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Show Ilincklcy Mrs. riarriet Spendlov . Mrs. Rose Knight is at her home in Hinckley this week. She plans to sell it while she is here. If she does not sell it she will rent it She plans to live with her son Charles in Salt Lake permanently Mr. and Mrs. R. Swensen and children, Anna Lee and Lewis R and Mr. and Mrs. T. George Theobald Theo-bald returned home this week from a three weeks' trip through Idaho, Oregon, Washington, California and Nevada. As far as Seattle they toured in company with Grace Pace, assisting assist-ing her with the driving. They saw many wonderful sights the highlights which can be included in-cluded here. The first major point of interest was Twin Falls, Idaho, and they drove on the highway near the Lost River and saw the Thousand Springs, which is be -lieved to be the outlet for the Lost River. At Boise they visited with R.'s aunt, Mrs. Elizabeth and with Mr. and Mrs. Foren Edwards, formerly of Delta. They saw here the statue stat-ue of Frank Steinberger, the governor gov-ernor of Idaho who was asslnated in 1901. At- Caldwell, Idaho, they visited with Rulon Davis and his family, Rulon being Mrs. Theobald's son. A point of interest to them was the LDS chapel at Sunnyside, Wash ington, which is built to the same plan as the Sutherland chapel, which Mr. Theobald is supervising. The ferry here was wodden barges. As they went over the river the waters were high, near the point of flooding. The greatest fruit center which they saw was Yakima, Washington Washing-ton and the great grain fields of Western Idaho and Eastern Oregon Ore-gon were of interest to them. At Seattle they visited the glass factory and watched the making of jars and bottles. They also saw the locks here, the second largest in the world and saw a destroyer going through them. Friends and realtives whom they visited here were: Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Fuller, the former Ed-nes Ed-nes Theobald; and Mr. and Mrs. Bernell (Bud) Gronning and their family, twin -girls and two other girls; Mr. and Mrs. Freddy Gram-I Gram-I man. the former Jean Gronnine. At Longview they visited the largest saw mill in the world, as this is the great lumber district. Seaside, Oregon, was a place of interest to this group, and here they stopped to visit with Elder Duane Erickson of Sutherland, who was most happy to have relatives visit with him. At Astoria they saw the final point of the Lewis Clark expedition, expedit-ion, and the naval base there where there were hundreds of vessels ves-sels "in moth balls" so to speak. Here was a Spira Tower built by the Chamber of Commerce, which has pictures on it illustrating the history of Astoria and neighboring territory which one can see as they go to the top of this immense tower to-wer to view the area. Astoria is also a great fishing center, it being be-ing the spot where the Columbia River runs ir.o the ocean. They then went down through the Myrtle Burl district where the so-called "mystery tree' grows.This myrtlewood grows only in two spots in the whole world, one being be-ing in this section of Oregon and the other being the Holy Land. From there they travelled through the Redwood Drive along the coast to Petaluma, California, and here they visited with Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Jakes and their children, Ray, Jerry and Carolyn; Mrs. Jakes is the former Elma Theobald. The Marine Hospital and Golden Gold-en Gate Bridge attracted them at San Francisco. Here and in Oakland Oak-land they visited- with Mr. and Mrs. LaMar Works and Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Conrad. While in Reno they saw Mr. and Mrs. Leo Gardner, Mrs.- Gardner being the former Carrie Langston Theobald. They also saw Mr. and Mrs. Verl Theobald and family, Bessie Theobald Williams, Bill Garrett Gar-rett and Mrs. Joan Theobald Proctor Proc-tor and her son Tommy. Mr. and Mrs. George Shaw were hosts to the group at Ruth, and MCGill, Nevada, they stopped to see Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Cotterell and from there they journeyed home on Highway. |