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Show County DUP Holds Duchesne Meet, Reports Are Heard By Thelma D. Nye A meeting of the Duchesne County officers of the Daughters Daugh-ters of the Utah . Pioneers was held Saturday afternoon, Mar. 7, at the home of Mrs. Maxine Burdick, of .Dudlesne. Attending Attend-ing were Mrs. Thelma D. Nye, county president, Tabiona; Mrs. Emma Oberhansly, first vice-pres., vice-pres., Neola; Mrs. Marion Reese, second vice-pres., Altonah; Mrs! Elaine S. Webb, sec.-treas., Tabiona; Tab-iona; Mrs. Minnie Hamilton, historian, Tabiona; Mrs. Margaret Mar-garet Maxfield, auditor, Altonah, Alton-ah, and Mrs. Maxine Burdick, parliamentarian, Duchesne. Several reports were made by the county officers, including includ-ing complimentary reports from the State Central Company to Duchesne County. Because several of the camps have not indicated much activity acti-vity in the history activity contest con-test being' sponsored by the County group, it was decided to continue the contest until June 1, to allow members to file histories made in triplicate with the county historian, Mrs. Minnie Hamilton, Tabiona. The person owning the history is to keep one copy of the history, and send two copies to Mrs. Hamilton, who will file one copy with the County Historian's Histor-ian's File, and send one copy to the State Central Company to be filed at the DUP Memorial Building. History writing is important to the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers organizations, and the county officers would like to urge every member to participate partici-pate in this important detail. Camp officers, especially, are urged to devote at least a portion por-tion of each meeting to the reading of histories by their members, these may be either personal histories, locality histories, his-tories, histories of special events, diaries, etc. After reading read-ing in the camps, they should be sent to Mrs. Hamilton as stated above. No report of new registrations was made because the county registrar, Mrs. Arwella Moon I was unable to attend the mee |