| Show THEY LOVED THE BIKUBEN James Jacobs 1052 Darling Street Ogden UT 84403 Senior Citizen Division Second Place Anecdote The Bikuben Club met every Thursday in the lobby of the Ft Pleasant Post Office during the 1920 These were the older Danish immigrants who never learned to read English or who preferred to read the news in THE BIKUBEN their own Danish language weekly newspaper which came in Thursdaymail They loved this newspaper and were always there to get 1t promptly every Thursday The club included Charley Shoemaker Charles Petersen Chris Cottonwood Peter Jensen Christian Rasmussen and others Pete Poker They visited while the incoming mail was being sorted As soon as the general delivery window was opened one of them came to the window and asked Ska da Bikuben heah When his Bikuben was handed to him his face lighted up withhappy smile About 50 subscribers lived in Kt Fleasant at that time The Bikuben was published in Salt Lake City by the Church for more than 59 years for the benefit of its Danish converts When the Danes passed on and the subscription list dwindled publication was suspended in 1935 never knew what Bikuben meant In downtown Copenhagen was amazed to find onlarge bulldingsign BIKUBEN with an old style beehive at each end of the sign similar to the one on the masthead of the Bikuben newspaper and the seal of the State of Utah went inside and found that this waslarge bark and that Bikuben means beehive or bee cabin This issymbol of industry in both Demmark and Utah Thenrealized why the newspaper had been named Bikuben Back in Mt Pleasant talked with Journalism by families of former Bikuben subscribers All of them rememtered the newspaper But no onefound knew that Bikuben means beehive Source Early Utah Personal Cecil Alter recollections of the author -90 |
