Jowly work ork but who whose e fingers lingers worked worked work work- ed on each d flay yf so also did our fathers and mothers in m the early days of Cedar City ALICE MAUDE L L. MATHESON w OV |