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Show 'l,HE UTE SENTINEL Midvale,. Utah, Friday, January 4, 193:i WEST JORDAN NEWS ". ·---- .. MinvALE- · ·-· ·1 James H. Gaskell Dies r \ DAYS By Dorothy Maxfield down from the sky in soft white flurries. As far as the eye could seC; on every hand, there was a pictm·esque blanket of white, covering the ground. It seemed as if ~::verything that reared itself to the sky was doomed to be covered by a ma.nde of snowflakes. As I reached for my skiis, I marveled that Mother Nature could perform such a transformatjon in such a short time. Where before had been ugly sheds and trees, shorn of their leaves, now was a clean white blanket of snow. I walked gayly along kicking snow from side to side. 'When I reached the skii hill I saw several other brightly clad figures gliding gracefully dov-.rn the hill, shouting to each other as the ones goiilg dov.rn passed those coming up. I slipped on my skiis, started down and glorified in the fact that I was alive on such a day as today. Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Beckstead entertained at a Christmas dinner for the following members of their family: Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Becl-\:stead and two children, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Beckstead, Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Simper and two children, Toal Beckstead, Miss !line Saccus, Miss Hilda Beckstead, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Gamble and children and Bert and Wayne Beckstead. I · --Soczety-I -·--~------------····---------·---------..--_.._. Mrs. Kenneth Dunn entertained at a dinner at her home Sunday evening. Guest included Mr. and lVIrs. L. S. Rimington, Mr. and Mrs. Glen Lindahl, Mr. and Mrs. Zack Brawn, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Canning and Mr. and Mrs. Dunn. Later in the evening games were played, prizes going to Mrs. Rimington and Glen Lindahl. --oLadies of the Midvale Community club will celebrate the 14th. anniversary of the club Saturday, January 5, with a banquet and bridge. Mrs. John Aylett is in charge of all arrangements. Saturday Of Pneumonia 54, of James Henry Gaskell, East Midvale died at a Salt Lake City hospital Saturday morning of pnetrmonia. Mr. Gaskell was born in Layton, Kansas, Feb. 28, 1880. He has been a floation operator for the United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company for a number of years. · Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Della Roberts Gaskell; two sons Newton and Jimmie Gaskell of East Midvale; a stepson, Edward Wash.; three Parker, Seattle R. Knapp J. daughters Mrs. Omaha, Neb.; Mrs. L. C. Greer of Union, Miss Neva Gaskell of brothers, four East Midvale: Frank, Chester, Dick and Ben I Gaskell all of St. Maries, Idaho, and a sister Mrs. Ora Keegan of Spokane, Washington. Days,-what mysteries, joy, ::;adness, excitement, and peace thay hold for us-happy days filled \"Klith mirth and cheetiulness that animate one's spirit -lonely, despondEnt days that dawn softly with· --aquiet peace to fill the earth with and family Abbott A. C. Mr:s. wonderblind of sunshine-days and Mrs. Mr. of guests dinner were on wearily ment when one trudges Magna of Farnsworth Noble mid-days of lazy dozing under enterAbbott Mrs. day. Christmas .summer sun-uplifting days that· AbFloyd Mrs. and Mr. for tained bring- gladness of things well done and Shaw Hortence Miss bott, -Indian summer days when gaily Geo. and Lake Salt of Abbott Orin tinted leaves fall and turkeys beand Blaine Abbott during the gin to mourn-cold, clear days in week. queerwhen December late --o-o-shaped parcels and holiday: cheer Dunn Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Tuesday evening of last week fill the air-monotonous school at dinner Christmas the following couples formed a entertained <lays when the same laborious lestown guests were of Out day. dancing party: Mr. and :Mrs. Par~ !'.ons must be prepared- days when of Sandy and Whetman George ley Spratling, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh loved ones depart to the far beJames of George Mrs. and Mr. S. Finlayson, Mr. and Mrs. Emil yond, making us feel very desponII Murray. Tisch, Mr. and Mrs. Earl P. Batedent-days when little things per1 Utah's annual school census, --oman, Mr. and Mrs. Leo Gardner, "MERRY CHRISTMAS" turb us-days filled with irksome completed October 31 1934 shows of Silcox Sidney Mrs. and Mr. Mr. and Mrs. Newel Jensen and By Margie Brady tasks. a decrease in school popul~tion of Christthe spending are Riverton Mr. and Mrs. Marven Jensen. But days of all days that we love 775, it was shown in a report retheir with Midvale in holidays mas -abest are those days when gentle I It was twilight. The soft colSaturday. 1eased Mrs. and Mr. family, and daughter Friday a demonstration was 1 breezes fill the air, when tiny ored lights of the city streets for the year 1933 show Figures green appears above the ground, t;;rinkled through gray mists as the given in the Relief Society room John Crawford. a total of 149,068, while those com-o-and when robin red-breast warbles darkness came stealing on. Christ- by one of the art teachers of the for 1934 show a total of pleted Saturday leave will O'Brien Bob and Color making. quilt on C. A. mas was in the air. Even the cold, his sweetest melody. hleak wind seemed to whisper, design were the main features of morning for St. Mark's College, St. 148,950. Salt Lake City, Murray Mary's, California, after spending and Jordan school districts reflecthe demonstration. 1 ''It's Christmas", as it whizzed by. STAMP COLLECTING the holidays ·with his parents, Mr. ted a decrease of 164, accounting -o-Huddled against a cold stone buildBy Edwin Anderson for 20 per cent of the total deMrs. E. C. O'Brien. and Miss Nora Finlayson of Price, English C ing stood a little girl. Her clothcrease, while Granite showed an --o-time ing was worn but clean. Her gol- who has been visiting for some of ten in school popu1aincrease ' Conlde Richard and Olsen Bud Stamp collecting is one of the· den hair fell in soft ringlets about at the Cooley home, returned tion for morning Saturday leave will n10st important things a boy or her shoulders. Her body was cold home Saturday. The school census is taken each Sacrament Junior College. -og-irl can do in his leisure time. In and the icy wind kept stingling year for the purpose of determin. Mr. and Mrs. Vern Gardner . --o. at tics and cellars, in boxes and her little hands and face. Her deep MelVIn Mitchell and son Jumor ing how many inhabitants the state bags, in files and drawers and blue eyes reflected her misery and joined some friends and attended old envelopes are valuables which her tiny mounth drooped at the a party on New Years eve in returned S~day from an auto tour 1 has between the ages of 6 to 17 · d 1 arnve u pon the t o t as · • t me to Cedar C1ty· 1usive. people are unknowingly tossing out corners. The passersby hurrying Salt Lake. --oto the ragman. "What are they?" to their homes to spend the Christhome- and held the annual New 1 at in each <ll:strict, . school. f~ds Mrs. Zelia Holt spent the holi- Years family party. Besides the are ~otted, smce the const1tu~10n you ask. They are postage stanps, rnas Eve, scarcely noticed her. The 1 he smallest securities in the world. steady tread of passing footsteps days at the home of Mr. and Mrs. dinner, a drama was presented by provides that as nearly as possible 1 Stamps are worth twenty-five tramping over the icy sidewalk :Merle Allsop of Sandy. $25 annually shall be allotted for members of the family. achild of school age from the each I thousand _ hammers _ one-hundred ce:nts to were · like melancholy 0 Henderson George Mrs. doJlars apiece. More stamps are pounding in her heart, for while Mr. and J\frs. Myrtle Malstrom enter- 1 Ia.nd rental and stat~ di~trict school found in the family Bible than any- thr eager pedestrians were joyous entertained at a New Years eve tained on New Years da for her funds to school d1s_tr1cts. Other funds, such as the high school and Y . where else in the bouse, for it is a in their holiday preparations, there watch party for the following . equalization, are also affected by ! her of two and family and sJster sufe and handy place for keep- would be no Christmas for her. friends: Mr. and ~Irs. E. M. Bateschool population. the ' sakes. A confederate five-cent She hopea her mother would hurry, man. Mr. and Mrs. Axel Lundquist, nephews, all o.f Salt Lake. bluE' stamp issued at Livingston, for it was a trifle warmer in their I Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Bateman and Ala., during the Civil War was humble one-room home than out Mr. and Mrs. Bert Gooch of Midbought for two-thousand dollars on the street. vale. Progressive games were from the owner who had kept it After waiting until the cold played, prizes going to Mrs. Eudin a cigar box, SE:emed unbearable any longer, the ora Bateman, Axel Lundquist, E. I Age does not make a stamp little girl trudged down the street M. Bateman, and Mrs. Ivy Lundworth while, it is its rarity-due to the Uf'mt1ly lone ·dark room she quist. Refreshments were served. _ to some mistake in printing, and her mother occupied. Wearily 1 0_ cuught and corrected so promptly ~be opened the door and to her surMr. and :rvrrs. LaMar Burkenthat only a few get into circula- prise the room was warm and cozy. shaw of Salt Lal{e were dinner tion. How good the warmth felt to her guests of Mr. and J\.Irs. E. M. Bateman New Years day. little body. --oBATTLE SIDP BI..UE "Merry Christmas,'' called her By Dean Loveless Mr. and Mrs. wm. J. Leak en- 1 \ mother gathering her child in her English C tertained at dinner New Year's J . arms. "Mommy, how did you get here? day. Covers were laid for twelve. I' . . . · 1u d e d M rs. ste 11a p e t erthought G ues~.. s 1nc I waited on the corner and on the· Paci· · h · Dunng a vacatwn Ell d M: -1 f d didn't you but you meet ·would T the VISit to fic coast I had a c ance en !.lrs. amx y an seashore on one of those dull, ~orne. Oh- it's so nice and warm " ~on an -adreary days when .everything seems 8he exclaimed, her face lightin:g : earson. NOW ON DISPLAY b t 2 0~:: B · d t S · smile bright to be covered \VIth a blanket of illto a oy a ur ay evem~g a ou "I hurried home tonight and I frost and fog. Scouts, accompamed by Dell Haun, I wandered out over Horseshoe must have passed you, fer the snow Lenard Brown James Atwood ' ' P1er, at Long Beach to look at the was falling just enough that I Newell Jensen, Alfred 1Leon Porter, ,, . . small breakers on the largest body ' c M. could easily have rmssed you, the Furse, ward Scouters, . . : of water 1n the world, when my mother explained as she hugged Beckstead, Stake CommiSSIOner . . eyes caught sight of a huge obJ'ect · d · d Alb t 01son, enJoye · her little girl closer to her_. · ·. a SWimer The white haze materiaJized a huge More Power, More Comfort, More Style, "After we have some warm soup, mmg party. gray shape against the lighter More Economy, More Speed, More Value --a-background. As the unknown ob- I have a surprise for you, so hurry About 15 married couples formand let's eat." and More Pride in Ownership than any ject came closer I could then make Stake the attended and party a ed Soon the meal was finished and out one of Uncle Sam's Man of car ever built. War boats. It seemed to be trying the little girl sat on the edge of M. I. A. dance at Riverton New they reto push its way through the heavy the bed waiting for the surprise. Years eve, after which Mr. and of home the to turned blanket of frost and fog that cov- Mrs. Page then handed her daughered it so smoothly. It seemed as ter a package. Quickly, but care- Mrs. Marvin Jensen where refreshthough the fog was trying to dis- fully, the little girl untied the par- ments were served. -a-olve the battle ship in its thick eel. With tears in her eyes she mother he son of Mr. and around small arms Robert, her threw ·t il .. ens1 y. ·A few minutes later a boat was and exclaimed over the little dress Mrs. Rulon Goff, has been very Phone 87 MIDVALE 79 N. Main lowered from the sides of the that lay in it, "Mommy, I'm so ill with tonsilitus during the week. --()-"Man of War" and a crew of about happy. Santa didn't forget me ''''''''''""''''""''',... ••"-'u•••••••••••u•••••••••••"'''''"''''''''''''''''''....................... ............................................................. Mr. and Mrs. Henry W. Cooley eight men came to the long dock after all did he?.' "No, dear,u the mother whisper- entertained their family, and the where they were greeted by fellow officers of same uniform. They all ed against her cheek, her face ' following special guests at New got in the boat and proceeded back radiant with happiness. No one Years dinner: Mr. and Mrs. Russel Harold to the larger ship farther in the but the patient mother herself Stocking of Salt Lake, Through the Magic of the New Illustrovox fog. When the boat and men were would ever know how she had Hansen of Sandy, Clark Turner of You will be more than glad you made the visit again on board the mother ship, a saved in order that she might get Midvale and Duane Densley of few sharp whistles pierced the fog her little girl a dress for Christ- Riverton. ................................................, ,,.........,.......... ......,,,,,............................................................... .............. ........ --o-£lnd the boat was once again swal~ mas. lowed by another of Mother NaA New Years dinner party was ture's cold but interesting master given by Mr. and Mrs. Rulon Goff Copernicua' Theory pieces. Copernicus, the Polish astrono- honoring Mrs. Goff's parents and - - - -- - -was born in 1473 and died their family. Those present were: mer, THE SNOW in 1543. It was Copernicus who re- Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gardner, La By Bill Aspden .versed the universal belief that the Mar and Emma of Salt Lake, Mr . English C earth had no motion. Through ob- and Mrs. Hugh S. Finlayson and servations that took a lifetime, he children, and Mr. and Mrs. Albert other the bed of out As I jumped reached the conclusion that the Olson and children. -omorning my eyes beheld a glitter- earth rotates upon its axis and with ing expanse of snow on everything. the other planets revolves around 1 The family of Mr. and Mrs. The flakes were still drifting lazily the sun. Heber L. Gardner met at their U , tab s School Census I Shows Decrease Of 775 I I I I = Seet e Ne"' . I 1 I THE MIRACLE CAR OF THE AGE 127 Distinct Changes a.r: VISIT THE Webb Motor Company And See the 127 Changes . .. And Before You Buy A USED CAR Look at the Cars on our Lot and NOTE THE PRICES |