| Show LIFE IN MOAB TWENTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK from the files of the times of june 16 1911 A buquor election was to be held in moab on june 23 in pursuance of the new local option law to determine whether or not saloons could operate here many people had registered and much interest in the coming election was being shown wells and wife had moved to Cast ledale mrs wells was formerly superintendent of grand county william mcalpin james hopkins and john hyan pleaded guilty to burglarizing glar izing the cisco store and were sentenced to two years in the state prison by judge A H christensen Chris lensen C A hammond knox patterson and R J thomson were arranging a celebration for july 4 marionl stocks of lewiston utah a brother of A M stocks of moab was killed in a runaway moab ward conference was held here presided over by jens jensen and mozelle halls stake officers both of mancos A M rogers J A elmer and A B Mc PhalIs staked acres of oil land on klondike ridge for pennsylvania parties C 0 larsen of Cast ledale father of bishop J P larsen of moab died this week the people of grayson were buiu ing a five mile ditch to divert water from recapture creek to their lands jack murphy of moab had been work ing on the project A A taylor reported that forthe first time in years sheep in the la sal mountains were scabby G M oliver of the midland bridge company was in moab and announced that he would have charge of the new bridge here mr and mrs J B and fani lly had moved to the district A daughter was born to mr and mrs lynn pace miss selma erp and vemon were married at castleton alex gorla of rico was in moab to visit his old time partner A M bogers monticello extended an invitation to moab people to spend july 4 at the mountain town riddle young son of mr and mr john jackson was accidentally cut on the leg with a pocket knife severing an artery he fainted from loss of blood before dr williams could reach him but it was believe he woud recover prof byron cummungs well known in moab was on a tour through italy and had twice been arrested there to suspicion of being a german spy |
