Show LIFE IN MOAB TWENTY YEARS AGO THIS putting up ice was the order of the day the times was conducting a popularity contest which was arousing much interest earl loveridge was accidentally shot in the leg at castleton ills condition was not serious the annual meeting of the southeastern utah Stock growers association as called by president J loveridge for jan 18 miss elsie somerville was severing her position with cooper martin company to take up her new dute as county clerk auson allred had resigned as rang foreman tor cunningham carpenter of la sal and had come to to make his home mr and mrs thomas ray and daughters mrs mary doak and ml venue hay were over from paradox for a visit with neal ray and family V P martin left for a two weeks visit to old mexico and southern california accompanied by dr D E hopkins and a number of other den ver men F hammond returned from the bluff oil fields where he located some acres of land for moab people he reported there were eight rigs in the field all operating battle between two navajo families living along the san juan river resulted in the killing of two squads squaws a buck and a small boy and seriously wounding another buck H D tucker a sheepherder who had become lost on the desert was brought to moab in a very serious condition his feet having been frozen dr williams was attending him and thought the man would recover without the loss of his feet J wimmer had a force of men at work clearing and leveling acres of land twenty miles down the green river from elgin he intended to cut the tract up into five and ten acre parcels and offer them for sale A home dramatic show was given entitled silas the chore boy the histrionic artists were F M shafer miss stella newell J wesley barton russel mcconkle miss cloe larsen myron E lance miss elsie somerville clyde A hammond and orrin tan gren the saloons were to close in moab this month the saloon license having been edat a prohibitive figure by the town board the town was up against the proposition of losing about 1000 of annual revenue and the trustees were having a hard time trying to figure out how they were going to make ends meet dr J W williams while returning from castleton on the river road experienced perien ced an accident resulting in seriously damaging his buggy tiie road was icy and he unhitched hi team intending to pull his buggy over the ice by hand it got away from him and rolled down the steep bank to the river scattering surgical instruments st and medicine on the side hill albert maxwell returned monday from salt lake city where he spent the christmas vacation with mrs maxwell and daughter miss dorothy he was accompanied on his return by alma W worth who spent a few days here visiting relatives |