The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-08-05
Especial Correspondence

Especial correspondence
Circleville, Utah, Aug. l. 1900.-Think
ing that it would interest some of you
readers to hear from their southern
friends and know what they are doing
down in OrdervilIe I thought 1 would
write and ask you to publish some OF
the dOings and conditions OF the people
in that sunny cline.
April 1. 1900 some of the good people
conceived the idea of celebrating the
IWenty-ffth anniversary of the incOr-
pOrdtiOn Of the United Order. il being
Just twenty-five years ago the 14th day
OF July since the people incorporated
and went to work as one family L
till the soil, build homes and make g
living in country that was anything
but inviting to the ordinary man. But
the majority of the people who helped
to organize and went to work there
were people who had met with hard
ships and uninviting propositions ga
lore, and had never yet thrown down
the grubbing hoe and exclaimed Il
give up Now the visitor who travels
through that quiet little valley and
beholds the many substantial buildings
viii ever be ready to remark that here
is ambition. and with it goes pros
perity.
Their meeting house is one of the
most convenient and beautiful struc-
lures your correspondent has visited in
the state, and when painting and pa
pering is finished the townspeople, as
well as the visitors. will take great
satisfaction in admiring this beautiful
land mark and pronounce it a modern
structure.
An Energetic Community.
A few days after the idea of cele-
brating the twenty-fifth birthday of
the United Order of Orderville had
been conceived there was a meeting of
the citizens called to consider the ad-
visibility of such a move, and the
unanimous sentiment was to celebrate
and have a reunion of all the people
living who lived in the order. A COM
mittee of arrangements was there ap-
pointed, consisting of the following
persons: Jonathan HeatOn, chairman;
Maria Porter, secretary; H. J. Meeks,
treasurer; ISAIAH Bowers and Jane Hea-
ton. This committee was empowered
TO appoint subcommittee and urge the
necessity of the people getting to work
in earnest and at once There were
many obstacles to overcome in order
to make the celebration a success, and
the greatest DdTTleT Was the ldtk Oh d
convenient building for the people to
meet in. However this was soon over
come when the people were again called
together and decided to construct
temporary building. Some of the wiser
heads suggested, after a few days
thought, that instead of a temporary
building they lay the foundation for
and start a substantial. permanent
hall. and when the matter was put be
fore the people they all voted yes and
Immediately went to work. some haul
ing rock some went to the canyon to
cut logs for lumber, others cutting
shingles, etc, and in less than three
months from the time they talked Of
building, that Industrious people cut
the logs. sawed the lumber and
shingles, hauled the rock and con-
a fine hall, 81 by 20 feet. that
would be a credit to any town in our
fair state, and certainly to the people
who built it, and proves satisfactorily
to all who see it that unity is strength
and great things can be accomplished
when the people are united.
Generous Hospitality.
While I don't care to f1atter, | have
this to say of the people of Orderville,