Show LIFE IN MOAB TWENTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK dr I 1 S kirkwood a dentist was on a professional visit to moab the county was advertising for bids for operating the moab ferry 0 0 empey had sold his barber shop at moab to charles fish the relief society celebrated its annual day with a program end din ner mrs sarah stewart returned froma cisco where she had visited her son mel and family postmaster D aa johnson was tendered a surprise party by r his friends recent research had shown that moab had the best schools and the highest paid teachers of any town in utah W J bliss and J F hall were quarrying rock for the new store building soon to be erected by hammond sons john E brown arrived from sinbad and left for green river with his race horse chester to take in a race meet scheduled there F C wallace charged with stealing coins from the room of chris was given a preliminary hearing before justice crapo being held to answer to the district court representative J P miller wrote from salt lake city that he bad suc ceedee in interesting capital in the building of a canning factory at mr miller had introduced a bill appropriating for improving grand county roads and bridges and a resolution asking the national congress to appropriate for I 1 dredging the grand and green rivers from cisco to the town of green river for the purpose of making the rivers navigable for steamers so the people may know was the headline appearing above a front page editorial wherein editor beard emphatically denied that he had purposely discriminated against the thriving town of castleton by leaving that town off aman of the la sal mining which he had recently published A castleton citizen had called the editor up over the tele and accused him of ulterior motives insinuating that jealousy of castleton was at the bottom of the affair the editor indignantly denied that the policy of the paper had been sold out to moab interests |