Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-07-24
Society for Perpetuation Of
Memory of Trials of
Early Days in Utah.

-y-- HE jubilee year of 1892 was
suggestive of patriotic thoughts
to many descendants OF the
s,ur IL pioneers who blszed
.hotr way through the great American
0sser, lust so years before. Three OF
.ho descendants of those pioneers
noa smoot. susa Young Gates and
-, e.oltrin. oil living In Provo, is
"a public call to those eligible to
-, s,ch a society and there was or"
,anizsd in Provo in 1897, the nrst pa
,.,o,,c society in Utah. known as the
cons and Daughters of the Pioneers
- 1,.oh county This was. however,
s,,nn,v county society. and such II
-, ,odav being exceedingly prosperous
and popular still. in that progressive
county of this progressive state. Reed
cr,oot was its first. and in fact, only
rrasjdent. as he has continued in Of
ace bv reclamation ever since. Mrs.
cstes was first vice president. ana
she held that office till her departure
for New York in 1902. John Coltrin
was made an honorary president some
wears before his death, in recognition
Of his faithful services to the society.
SALT LAKE ORGANIZATION.
Three years later. number of Salt
Lake ladies conceived the idea of or
ranizing a similar society in Salt Lake
city, but to be confined in member
ship to the Daughters only; among
them being Mrs Clarissa Smith Will
,iams. and her sister. Mrs. Lizzie
Cartright, Mrs Alice Merrill Horne
and Mrs. Annie Taylor Hyde. However.
Mrs. HYDE was the first one to move
forward. The society of the paugh-
ters of tho Utah Pioneers was or
eanized at gathering held In Mrs
Hvde's home. April II. 1901, this be-
ing the anniversary of her mothers
birthday Mrs. Hyde was chosen
president, Mrs. Maria Y. Dougall. first
counselor; Mrs. Sarah Richards Smith.
second counselor. The enthusiasm
generated at that initial meeting car
ried the Daughters over the two
years of Mrs. Hyde's presidency. The
ladies met at private houses, the pro-
grams being varied and all bearing
upon pioneer topics. During Mrs.
Hyde's incumbsncy. very minute and
elaborate admission papers were pre-
pared for the applicants for members
ship. These papers will prove of
value and interest to all future gen.
eIations, although they are difficult
to prepare. Mrs. Hyde spared no
labor nor thought in establishing the
work her fertile brain had conceived.
At the end of the two years. Mrs.
Alice Merrill Horne was elected as
president, and she chose Isabel Whit
ney Sears and Elizabeth S. Wilcox as
her counselors. This second admin
istration did some excellent work.
publishing their year book. while their
fine programs covered the history of
the exodus and entrance into the val
ley. Mrs. Horne was very active and
she and her associates labored faith
fully and we'll.
When the present administration
accepted office. in 1905, there were
many ideas to develop. numerous
theories to try out And some have
materialized. some are still posing
in air. just near enough to catch the
rosy CLEANS from the sun of hope.
yet often so far away that they are
dim and misty with the clouds of un-
filed desire.
QUARTERS IN LION HOUSE.
The society set its first effort to
secure rooms the small but CRATE