Show this week twenty years ago asslie issue of april 12 1916 tho the regular meeting of the county commissioners of iron county watt was held on april ath the following ill business was taken up A petition from paragonah Para gonah signed by 81 citizens was presented asking I 1 that that place be incorporated j into a town A counter petition signed by 61 citizens was also pr predated e tahe commissioners decided that a majority ot of the people were lin in favor of incorporation it if the petition was granted the people of paragonah Para gonah were then instructed to nominate a town board to be ratified by the commissio commissioners fiers at their next meeting lorenzo Wi williams lilain 3 was appointed appoint eA precinct road supervisor tor for kan arra and thomas robinson lor for par abonan A ruling making it necessary for all road bills to be signed by county road supervisor jensen jeneen was also cassea william pritchard reports that thai he has just returned from a suc site hide buying trip to washington county harold mitchell and silas ward left saturday tor for their missions ed ward accompanied them as far as salt lake city road supervisor hendrickson reports that they are clearing the right ot of way tor for the new parowan carowan lund highway between here and the gap he also states that men and teams would go to work in the gat can next week st george will present the opera robin hood in parowan carowan tuesday april 18 the company of 65 will be guests ot of the haydn society while here dr D A mcgregor will appear in the principal role af mr r clair rowley celebrated his birthday on tuesday night with a card party to which a largo large group ot of ills his friends were invited the G A club was tobe entertained friday afternoon by mesdames W C mitchell and G A imitchell mitchell at the home ot of the former new ne babies were reported during th the e w week e e it to the following a girl giri to mr air and mrs airs peter 1 H 1 gurr mr and mrs airs john H 11 miller a boy al mr r and mrs george bettridge a boy and all amr mr and mrs eugene morris a girl A double wedding dance was to be held april ath in the opera house this dance was being givert given by Aless rs lynn kelsie and pen barton the former from miners villo ville the latter from Para gorah the men had just married tho two daughters of mr air and mrs airs ezra thornton merlin and isadore last thursday night in the opera house two wrestling bouts were held between local men the first bout of the evening was between rabert davenport and john dalton it was called a draw atter after they had wrestled fifteen minutes with neith r getting a fall ake e second bout was between thomas Daven davenport and freeman hyatt a single fall contest for a wager ot of hyatt won this bout in 12 minutes mr IF C van buren refereed the bouts the heavy wind last friday blew taylor aylor millers barn over lie he had a horse in a stable in the north end of 0 tho the barn but neighboring men got the anin animal till out before it wa wai 3 injured at mrs rg frank holmes of 0 nevada has hai been visiting here tor for several days day with her people the jos family mr lyle II It alterman wiio alio has leen been attending the B Y U for or the fall and winter quarters came home a week ago to help ills hia father S A II Il alterman on tile the farm |