Show H H H I Il l Looh ng i 1 acl II i I f By Dy SAM JR J 4 7 rr r H i i i i. i 1 Although we had net seen him for tor I i imore more than 30 years recent news of the passing pasting of John A A. A Johnny Malta Malla was I received with son sorrow ow In the old days he often was a jovial member of or our social gatherings and I Ican 11 cnn can picture him now too as all he so often strolled Into The Record office to talk to Dad and the others of us to tell tella a story or perhaps to tell us about the play or the new musical comedy he had seen in Salt Lake City because he was wasa a lover of the theatre and seldom missed missed missed miss miss- ed the good things at the old Salt Lake theatre and the Orpheum Ue and Frank were bosom boom pals In those times We regret that in later years we never had opportunity to reminisce with Johnny Among the tokens of sociability In Park City In the early lly received recently from Rome Paxton is a Score Clui Club New Years Year's card one of which Incidentally Is ia preserved among our own souvenirs Printed on a yellow card In black Ink club club colors were gold and black the black the card carries a small Email fe of an old- old fashioned street sprinkling wagon with the Inscription On the Water Wagon Continued on Page Fags Looking Backward Continued from Page One In 1906 1008 A Happy and Prosperous New Year and the names of officers and members member of the club lub ad M follows tollow I i iSam Sam H H. H president Hal hIal D. D Crossfield secretary James Jame Kesel John A. A Malta Malla Will McFall Jerome Paxton Marshall Pearson George Quinn James Shields Claude Armstrong John Fitzpatrick Fitz- Fitz patrick Stanley John Hurley I Harry Hall lIall Joe Quinn Rob Roy Frank Shields Lee Talbot Frank Warren Will Bates Bate I 1 I Just what were the details of the birth of the Score Club weve we've forgotten but the boys boy were a live bunch and did not nota I i ia a little to brighten life Ufe for themselves themselves- and for tor the community 1 Membership was wa limited to twenty No member was taken In until one dropped out or moved away I j I IThe The first club house was wa on lower I Norfolk avenue and later It was a house I Ion on Park avenue just below the stone tone C schoolhouse C e n t r a 1 I. I or Washington school It was in our day The quarters quarter were comfortably furnished with cozy corners corner filled with picture rover pillows pil pU- pillows lows popular at the time adding an Inviting touch And we had a piano The club went In ln for entertainment in a rather big way The dances It sponsored sponsored sponsored spon spon- such as all on Valentine day for tor In Instance instance In- In stance when old Maple hall was Wall decorated decorated decor decor- lavishly with red cardboard hearts and arrows and paper festoons were quite the tops top In social functions The Score Club minstrel shows were really something too They sparkled with local talent and vied with those put on by the Elks coached by one Rufus RUlus K Love Often Indeed the same talent performed In both On occasion the shows were taken to Coalville and to Heber where the performances were usually usually usually ally followed by a dance dance and and sometimes sometime by a fight tight It became an established custom with Score Club members member to pair off oU and entertain other members member on one night each week usually Friday or Saturday at a Dutch lunch To begin with the menus were simple I as was the Intention Sandwiches pickles olives cheese and crackers cracker coffee and pie or cake But as time went on each coup o ot the fellows tellow tried to ou outdo tao the previous weeks week's hosts hota and by the time It H got around to Johnny Malta Malla and myself my my- sell self we were serving little short of a banquet As we recall Johnny and I left an time all high for for the boys boy to remember r because the dub club dissolved for tor some reason or another soon after atter that One little Incident in in connection with the Score Club remains sharp In memory The club had acquired from tram some source a huge beer bottle One night I the boys boy conceived the idea of 01 having It filled We loaded the bottle on a wagon hauled It U up to the Oak and asked Henry to Spriggs fill er up He lie did from the tap behind the bar It must have held five gallons or more and when we asked him what we owed him he said Twenty cents cent That's all allI I ever charge for a bottle Dottie of ot beer No one who ever knew him Is la likely to forget torget Henry Spriggs S n nIt It could not have been so very long after Hal lIal D. D was secretary of 01 the Score Club that he made real news new In ln Park City news new more sensational than the camp had known for tor a number of ot years year Hal lIal disappeared And what seemed even more important Important Important tant a considerable sum of Wells Welle Fargo Express company money disappeared with him Wells Fargo be It known since the days day of ot the Pon Pony Express and the Overland stage holdups had never let I anyone get away with any of 01 Its It funds If 11 it could help it It and the company made quite an effort to track lid hat down But so BO far tar as a. we know he has ha never been located from that day to this Crossfield was Wells Fargo agent In Park City In an office Just above Mrs Hodgson's Jewelry store store formerly formerly the late L. L E. E Hubbard's Hubbards Jewelry store and before belore that the site of ot Bob Dob Bi Brogle- Brogle ogle ogle- mans man's restaurant Boy Doy that was a long time ago Seems ms too that F F. F A A. A McCarty had or r had had at one time a Jewelry tore store in the rooms room occupied by the express office At any rate Crossfield who had come from the South Kentucky as a. we re recall recall re- re call soon Boon was a well known figure on Main street treet and in the best beat homes In ln the community He fIe was plump polite affable b r a good entertainer an and 1 good c J PUY p ny ge generally e 1 9 Express pres used to CO from Salt Bait a alto ake o. o every on the 10 30 o'clock R R. R O G tra train train Jim n Jim Langford con conn tt ictor Du Buck k Snider brakeman Bywater engineer Jim Edgar fireman Edgar was Wa later killed when the engine engine en en- gine glue tipped over not far below the depot on an outgoing Bywater Jumped through the r win In ln- ln dow and suffered a broken leg Weve We've forgotten l name of the Jf German hilly Dilly who used mod to rJ ribs vp up with th the the- express In tn the baggage car Tom Reynolds Reynold had the Job later Anyway one morning Billy grove drove the he big horse that pulled the Wells Fargo wagon up to tho office office wasn't open as a. It should have been Seems at this far day that U it was a t morning after a payday and a Sunday and a h holiday that had come in a row so that the normal schedule had been upset at best Be De that as a. It may the express office was wa locked First thought was that might have been out late celebrating celebrating cele cele- brating and was wa sleeping In But Dut inquiry In Inquiry Inquiry In- In failed to 0 locate him at any of his hili favorite haunts haunt I Mere alarm at Hals Hal's disappearance was followed by suspicion fully confirmed upon investigation of the company safe and books book that he had skipped and skipped and with all the company's funds on which heb he had been able to lay his hia hands hand I It was quite shocking shocking but but true I The amount Involved other details of the case are forgotten but although reward was posted and company agents I were put on the trial we believe that I Hal was wall never located to explain I t things I The manner of his hi departure from Park also was wa a mystery j j I No one had seen him leave town Passenger traffic In those days day was not so 0 heavy but what trainmen would have remembered seeing him unless him unless s he were disguised The livery stables stable had no rigs rig nor horses overdue Maybe he walked out Our own theory however Is that he helett left lett disguised as a woman probably on the early morning U. U P P. P train for Coal Coal- yUle vUle Echo and points poInt beyond This Idea stemmed maybe from the circumstance that Hal once attended a masquerade ball baU In womans woman's clothing clothing and and got by with It very nicely a Mention of disguises recalls again the Score Club and our old friend Lee Talbot who In all an of or our shows show dl did 1 a a. a female Impersonator act and oct and did It very creditably About that time the late Julian Eltinge was a national figure as an impersonator Impersonator impersonator Im im- im- im on the Orpheum circuit and with his own company and It was waa natural natural na na- na- na tural enough that amateur theatricals should Include such a number The program would Include also somo omo plain and fancy juggling and a sensational sensational sensational sensa trunk escape act by the late Will WUI Swift McFall our local Houdini Hou dini number by Frank Shields a man end-man Interlude by Johnny Malta MalIa trombone specialties by Stanley Osaka Would that we had at hand one of ot the old programs that we might recall re recall recall re- re call and mention all of the performers all They were stars eAn e An Interesting a recent old days day paragraph about Mrs Mr Fred Jennings JennIng Ella Burlin comes in a letter from our sister Miriam Mrs Mr E E. D. D of or Provo advising that Mrs Mr Jennings Jenning and her two children whom children whom we remember as a. a charming little girl girland girland girland and an attra attractive lad Jad now are living In Provo And so the old world goes round and round |