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Show By ALICE MITCHELL 292-1156 It's corn time in West Bountiful. And there's none better on the market. Each year more delicious varities are tried and each year the harvest is bounteous. It is interesting to note how far the original maize or Indian Corn has come during the centuries. cen-turies. Corn is a native of both North and South Americas. It was a stable crop of the Indians In-dians long before Europeans reached the new world. The origin of corn still remains a mystery, according to encyclopedias. One theory says that the ancestor of all com was probably a form of DOd corn. It is probable that this corn came originally from the lowlands of South America. At any rate, the high priests of West Bountiful enjoyed their corn (both on the cob and in jokes) at their annual summer party last Saturday night. Scene for the party was the beautiful backyard of Mayor and Mrs. Jerry Thompson. The committee for the delicious menu, consisting of chicken, corn on the cob, watermelon wa-termelon and accompaniments, accom-paniments, were Eugene Salmon, Sal-mon, Dean Salmon, and Ron Bangerter. Special happy birthday wishes were sung to new quorum member Del Byington. Karen and Duane Hatch and live children, of Bellvue, Washington, thought this was the very best time to journey down to West Bountiful to visit with Grandma Ruby 01-sen. 01-sen. They got the opportunity of seeing the new baby of the Terry Olsens. Bev. is proud of . her little girl. Getting back to visitors, 1 Grandma Ruby had a whole host of them out on her lawn last Monday night. There were Cathy and Rodney Green, Terry and Bev. Olsen, Dick and Marj. Moody, Dorothy Servoss, Lucile Ser-voss. Ser-voss. Marj's son Gary Moody was a special visitor. He is having great success as a men's clothing designer. Lucille Servoss's son, who was 1st It. in the Marines and : wife and child dropped in. Ruby's brother, Morris ' Miller, of Layton, joined the group. To make the whole number of over 40 guests, it : was necessary to add a big helping of younger family members of all ages and sizes. Of course, host and hostess for the big "reunion" were Ruby and son Halvor. They earlier traveled to Nephi to attend a Miller family reunion. Ted Eggett and girls were most happy to have a visit from Frank and Shirleen Richardsen and family. Shrleen really likes to come home for harvest time. The Kay Bangerters traveled to Idaho Falls and visited with Grandpa and Grandma Woffinden. Chad and Brad had a ball in Wyoming and Jackson Hole. Rulon and Erma Taylor, of Gold Hill. Ore., came to town to visit with their daughter Louise Bodily and husband O'Dell, to sample the corn, and to become acquainted with their son Dan's new bride-to-be and family. Son Allan Taylor and wife and children, also came in from Denver. Bob and Jan Telford visited with the Bob Telfords Sr. Jan also enjoyed visiting with her sister, Jewel Buys and Paul. The Bob Lovelises remember with pleasure their recent visitors, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Richardson, parents of Nancy. -They came from California and were journeying to the midwest. Nola Noyes Drown came to town to visit with parents of the Lynn Noyes. She brought her five children with her and her sister Vonna Noyes, who has been staying with her for the summer. Nola's husband Lynn, had to stay at home to tend the farm in Filer, Ida. Tammy Freestone traveled by plane to Jackson to visit with her sister Barbara. LaRue and Harold Hugoe got away from town and went up to Canada for a family reunion on one of LaRue's sides. Trudi and Werner Roseman were glad to entertain friends, Femi and Berni Meng, from Taylorsville now and originally from Germany. Ger-many. They were in West Bountiful last Sunday. Also visiting were Barbara and Robert Olikan and small daughter Andrea. The Vernile Hess family vacationed with relatives in Denver and New Mexico. They stayed with Vernile's brothers Earl and Butch and wives and families. Then they kept going south of the border to Juarez. the J.C. Watts' saw their son Everett off to England for three years. He is working for Hill Field on TDY. Camille Mitchell . came home from Jacob Lake for the wedding of her sister. A very sad note was entered into the town during the week. Grace Hatch, long time resident of the town, died and was buried. Her passing means the loss of another important im-portant part of the old West Bountiful. Another sad bit ot news was the report that Jack Nelson, former West Bountifulite and resident of Ontario, Ore., died as a result of a heart attack. He was a good friend and a hard-working agriculturist. He took great pride in talking of his family. We wish them sympathy at this time. Again we send a word of cheer and a smiley face to those who have been ill this week. Betty Jean Salmon is getting back on her feet, as is Evan Ashby. Marion Nielson and Bill Baum have been hospitalized and Arvilla Rob-bins Rob-bins is ill. Helen Layton underwent un-derwent surgery. Florence Ware has been ill at home. The corn weather brings reports of many and varied events. Wendell Wild went up to Boise, Ida., to attend his sister's birthday celebration. The West Bountiful Ward is planning a big party for Aug. 30. Several people in the West Bountiful 2nd Ward have new jobs, David McSwain is the new secretary of the aaronic priesthood; Craig Siddoway and wife will serve as service and activity specialists; Dean Salmon will work with the teachers. Danny Broderick will be athletic director; Gwen Mcllrath will help in the library; J.R. Bangerter will be a Primary teacher; and John Lee will work with the aaronic priesthood. Liz Moore's parents will go on a mission to South Dakota, where they will serve as agricultural missionaries. Nanella Jones visited in Logan and came back to Vest Bountiful. Forrest Mottishaw will teach Finnish at the LTM at Ricks College. Kyle Widdison has his mission mis-sion call to the California-Arcadia Mission. He will speak in Sacrament meeting the 24 th. |