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Show -28- I was one in the chorus who sang with Suzie's band. This man was a great can.poser and leader. He held a concert in Provo tabernacle. The leader of the Provo choir was Henry E. Giles. I arrived home about t he 12th of June. On t he 15th of June I planted smme potatoes and raised as good a crop as I ever raised here. In July 1905 my sister, Mary cama down frcm Canada to be with her daughter, Maysie, who was very sick. Maysie died the day before Mary arrived. Mary stayed until November 10th when she start ed back. I accompanied hBr as I wished to visit with two of my children, Mrs. Annie Dudley and Francis Bingham who lived in Canada. In going through I daho and Montana I noticed a number of grain stacks t hat hadn't been threshed. When we arrived at Great Falls, Montana, we had to lay over a day. We arrived in Canada at Streling about 3 o'clock a.m. Next morning at seven we took the train running to Cardson. We arrived i n Mygrath on the 23rd of November. That evening Francis took me in a buggy up to Spring Coulee where my daughter, Annie Dudley, lived. Sephen M. Dudley was threshing when I got there. They were threshing unt il noon on the 24th. When it commenced to snow and they had to stop. The grain being in the shock they had to wait until the snow melted and the grain dried. While in Canada I got a chance to go with a man named Jessie Smith up t o Calgary and from there 50 miles East to Glucien, a farming district. We stayed in the hotel over night. In the morning they let us take a sleip.h and we went out to look at the country. We returned to the hotel in the afternnon and took the train to Calgary. The next morning we took the train back to Mygrath. While in Canada I visited with my two brothers, David and Charley. My, brothers, my s on, Francis Bing~am, and son-in-law bought me an overcoat. I returned ~ome the last of December, arriving in Ogden on New Years Day of 1996. I went to Huntsville and stayed two days and then back to Ogden. Taking the D. & R. G. Train at Ogden I went to Mack, Colorado and then over the mountain north to Dr agon and frcm there by stage to Vernal. |
