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Search Through Old Trust Revives Drama of Lincoln’s Assassination

Another article clipped by my Grandparents, Milo and Gladys Ross. We do not know why this was clipped.

The top of the article shows it was published in the Ogden Standard-Examiner, Thursday, August 12, 1976.

“Newspaper reporting account of the death of Abraham Lincoln is displayed by Mrs. E. J. Krull of 1362 23rd.

Written by Milo Ross – “1860 – 64 – John Wileks Booth

“The drama of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln came to life again for an Ogden man this week. Sifting through the contents of an old trunk, E. J. Krull of 1362 23rd found a yellowed, tattered edition of the New York Herald dated April 15, 1865.

“Chronicling the assassination of the man whom many historians believe to have been America’s finest president, the newspaper shows the tragedy of the Civil War had been overshadowed by the events of the previous evening in Ford’s Theater.

“The edition outlined an almost chronological account of the events that transpired following the shooting of the president by actor John Wilkes Booth and the simultaneous attempted assassination of Secretary of State Seward.

“A series of accounts describtd Mr. Lincoln’s deteriorating condition, the scene around his deathbed and finally, a bulletin indicated the president had passed away at 7:30 a.m. on April 15.

“Mr. Krull noted the old newspaper had been found while sifting through a trunk that belonged to his wife’s parents.

“Of six total columns on the front page, about 4 1/2 were dedicated to the assassination while the remainder were mostly accounts of the Civil War events including the escape of Jefferson Davis and his Confederate Cabinet to Dansville.

“Ironically, there was only one more item in the four-page newspaper that merited more columns of space than the presidential assassination.

“Nearly 9 1/2 columns inside were devoted to glowing testimonials about the incredible curative powers of “Kitchel’s Linament” and Kitchel’s Spavin Cure.”

I did some homework to find out more about Mr. & Ms. Krull.

Eielt J Krull was born 11 November 1900 in Clark County, South Dakota, and passed away 13 August 1987 in Ogden, Utah. He married Thelma Blaine, previously married as Nelson, in 1943. Thelma was born 29 August 1901 in Ohio and died 3 May 1991. Eielt is buried in South Dakota, Thelma is buried in Colorado.

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Former Cache Physician Dies in Fairfield, Idaho

I wrote previously of a book I have that belonged to my Great Grandfather, Joseph Nelson Jonas. The book was given to me by Ellis Jonas along with a couple of others. Inside the book was this clipping, presumably put there by my Great Grandmother, Lillian Coley Jonas. I have no clue about its significance, if any. It was clipped and put there in the book for some reason.

“Word was received yesterday afternoon of the death of Dr. Wm. B. Parkinson, Jr., of Fairfield, Idaho. He had been ailing for the last year and was being treated for heart trouble at the time of his death in a hospital at Twin Falls, Idaho.

He was a son of the late Dr. Wm. B. Parkinson, Sr., and Elizabeth B. Parkinson, of Logan and was born at Morgan, Dec. 24, 1877, moving to Logan with his father’s family when a small boy. He graduated from medical school in Chicago and came back and practiced in Wellsville and Logan and settled in Lewiston where he practiced for many years. Later he moved to Fairfield, Idaho, where he was practicing at the time of his death.

“Surviving are his wife and the following children: Mrs. Ben Red of Price, Mrs. Hugh Johnstone of Oakland, Calif., Floyd Parkinson and Mrs. Beth Blair of Lewiston, Paul of Price, and Peggy Parkinson of Lewiston, and seven grand children.

“The brothers and sisters are Mrs. George W. Leishman, Mrs. Ada England, Elizabeth Parkinson, and Mrs. Afton Nielsen of Logan, Mrs. Winnifred Jennens of Detroit, Michigan. Dr. George T. Parkinson, Twin Falls, Ida., Mrs. Hazel McAlister of Preston, Dr. Fred B. Parkinson, Cedar City. Mrs. Veda Worley of Salt Lake, Mrs. Karma Parkinson of Franklin, Dr. Wallace Parkinson of San Francisco, Calif., Don Parkinson of Texas, Mrs. Edith Shaw of Provo, and Mrs. Arthur Rallison of Whitney, Idaho.

“Funeral services are being held at Fairfield, Idaho Thursday morning at 10 a. m. Burial will be at the Logan cemetery. Short services will be held at Logan graveside at 3 p. m. Friday.

“Friends may call at the W. Loyal Hall mortuary in Logan Friday from 10 a. m. to time of graveside rites.

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John Reese’s 9th Grade Class

Back (l-r): Cleone Carver, Vera Wayment, Margaret Freestone, Emza Musgrave, Jean Etherington, LauRene Thompson.  Third: June Wayment, Miriam Weatherston, Ellis Lund, Ray Charlton, Ivan Hodson, Warren Williams, Ruth Wade, Tamara East, John Reese.  Second: Lyle Thompson, Milo Ross, Eugene Maw, Earl Hipwell, Bill Hill, Keith Hodson.  Front: Ted Christensen, Wayne Rose, Howard Hunt, Orlo Maw, Owen Wayment, Ellis Stewart, Delmar White.

This my Grandpa Milo Ross’ 9th Grade class.  I believe this was at Weber High School, but I cannot confirm what grade year switched between Plain City School and Weber High School in Ogden.  Several of these boys died in World War II.

Mr. John Major Reese (1896-1976), teacher.

Cleone Carver (1921-1994)

Ray S Charlton (1920-1991)

Edwin “Ted” Daniel Christensen (1921-2005)

Talma Bernice East (1921-2006)

Vesey Jean Etherington (1921-2000)

Margaret Freestone (1921-2017)

John Earl Hipwell (1921-2000)

William Stanley Hill (1919-1945)

Benjamin Keith Hodson (1920-1970)

Ivan Alma Hodson (1919-1982)

Howard Hunt (1921-1944)

Ellis Marion Lund (1921-1984)

Orlo Steadwell Maw (1921-2004)

Wilmer Eugene Maw (1920-2009)

Emza Ameriam Musgrave (1922-2007)

Wayne East Rose (1921-2017)

Milo James Ross (1921-2014)

Ellis Wayment Stewart (1921-1940)

James Lyle Thompson (1921-1999)

LauRene Thompson (1921-2010)

Ruth Wade (1921-2012)

June Ellen Wayment (1920-2012)

Owen Urry Wayment (1921-2008)

Vera Mary Wayment (1921-1989)

Miriam Weatherston (1921-2001)

William Warren Williams (1921-1988)

Heber Delmar White (1921-2008)

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Vicki’s Class Pictures

These are photos shared to me of Victoria “Vicki” Kay Feldtman Ross. I don’t know anything more than what I have listed on the photos. I believe she graduated from Weber High School in 1963, or would have graduated. She married Dad, Milo Paul Ross, 5 March 1963 in Ogden, Weber, Utah. She was born 23 December 1945 in Ontario, Malheur, Oregon and passed away 31 December 2018 in Twin Falls, Twin Falls, Idaho.

4th Grade Ms. Morby, Vicki is back row, fourth from the right
Vicki is middle row, sixth from the right
Mixed Chorus: Back row (l-r): Robert Grieves, Arnold Burr, Deon Mayhew, Bill Fife, Bob Findess, Tommy Bartow, Ronald West, Jay Holley, Rex Judkins, Lynn Gould, James Petterson; Third row: Dee Bradshaw, Doug Giles, Dan Thompson, Blair Hadley, Dave Vesnieuw, Deloy Bentley, Doug Cheshire, Kenneth Groberg, Roger Bingham, Alan Cox, Kent Cevering; Second row: Adele Buff, Tamara Houston, Linda Perkins, Mary Carver, Betty Leach, Jolene Anderson, Carol Johnson, Linda Mapes, KayLynn Peterson, Linda Neilson, June Thompson, Carol Wheeler, Betty Yoshida, Linda Taylor, Judith Jensen; Front row: Jane Meldrum, Virginia Parker, Joyce Gunnerson, Susan Martinson, Donna Marchant, Linda Wells, Carolyn Kingston, Jelene Flinders, Vicki Feldtman, Annette Maw, Lynda Panunzio, Kay Ohlson, SheriLyn Gibson

These names are taken from the back of the photo. Please correct if you think I have them wrong.

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Escalante and Zions

Amanda, James, Aliza, and Hiram at Zion National Park

I previously wrote of the Ross family excursion in March 2021 with the Hemsley family to Junction, Utah. With them we hit Bryce Canyon National Park and some other locations. I previously wrote of our visit to Capitol Reef National Park. Here are a few photos of our visit to Escalante, Utah and Zion National Park.

We spent the night in Junction, headed to Capitol Reef National Park, and then spent that night in Escalante. It was a long day of driving and we covered many miles.

Homestead Overlook near Boulder, Utah
Picture from the Hogback south of Boulder
Boynton Overlook looking up the Escalante River toward the Natural Bridge

I wish we had time to hike up the trail to the Natural Bridge.

Escalante Heritage Center in Escalante, Utah

We spent the night at the Canyon Country Lodge for the night. It was pretty cold outside. The photo at the Heritage Center doesn’t look cold, but we did not stay very long.

The next day we drove to Zion National Park. It was generally pretty empty, both due to middle of March and being cold.

Paul and Lillie Ross riding the bus into Zion National Park

Zion was its usual beautiful self. Ageless.

Looking at the Patriarchs

We decided to go up the Riverside Walk.

Riverside Walk in Zion National Park

We walked, and walked, and walked, and walked. No pioneer children were singing though.

Aliza, Amanda, Hiram, Lillie, and James Ross on the Riverside Walk in Zion NP

We went as far up the trail as we could go before without getting wet.

From this point the trail became known as The Narrows. It was too cold and wet to go any further. But the hike back provided pretty views too.

Riverside Trail, Zion National Park

We spent the next day or two in St. George and visited various sites there before heading home. At least it was warmer in St. George. I only had a couple of pictures from St. George I wanted to share.

Some of downtown St. George with the St. George Temple

The temple was under renovation during this time, so we could only walk around some of the grounds.

St George’s Dixie sign

We visited Thunder Junction in St. George. We had to ride the train.

James, Amanda, and Aliza riding the train at Thunder Junction
Lillie, Hiram, and Paul Ross at Thunder Junction
Aliza and James at Thunder Junction

Last, we also hit the Children’s Museum in the old Dixie Academy.

Hiram driving his farm jeep
James doing a little light cooking at the children’s museum
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Benson Sets Quarterly Conference

I wrote previously of a book I have that belonged to my Great Grandfather, Joseph Nelson Jonas. The book was given to me by Ellis Jonas along with a couple of others. Inside the book was this clipping, presumably put there by my Great Grandmother, Lillian Coley Jonas. I have no clue about its significance, if any. It was clipped and put there in the book for some reason. Richmond, Utah, was in the Benson Stake at that time. The article indicates this was 1935.

Bishop David A Smith to Attend Richmond Services

Bishop David A. Smith, first counselor to Sylvester Q. Cannon presiding bishop of the L.D.S. church will represent the general authorities of the L.D.S. church at the quarterly conference of the Benson stake in Richmond Saturday evening and Sunday, according to information given out at the office of the first presidency in Salt Lake City.

The first meeting will be held Saturday evening at 7:30 o’clock. The Sunday sessions will begin at 10 a. m. and 2 p. m. with the quarterly meeting of the M.I.A. convening at 7:30 o’clock Sunday evening under direction of Ellis Doty stake superintendent of the Y.M.M.I.A.

President H. Ray Pond will preside at the general sessions of the conference. Amplifiers have been installed in the Richmond tabernacle to insure perfect audition.

Stressed during the conference sessions will be the two major projects of Benson stake for 1935; larger attendance at sacrament meetings and more efficient ward teaching.

The stake presidency is urging a large attendance at all sessions of the conference especially at the Saturday evening meeting. Special music for the conference has been prepared.

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Newspaper’s Hello Gal Will Retire Wednesday

Another photo clipping from those of my grandmother, Gladys Maxine Donaldson Ross. This one is more apparent to me why it was clipped. Minnie Wallace is Glady’s first cousin. Minnie’s mother is Johanna Hermina Van Leeuwen Edsinga (1884-1958), sister to my Grandmother’s mother, Berendena Van Leeuwen Donaldson (1898-1959). Johanna Hermina also went by Minnie.

“The voice of Mrs. Minnie Wallace will be missing from the Ogden Standard-Examiner after the veteran PBX operator retires Wednesday. The date at the top shows 8 March 1976.

Minnie Van Leeuwen Edsinga

“One of the best known voices in Ogden retires next Wednesday.

“Mrs. Minnie Wallace is hanging up her headphones after almost 29 years as the switchboard operator for the Ogden Standard-Examiner.

“She becamse the “telephone girl” for the newspaper in September 1947 after she and her late husband returned to their native Ogden from Sacramento, Calif.

“While in Sacramento, Mrs. Wallace had worked as a bench chemist in a sugar factory.

“Before her marriage she had worked as an operator for the telephone company in Ogden and still was intrigued by the work.

“So when she heard of the opening for a PBX operator at the newspaper, she applied for and got the job.

DIM LOVE

“”And I’ve enjoyed every minute of it,” Mrs. Wallace said with her almost perpetual infectious grin as she looked back over those 29 years.

“She hasn’t let the frustrating aspects of the switchboard operator dim her love for people.

“And it can become somewhat frustrating when an irate reader wants to pour a complaint into her ears or an impatient reporter can’t understand why his long distance call isn’t completed immediately.

“It can also be humorous when a caller wants to talk to a reporter he’s seen at a meeting but can’t remember his name and tries to describe him. Sometimes Mrs. Wallace passes the description on to the report – and sometimes she doesn’t.

“And there are times when her ingenuity in completing a seemingly impossible long distance calls brings a rewarding glow of satisfaction and a compliment from an amazed reporter.

“Like the time two buffalo showed up in the local railroads en route from Great Falls, Mont., to the West Coast.

NAME OF RANCH

“The name of the ranch that shipped the buffalo was on the bill of lading but not the address and there were indications it might be some distance from Great Falls.

“A confident reporter asked her to find the ranch and get the foreman on the phone. Twenty minutes later, she had located the ranch in North Dakota and had the reporter connected with the foreman.

“This is not an unusual example of the resourcefulness of a switchboard operator who has won the admiration and affection of countless Standard-Examiner employes and readers.

“An outstanding mother herself, Mrs. Wallace has shown a genuine interest in the children of numerous newspaper employes – keeping up an acquaintance with many even after they are grown and their parents gone elsewhere.

WON RESPECT

“The respect of her fellow PBX operators is just as great as that of her fellow Standard-Examiner employes.

“Mrs. Wallace has served as president of the Ogden PBX Club and represented it at meetings in Mexico and Canada. She has been an active member of the Atoka chapter of the American Business Women.

“After hanging up her headphones, Mrs. Wallace plans to do a bit of travelling, play some golf and tend her grandchildren from time to time.

“She has five grandchildren.

“She has a son, Robert Wallace of Bountiful, and daughter Mrs. Harold (Gloria) Hegstrom of South Ogden.

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Residents Defend Fire Crew Skills In Pleasant View

PLEASANT VIEW – Rumors that this city’s volunteer fire department was inefficient at a recent house fire were refuted Thursday night by officials and residents.

To the contrary, testified Fire Chief Terry Call, volunteer firemen did an “outstanding job” at the scene of the blaze.

The fire gutted the home of Harold Ross at 975 W. 3800 N., Friday night. It also destroyed a boat before being brought under control. The family was gone at the time.

BACKS MEN

Chief Call was backed by a group of residents appearing before the City Council on other matters.

Two residents, Don Amidan and George Sant questioned actions of the volunteers and requested information about their training and skills.

They also questioned purchase and installation of a pool table in the fire station saying they did not feel firemen “have time to play pool during training sessions.”

Chief Call said the department has the finest equipment in the county and that he would match his volunteers with any in the state.

He said the pool table is not used during training sessions and pointed out that its purpose is to encourage volunteer firemen to spend time at the station during off-duty hours.

PLAYING POOL

“There have been a number of occasions when two, three or four volunteers have been at the station playing pool when an alarm has come in,” he said.

“As a result, it has been only a matter of seconds before the equipment is rolling and firemen are on their way to the fire,” he added.

Chief Call, supported by several residents, said firemen and equipment were on the scene in almost record time.

He said records showed the alarm was called in at 10:18 p.m. and fire crews were at the scene and in operation nine minutes later at 10:27 p.m.

THAT FAST

“I doubt if any other department in the country could respond as fast, even those manned 24-hours a day,” Chief Call declared.

Reports that firemen arriving at the scene did not even have a wrench to open the fire hydrant were denied by Chief Call and residents.

It was explained that a resident at the scene did put his own wrench on the hydrant as firemen arrived, but crews had one on the truck available for use.

Residents who flocked to the scene on foot and in vehicles were blasted by officials who said their actions impeded fire fighting activities.

As a result, Mayor Richard Diamond said a plan has been worked out by police departments in Pleasant View, North Ogden and Harrisville to hold back crowds at fires or other disasters and all officers will be empowered to make arrests.

DRIVE TRUCK

Chief Call said the department has 20 out of 25 volunteer firemen who can drive and operate the fire truck.

He said the five who do not are recruits who have expressed their desires not to operate the equipment until they are more qualified.

Mayor Diamond said the city is purchasing additional fire hose as funds will permit. It also was pointed out there is a need for more fire hydrants in some areas.

Chief Call, said Mayor Diamond, will be asked to make a list of such areas by priority. Fire hydrants also will be color coded according to the water pressure available in each.

ALL HYDRANTS

A program is presently under way to check the operational condition of all hydrants in the city.

Mayor Diamond was asked to have Chief Call coordinate the program with the public works department which has been conducting the checks.