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Show ( LIFE .IrC IrC . IN MOAB TWENTYYEARS T'VENTY TVENTY TWENTY TWENTYYEARS ' I ILIFE YEARS AGO THIS 'fHIS fHIS ' WEEI 'VEEJ VEEJ WEEK WEEIFrom WEEKFrom ' ( [ ( ( From the Files Flies of The Times ofMay ofllay of ofMay May l\lay l lay \ 7 , 1915) 1915 1915)J 1915)j 1915j ) J . , W . Paxman Paxmanand and -and - John T . CamC Carne CamCIII CarneIII CamIII III of the Utah Agricultural coUegmet college collegeI collegemet collegemet ' met with Moab farmers and stockmen stockmenMr stockmenMr ' I Mr . . Paxman stated that the Monticello Monticellodistrict Monticellodistrict ) district was one of the finest dry farmareas farm farmareas areas -areas - in the country and he cpredicted predicted predictedgreat cpredictedgreat great things thmgs for agriculture agflculture there . Moab strawbeiries strawberries stra wbelfies had been on the thelocal thelocal th ; local menu the past w week k . Moab post- post postoffice postoffice - . G P Bryan moved the office into mto his drug arug store buildIngA building A slight frost was experienced thisweek thIs thIsweek week , , the thermometer dropping to 31degrees 31 31I 3 I degreesI degrees . I degreesMary Mary E Downey , , state library or- or orII organizer or - ganizer , . \ was \ as in Moab on library work . . II IIganizer A slight shght earthquake shock shockas \\as as was \ \ as fel felt feltI feltat feltat \ I at Moab Sunday evening eveningF eveningI I F B Hammond , Jr , who had sold soldh1S soldhis sol solhis < [ his h1S farm fann at Moab , . intended to go to toChIcago toChicago t tChicago < Chicago soon to attend law school . . J E Brown this week purchased thiinterest the themterest theinterest i mterest interest of Mrs Alma . Farrell In thiMerchant's thiMerchants the theMerchant's theMerchant's Merchant's Merchants ' hotel , and was now the sale sole saleowner soleowner soliowner.Over soliownerOver ; owner . Over 32 miles of forest boundar boundary boundaryh boundaryhad ; had h d been surveyed by Rangers F . WStrong W WStrong WStrong Strong and R E MellenthmH Mel1enthm Mellenthm 11 H W Balsley , , forest clerk , left this thisweek thisweek thi ; week with a carload of government governmentbUrros governmentburros governmenburros ; bUrros , which were consigned to the theCache theCache th thCache < Cache and Caribou forests forestsIt forestsIt forestsIt It was reported that scores of catthwere cattle cattlewere cattlewere ! were dying from from- fromlarkspur ' - larkspur poisoningnear pOIsoning pOIsoningnear poisonlnnear ( ; near Bluff and Blandmg Blanding . . The school term was scheduled tocome to tocome t tcome < > come to an end on "May May " " 21 . Knox Patterson left for a trip t tHamilton to toHamilton toHamilton < Hamilton , TexasThe TexasThe Texas TexasThe The Times published a page ad on ont"be onthe orthe i t"be tbe the " MaX\\ MaX Maxwell MaXell ' \ ell automobile , which was wasbeIng waibeing as asbeing ! beIng sold locally by the Moab MotoiCar Motor MotorCar MotorCar Car company companyOscar ) - , Oscar L Turner of Thompsonsand Thompsons -and and andMIss andMiss - ancMiss MIss Dorothy 1 L . Smith of Mesa , Cola Colo Colo'rteie Colorteie , , tteie ' el e married this weekGrady weekGrady week weekGrady Grady Patterson returned from Texaswhere Texas Texasvhere ' , , \vhere vhere lvhere \ he h spent the winter winterMons winterMons Mons Peterson was installing installlng a apump apump ipump pump to irrigate Inigate his land and west of theriver the theriver thriver ( i river . John Peterson had completed theerection the theere theerection ere erection on of a meat market . A Ii tpecial ecial special S Mother's Mothers ' ' day program wasbeing was wasbemg bemg being wasbeing arranged for next Sunday . , the thespeaker thespeaker thspeaker ( speaker being W R McConkie |