Show LOCAL AND PERSONAL J E snyder left monday fori grand junction on business D M cooper left tuesday for his home at lo 10 angeles after spend i mg several weeks here on business C J meador and lester walker i were visitors at the fore plait of the week mrs J L dougan md mrs R J fletcher left tuesday mining for a several hays visit at salt lake city mr and mrs G A harris and youngest child were from their home at bilgin tuesday 1 judge L L crapo pioneer moaby citizen who has been seriously ill duang the winter is reported to be i I 1 improving steadily which will be I 1 pleasing news to his many finds I 1 tom stock of moab who is work ing in the coal mines t ai carbon county sustained a badly broken leg last week and will be con fined to his bed for some time miss morrow i dent of the local hospital left yes berday for salt lake city on a two weeks leave of abs cence fram duty at the hospit lal R G dark tegid J T learning who with mrs dark and mrs learning had visited at salt lake city for ten days returned home yesterday they started back to moab with a new truck and new car for the moab gabage Gai age but were to leave the car at soldier summit on account of excessive snow they managed to get the truck over the mountain after shoveling snow all day monday rev john S stump nsf new york city church edifice secretary of the american baptist home mission so loiety was a visitor in moab thursday he stopped off between trams to visit rev and mrs bonu thon wood old time friends mr stump who was formerly in charge of mis sion work in utah is well known to many members of the local baptist i church having visited at moala on I 1 several occasions he was recently promoted to the responsible position rhe now holds and spends aluch of his time traveling over the country on church construction business during the month of february tha spjute spent 41 in highway main cenance in grand county according to a report issued yesterday by tha state auditor constructed at a cost of more tefan the hotel bigelow at og den is now open to the public it i a 14 story building and haa duesi rooms each with bath the winter now drawing to a close hig been ideal for livestock accord ing to local cattle and sheep men the abundance of snow and rain ha enabled stock to anft aver a wide territory in search of grass and a result cattle land sheep are nearly as sat as they were last fall when they daantje off the mountains this has been the best winter for stock that has been had in southeastern utah for many years the stockmen stoc kmen say ikast nights heavy ram storm which brought inches of o f precipe tation caused a small flood in mill creek filling the reservoir of the utah power light company ditl sand As a result it was necessary to suspend electric service all day to day to sluice out the pond this is sue of the burtes independent is de bayed about ten hours on account of the alck of power the program of road construction for the year 1927 is the largest ever undertaken by the state road corn mission according to chief engineer II 11 S kerr many projects tore being whipped into shape for immediata im and within the next six weeks the 1927 road construction campaign will be under way one 0 the first projects to be up in eludes the 10 miles from monticello Manti cello to peters hill the c contract cr this section has already been let and operations will commence within a few weeks |