blanding Bandin gf news special correspondence by florence galbraith the seminary Ee graduation exercises were held thul lay slay s evening and diplomas were received by barbara peterson Peters cn clea Shurn shumway way donald C bay bayers s donna adams durant C black edward E wright eugene porter isa iea may palmer jean stevens karens karene nielson kloyd E perkins mark H redd marian hurst mary E sway nina V burtenshaw k E rachel slack black richard perkins N young scott A hurst and sharlene guymon besides these tex bradford was an active member of the class but he lacked one year of being eligible for graduation phil hawkins and his bride veloy helquist have returned to Bland nig after living their honeymoon in the northern part of the state grandfather gardiner father of marian nielson is visiting here with another of his daughters mrs helen goates mr gardiner is 86 years old and still fairly active he has taken a leading and important part in religious and financial affairs in utah county 44 ahe he last half century and re one of a stu sturdy ady oak that has weathered the winds and the storms for a long time mr mcgibney and his bond selling troupe gave us a very forceful and pleasant reminder saturday evening of the propriety and necessity of every true american buying bonds at this and all al times till the danger of a plotting enemy is moved f from born over our fair country country we sit there and enjoy all that they had to offer without resolving in our hearts that their appeal made gratis should not be in vain so far as we are concerned the mothers day program div en sunday forenoon was of the kind to stimulate new resolutions and leave pleasant memories the songs and instrumental music given as well by little folks and by we the older ones was very fine and the speech given by mrs annie butt had a par particular ticul lar appeal from the fact that one of her sons dean butt is somewhere in the pacific in a submarine with his messages few and far between and the other son dick butt twice wounded in italy is still somewhere there in that distracted region ormas hawkins radio operator went north early in the winter and got a job in his line in a salt lake shop and then he married june laws and set up housekeeping and we feared we had lost lapow lf h Pow now however he his has shown bood judgment his faith in the country and in himself by coming back and opening bisshop his shop here again the thing for bland invites now is to keep him so busy hell not have time to think of going away again doras I 1 adams is with us again having been teaching school in idaho joe hunt is home from the hospital in salt lake and feels very much improved mrs helen ranney holyoak a Blandin gile gite living now in moab is in the hospital there with some kind of weed poisoning in her lower limbs kline black and his wife are here on a five day furlough from chiq hi pamp mp in washington betyn jw n stevens was here from brovo sunday nelda watkins is here from mesa arizona she says her father is in fresno calif serving in the spanish american mission word conics comes to us as that parl parlay ev vincent redd has been made first cirit lieugene nt in the navy mrs wilford laws and mrs lawrence hawkins entertained entertain cd al a shower in honor of ormas and june who were married recently in salt city the shower was on wednesday at the laws home the young couple received many lovely and useful gifts A lovely lunch lur ah was served by the bride and the 91 grooms mother we wish yu much happiness folks ormas and june expect to make their home here in the wilford laws home mrs gloria jensen and children are visiting the fred jensens hensens in monticello this week jensens hensens expect their son niel home on ful fu lough soon he is here editor school will be out for the summer the last of this week of c ourse course the kids are all tickled pink and maybe some of the teachers too june laws was in from his ranch monday shopping and attending to business matters under the direction of harvey john kartchner the band gava a concert and lovely program sunday afternoon in honor of th 2 mothers of the town I 1 wish to take this opportunity to thank john on behalf of f all the parents for the splendid work he has done dona with the young folks the past school year alter after their recent visit here james H gardner and mrs virgil goates were taken to monticello by joe and marian nielson to catch the bus but the bus sch schedule E d had been changed and they missed it the bus leaves monticello 1 I at p m now im instead tead 0 of due to a change in train time A helquist was up from Indi indian creek saturday for a few days the ath grade had a party last friday night games refreshments and dancing were enjoyed by all present the small daughter of mr and mrs frank montella has been ill the past week with infection in in her head but is somewhat better now mrs marion black entertained 24 small guests at a party friday afternoon in honor of her son max on his ath birthday refreshments and games were enjoyed during the afternoon