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Show DUP News The Morgan Camp of The Daughters of The Utah Pioneers held their meeting Friday with Captain Elma Dickson conducting. The opening song led by Doreen Rowser and LoRaine Wilkinson was sung and prayer was by Leah Johnson. Lois Peterson gave a history of her grandfather, Joseph Ether Butters, born June 23, 1862 in England. He came to America Sept. 22, 1869. Her grandmother, Isabella Eliza Welch Butters was born here in Morgan Oct. 29, 1865. They had ten children and led active lives in community and church affairs. A practice song was sung followed by the lesson. Flora Tonks presented the lesson, "Early Clothing Manufac¬ture." She told of the process of making cloth out of flax. It was very laborious work. She also told about wool. How, after the sheep were sheared, the wool would be washed and picked clean, then carded so it could be spun into yarn. The yarn was then worked on a loom making it into fabric. Bark of trees and bushes and other natural products were used to dye the cloth. The lesson explained how the pion prepared leather for use in their shoes, hinges, harnes etc. The shoemaker in making shoes, made no distinction tween right and left feet so customers faithfully interchan^ their shoes from day to day. Weavers were very necess and important workers at t time. The lesson told of L Wilkinson Norton and her s Alanson Norton, a weaver by tra with his own looms and corder. and his wife and children, widowed mother and her children joined the church in New York a were part of the exodus of members from Nauvoo. Th endured the hardships and persecution of the Saints, corning Utah and helping settle the art using the looms and weaving make their living. Elma Dickson gave the blessing and closing prayer. Refreshments were served, delicious pumpk pie, by Glenna Porter, Louis Waldron, Catherine Tucker an Clara Beth Rich. |