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Show , Mi. and Mm. parley Redd A man who says he never 6 Page makes a mistake is untruthful, usually, about other things, too. DLANDIKG OUTLOOK April 3, 1959 The fellow who is first to ar- office and last to rive at the leave at night probably has very poor bus service to his neck of News Items the woods. If you like walking, get a reputation for not tipping cab drivers. Sy Mrs. H. E. BUk The Sunday School children en- on the joyed an Easter egg hunt Church lawn at the Community before Sunday School time. to Aneth Oil field trip back to Bluff by the river Sunday for a little visit. seeing and a road The extra song service most enjoyable feature of the J, M, Bailey is again a Easter service, both at Sunday patient in the San Juan County School and Worship service at Hospital, New babies just getting registho Community Church Easter tered are: & son for Mr, and Sunday. and Mrs, Mrs, F. 3. Redd, Frank Bennlon, Mrs, Grace Campbell born March 20; Mr. and Mrs, Thelma Harral will be in attenWomen's Spring Richard H. Pehrson are parents dance at the of a daughter, Del era Sue, bom Rally at Ogden cn Friday. wedding March 21; Mr, and Mrs, Leonard The social W, Hurst are parents of a son, was a nice Saturday was . Slven-Okerlu- Beginning For Prosperous Blanding Store Humble Parley Redd, wife and his with Ruth, his- - in a granary was friends and relatives were in attendance. The gifts at the reception were a generous and lovely. After short trip the newlyweds will be at home in Konticello for a time , on the lot by the Parley Redd Mercantile and had begun a me- It three months before they got a few simple pieces finally was career that rchandising of furniture. In August of 1912 destined to attain great promin- they got a small frame home ence in the area. built in the southwest part of In this first store there were town and moved there where they no shelves and the only counters lived for forty four years towere boards layed on barrels. During this time three In a small leanto at the side gether, and five boys came to there was a barrel of coal oil daughters their family. One daughter and furnished that lights for the one son passed away, and the town, and often before the other six ware raised in this freirt got in from Dolores the home. was 4-co- rners coal oil gave out and people had to do without lights. This brick building had a long porch along the front and served as a resting place for the men who to visit, and whittle. floor had to be replaced a had time This The town soon the small. tors, began little to grow, and store was too in 1916 the direcH. L, Redd, W, H, Redd, So James many Mr, Bayles, & son, David Glen March born 22; and Mr, and Mrs, Alex Ketchum are parents of twin sons born March 28, one weighing 6 lb, 1 oz, and the other 6 lbs, Donald Blake family took a sight morning. complete other stockholders and changed the name to Parley Redd Mercantile, Then this' store became too small and in 1946 they built an addition at the west, to house a modern grocery store with lockers for frozen food and an meat department. At this tine the rook store was remodeled for dry goods and up-to-d- hardware. of the sons, Vincent, Kent, and Gordon bought out their father. Their father continued to help them until his death In 1955, Still the town grew and it Human the edge to protect knives of it from the the whlttlers. Parley and Ruth's first home Redd, Redd, was THEIR 1939 Parley bought out the its founding. A Jones, Chester Burton Redd, Keith Redd, Marge Blaok, Audrej Nelson, Flora Huntsman, and Present employees at the store are: Beulah Payne, Dora Bayles, Bernice Helqjdrt, Wilma Browning, Dorothea Guymon, Robert McAfee, Lillian Helco, Bertha Watkin. Dale Jones, Tommy Hacking, Frj Redd, George Maricn, Otis Wrigft by-no-ra- sans STORE HAS TOP QUALITY PLUMBING THROUGHOUT W Hecffin ORB-326- 2 m&x more. NEW INSTALLED Lucy LaMolne Lloyd Redd, So Many familiar Blanding names in half of the store. It seemed such a large building at are on the list of clerks who have worked in this store since the time. In includes son Nix, Ityrna Nielson Kimmerle, Josephine Harris Bayles, Maggie Hurst Harvey, Joe Redd, Bemloe Redd Helquist, Dr, Warner Hardy, Parley Hurst, B, Frank Redd, Ruth Jones Nielson, Louisa Redd Lyman, Genevieve Blaok, Tracy ate In 1952 three list Carroll, Ada Helquist Stowell, Minnie Redd Tangreen, Margie Hurst Dora Hirst Lyman, Boyles, Stevens Lois Rogers Velyn Bayles Redd Hazel Vldmore, Porter, Alice Redd Tacket, Lucille John- time or because it whittled up and finally badly they had an iron piece put along dance was so two j are parents of Jones, necessary to build again. and D, J, Rogers others decided Vincent, Kent and Gordon have to build a new rock store on the just added an 8,000 square foot comer, Vlhen this was completed super market, of which their before they moved in they had a father would be proud. Hanson Leonard, born March 24 Mrs, Wesley G, Hoggi and 7. ozs. Burk, grandMrs. Margaret Mr and and The DUP met last Friday at the mother of the bride and uncle home of Mrs, Ann E, Hyde. Mrs. C. G. Wilkin, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Christenaunt of the bride were in attendJoanne attended the sen and ance from Raton, New Mexico, and Arches Sunrise service on Easter The Milton Nielson family Co-- op ooeupied and affair brother Wiley where John and Minnie Johnson what arrived in is now Blanding now lives, and they got their on June 12, 1911, With their water out of the ditch that run arrival the population of the across the street. It was imas Gray- possible to get anything to set settlement, known then ' son, swelled to 310, with so they up hou?3 In a short while Parley had borrcd akeeping, stove with a crack gone to work for the Grayson across the top and one leg and in a new brick building three bricks to hold it up, also west of the site now a bed and used boxes for chairs. Just nd BLANDING, UTAH , i |