| Show 4 S F a f. f c f f i y r 1 4 1 i r i r S Sr s h 4 r r years of continuous service will be completed by the Bountiful 1 1st st and ward chapel on March 14 of this L bountiful Chu c Nears Centennial They had been in the valley only about nine and one half years Ian l Many sweating toiling hours each day were spent trying tring to grow grain for lor food make clothing build houses houses- just live Now they all men women and children were going to erect a large church in the center of Bountiful ful CuI even though some of them year A century ago on that date it was dedicated If still lived in dugouts in the ground themselves BUILDING materials were were only what they ther could f find d nearby nearby nearby near near- near near- by or with with some labor labor- nake themselves s. s Wagons lumbered into the foothills for lor rock to bui build d the foundation of ot stone six feet thick at the base and nine rune feet high with seven stone pillars four and one half feet square through the center of the basement basement basement base base- ment to support the floor Ioor FOR TilE THE three foot thick wall construction they ambled to the Ule west about two miles where they found abundant quantities ot of clay Mixing it with hay har they made adobe for a period of three years The walls had been raised to the square and supplies of wood cut from Meetinghouse Hollow in Holbrooks Canyon Canon for the roof when Johnsons Johnson's army neared the valley alley The wood was given to residents of the city to make wagons and containers for their goods so the they could leave the city WIZEN WHEN TH THEY Y returned some sometime some sometime time later they started making furniture Cw for lor the interior with the workers being paid in produce produce produce pro pro- duce for their labors It was a large building cv even n by today's standards 56 standards 86 86 by 44 feet feeL The work dragged on over overa a period of five years yeal's during which Brigham Young was a frequent visitor to see sec how the work was progressing He was especially interested in the painting of Joseph Smith which he had commissioned TO FURTHER speed the work he called Anson Call on ona Ona a mission in 1862 to get the building completed This was accomplished the dedication was held on March l 14 H 1863 Ground breaking took place on February 12 1857 The day of or dedication was one the they had lang awaited during those arduous six years ealS The I Farmington armington brass band at attended tended along with man many m a n y church authorities AT 10 ON THAT See CHURCH on pa page c J 1 f Church Continued from page tine due morning Brigham Young called caned call can ed cd the meeting to order Dedicatory Dedicatory Dedi Dedi- calory prayer was given by Heber C C. C Kimball Many Diany other authorities spoke during the two days of services In the closing session Brigham Brigham Brigham Brig Brig- ham Young urged all to cometo come Conte cometo to meeting for parents to bring their children and to keep them together with them in the meeting and to keep them in good company so they would be bc an honor to their parents TO EULOGIZE TilE THE continuous con use of the building First Ward members will hold honoring services during all of Di 1 March z arc r c b. b l. l Sacrament meetings will include special programs And two other meetings will ill portray the event in a and more serious vein I The serious evening will bo be 1 held on ori the exact date dale of the dedicatory meeting March 14 with one of the Uie general authorities authorities authorities author author- as speaker A CONTEST IS also being sponsored asking ward members mem mein bees bers to think about what meet meet- meeting meeting ing in one of the oldest churches in the Church of or Jesus Jesus Jesus Je Je- sus Christ of Latter-day Latter Saints still in use means to them Prizes will be awarded for the best Short items accenting highlights of the buildings building's history history his his- tory are being given in Sunday meetings |
