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Show LOOKING BACKWARDThrough BACKWARD BACKWARDThrouth Throuth Through the Files of ofThe ofThe ofThe The Times IndependentTwenty Independent " _ ? . .Twenty Twenty . Years Afo Ago This WeekDr WeekDr Week Dr J .1 1 I . W Wf WAllen Alien Allen was takmpostgraduate takmg taking takmgpostgraduate takingpostgraduate { postgraduate f work in m ChIcago ChIcagoand Chicagoand and at Rochester , , MmnMrs MinnMrs Minn Mmn MinnMrs Mrs Thomas Ray , Paradox ParadoxvaJIey Paradoxvalley Paradoxvalley vaJIey valley pioneer and mother of ofNeal Neal eal Ray ' ' of Moab died thIs thIsweek thisweek thisweek week while visiting Vlsltmg her daugh daughfer daughter daughter fer ter , Mrs Fanni&Brown FanniBrown Fannie Fanme & \ Brown , at Lo Loroa Loma Loma roa ma ; ColoCounty ColoCounty Colo ColoCounty County Clerk H W Balsley Balsleyreturned Balsleyreturned Balsleyreturned returned from Grand Junctionwhere Junction Junctionwhere where he had received medIcalattentlon medicalattention medical attention attentlon for two months An army airplane piloted by byLieut 03I.ieut 03Iieut Lieut . James Doolittle , the fam fameel famed famed eel ed army aviator , passed ove oveMoab over overMoab ovciMoab Moab valley Accompanied b bLieut by byLIeut b3Lieut LIeut Edwart Plant photogapher photog photogjrapher 3.pher 3pher . % $ apher , he made a non stopflight stop stopflIght storflight flIght : from San Diego to Grand GrandJ'unctJon GrandJunction GraniJunction J'unctJon JunctJon Junction ' in seven and one half halfhours halfhours halhours halhoursThe hours hoursThe The county schools were sche scheduled scheduled schedifled duled to o open Sept 1John 1John 1 1John John Petereson had commenc commenced commenced commenced ed packing packmg fruit in his orchards orchards'Ii orchardsIe"expected orchardsHe 'IiHe"expected He"expected Heexpected Ie"expected Ieexpected ; " expected to ship about 12.carlo 12sarlodds 12 'Ii Ii ' < ' "l l " ' t l lCarl .carlo carlo . carloads sarlodds ds . . ' ) .O O ! . ! a . at aCarl . Carl Gage both of whose legs legs0 4 were cut off oU when he fell feU undera under a tram train at Thompsons last spring sprmg springtieft + L,11eft L11eft , tieft ] eft for his home in Indiana af of after ofter after ter having havmg been cared for at theJloalr the --Jloalr Jloalr - y Moab ' hospital He was accom'and accom - puued p8J11ed on the trip east by Mrand Mr Mrr 3 -r r - Sullivansr * " 'and and 'andon ' .and and . ndMrs Mrs John W Sulbvanr Sullivan , . I The Moab Fish & Game assoI alsoa asso also I a ! cution Clab.on Clabon ciatbon . planted a large number of fingeriing fmgerling fingerling trout in Lake 00 Oo 00wah Oowah Oowah wah and planned further stock stockmgs stockings STOCK STOCKings , ings mgs ingsForty Forty Years Afo Ago This WeekA WeekA Week WeekA A carload of uranium uranlUm ore was wasshIpped wasshipped wasshipped shIpped from Camp Snyder onthe on onthe onthe the Dolores river to New York YorkClt YorkCit YorkCiti YorkCitiA Clt Cit IA A ) } mass meeting was held to toconSIder toconsider toconsider I conSIder the question of holdIng holdinga to tohold tohold tohold a county fair It was decided hold the fair , and a committeeof comlIUtteeof comlIUttee committee of seven citizens was placed in incharge incharge incharge charge Moab people had subscribed sub subscrIbed subscribed scrIbed several hundred dollars dollarsto dollarsto dollarsto to finance fmance the exposItIonHammond expositionHammond exposition expositionHammond Hammond & Sons had Just lust JustI Justcompleted lustcompleted ] ustcompleted I completed the erection of a alarge alarge alarge large hvery l1very livery stable Several Moab men were ar arrested arrested . rested and fined fmed for swimminiin swimmmgIn swimmingm swimmmg swimming In m the Grand river minus nunus bathrig bath bathingswts bathing ingswts ! rig suitsThe suits suitsThe ingswtsThe The county commissionersgranted commisSIoners commisSIonersgranted commissionersgranted granted J N Corbin Corbm a franchIse franchiseto to construct an automobile road roadfrom roadfrom ' from Moab to ThompsonsHammond ThompsonsHammond Thompsons ThompsonsHammond rOadj Hammond & Sons branch branchstore branchstore branchstore store at Cisco was completely completelydestroyed completelydestroyed completelydestroyed destroyed by fire this week , , the theloss theloss theloss loss being bemg $1800 1800 $ 0 W KnIght KnIghtmanager Knightmanager Knightmanager manager of the store said the thefire thefire thefire fire was of incendiary orlgmSenator originSenator origin orlgm originSenator Senator Reed Smoot visitedin VIsItedm VIsIted m Moab this weekT weekT week weekT T W Branson , , the lmuberking lmuber lmuberkIng Imuberkmg kIng was down from the mountams moun mountams mountains tams He found the weeds so sotall sotall sotall tall that he imagined Imagmed he was wasback wasback wasback back in m Missouri , and borrow borrowlIng borrowing lIng Tom Daly s dog Tricks 'he he ' he heIwent hewent Iwent out hunting huntmg possums andcoons andcoons and coons |