Show 8 entertains GLY 01 OLD DESERET IDIES marysvale Marys vale utah dec dee 21 2 1929 dear mr beckwith your letter and clippings were re calved last evening thanks for each they were read with unusual pleas ure are again hived in old deseret and among amon my ol 01 old d time friends the ancient dam builders of the universe t f e there t any dam build ers in the universe who could corn com pete with them in loyalty to a pur pose and persistence in pursuit ot of an objective had there been a 1110 mountain buntain near the old did peace to its memory they would have moved it into nto the river then pa await the expected event when it would be swept downstream and the search for another mountain would begin also peace to the ashes and souls of those old timers who have passed on two ut of them were my parents now sleeping side by side in the des eret cemetery they that others might occupy they sowed that others might reap and while doing their best to redeem the seemingly most difficult part of the western desert they subsisted very largely on short rations of flour seasonal greasewood greens and sevier river suckers permit me to correct an impress ion of mrs 3 W damron expressed in one of the clippings regarding the name of the party who established the millard county blade it was chas goddard who made en effort to establish a string of co coun tries he couldn coulden t make the riffle rather NIAGARA FALLS that intervened bethen his expenses and success ha ile was on the eve of clos ing the enterprise when three mill ardiles two of deseret and one of kanosh walked into the web I 1 was caught while the others walked out I 1 tired fired goddard a printer for whiskey drinking and pool playing both contributing causes for neglect ing wik etc he ile went to fillmore orga organized nixed a company of real patriots and established the progress and left millard a first newspaper to make a lone hand tight fight tor for success mar kelly and belle hunt were employed and with slight instruction soon became proficient type setters each of those loyal little women yet occupy the very warmest corners in my heart and memory and always will after I 1 left deseret the old tiles files were nvere regarded as rubbish and destroyed and with them perished a weekly history of millard county dur ing the most interesting period of those early times this la is an effort to straighten the record yes as a labor of love tor for the old timers god bless their gray hairs and their descendants I 1 will make an effort to resurrect some demor les jes of the past tor for publication in the chronicle perhaps sometime during the coming january this in re to my request that he write me something of the old times F D B meantime A happy and prosper ous new year to all the people of the now delta environs very cordially J F gibbs editors note mr gibbs Is now in advanced age yet he retains a wonderful pen he was and Is the best most forceful most entertain ing writer who ever located in mill ird ard I 1 shall be very happy to get from his pen a contribution ringing of the old emles gone never to re turn I 1 have a special warmth for men who wear the gray badge of many winters faces seamed and cut by the hand of time ment who made history and wore out their ches making preparation tor for you and me may the old gentleman with the scythe not garner him with hg his tor for bears for many a season I 1 F B sr the boy scout picture show at the delta theatre last thursday night was well attended the boys gave a program between reels T but ler allred with a recitation iliff jet jef fery with song joined in by the chor us and dick bailey with a recitation the boys sold tickets and ushered ea that it waa was a boy scout night all ov er mr and mrs chas peppard came down from salt lake city to spend the week end with mra mrs peppard a grandparents mr and mrs J W underhill and to visit with friends they returned later tn in the week |