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Show 4 Pag March 31, 1961 BLAlfDIKG OUTLOOK Fourth Graders Write History of Blanding few street fourth Mrs, Guymon's And signs graders roads Park Terraos School have saeh very modem Post Office and very written "History, of Blanding" as good servioe stations. We have a Sooial. Studies assignment. modem eleotric limits. We have Three of them appear below very good schools , and blaok top with authors1 piotures play grounds. We have very nioe at desks. We have plenty of oil Lots of trucks' take the different places. We tle have a ways out pretty new saw rifrt upBanto daddy, built the today. F, Pendleton, Post Office Bank and is going to on the new Library, mill, tdio lived man Mexican's horsef would keep odming . over on my The next door ' great-grandfath- land, er's and. the day hs went to. the .Mexican's to-- , keep hi lay stone home and asked him horses home. It made him mad sc . he shot my: .great-grandfatMost 'of the. people 'iwvfd here when they were driven 'Out, Blanding wasn't naeied. yet. her wells. oil to There was a Grayson,' It is a nursing, They have a good road out to it. We have lots of modern oourts. My dered by a Mexican mill a lit- of town. good saw grown Harvey James Douglas named Nellie woman She knew a lot about Whenever someone was Sometimes was there . siok she the people couldn't pay her but The she helped them anyway. trailer people wanted the town namefli after Nellie Grayson,. So the town ms named Grayson; Luoretla Rannywas sitting on the fenoe one day when she was asked to be a sohool teaoher. People have been' coming in to the trailer oourts. have a nioe heated outdoor swimming pool and we have a nice Wo park, The sohool.. was a first tent. Utter they built a school house, adA Mr, Bioknell named man vertized that he would give a ILENE HARVEY The people had already settled Bluff and Manticello. President Hammond was president of the He over looked this stake. CLYDE HELQUIST had got to where they had We found out that Cotton Wood would t would when even they, twist ana curl up So they could ''down. weighted So some started to not use not do for lumber, 1 . country and thought utiful, Walter C, it it. them arouqd and try to find wood that could do for lusher. Some of the men , went up to the Blue Mountain to find lumber, But it They called it jAbajo, scout was a long After this to go from had gone on way long time they made it was bea- Lyman there would be a town told on The people didn't the Mesa, town oould be made there think a beoause there wasn't enough water. GARY PENDLETON a sawmill In first letter he had to Bioknell, it's the told poeple of Grayson, changed He reoeived name that he would give them half of the library if they ohanged their name,to his. wife's maiden . So name, Blanding, . name ohanged it's my have water to would oome up from would - . t . - then they would put oement around the inside of the hole so the water wouldn't get the ground, dirty. Then5 they would hole with water, oould That way , pump an hour, ? Some of went to. Blanding in them two or it. It later got eleotric Blanding . lights. Every night at ten or ten thirty the lights would go out. Later oil and uranium was found near Blanding, Now it has stores, drugstores, show houses, barber- -, post of flee, cleaners, shop, beauty shops, lumber yards dress shop, a hotel and motels, bank, hobby shop, service stations, and a news paper of floe Blanding has many other things too, I like Blending very much, SCOUT BAKE SALE SAT. Explorer Seouts, Troop 2312, will hold a bake sale Saturday1 at the Parley BE WISE - Redd Mercantile, ADVERTISE it There was a town! to Bicknell, But another town had sent in out in Wayne .County who wanted! the library and 'the town Grayson too. So Mr, Bioknell asked wanted too, i The town out in Grayson would take hie wife's Grayson Wayne County sent its letter to maiden name. Blending, said would town one and man reoeived before the Grayson they the if Vfecn mail from power-pla- nt Thom- and would turn it on about 6 or got the books' all they were were they 7 am, and turned it off at law ana record booxs and vary The name of 10:30, at 10:00 they would give faw reading books. Oroya on was changed to. Blending, a warning. Yes, sir. Blending sure has. Now we have nice blaok top , Area's Largest Stock of Residential and Commercial Wiring Supplies Bus, PHO. 2676 took three hours, the library. name Grayson his wife's maiden a system to get name and name the other town his pson, They built a ti en they name and so they did, when- the people town. They named it Gray- if a town was willing to change son because of the nice lady. their town's name to Bicknell There was a, man who had a they would receive a library, needed a library. Grayson library. He said that anybody who changed their name and made They sent a letter saying they his name he would give them would change their town's name he; got the letter half of the library, 3hy got their mail from Bluff from Grayson he said that h e would divide the library up and but they wanted mail mors than give each half; if they would onoe a week so they worked out the they ever they needed it; Later they got water pipes, Franoes Neils on who lived in .Bluff was the first one to have a oar. The oar went ten mil as this did, fill the water out great-grandfath- er, it Grayson to Blanding, : town chapter in 31uff you drink.theyMen recall they needed wood and Bluff to werk on the ditch. They ber they brought it down to kthe started a sawmill, 'would come up for a week or long The men who worked at the sawsaw ri.ll,? Some of the men bring their own mill needed water. They decided er. They had to worked brought- their tents up and stayTor three food. If they to dig a ditch and they worked months ed for three or. .four niits. they would get a plaee. to There was one, man by the name on it whenever they could. build their house on. Some time President Hanmond and Walter of Walter C, Lyman, who came up later the men working on the C. Lyman thouit White Mesa was here and got on! a rock and looko&lled to go on missHe 3aid this beautiful country and they also ditch were ed the 'lend over. So the dltoh was stopped would be .& good place to be! thought some day there would be ions, for at least two years. settled, One reason it was not a settlement there. The land was divided into 25 The men working at the sawmill a good place to.be settled was blocks, Eadh family would get because there was not any water. laid out 25 blocks each containof a blook. There were five Then they started to build ing 4 acres. blocks one way and 5 blocks the They gave each man who worked ditohes to get water so they other way, Eaoh family would There was 3 months on the ditch an acre of have room oould settle there. for a home and a crop. a nan who said that anybody who land. Brother Albert R, Lyman and So, because of that, 4 familwould work on the ditch f o r were the his wife and three months would get en acre ies stayed there, that winter, first to make daughter a permanent home of land. After they had finish- and the town increased In poin Blanding, They oame in the ed the ditohes , they startod to pulation, That sunnier six year of 1905, Nellie Grayson was a good womove up here, (One of the first When wifamilies moved here. people to move .up here was the man and would tend to the siok nter two of the families began, Albert for anything they wanted to give Albert R. Lyman Family, Okie moved, family went back to R, Lyman is still living. After her. So, the town was named Grayson. Bluff so their children could go he moved up here many of the Lucretia Lyman was sitting on to sohool. people of Bluff. moved up here. The next spring many families President Hammond There was one family that mov- a fenoe and ed up- here there was a woman by asked her to teach sohool and moved to Blanding, They've been oomlng for years and years. the name of Nellie Grayson who she said she would. The people in Mexico were drivnewest They tried to get the was not a doctor but cared for en out by the Mexioans, Before Ideas in living, the siok, were A man out driven there was a by the name of Bioknell they After they had moved up there My they wanted to have a nmae for put an ad in the paper. It said murder, where Four Comer Auto Supply is now, Anu so when they got lum- -; said they would. But- - he had reSo the ceived another letter. Some of the people of Blanding started digging a dltoh from the Blue Mountain to had a olstern, - It was like a Blanding, So if there was a well , They would dig a hole in The people Bluff, for a town that would library to any name t o Bioknell change its Grayson, wrote baok to him Res, PHO. 2907 |