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Show I School Teachers Hold Fifty Year (Reunion; Enjoy Various Activities Sugar Factory House. They also recalled that their salaries wore $50 per month, and that at one time they were asked to proofread a delinquent tax notice for publisher Frank Beckwith and discovered when they were paid that they were making more there than at teaching. Vivid in their memories was the coal shortage of the winter of 1919 and 1920 when they brought coal to their housing unit by the bucketful and accepted ac-cepted coal from citizens who were able to share with them. They recalled particularly one trip through heavy snow three blocks to bring coal to their home in a child's little red wagon. A bitter memory was the flu epidemic of 1918 at which time the school was changed: A reunion of Delta school teachers who taught together and lived together in 1917 through 1921, was held at the home of Mrs. Evelyn P. Webster Web-ster this past week 50 years later. It is the second reunion of the group of seven teachers, their friends and husbands, and among other events which they participated in was attendance at-tendance at the opening performances per-formances of each of the three Utah Shakespearean Festival plays. Included in the group were Lola Peterson Lisonbe0 Gal-braith Gal-braith of Salt Lake City, who was instrumental in bringing the group together last year for a reunion; Eliza Haight Jones, Overton, Nev.; Helen Gottfredson Tozer, Anaheim, Calif.; Cleo Pierce Heavener, Springville; Muriel Erickson first into a hospital and later into a mortuary to care for those who suffered death dur-ir dur-ir g the ordeal. The teachers were a musical mus-ical group and entertained throughout the three year period per-iod they were together. They served as accompanists and formed a quartet which was called on numerous times for special programs and events. Plans were formulated for another meeting next year and the group will keep in touch with a series of interesting interest-ing "round robin" letters. The activities, correspondence, and reunions have served to keep the group "as close as blood relatives," one remarked. Welton, Fresno, Calif.; Maude Smith Holladay, Santaquin; and Mrs. Webster of Cedar City. Husbands in attendance included in-cluded Ray Tozer, Oliver Welton, Wel-ton, Wallace Jones, and M. Jeffery Galbraith. Joining the group also were Mrs. Orena Law Gottfredson of Caliente, Nev., a sister-in-law of Mrs. Tozer, and Mrs. Loreon Haight Bliss, a sister of Mrs. Jones. In addition to attendance at the festival activities, Mrs. Webster hosted the group at a dinner at her home, they enjoyed a luncheon at Cedar Breaks Lodge, and a tea for all Delta City friends now residing in Cedar City was also held. The group of school teachers reminisced about times in Delta Del-ta between 1917 and 1921. They lived, at various times, at the Bluebird Cottage, the Brown House, and at one time in the |
