Show FORMER RESIDENT EXPRESSES appreciation FOR WORK OF LOCAL D U P mrs airs niels 0 writes the fal lowing article to the readers of the parowan carowan times in which she tells of how happy she has been made by the restoration of the old rock church here and expresses her appreciation to the members of the daughters of the pioneers in this community for their efforts in having this work accomplished the entire article is as follows cowley wyoming feb 25 dear readers I 1 wish to express to you the daughters of the pioneers of paro wan through the columns of this paper my deepest appreciation for your wonderful efforts in restoring in a measure that wonderful old building the parowan carowan meeting house to me it has been and always will remain a place in my opinion that we older people revere for it was there that our earliest recollections take us 0 to o the wonderful entertainments where such men as edward dalton william C mcgregor joseph fish and alexander orton and such women as josephine smith jane west hulda dalton and lizzie benson of the old dramatic group gave us the thrill of our lives in the old plays of yesterday it was in this building that we all received our religious training tra inina some years ago I 1 had occasion to visit P carowan parowan and I 1 went to the building and could hardly b believe my eyes to see sec what utter n neglect and vandalism had done to it and at the time I 1 expressed myself that way just today we received a parowan carowan times in which there was a picture of the building as it now is from the outside and the thoughts though ts ran through my mind all these memories of my childhood how dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood to me ev ery stone in that building speaks telling of the untiring efforts of our fathers and mothers who had so little and gave so much of their time and means that we their children might have a few comforts I 1 am writing this little piece jn in hopes that the organization of the daughters of the pioneers will continue the good work which has been started and make this building one of the outstanding monuments to the pioneers of parowan carowan Pa rowan As one who spent all my early life in parowan carowan until we moved to wyoming in 1900 1 I appreciate these things very much as I 1 have never lost sight of the happenings bt my early life in parowan carowan Pa rowan sincerely mrs N 0 cn cowley wyo |