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Show HIGHER EDUCATION In the early days in Utah , when all the schools wer e litt le, one room , one teacher schools , a little boy named Richard Taggart of Richvill e , Mor gan County was att ending one of these schools . The t eacher , Joseph R. Porter was trying to teach a group of small children to read . He wrote the word "bed" on a slate and held it up ,"can any one tell me thi s word", he sai d . The question was met by puzzl ed f r owns and silence . "What" s aid the teacher rrtou can' t tell me what b-e- d spells? What do you sleep on at night?" "I know what it s pellsa shouted Richard, "Its sheeps skin." AN INTERRUPTED ROMANCE A young girl by the name of Mariah Durrant was l iving in the home of her cousin Edward I'll.orris in 11organ , Utah . A young man named Hyrum Phillips be came deeply interested in the young l ady and oft en came to the house to spend the evenings. The home was a tiny , two room house and when Mariah ' s beau came the children were scooted off to the kitchen for the evening . On one such occasio.n t he children, Ol iver and Li zzie Kingston , had caught a mouse , and tying a long string to its tai l, they climbed a ladder into t he attic , mouse and all . There were wide cracks in the ceiling and the youngsters were able to locate the exact s pot where Mar iah and Hyrum were sitt ing , noiseless ly they crept to a spot directly above them and careful l y lowered the squirming mouse down in front of the unsuspecting sweethearts . There were shreaks of terr or in the l ower room and shreaks of laughter i n the upper room until the children were captured , thoroughly scolded , and sent to bed . t / The First Millinary Store The first millinary store in Morgan County was operated by Mary Ann Fry Eddington. "I have seen my mother take the raw oat straw and braid it into braids and build and form beautiful hat and then tum them according to styles. She was a natural born artist with her hands." "I first remember her millinary business when I was only five or six years old and I knew she must have operated such a business as early as 1884. At the celebration of the one hundred years of the organization of the L.D.S. Church, they had mother demonstrate the making of hats from raw straw, in the Z.C.M.I. Store window in Salt Lake City. W.R. Eddington 3'12- |