| Show FAREWELL SERVICES HELD LAST SUNDAY sentiments of regard for historic academy hall are presented farewell ser se rnea lLes were held in the academy hall by bv the and pupils of tho the richfield ward sund ay iy school on sunday morning mornine dt at 10 after the isse milling and tho the opening exercises the following sentiments of 0 regard for the old build ing ine anil and the a associations connLe ted therewith were read by mag magnus 11 u 3 ne nellson I 1 it falls to our lot this morning to pa pay to the oil old home we are arc leaving for a new modern and well equipped chapel where in t the e in future t ure we wl will 11 bow in prayer and offer our supplication and homage to the throne of grace and it occurs to us that while our surroundings will be more pleasant plea plen fant it is doubtful if more thank ful hearts will be raised in prayer ur or more faithful souls will commune with I 1 the creator than those which here have well in times timea gone by and pleaded for divine guidance through all the of pioneer life in Ri clifield on up to the present time where we are about to desert the good old academy hall for the more elaborate church which has just been completed we do not desire to underestimate under estimate the splendid achievement in the erection of the new building nor do we desire to be misunderstood as to the needs of a new church edifice but after all history says to us that in the simplicity of life there always has hag existed the greatest veneration for the creator creater and the greatest earnestness in w cabill the academy hall stands for all that is simplicity in worship and in simplicity of religious educational social and even political life of tho the early age of sevier valley some of our best beat and greatest citizens drew their fiert educational inspiration here within these walls some ol of the greatest problems of our t uvie ivic commercial and agricultural development have been born d discussed is cussed and anc settled in these roams some of the best beat social functions that richfield has ever seen were held here possibly our most intense and reverential religious gathering have convened con vered here some gome of the pleasant recollections of early man and womanhood revert back to these sacred walls walli and lat last but not least here over the bier of loved ones onea parents have bade farwell to parents fathers and mothers mother have looked their last on loved sons an and d daughters slid and daughters daughter and sons have kissed the cold lips of the parents wito who have save gave them birth in short we are this day bidding farewell to one of the dearest land marks in our city and found memory will ever cling to the js association of the academy hall were we to have the deciding of the fate of this historic hi atoni old building we would safe guard it and surround it with grass gras trees and flowers and keep it as a monument to past achievements and past religious educational education el colial soual and political history of richfield and so it is with mingled feelings of pride and regret that we meet this morning to say farewell to this old building that has seen so much of the joys the sorrows the tha achieve men toof richfield citizens citizen cit izena Is that if its is walls could speak we would bear some of the greatest that any community ever made buildings may come and buildings may eo L 0 but the academy hall will live in the memories of this generation until long after it has crumbled to dust duet it has se feied ned as well as church school social hall I 1 and civic form and it should be preserved as a landmark here let us say aay farewell tc it and 8 n d let u us enshrine n e it incur 1 n our hearts aa 89 the place where more ore history was made in the development of richfield than any other one spot after after fter the reading of the resola eions the pupils and te teachers former formed into line and marched to the new second ward chapel where the services continued |
