THE HAIRCUT! ~~~ Submitted by Larry Staker

"The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return."
~Maria Edgeworth

The haircut!

Blessed are those that can give without remembering and take without forgetting.

One day a florist went to a barber for a haircut. After the cut, he asked about his bill, and the barber replied, 'I cannot accept money from you, I'm doing community service this week.'

The florist was pleased and left the shop.

When the barber went to open his shop the next morning, there was a 'thank you' card and a dozen roses waiting for him at his door.

Later, a cop comes in for a haircut, and when he tries to pay his bill, the barber again replied, 'I cannot accept money from you, I'm doing community service this week.'

The cop was happy and left the shop.

The next morning when the barber went to open up, there was a 'thank you' card and a dozen donuts waiting for him at his door.

Then a Congressman came in for a haircut, and when he went to pay his bill, the barber again replied, 'I cannot accept money from you. I'm doing community service this week.'

The Congressman was very happy and left the shop.

The next morning, when the barber went to open up, there were a dozen Congressmen lined up waiting for a free haircut.

And that, my friends, illustrates the fundamental difference between the citizens of our country and the politicians who run it.

As Ronald Reagan said: "Both politicians and diapers need to be changed often and for the same reason."

 

WATER MASTER

David Lund Peterson

Home of John Henry Wilcox and wife Mary Young ~~~ Researched and Compiled by Tudy Barentsen Standlee

Utah Ghost Towns

"In The Golden, Olden Glory" by Dorothy Jacobs Buchanan for "SAGA OF THE SANPITCH"

Home of William Jacob Hafen and wife Matilda Ruesch ~~~ Researched and Compiled by Tudy Barentsen Standlee

Les Seely Family Photos

The 1st picture is my g.grand parents family: Standing L-R John Thomas- Jemmima- William Stewart- Gaybrella- George Ernest- sitting William Stewart 2nd- Elizabeth- Janett Myrick Seely-2nd pic. is My dad George C. John T. Seely- Edward Morris- Les- Robert B. Menzies- in front myself Les- Dee Menzies- Cork-3rd is my mom Priscilla Menzies Seely- and my dad George C. Seely. I do not know alot about my g. grand father or mother but they are the ones that helped raise my dad and his family because his mom took the baby and left the other kids, my dad was 2yrs. old. I do not know the story , I just know what my dad said.      Have a good day-----Les Seely

Josephine Peterson's 6th Grade Class 1951

Journal of Christian N. Lund 1906

Mt. Pleasant's South Ward Church

On December 9, 1900, Mt. Pleasant was divided into two wards, the North and the South. The original South ward chapel was built and dedicated in 1908. Lars P. Madsen was made Bishop, with Thomas West and Joseph Seeley as counselors of the North ward, and James Larsen, Bishop, with Christian Johansen and James Monsen as counselors of the South ward.


February 23, 1937, the South Ward L. D. S. Chapel was destroyed by fire, and on Sunday, March 27th, the corner stone for the new chapel laid. Although the new building was not complete, the opening social was held there May 12, 1939. In excavating for the new building, it was found that all that had been placed in the corner stone of the former building had decayed and the cement box had filled with moisture.
Rocks from the old building were used in constructing the west wall at the cemetery, a W. P. A. project.

MT. PLEASANT SOUTH WARD
1877, W. S. Seely, Bishop; Counselors, Jacob Christensen, Wm. F.
Reynolds, C. N. Lund, Peter Mogensen (Monsen).


MT. PLEASANT SOUTH WARD
December 1900, James Larsen, Bishop; Christian Johansen and
James Monsen, Counselors.
1923, A. Merz, Bishop; A. E. Mcintosh and J. W. Anderson, Coun­selors.
1914, A. E. Mcintosh, Bishop; Clarence Stewart, Kimbal Johan­sen, Mads Anderson and Louis A. Peterson, Counselors.
1926, Andrew L. Peterson, Bishop; Clarence Stewart and Joseph Johansen, Counselors.

The South Ward as seen today (or Mt. Pleasant Stake House)

photo by David R. Gunderson

(Excepts taken from the Mt. Pleasant book by Hilda Madsen Longsdorf)
Photos available at the Mt. Pleasant Relic Home

Charlotte Staunton Quindlan Johnson Hyde ~~~ ( One of our first Pioneers of the month 2009)

Charlotte Staunton Quindlan Johnson Hyde
You would think that a wife of Orson Hyde would be buried in Spring City next to him. You would think that she would have a very distinctive, monolithic marker of granite and stand very tall. Not so for Charlotte Staunton Quindlan Johnson Hyde. Of those many names by which she was called, we can only verify that her name was Charlotte Quindlan Hyde. She lived in Mt. Pleasant, taught school in Mt. Pleasant and died in Mt. Pleasant. Her grave marker is about 18 inches tall made of marble. You literally have to kneel down to read her epitaph there.

Charlotte Quindlen was born 22 of August 1802 at Lower Pensnock, Salem, New Jersey. Charlotte Quindlan was the name used at the Endowment House in Salt Lake City when she was sealed to Orson Hyde in 1852. The marble marker lists her as Charlotte Staunton Hyde as does the Mt. Pleasant History Book. Perhaps the name Staunton came from another marriage. From the dates we find that she was fifty years old when she married Orson Hyde.
The following is taken from the book “Orson Hyde Olive Branch of Israel”
“Orson Hyde was chosen as an original member of the Council of the Twelve in 1835, when the Mormon Church first organized this governing body. Orson's most well-known accomplishment was as a Mormon missionary to Jerusalem (1840-1842) to dedicate the land for the return of the Jews. Because his words have proven prophetic in the many decades since his entreaty, a peaceful garden on the Mount now honors him and his supplication. In 1979 civil authorities in Jerusalem invited the development of a five-acre hillside garden in honor of Orson Hyde.
“Orson Hyde was a remarkable individual. He received esteem in many roles, among them apostle, teacher, missionary, orator, scriptorian, journalist, editor, lawyer, judge, statesman, colonizer, and administrator; also as the husband of eight wives, the father of thirty-three children, a friend of mankind, and a servant of God.” MYRTLE STEVENS HYDE,
During the years 1850-1852 Charlotte Quindlin Johnson lived in Kanesville, Iowa at the home of Orson Hyde as a domestic assistant to his first wife Marinda. She was already a member of the L.D.S. Faith. She had been divorced from a man named Johnson. She was described as a seamstress who also liked children. She helped Marinda with her children Alonzo, Frank and baby Delila. She was with the Hyde Family at Winter Quarters and as they traveled across the plains to Salt Lake, arriving in 1852. Marinda and Charlotte got along very well.

Orson and Marinda discussed the possibility of inviting Charlotte to become a wife rather than a domestic. Orson had also married Mary Ann Price who for a time was a domestic in his household. Orson and Mary Ann were married in Nauvoo in 1843. Orson talked with Brigham Young about taking Charlotte as another wife and Brigham Young approved. Orson proposed to Charlotte, she accepted and they were sealed as husband and wife in the Endowment House 22nd of November, 1852. She was the fourth wife of Orson. Besides Marinda and Mary Ann, Orson had married Martha Rebecca Browett, who he later divorced in 1850. Martha went on to become the wife of Thomas McKenzie who also divorced her.

In the spring of 1853 we find Marinda, Mary Ann and Charlotte all living together under one roof in Salt Lake. Charlotte, however, was having a hard time adjusting to being a plural wife and departed the family, a mutual decision between she and Orson. They were separated, but never divorced. Brigham Young granted official separation for Charlotte and Orson Hyde in 1859.

Charlotte came to the Sanpete Valley long before Orson shows his influence here. It was during the “big move” with the earliest Saints first to Fort Ephraim, then north to resettle Mt. Pleasant. The first pioneers had been driven out of Camp Hambleton, located one mile west of the current city of Mt. Pleasant. She first made her living as a seamstress then as a school teacher while the settlers still lived inside the fort. A schoolhouse was then built outside the fort. She was fondly called "Aunty Hyde" by her students. She inspired many of her students to become teachers themselves.

In Mt. Pleasant History by Hilda Longsdorf the following description of Aunty Hyde school: “In a little log house about 12x15 feet, on the south side of the street on First North, about midway between State and First West, (in the area where Mary Ursenbach now lives-2008) Charlotte Staunton Hyde taught school. The building was also known and later used for Lesser Priesthood meetings and similar Church gatherings. Mrs. Hyde was a woman who no doubt had earlier in life received quite a liberal education, and although described as “a little old woman who smoked a pipe and was quite deaf,” she was affectionately called "Aunty Hyde". Many amusing stories were told of her school, but with all her students there remained pleasant memories. There being no hand bell, as in later years, the children were always called from their play to the schoolroom with her familiar call, “To Books. To Books. To Books.””

“Mrs. Hyde lived in a little log house west of the school. She often brought her bread to the schoolhouse to bake. She had a skillet with a tight fitting lid and in this, by heaping on it coals from the fireplace, which was in one end of the building, she baked the bread during school hours. She was paid for her services as a teacher with any produce or garden stuff available.
Mrs. Hyde taught for sometime in the log meeting house in the fort. Many attended school. A number of the pioneers were polygamist families and usually were large families. In some cases the entire family had attended her school as was the case in Abraham Day’s family, Joseph, Abraham Jr. , Eli A., Ezra, and Ephraim, children of the second wife, all attended; among others who also in later days became prominent citizens were her students Emaline Seely Barton, Oscar Anderson, William Morrison Jr., Sylvester Barton, Joseph Nephi Seeley, Annie Porter Nelson, Melvina Clemensen Crane, Peter Johansen, Chastie Neilsen, Benta Neilsen, Peter Jensen, Allen Rowe, Henry Ericksen, Miranda Seeley Oman, Wilhemina Morrison Ericksen, Hans Neilsen, William D. Candland, Charlotte Reynolds Seeley, Sarah Wilcox Bills, Celestial McArthur Barton, William A. Averett, Amasa Aldrich, James B. Staker, Maria Tidwell Larsen, Libby Barton Averett, Morgan A. Winters, Eli A. Day, W.W. Brandon, Sarah Davidsen Wilcox, Maggie Peel Seely, Samuel H. Allen, Harry Candland, Albert Candland, Charles Averett, Hazard Wilcox and Hans Neilsen.

Although records show that Mrs. Hyde was not the first teacher in the community, in the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery on the south side of the center driveway, is a little marble slab now yellowing with age, upon which is engraved: “Charlotte Staunton Hyde, wife of Apostle Orson Hyde, born in Penn., Died in Mount Pleasant, December 3, 1881, age 78. At rest now---Through the kindness of pupils of early days, this stone is erected to her memory, she being the first school teacher in Mt. Pleasant.” M.M.F.C.M.”

Many, many children benefited from her talents, from her love and from her example.

John H. Seely Family Group Sheet ( Considered to be an original resource document)

Utah County Fires

Payson Utah LDS Temple
(Cloud of Smoke seen behind the Temple) 

https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=mcafee&p=KSL+News#id=1&vid=f6762b6d849fb8b7695066f741e0eff6&action=click

All residents living in Woodland Hills, Elk Ridge, the Covered Bridge community near the mouth of Spanish Fork Canyon and along U.S. Highway 89 in the area from Nebo Creek to Thistle Junction are under mandatory evacuation.

Both Payson and Santaquin canyons are closed, and the Nebo Loop Road in Nephi Canyon is closed. Sheep Creek, Santaquin Canyon and Payson Canyon remain closed, along with Nebo Loop Road in Nephi Canyon.

The Pole Creek and Bald Mountain fires joined together in two places along the Nebo Loop Road late Saturday evening, although the two wildfires are being treated as separate incidents. The Pole Creek fire has burned 61,248 acres and is 2 percent contained as of Sunday morning. The Bald Mountain fire reached 13,509 acres at 0 percent containment.

CLOSURES

The following evacuations and closures are still in place:

• Santaquin Canyon is closed. 
• Payson Canyon is closed.
• Nebo Loop Road at SR-132 in Nephi Canyon is closed.
• US Highway 89, in Spanish Fork Canyon, is closed from mile 312, at Thistle Junction, to mile 298, at the Utah /Sanpete County line.
• Right Fork Hobble Creek Canyon is closed

EVACUATIONS

• All homes from Nebo Creek to the Thistle Junction
• Covered Bridge Canyon community
• Woodland Hills
• Elk Ridge
• Diamond Fork, Sheep Creek, and Right Fork Hobble Creek Canyon 
• For residents in these areas who have urgent need to get to their home (For medications or to remove pets or livestock, for example), access points are set up at 11200 S Woodland Hills Drive for Woodland Hills, and 11200 S Elk Ridge Drive (1600 West) for Elk Ridge. Access to Covered Bridge may not be available because of ongoing fire operations. A deputy will escort those who have these needs.
• Left Fork Hobble Creek Canyon is under a PRE-evacuation notice. (“Be ready in case” status.)

Robert B. Menzies and Margaret Ann Morris Menzies ~ Grandparents of Les Seely

Kathy:  This is a picture of my grandparents the day they got married in 1902; Robert B. and Margaret Ann Morris Menzies. They were Marred 64 yrs., had 11 children plus raised a grandson. I am sorry I never asked them more questions of their lives.   

   Thank You-----Les Seely

(Right Click and open in a new window to Enlarge the following)

There isn't a day that goes by that I don't wish I had asked my grandparents as well a my parents more questions.  Kathy

James Larsen ~ Honoring Those In the Sheep Industry by Annette Jacobs Hansen

Anasazi Mysteries

Stereoscope At Our Relic Home

The Relic Home has one of these  and a few dozen slides.

It is one of the visiting children's favorite relics.

We also have a few dozen slides to view with it.

Come in and try it out. 

The following comes from Wikipedea:

A stereoscope is a device for viewing a stereoscopic pair of separate images, depicting left-eye and right-eye views of the same scene, as a single three-dimensional image.

A typical stereoscope provides each eye with a lens that makes the image seen through it appear larger and more distant and usually also shifts its apparent horizontal position, so that for a person with normal binocular depth perception the edges of the two images seemingly fuse into one "stereo window". In current practice, the images are prepared so that the scene appears to be beyond this virtual window, through which objects are sometimes allowed to protrude, but this was not always the custom. A divider or other view-limiting feature is usually provided to prevent each eye from being distracted by also seeing the image intended for the other eye.

Most people can, with practice and some effort, view stereoscopic image pairs in 3D without the aid of a stereoscope, but the physiological depth cues resulting from the unnatural combination of eye convergence and focus required will be unlike those experienced when actually viewing the scene in reality, making an accurate simulation of the natural viewing experience impossible and tending to cause eye strain and fatigue.

Although more recent devices such as Realist-format 3D slide viewers and the View-Master are also stereoscopes, the word is now most commonly associated with viewers designed for the standard-format stereo cards that enjoyed several waves of popularity from the 1850s to the 1930s as a home entertainment medium.

Devices such as polarized, anaglyph and shutter glasses which are used to view two actually superimposed or intermingled images, rather than two physically separate images, are not categorized as stereoscopes.

Piss Poor ~~~ Submitted by Tudy Barentsen Standlee

Where did “piss poor” come from ?  

Us older people need 
to learn something new every day..   

Just to keep the 
grey matter tuned up.

Where did "Piss Poor" come from?
Interesting 
History. 
  

They used to use 
urine to tan animal skins, so families used to all pee in a pot   

And then once a day 
it was taken and sold to the tannery...   

if you had to do 
this to survive you were "Piss Poor".
But worse than that were the really 
poor folk who couldn't even afford to buy a pot...   

They "didn't have a 
pot to piss in" and were the lowest of the low.   

The next time you 
are washing your hands and complain because the water 
temperature 
  

Isn't just how you 
like it, think about how things used to be.

Here are some facts about 
the 1500s

Most people got married in June because they took their yearly 
bath in May, 
  

And they still 
smelled pretty good by June. However, since they were starting to smell, 

Brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor.
Hence the 
custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.

Baths consisted 
of a big tub filled with hot water.   

The man of the house 
had the privilege of the nice clean water,   

Then all the other 
sons and men, then the women and finally the children.   

Last of all the 
babies. 
  

By then the water 
was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it.   

Hence the saying, 
"Don't throw the baby out with the Bath water!"

Houses had thatched 
roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood underneath.   

It was the only 
place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other small 
animals 
  

(mice, bugs) lived 
in the roof. 
  

When it rained it 
became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof.
Hence the saying, "It's raining cats and dogs."
There was nothing 
to stop things from falling into the house.   

This posed a real 
problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings   

Could mess up your 
nice clean bed. 
  

Hence, a bed with 
big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some 
protection. 
  

That's how canopy 
beds came into existence.

The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had 
something other than dirt.   

Hence the saying, 
"Dirt poor." The wealthy had slate floors that would get 
slippery 
  

In the winter when 
wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on floor to help keep their 
footing. 
  

As the winter wore 
on, they added more thresh until, when you opened the door,   

It would all start 
slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entrance-way.
Hence: a 
thresh hold.

(Getting quite an education, aren't you?)

In those 
old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the 
fire. 
  

Every day they lit 
the fire and added things to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables   

And did not get much 
meat. They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers   

In the pot to get 
cold overnight and then start over the next day.   

Sometimes stew had 
food in it that had been there for quite a while.

Hence the 
rhyme:

“Peas porridge hot, 
peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old”.
Sometimes they 
could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special.

When visitors came 
over, they would hang up their bacon to show off.

It was a sign of 
wealth that a man could, "bring home the bacon."

They would cut off a 
little to share with guests

And would all sit 
around and chew the fat.

Those with money had plates made of 
pewter.

Food with high acid 
content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food,

causing lead 
poisoning death. This happened most often with tomatoes,

so for the next 400 
years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous.

Bread was divided 
according to status. 

Workers got the 
burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle,

and guests got the 
top, or the upper crust.
Lead cups were used to drink ale or 
whisky.

The combination 
would sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days.

Someone walking 
along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for 
burial.

They were laid out 
on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around

and eat and drink 
and wait and see if they would wake up.

Hence the custom; 
“of holding a wake”.

England is old and small and the local folks started 
running out of places to bury people.

So they would dig up 
coffins and would take the bones to a bone-house, and reuse the 
grave.

When reopening these 
coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks

on the inside and 
they realized they had been burying people alive.

So they would tie a 
string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin

and up through the 
ground and tie it to a bell.
Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard 
all night (the graveyard shift.)

to listen for the 
bell; thus, someone could be,

“saved by the bell” 
or was “considered a dead ringer”.

And that's the truth.

Now, whoever said 
History was boring!!!
So get out there and educate someone! 
~~~

Share these facts 
with a friend.
Inside every older person is a younger person 
wondering,

'What the heck 
happened?'

We'll be friends until we are old and senile.

Then we'll be new 
friends.
“Smile”, 
it gives your face 
something to do!