Show I LIFE LIFE-IN LIFE IN MOAB TWENTY VENTY I YEARS AGO THIS WEEK I From the Fries FIles of at The Times ot of Sept 4 1914 The Moab Light Power company had placed aU all orders for machinery and eqUIpment for the proposed elec- elec electric electric system Construction work was scheduled to start as soon as wasI the I materials arrived Cunningham Carpenter had sold I their large livestock outfit on the Book mountains to SA S A Joseph L N A ind Tom Taylor of Moab The consid- consid consideration elation was around The deal involved 10 acres of range land and several thousand head of cattle and sheep John A Burr for many years a 1 of Grand and San Juan coun- coun counties ties hes died this week at Monticello aged 68 H Redd San Juan county road agent announced that work ork would start at once on constructing the theLa theLa La Sal road Schools Schoos of the county were ere scheduled to start next Monday Henry Holyoak brought the Times fIve Elberta peaches each ot of which weighed 14 ounces and measured 12 inch inches s in cIrcumference and nine pears each of WhICh weighed v a pound each and when placed sIde by sIde measured 34 inches also a cluster of muscat t grapes which weighed over two vO pounds Don W Pittman arrived to teach I agric agriculture e m in the local high sch school oI Mark R Walker purchased 50 head If Df yearling heifers heifer's from A T Taylor and Al Holman for 38 per head A son was born to Mr and Mrs Mrs- Mrs Walter WinboUrn o 0 0 Empey was the new Moab barber P G Woods having sold old his his- shop to W J Meador Mrs J H Clark was as critically ill at ata n a hospital in Pueblo The exploration party under Prof Byron CummingS of the state university university sity returned from the Navajo reser reser- reser country James H H Moyle Democratic candi- candi candidate candidate date for U S senator in opposition to Sena Senator tor Reed Smoot was in Moab to to speak at a rally here this evening RUdgar Claw Clawson on of the council ot of twelve apostles of the L D S spoke at the local church this week |