Show LIFE IN TWENTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK the stockholders of the moab irrigation company authorized the directors to borrow to complete the moab water system james W stark underwent a critical operation at salt lake city mrs stark left at ance for his bedside mark R balker was appointed justice of ahe peace of moab precinct no 2 succeeding L L crapo resigned william somerville was given the contract for operating the moab ferry H E blake arrived from denver and announced that he would start operations on a larger scale at the lisbon copper claims he hired several local men the county court house lot was planted to a wide variety of shade trees sheriff bliss clerk neff and treasurer manville supervising the job there was a wide observance of arbor day throughout moab thomas trout was seriously with inflammatory rheumatism dr taylor being summoned from grand junction to attend him W J nix came up from grayson to move his family to that place he reported that grayson was rapidly settling up bert newell and his shearing crew had finished shearing at dewey and went to la sal to start work there there were 26 men in the crew most of them from moab heber christensen Chrls and miss bussle christensen were married this week judge powell officiating tom brice an at moab returned this week from the klondyke country where he had been engaged in mining he went on to the bluff oil fields W L taylor mrs mel stewart and mrs ada darrow returned from where they had been summoned by the illness of their father uncle chris taylor who was improving judge L L crapo and family left for cedar colo to make their home mr and mrs charles hosea of dolores were visiting relatives at moab |