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Show Clipper j7 7 7 vcvvy A6 page Tuesday, November 5. Editor's Note: The following stories were printed m the Davis County Clipper 1892-1946- . New Gun Club Is Organized At Farmington Sportsmen in the community have recently organized the Farmington Gun club with Walter Jennings, president, Monroe Sill is vice president; Vince Hogge, manager and Barney Thomas, Ovv secretary-treasure- 1 99B county clerk, said Wednesday. Work will begin at once with numbering being done with the highway signs on LI. S. 91 start- ing at Farmington. Streets north of Farmington will be designated as north streets and those to the south as south streets. of the expense will be paid by the state and by the county. Mr. Two-third- s 23-ye- ar old boy; Wallace Williams, Gill Robinson, Jack Brown, Gordon Sly; Vince Hogge and Lee Burnham. Davis County Clipper announced West Point is the only school not offering the kindergarten course, but it may be given there at a later date, the superintendent said, in accordance with the policy of the board of education to offer the kindergarten to any community presenting a demand for the service. one-thir- d Major said Star Mothers Disorganize After 4 Years Of Service After more than four years of activity work, the Service Star Mothers, at a recent meeting, unanimously voted to discontinue the organization. Over eighty-fivwomen, composed of mothers and wives, or a sister, of men and women in the armed forces, have been members of the club and have been active participant. Some others have been employed in essential war induse forty-fiv- e r. The group shoots traps on Saturday and Sunday, west of town on the salt flats. There are 30 members with highest scores being made by Hal Brown, s Thirteen Schools of County Have Kindergarten Course All but one of Davis county's fourteen elementary schools are having summer kindergarten courses for children who will enter first grade next fall, Elmer J. Hartvigsen, superintendent of schools has Flowers Sent to Base Hospital Mrs. William Smith of Bountiful a member of the Red C ross camp and hospital committee, is delivering flowers to the navy base hospital during the month of June, according to Mrs. Bertha Muir, DavisCcounty Red Cross supervisor. tries. Activities of the organization have been: arrangements for a party at Lagoon for one hundred service men from Hill field; making and selling quilts to raise month to donate to the Red Cross and meeting monthly at Red Cross headquarters for sewing and other work. Many Red Cross activities have also been made in the homes of these women. School Windows Broken at Layton And Centerville Fifty windows of the Layton public school building have been broken recently. Ivan Hess, clerk of the Davis county board of education, said Wednesday. Damage was done by rocks thrown and shot through the windows with flippers, he said. The same thing has happened within the last week at the Centerville public school causing heavy destruction to taxpayers property. Delinquents, when apprehended, are required by the juvenile court to Mumps Head April List of Diseases The Davis county health department, under the direction of Dr. Keith Barnes, deputy state health director, has issued a health bulletin for the county for April showing that mumps was the predominant communicable disease. Other communicable Davis voters backed loser in 1896 race dis- eases are chickenpox, 114; scarlet fever, 4; syphilis, 5, and whooping cough, 58. Births for March were 138 and deaths, 43. Bountiful City Lets Contract For Reservoir The contract for the construc- tion of a four million gallon concrete ground storage reservoir was awarded to the Perkins Construction Co., Salt Lake City, Wilfred H. Williams, city recorder, announced Friday. The reservoir will be in addition to the present water storage and distribution system of Bountiful city. Total amount of the contract is for $20,651.16. Work will begin on or before May 20 and will be completed by August 20, 1946, Mr. Williams 14-fo- of both ankles when he leaped to the ground to avoid the flkames. William Henrie, road oil workman, also of Bountiful, also leaped and suffered leg inhuries of undetermined extend, though it was though his hurts were not serious. Pioneer honored An 1859 handcart pioneer was honored Sunday, August 4, when approximately 300 descendants of Charles W. Mann and his two wives, Laninia Smith and Annie Bushby Mann, met in an annual reunion at Liberty Park. Luncheon was served at 2 p.m. after which a fine program followed. A report was given by Leone M. Newton as to the number of young men entering the service of their country and it was noted that 83 participated in various branches, 3 paid the supreme sacrifice, 4 are bearers of the purple heart, the silver star, two individual families gave five sons each and there are still 11 men in active duty. Mountain State Telephone al shortages, the number had increased only to 897. The 444 telephones installed during the past year, bringing the total to 13541, is a greater increase than was made during the preceding Plans four years. Gatchel Schools Improved At Woods Cross told the house appropriations committee, during hearings on the 1947 appropriation bill introduced yesterday. It is our largest operation The South Bountiful school has been painted and renovated during the summer and is now in fine Gatchel said the number of enlisted men at the depot will be reduced a great deal and the number of civilians will be increased in some categories. A payroll of about 5300 is contemplated, compared to a peek of 5618. WTe are going to perform there a lot of functions that were performed at a number of other activities that re cut down at other places, Gatchel said. war-tim- e Layton Colonel Released After Four Years Service Lt. Col. Frank D. Adams, Layton, has been released from the AAF after four and years service. Called to duty in December, 1941, his first assignment was that of camp comone-ha- lf mander, Indian Springs, Nev. where aerial gunners received final training before going overseas. Col. Adams is the only World War I command pilot who has graduated from a World War II bombardier school. Lyman System Of Street Marking Accepted By Davis The Lyman system of street numbering in Davis county has been accepted by the county commissioners, R. Bruce Major, Elmer condition, Supt. today and will remain so because when we close out a number of smaller storage activities all over the country, this particular depot will remain. It is in our postwar plan to keep it. The only construction contemplated there is a 50,000 garage incinerator. During the postwar period, & Telegraph Co. stated this week. On June 30, 1941, telephone in service in Kaysville numbered but 538. By June, 1945, due to materi- The Clearfield, Utah, Naval Depot is to be a pat of the navys postwar establishment. T. D. Two workmen at the Wasatch Oil Refining Company refinery at Woods Cross were injured today when a flash firetrapped them on a platform. Reed Thompson, 42, bountiful road oil workman, suffered frac-tur- s all-tim- Supply Depot Figures in Commander Refinery Fire in Woods Cross Inures Two Telephone Service In Kaysville Reflects Progress The Kaysville telephone service with 1341 telephones installed and most orders filled, has reached an e high. E. H. Scoffield, local manager of the said. Post-Wa- r work and pay damages, Mr. Hess said. G. Hartvigsen stated. A steel and concrete stairway is being built into the West Bountiful school, he added. Centerville Lions Oppose Hunt Saying that there are not Pre-Seaso- FOUR MORE YEARS: Republican William McKinley won the 1 896 presidential election, but without the votes of most Davis County voters, who cast their ballots for the democrat William Jennings Bryan. Doneta Gatherum Contributing Writer Utah was granted statehood on Jan. 4, 1896. This was an election year and so in November, Utahs citizens had to choose between Democrat William Jennings Bryan and Republican William McKinley for President of the U.S. Bryan was also a candidate for the Independent Republican party and the People's party. His running mate was Arthur Sewall unless you voted for the Peoples party which ran Thomas E. Watson for vice president. A hundred years ago Salt Lake and Ogden newspapers actively supported political candidates. David Evans from Ogden predicted in the Salt Lake Herald, I am not a religious fanatic but I verily believe the Divine hand is controlling in this contest. Bryan is the greatest political proselyter the world has ever seen." In the names of electors" who would represent the state in the electoral college were printed on the ballot. The democratic electors, who supported Bryan, won in Utah by a 40,000 vote majority. The voters in Davis Countys eight precincts cast 1560 votes for the d Democratic electors and only that number for the Republican electors. McKinley won nationally with 61 percent of the electoral vote. William H. King was elected to be Utahs only member of the U.S. House of Representatives. By 1900 the number of voting precincts in Davis County had increased from 8 to 16. They were South, West Bountiful (1), Bountiful 18, one-thir- (2), Centerville, Farmington (1), Farmington (2), Kaysville (1), Kaysville (2), Layton (1), Layton (2), South Weber, Clinton, Clearfield, Syracuse and South Hooper. The number of voting districts in the county stayed the same until 1916 when Woods Cross districts replaced the South and West precincts and the number of districts in Bountiful was increased to three. In 1900, Davis County voters selected Kaysville resident John G.M. Barnes, a Democrat, to be a state senator. He received 1375 votes while his Republican opponent, Ephraim R Ellison, got 1253 votes. Utahs state constitution was only four years old when the people were asked to approve six state constitutional amendments. In 1904, political groups urged the Sat Lake Tribune readers to, Free yourself from the Priesthood...the priesthood holders trust will be brought to an end and the American spirit will extend to every part of Salt Lake County." This criticism was used again in the 1908 elections against Republican U.S. Senator Reed Smoot. In 1908, the Salt Lake Tribune advised, Americans should vote before noon today. Unless Americans vote before noon today the thugs employed by the grafting county ring and the federal gang will attempt to obstruct the voting and shut out Americans, Socialists and Democrats in the congested districts. Vote early and then help to rustle for the votes of the tardy ones. If Americans do their duty today the reign of Smootism and the officer holders will end. William Spry, a Republican Mormon, was elected governor and Smoot retained his U.S. Senate seat. In 1912 the Davis County Republican electors, favoring William Howard Taft, received only 120 more votes than the Democrats who supported Woodrow Wilson. Margaret Zane Witcher, a woman, was one of the Republican electors, Utah was one of only two states to give a majority of votes to Taft. The Progressive parly with Theodore Roosevelt as its candidate carried six states. Davis Countys state senator was John W. Thomley. He received 231 more votes than incumbent John G.M. Barnes. One of the eight proposed state constitutional amendments read, Shall section 4 of Article 14 be amended to permit fixing the limit of indebtedness of counties, cities, towns and school districts. This amendment wasn't interesting to Davis County residents. There were only 103 yes votes and 595 no votes cast. Statewide, this amendment that reminds us of a 1996 issue received 9,122 yes votes and 25,004 no" votes. n enough deer in the mountains east of Bountiful, Centerville and Farmington even for the regular hunting season, the Centerville Lions went on record at their Monday meeting as opposing a or deer hunt in Davis county and near-bpre-seaso- n post-seaso- n y mountains. According to Marlow Fisher, president, the organization is in favor of building up the herds and believe that thinning them out back in the mountain will not get rid of the few deer that are bothering farmers along the foothills. The resolution was sent to the fish and game department of the state. The Lions also went on record as favoring support of the Bamberger Railroad co. in preference to a bus line, Mr. Fisher said because of its excellent service and the taxes that they pay to the county and state. Davis County Wages War On Rats The Davis county health department will begin a rat extermination campaign the first week in September by treating 11 garbage dumps in the county with 1080 a deadly chemical. Residents living near the dumps are warned to keep cats, dogs and other animals at home as the poison is no respector of animals, according to Dr. health director. D. Keith Barnes, |