word. Incidentally, the word is pronounced 'SKEEZIX', believe it or not. In 1926 or 1927 Royden and Chloe moved from South Weber to the Dam in Weber Canyon, living first with his brother and family, William and Lavern Poll. The couple had four children, Royal Vine, Rhea, Delbert and Edward. Rhea remembered that Edward was a stubborn child who held his breath when he didn't get his way. One day while she was tending him he had a tantrum and she dunked him in a rain barrel. "It's a wonder I didn't drown him, I was only six," she related, with a chuckle. She doesn't remember if it did any good, though. That first Winter at the Dam was bitter cold and ice would form in the grates in the grate house, requiring constant raking to keep an even flow of water to the Power House. Leaks in the old wooden stave pipeline had to be repaired with wooden shingles. In 1927 Royden moved his family from the Dam to Gateway where he worked for the Union Pacific Railroad. The only way to get to the railroad houses was to cross the Weber River on a foot bridge at the Dam and walk up the tracks to Gateway. One Spring a crude footbridge was built at Gateway of planks and logs, but with no hand rail for safety. Vine and Rhea had to cross that bridge to catch the school buss. High water washed the bridge out and it was never replaced. In 1928 Dorothy was born and a year later the family moved to Strawberry when the Section Houses were moved there from Gateway. Ray Charles was born in 1929 and lived only four days. Directly north of Strawberry was the little sandstone Mountain Green Chapel. Vine remembered singing "I'm a Fightin' Kid" with other little boys in the Ward. The children had fun rafting on the slough, rollerskating in a vacant rail¬road house and ice skating. Royden and Chloe loved to dance and spent many a de¬lightful evening at the Berthana and Hermitage in Ogden. Life was fun at Straw¬berry, the family even had a cow. When the railroad moved the houses to Peterson the Poll family moved there also. Royden became Section Foreman and they were soon involved in the Peterson Ward. In March of 1932 the Polls went to the Salt Lake Temple. Royden and his brother, William, became involved with the Peterson baseball team and became pitcher. His sons remember him as a pitcher with an 'awesome drop to a right handed batter.' His brother, Bill, was the catcher. Royden played for a while on the Union Pacific Ball Team, touring the country as a team mate with Hugo Bohman, scaoutmaster, and his son, Vine. Vine remembered two incidents while the family lived in the Canyon. He broke 339