Show LOCAL AND PERSONAL the philathea class of the baptist church went on a picnic to the river monday evening H L rath president of the colo nver oil company was an arrival tuesday from salt lake city gail martin staff correspondent of the salt lake tribune returned to salt lake tuesday morning after spending a couple of weeks at moab covering the oil situation for his paper dr john S stump general missionary for utah of the baptist denomination spent several days in moab this week on matters connected with the local baptist church he spoke at the various meetings of the church sunday miss erma beach entertained the following guests at a slumber party saturday night misses dorothy maxwell margaret Loven dge irene doud ireta fietcher grayce goudelock and clara taylor on sunday the young ladies went on a horseback gnp up courthouse co wash work on the construction of the state highway through spanish fork canyon from red narrows to detour is progressing rapidly according to R patterson assistant state road engineer three large cuts will be completed by the end of the week it will be august or september before the new nine mile stretch of road is completed F W strong president of the big six oil company has purchased a new home at 1427 michigan avenue it was announced yesterday by the real estate department of of the halloran judge trust company through whom the deal was completed the home was built by A E jorgenson contractor and sold for i salt lake tribune E A dufford of the midland garage of green river motored to moab bonday having as a passenger R H holt ight of way man of the mountain states telephone company mr holt spent the day here examining land records with a view to securing a right of way for the mountain states line through patented land in the county co two moab men are stepping rather lively all because they are the fathers of sons who made their appearance this week on monday a son was born to sir and mrs taylor at grand junction and on monday night a son arrived at the home of mr and mrs clarence E baldwin at moab each voun gester s the first boy of the family and hence the proud fathers have cause to feel high toned attorney knox returned tuesday evening from a business trip to salt lake after spending a few days here he will return to salt lale to appear as an attorney for the defendants in the case of the united states against J E weston and john redd of monticello who are charged with the intimidation of homesteaders and whose case will come up for trial in the federal court at salt lake next monday grand junction high schools kracl team won the championship of ohp western slope division of colorado at a meet held at montrose the last of the week grand junction garnered 60 points against 25 secured bv its closest opponent laonia paonia th grand junction team the preceding week was defeated by the moab high school by a score of BOSS the western slope meet was not as fast as the one held in moab the time in all of the races being considerably sider ably slower gandiago San diago platero a navajo bootlegger who had shot and killed J N kimmel a government farmer and sub abent was lynched last sunday night about 50 miles southeast of N M by a party of caliup citizens the murder of the agent was especially cold blooded and anen a posse of caliup citizens ran across platero ip the navajo le bad lands they hanged him to a tree without further ceremony |