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Show Goes Distance Around World to Attend Church Would you believe that over in College ward we have a citizen who has travelled farther than the distance around the world in attending at-tending to what he considers his duty to his church? Well, we do, and we can show you just how it has been done. Hyrum Olsen, one of the prominent citizens of that ward, one who has been devoted to his church and ward activities, is an early settler of that district. He began travelling from his home in northwest College to the meeting house in the southern part of the ward, 40 years ago. The round trip is a distance of seven miles. In going to Sunday school, M.I.A. ward functions, it is conservative to say that he has made 100 trips a year. One hundred trips a' year - and 7 miles to the trip over a period of forty years gives us ' a simple mathematical problem.' Had Mr. Olsen been paid the per mile rate of five cents that., some of-- of-- ficials charge and had placed it to his bank savings, he would have $1400 in the bank to his credit, "even if it hadnt drawn a cents interest. The distance Mr. Olsen has to travelTb and from church is becoming be-coming a rather tiresome and tedious ted-ious task. He with other members of College ward will welcome the day when a new meeting house is erected in the section of the ward in which they reside. v . A |