Show ed cooley was down from the cooley ranch in castle valley monday the colleys cooleys are expecting a large turkey crop this year and already have three incubators at work with hatches starting may 1 they have about turkey hens which are producing settings eggs at the rate of about 75 per day A number of brooder houses have been built miss lenore molen returned monday from menan idaho to resume her position as superintendent of the grand county public hospital misa molen is recovering from an operation performed the first of the ear during her absence from moab miss hilda holm has acted as superintendent in of the hospital miss holm has resigned and will return to her home in idaho for a visit M housecroft bridge engineer of the state road commission and J W huggans bridge engineer of the federal bureau of public roads were in moab tuesday evening and went on to dry valley where they looked over the sites for several bridges soon i be constructed in connection with the federal aid road project it 1 the intention to advertise the project to contractors within the nar future state senator knox patterson left sunday for salt lake city to attend the sessions of the state tax advisory commission of which he Is a member this commission consists of eight members of the legislature who will serve in an advisory capacity with the tax board appointed by the governor to consider tax problems and frame a new system of taxation for the state the governor mill probably call an extra session of the legislature to act on the commission s recommendations mr and mrs harry H day and younger children have moved to fruita colo where they will make their home they will be joined by the older children when school Is over here mr and mrs day recently sold their home at moab to mr and mrs bert dalton mr day will con as salesman for the maytag washer having been given a good territory in colorado in a letter to the times independent mr day states that the family Is nicely located at fruita and he asks to have his paper forwarded to him there as he wishes to keep in touch with his moab friends harold V leonard of price was business visitor in moab thursday and friday ft WE motored to idaho the last of the week returning monday mrs II 11 C goodman and son henry goodman jr were visitors in grand junction the first of the week miss ireta fletcher was an arrival saturday from salt lake city for a visit with her father R J miss georgia hurley returned saturday from salt lake city where she had been attending school supervisor A C folster left moab tuesday for a few davs stay at mon in connection with grazing matters mrs F A hammond and baby arrived the first of the week from monroe utah where they had been tor some time visiting relatives mrs leona miller Is building an addition to her home in moab contractor E E shafer having charge cf the work among those who have recently purchased new cars from the moab garage company are W E bush and R J fletcher each of whom Is driving a new chevrolet sedan don taylor left monday morning for dewey to take charge of the operation of the taylor shearing plant there shearing started at dewey yesterday A P of the utah southern oil company was in from the salt valley well saturday he reported that operations were going forward favorably the depth being under feet mr and mrs john dahling and children arrived monday from green river mrs dahling has leased the merchants hotel from mrs hattle bievins and took possession of the property this week george E holman of salt lake city chief of the biological survey fot the state of utah was in moab tuesday conferring with C A loveridge predatory animal trapper for this district george E has been engaged the past week building some shearing pens at courthouse station several herds of sheep that are infected with scabies will be shorn at this plant J T loveridge returned tuesday from cisco where he had been for several visiting with his daughter mrs lynn S pace and family mrs pace returned with mr loveridge for a short visit here R H dalrymple formerly superintendent of the chesterfield coal company at sego was an arrival the last of the week joining mrs Dalrym pl who had been visiting her parents at moab mr and mrs dalrymple will leave in a few days for a months visit with relatives at detroit alch after which they will probably return to utah 0 A mcleod formerly proprietor of the moab pool hall has leafed taylor sons pool hall at thomp sons and will operate it at least for a month or two mr mcleod s family has been located at mesa colo since leaving moab rulon of provo spent i couple of days in moab this week visiting friends he was a guest a the home of mr and mrs 0 A robertson mr was return ing home from a 29 months mission for the L D S church in germany george fortune Is the new superintendent at bego for the chesterfield coal company mr fortune comes lo 10 utah from the southern colorado coal camps where he has had a great deal of experience in the coal producing business charles miller of fort shaw montana was an arrival saturday tor a visit with his brother J P miller who has been for some time mr charles miller was a former resident of moab having spent some time here about 25 years ago when he was en in mining mr and mrs R F burford returned yesterday from phoenix arizona where they have spent the past to months for the benefit of mr bur fords health during their stay they also visited points in california where they have relatives grand junction sentinel brig larsen this week closed a deal for the purchase of the old ranch on the north end of auson mesa the property was purchased from the federal land bank of berkeley the deal being handled by carroll J meador local realtor the consideration was not made public gay C brown came down from castleton the last of the week and as soon as school Is out will move i family to this place mr brown has leased the dale M ranch for the season mr having moved to the large miller ranch in the lower valley which he has leased for a number of years the piano students of mrs west hammond entertained at the recreation hall last evening at a recital A large number of parents and friends u ere present and the program was greatly enjoyed in addition to piano selections by mrs hammond s pupils two dancing acts were given by pupils of miss helena evers edwin E byer of salt lake city was in moab friday on business with the first national bank mr byer Is a representative of the first security corporation a large banking syndicate that recently took over the control of the national copper bank of sal lake and several other banks li utah idaho and nevada I 1 W L young a well known citizen of blanding died last week at cortez colo of spinal meningitis mr young had been for several weeks he was well known in moab where at one time he spent considerable time as a road contractor having the contract for building a considerable portion of the road from moab to la sal junction |