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Show FROM OUR dIF FILES tion for A ration book by September Sep-tember 10 . . . From all indications, indi-cations, hunters will be able to get shells this fall . . . Mark Whiting has been promoted from an ensign to a lieutenant Junior grade in the Navy. 20 Years Ago Victor Frandsen, first vice-president vice-president of the Utah Education Educa-tion Assn., left Sunday to attend at-tend the 4-day conference of officials at Yellowstone Park . . .. Mrs. Emma S. Taylor is convalescing from a recent operation op-eration for appendicitis . . . J. W. Whiting Co. was low bidder at $46,723.50 for construction of four bridges and building several miles of road on the Yellowstone Park highway . . . J. F. Wingate has been elected Lt.-Governor of the South Ki-wanis Ki-wanis District . . . Five new j, 15 Years Ago Mr. and Mrs. James Allen of Mapleton, have received the air I medal presented the son, Lt. Evan E. Allan somewhere in England. He has been overseas since early in June . . . Word has been received of the death i of the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Pierce, shortly after birth at Blanding, Utah . . . Funeral services were conducted con-ducted Tuesday for Nelson Wright, 69, who was fatally injured in-jured in an automobile accident on Main St., early Sunday morning. mor-ning. His wife Mrs. Pearl Wright, was seriously -injured in the same accident . . . Miles Curfew has moved to Springville Spring-ville to set up a new barber business . . . Announcement is made of the engagement of Miss Phyllis Bramall to Blaine Harmer of Mapleton . . . All motorists must secure applica- drough conditions present a serious typhoid fever condition, health officials reported this week as they urge everyone to take precautions against the dread disease. 30 Years Ago Milton Harrison, bookkeeper for J. M. Nichols, is convalescing convales-cing from a recent major operation op-eration which he underwent in Salt Lake . . . Double funeral services for Wm. T. Wignall and his son, Mark Wignall who died as result of being struck with lightening Sunday afternoon, after-noon, will be held in the Second Sec-ond ward chapel Thursday. Mr. Wignall was instantly killed and the son died Monday of shock and severe burns. Mrs. Wignall sitting in the family automobile witnessed the tragedy. tra-gedy. She had been with them just minutes before . . . Lightening Light-ening struck a large walnut tree at the J. M. Groesbeck home Friday and followed a clothesline into the house, breaking a large mirror . . . Members of the State Training School commission visited sites in Utah, Sanpete and Juab county this week for a state training school. teachers are added to the high school faculty this year Glen Christensen will have charge of mathematics; Edward Christensen, Christen-sen, type and commercial; Glen Turner, art; Glenn Coffman, junior high mathematics . . . Springville Scouts will be taken on a sight-seeing trip to Salt Lake City Monday . . . Housewives House-wives were being advised to get their bottles ready for the peach harvest which will get underway next week. 25 Years Ago Fire of undetermined origin burned some 35 tons of hay belonging be-longing to Arthur Finley at the A. W. Finley farm, 101 East Fourth No. St. Tuesday morning. Damage was estimated estimat-ed at $350 . . . Utah's drough which has destroyed about 75 percent of the crops was set back by heavy rains of this week . . . Packing of green tomatoes to-matoes began at the Ross Breezoff packing house on So. Main this week, approximately 150 acres here and at Salem have been contracted . . . Thousands of people from this and surrounding cities were here for the mammoth two-mile two-mile long Black Hawk parade Wednesday. In a, program in the forenoon, Mayor George A. Anderson urged the campers to forget the drough and have a good time . . . The serious |