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Show Iogons First Tailor Enjoys M Best of Health IH Olof Hansen, Eighty-three Years of ;fl Age, Has a Most Interesting Career U $rved;'Ternt in Prison in His Na- il ii&kand For His Religious Belief. " H Olof Hanaohploher of 1863 -now 83 years of ago; whs the first tailor of Logan. Tailoring fifty yeao, ago1 was not what it Is today, and ho.-.ce his establishment was of a different sort from Unite. In Logan today .. 3d even though thoy bo. Tho following brief account ot this pioneer tailor's Swedish anil Utah life will undoubtedly undoubt-edly bo of Interest to every reader of tho Logan Republican wfio Is thankful to the men who have made Caclio county what It I When Olof Hansen whs thrown In prison because ho had assumed tho duties of n priest without having urn-cured urn-cured tho iiiro:er license, the little Swedish town of Holmcred was shock ed, ucyonu anyimng sinco ;.ic greni. earthquake romo years before, 'm see that was In tho early fifties, when religious tolerntlon wns not n prominent prom-inent virtue In any foreign land. Sweden Swe-den waB a strict Lutheran country and teachings of any other denopilnatlon wero strictly censored. Even today, as we all know, the one qimllficatlah that the klnn pi that country must have is that he. be a Lutheran Of course, Olof Hansen was not aspiring to the kingship;, but ho did wish to wbrshlpthe new, religion, that he had .embraced, and that meiht that he tell others of, the good things that it offered? J This soon took the form of preacfylng, and, as wo noted, ho was castplnto prison. 5-Tho da of e trial camo and ho pleaded guilty to the horrid offense tl of opening his bouse as a place of tH worship for a, religion that waa abhor- IH -red to a good Lutheran priest, yea IH ho was a good priest as Olof will v H tell you., Tho Judgo addressed the p'rl8ono'r and was allowed to answer JH directly In person, wh',ch was show- H lng him great. honor and Immensely B Interesting to nil except tho priest, H who, before addressing tho Judge was forced to ijratieak to the marshal, ' H who coniuiunlpated the messago to H his honor. TltW mado tho convert H bold, and lio.fqrthwlth explained tfio H fundnmenfnYjrv'o'f'tho new creed to tho H whole court room. Tho priest, at- H tempting to answer, was so mucn H confused that ho finally rotlrcd. This was a wonder to tho Judge who asked lill how ono who wns so well read in Bl tho Dlblo could ever take it upon Sl himself to leave the established fl church. Tho answer came in the , H form 'of more quotations from the H good book, and the Judge finally atop- .. H ped all by Imposing a fine of fifty H crowns ind a p.eavjvU'entu:o- ' 'H Now It happened that the priest,, H Who waa af'thfl'trUl,. was one who had his quarters m the Jail. Our lH frend Olof soon met hlm,vthereforo, IH again,' and for days they had friend,- H ly and Christian talks' together. Tha. ,H last tlmo that'they met, the Luther- an swore that he would nover again H (Continued, on paga flvel H SOCIAL FUNCTIONS AT SMITHFIELD (Comtlnued from page oat) , 'driving a fractious horse. Tho anl-mal anl-mal ran away, over turned the rig and threw Mr. Sant out on his head. 'His 'face wha badly cut and bruised 'anyone leg badly hurt. It Is thought, his Injuries will not prove at all serious. We notice that one of, our town jboys, Mr. Wallace Cragun; was tho musical director of ,tho Farmington choir In, tho Dvlij', county musical, contest this week. His town people carried oft five prizes out of the seven offered. . r Miss- Nellie 'Pilgrim and Jesse Pitcher Pit-cher have,,, Installed, , telephones, .In their homes this week. Mr. Wnlter Randall of Long Beach was calling on his friends here on Wednesday evening. Messrs Robert Griffith and, Bert, Danford shipped a car of tho finest, cars ever seen hero t,o Bolsq on. Wednesday. Funeral services wcre'held on Wednesday Wed-nesday In the First ward tabernacle over tho remains of Mr. Eugene Clay-pool, Clay-pool, brother to our townsman William Wil-liam Oi Cltiypool. The'deceased came here last October from California suffering from consumption. He has ' ' ( t j ift jj been bedfast the past two months so death came as a relief to" tho suffer-' er. Consoling remarks were made at the services by Sylvester Low'BlsV- op Miles and Joseph J. Richardson, a wlfo arid ttfif sonsarc left. Miss Rachel Noble has been very III of appendicitis tho past week. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Miles aro comfortably located' In tho Miles block andMY. and Mrs. William I. Anderson are located in Dr. Merrills old residence. Mr. andifs. Franlc Hill aro the proud parents of a glVlbaby. This Istho first visit tho' stork' has made to tilts home since about eight years, ago. Sunday School conference will be held In the Second ward on April 12. ' Bishop 'Winn has received word that' ho can sell part of tho tithing office property. This property Is vnl-uable.Jocated vnl-uable.Jocated on Main street, so will be'asultnble location for business enterprises. en-terprises. Miss Sarah Romney went to Salt Lakq.thls morning to spend a month visiting friends. Thomas Craighead Is seriously 111 at this writing. Mary, the little daughter of Mr. and" Mrs. Moses, Is suffering from croup and Mrs, Llzzlo Raymond Is I. Tw on the sick list,., , . i,. -'j ' ' " Jj'I --yV i N . ' ' ' ?"' Mr. Stork deposited an eleven and 1 IJW.f W J'j , ' II, !)" . a half pound girl at tho home of Mr. V VJf ' . and Mrs. Carl Holjeson on Thursday" night |