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Two scenes from early Provo:

{PICTURE: HARROWING—Provo, Utah, Utah Co., US 91}
{PICTURE: It was a huge step of progress from the first grain cut along the shores of Provo River with a sickle to a three horse Deere or McCormick binder. The picture was taken from near the City's present Second West and Tenth North. The upper Bonneville Lake level toward and beyond Rock Canyon was unmolested by modern dwellings.}

I had a black and white dog named Shep which I taught to pull a wagon. I would drive up and down the streets and the kids would follow along. One day Clarence was coming along towards me and he called the dog. Shep took off and jumped a ditch and I ended up in the ditch bellering like a bay steer.

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{PICTURE: PROVO CENTER :STREET — 189O}
{PICTURE: TAYLOR & STORE, PROVO, UTAH 1906}
COURTESY OF HERITAGE PRINTS PROVO, UTAH

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Clarence nicknamed me "Sime". I don't know why but that is what he called me.

I had a goat while in Provo as a lad which did not have a name. I had trained him to pull a wagon. I would drive it up and down the streets and to the pasture. He got mean and so dad insisted we get rid of him.

The watercress would grow about a foot high in that pasture and I would pull it and take it back to the chickens. They sure did enjoy it because it had little bugs all over it.

{PICTURE: VERA, RUTH & JOHN BEAN}
{PICTURE: MT. TIMPANOGOS FROM UTAH COUNTY, PROVO, UT.}

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Ross Bean, my cousin, took Wayne and I up to Salt Lake once to the fair on the train. We had a great time. We went to the cafeteria to eat and that was the first time had seen anything like that.

Dad had straw stacks on each side of the barn with a board fence between. Our cow, usually gentle, had had a new calf. We children were playing on the strawstack and someone shoved me off down into the area where the cow was. She took after me and I ran as fast as I could toward the fence but could see I wasn't going to make it so I turned and ran the other way where there was a gate and managed to slip under it just in the nick of time.