Show STAhlE By LARRY STAHLE The human brain is a wonderful wonderful wonderful won won- thing It starts working the moment youre you're born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public A historic old prairie has finally found a permanent home Roy W. W Cox of Manti with the assistance of his son Wilbur Cox of Boston Mass undertook the huge project of restoring anold anold an anold old covered wagon which dated back to the famous Johnsons Johnson's Army era prior to the Civil War We Ve ran an article last fall inthe inthe in inthe the Messenger regarding the steps Roy had taken in order to restore the wagon box back into its original form The wagon box had to be completely reconstruct reconstruct- ed When they started the work it was hoped that the wagon could be housed in the new museum museum museum mu mu- seum area being constructed bythe by bythe bythe the Church on Temple Square As things turned out the museum did not materialize but instead an elegant new visitors visitor's visitors visitor's visitors visitor's tors tor's center which was furnished furnish furnish- ed with such things as paintings and statues This spring Mr and Mrs Harry Harry Harry Har Har- ry Hornung turned over a large collection of Anns Ann's dolls which she had made to the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers Museum in Salt Lake While they were there they noticed that the museum had some of the old conveyances of the state such as the first trolley car in Salt Lake Brigham Brigham Brigham Brig- Brig ham Youngs Young's carriage and many others but not an authentic prairie Mr Hornung remarked to tc Mrs Kate B B. B Carter national DUP president that he felt it was too bad that the collection of wagons did not contain a covered covered covered cov cov- ered wagon of the variety Mr Cox had restored This comment immediately caught Mrs Carters Carter's interest and she petitioned the board of directors of the DUP to give their permission to add the Manti Man Man- ti wagon to the museum which they did On Monday of last week Mr Cox and Mr Hornung took the wagon apart and loaded it on the Manti Lumber truck for its journey to Salt Lake early Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tues Tues- day morning Once the wagon arrived in Salt Lake Tuesday the two men set about putting it back together to together together to- to gether again in the basement of the museum which is located atthe at atthe atthe the head of Main Street in Salt Lake City So next time you have a few minutes while in Salt Lake drop into the museum and go to the basement and see the wagon which Roy and Wilbur along other members of the Cox family family family fam fam- ily donated for the future generations generations gen gen- orations to see An admirer came up to a senatorial candidate after I his s speech and said Congratulations That was a fine speech I like the straightforward way you VDU dodged those issues We as human beings have many funny traits among one oi of them being that we just loveto love loveto loveto to help keep a bit of news going going going go go- ing around the grapevine It is sometimes humorous to see what the original news is and how it turns out at the end A few examples examples examples ex ex- amples we have noted lately With the construction work atthe at al althe atthe the Manti ManU High School not yet yel completed Principal Winston Vinston Gleave Cleave casually mentioned the Continued on page six i 51 STAhLE AhLE Continued from page one possibility of perhaps delaying the opening of school one week Result Several days later a report report ret re re- t port was going around that the school board had definitely delayed delayed delayed de de- the opening of school for three weeks The front pages of past two weeks plus registration this week will help any anymore anymore anymore more rumors Several months ago someone called up and announced that a aI I certain individual in town had died and had been buried and we should hurry up and get on onI I the ball and get a story We WeI I called the family immediately to find out that the corpse was very much alive The one that I could never quite figure out occurred four years ago Shortly after we purchased purchased purchased pur pur- chased our lot to build a new home in Manti we were confronted confronted confronted con con- fronted by several Manti ManU citizens citizens citizens citi citi- zens who told us that they thought our idea of building anew a anew anew new home in Provo and then driving to work each day was a abit abit abit bit stupid We agreed If you look like your passport passport passport pass pass- port photograph you may not be well enough to travel Dynamic Maturity |