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Show ' A:AS A . AAA.. - " xAA V't , 3 i - . ' - -.- - . F " ' l - ' ?! - : , - ' ? ' , .-('.'. -. . j , -.'3 r . ' '. . - J t - ' V v " ' I FINALLY GETS HELP After gardening by hand for many years, William M. Hone, 97, finally gets a motorized tiller. William M. Hone to Be Honored Sunday, 97 Years of Age William M. Hone will be 97 on Nov. 4 of this year. He has spent his entire life as a beekkeeper, a fruit farmer farm-er and a garden farmer. He has planted and raised a vegetable veg-etable garden every year. At the age of 95 he decided he was too old to farm by hand using a hand plow and shovel. He purchased a roto tiller to help him with his garden. He used the tiller to assist him in getting the ground ready for planting. Every day you could see him in his garden, working to keep the weeds out. He was the first one to see a weed when it poked up through the soil, and out it would come before anyone else realized it was there. Whenever he felt he could use the tiller to make his work lighter, he would start it up and push it through his garden. ' Mr. Hone is a small man, and the tiller is nearly as big as he is. This didn't stop him from using it, and having the best looking garden in town. He raised peas, turnips, onions, cabbage, tomatoes, carrots and potatoes. He always harvested Ms vegetables on time and nothing went to waste. He was very generous and shared all his produce with anyone who wanted some. This past summer he walked back and forth between the peach orchard and the house and would pick two large buckets buc-kets of peaches, carry them to the house and bottle them. He picked and carried and bottled 179 quarts of peaches all by himself. Mr. Hone was born Nov. 4, 1874 in Benjamin, Utah a son of Geeorge and Jane Mills Hone. He married Adeline Richardson Sept. 11, 1907 in the Salt Lake Temple. They made their first home in Benjamin before moving to Pleasant Grove in 1909. They celebrated their golden wedding in 1951. His wife died April 19, 1958. Mr. Hone has always been active in the LDS Church. He is a High Priest in the Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove First Ward and is a home teacher at the present time. He attends church every Sunday. He insists on walking instead of riding and he usually usual-ly walks two or three miles every day. He has also never (Continued on page 3) William M. Hone (Continued from page 1) missed voting in an election since he was 21 years old. He feels that everyone should exercise ex-ercise his right to vote. He assists his son and his grandsons working in the bees and also helping in the woodcraft wood-craft shop. He is a great help and is ususally there when one needs an extra pair of hands. Mr. Hone is the father of one son and five daughters: Rulon Jennings, Mrs. Rulon (Ida) Brimhall, Mrs. Faye (Lexie) Steele, Mrs. Vera Nut-tall, Nut-tall, Mrs. Glen (Jennie) Gilbert Gil-bert and Mrs. Arlen (Muriel) Fowler, deceased. He has 39 grandchildren, 92 great grandchildren grand-children and one great, greatgrandchild. great-grandchild. An open house will be held in his honor on Sunday, Nov. 7 between the hours of 4 and 7 p.m. at his home, 691 South 300 East. All friends and relatives rela-tives are invited, and the family fam-ily requests no gifts, please. |