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Show "THE OLD HOME TOWN" . What fond recollections are associated assoc-iated with the old home town. The mere mention oC the name brings 0.1 a flood of memories. These vivid and end wins thoughts of 'the place of ou.r birth, clings, like the ivy to the vine,, in memories cells: and as the years roll in the eternal cycle of time they mnfold themselves before our passe, and pass like one continuous .scroll of pictures, before our un-blurrcd un-blurrcd vision. With such pleasant memories, that forever crowd upon us, a short story of the old home town is here with presented to your readers. It shall be our purpose, in this, and the articles that follow, to speak of certain of the old home town boys, whose parents, as well as themselves, have helped to make Mt. Pleasant what it is to-day. Some of them have also helped to build other towns and communities remote from the old home town. First of all let us open this sketch with a few words on the early settlement of the town. Settled Set-tled in 1S50 by a study and strong little band of rugged and coungeous pioneers; the town .stands to-lay as enduiing monument to their indom itable courage and unflagging industry. in-dustry. First named Hamilton, after af-ter Madison Hamilton, the place va; later on changed to Mt. Plea ant. The city is most pleasantly loeatac-on loeatac-on an eminence, from which is obtained ob-tained a splendid view of the San-pitch San-pitch Valley. Its .streets run parallel parall-el with the cardinal points of the compass, and are of such width that traffic will seldom block its through-fares, through-fares, except On holidays and occasions occa-sions when great crowds congregate in the town. Its main industry and fame today come? to it as the home of the famous breed of Ramboullet i-heep. More of this later on. Farming is of course, one of tlu-main tlu-main stays cf occupation, couplet, with the fheep and cattle industry. The city obtai.i.s iis w.'.ter for culinary culin-ary use from a -.pring high up in the range of mo".i,nta,ins that extend north and south thru the valley. The city itelf, nestles at the base of this Wasatch range, and its inhabitant partake more or less of the nature of these grand old mountains, rugged arid invincible in honesty and integrity. The sons and daughters of these .;.':'jnd old pioneers, stand out as worthy wor-thy scions of these sturdy men and women, and can, and do look the wcirld in the face without fear, and proclaim their lineage without a ripple of shame or an atom of disgrace, dis-grace, menially, morally, and rc-r.-;ou::ly. (in that we proudly laid our rand to f!.;lit and pe,":sh foir lie trt tiii t" a 1 lies i. Your correspoude i1 h'tends to go d i.vii 'lie list, alpha-leUcally, alpha-leUcally, and to speak a few bold aid tnilliHil words of -these young men of whom Mt. Pleasant need no' fed ashamed. Our first mention of one of Mt. I'lensa it's hoys of whom she may veil l.e proud, is fia.muel II. Allen,. Ev ryhody of the former genrn a lion , ! aev. .-'am Allen. Ho grew to manhood man-hood i.i Ml. Pleasant. He struggle., I'inl !o get an educal ion. He worked ;ears ago, hauling charcoal and wood for ('has, l,;nn iner'fdrirf of Frisco, 11 ah, out in I in; Waws Mountains of I'r'rvo, this young man tackled any Mud of work, and shirked nothing to earn au honoe ,t dollar. What few dollars he earned, he saved, and after f.;radi:afing from the high school ol Mt. I'leasanI, under the prineipalship of A. hay, wilh Hilda iJehlin as h's a nislaMl, he enlereil the Univor-i-.i'y oi Di sen t, now known as the ;. of I'. He, and Mi,, writer or Mils r'.'.lih, went Ihnrcr I ogi-l hi.-r. Iloln '.. ' r" poor, finiiii-ially, lhal Ihey '"-'''hi nol afford ;i n overcoat. Their poverty, however was not a deler-.';il deler-.';il ;,.;ency provenlng lliem f ,-,,. oiilsiiii'ug a very limiled education, 'ornpr, e, will, In- educated of lo-dny. lo-dny. !-! nil AlleM I,.,-.,, j,., in KUK : and ,y lih Ki.-M.-)i nv,.. mv,; ami ei,r -I,..,; j .-.--. r -. vc:; n he bo- "" n":"'! 1 hy::;ei;i,i and tu-rwn. !!:.- lame v. a s know a in all the town : of his native counly, and extender! tar beyond lta coul'mes at the time of his death. He is- gone but not forgotten, with the mention of one more Mt. Pleasant boy under the . first letter of the alphabet, we clos9 iliia our first chapter. Olof C. Anderson was a young man who early in life, showed promise of, becoming a most promising musician . lie was full of nnusic, and could real it evenas well as he read English. He hepran teaching school, all the while not forgetting his nvuslc. He has long -;'nce made a name for himself, and his home town, down in Dallas, Texas, In Dallas, he is known for his nihility as a teacher and a musician, music-ian, and mnks high in his profession Mt. Pleumnt need not fee-l in any way, to be ashamed of O. C. Anderson. Ander-son. To show how divergent the type of 'hero two boys were, it is only nec--'varcy to .say, that Sam Allen was ilways killing rabbits and dlsecting "neni to find all - the veins, arteries, 'inri honei. The heart was a matter ' curiosity to bini, and the pumping i.if the blood into and out of this ! organ of the rabbits body was a 'ause of deep study and wonderment Thus early in his, life he showed the mfu'ial desire of the profession in which he later on became an exrier:, and was so reognized by the medical I'nilor'nity of the -sta'te. Olof Anderson was always romping away at the obi mTin that ad,orned the home of his pareaits, when it was 1 covered by John Hasler that the J liny wai full of music. One was dis-i dis-i rrccting music, the other rabbits, j Youtns truly, ! The Chronicler. |