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Show HISTORi' OF SANPETE COUNTY. oo~ Two good schools are maintained during the school rear and able teachers are employed. The teachers for ''.is are: Olivia Larsen, E. \ Anderson and Fannie source. < Candland. The trustees are: Joseph Beck, David Candland and Peter Basmussen in one, and William Daniels, Marx and E. J. Conrad in the other. Allred Bros, own and operate the only mercantile house in Chester and do a business of about |5,000 annu- Phillip ally. They also have the postofflce and distribute mail twice every day. Chester citizens are veterans in Indian wais and peaceably inclined people, but when the coun- try demanded assistance in the Avar with Spain to free two patriotic young men reCandland was accepted and Andrew the Cubans from bondage sponded. Theo C. Nelson rejected on account of defect, in eyesight. Others were anxious to enlist and would have entered the service of the Government if another call had been made for troops. Chester has a well organized ward of Latter-day Saints under the able control of Bishop Christian Christensen and counsellors. The several church societies are kept up and the people are contented and happy, with i'o demoralizing influences in the community or in close proximity. Chester is an excellent illustration of the haplife in the mountain vales. Chester was for some time the southern terminus of the Sanpete Valley railroad and the leading shipping point in the county. Since the road has been completed to Morrison this place is a station furnished daily service in mail, passenger and freight transportation. The completion of the Rio Grande Western railroad through the county connected Chester with its second road, thereby making it a most central and favored point for growth in agricultural prosperity. The future of Chester is certainly a prosperous one and in time it will doubtless have piness of a pastoral 18 |
