Show LOOKING BACKWARD Through the Files of ol The Times Times Independent Independent 20 Years Ago This Week Mrs Annie D. D Green wife of H. H G G. Green died tiled suddenly at nt Santa Ana Calif Construction Construct of ot 32 miles mile of new road leading Into Moab town from the north was scheduled scheduled sched to start before the he first of the year earA ear A party of government range experts and geologists were making a study of ot erosion problems In the Moab area The secretary of the Interior had denied the applications of 16 settlers for Cor enlarged homestead home home- homestead stead entries In the Book mountain moun tale tain area The Times Independent had hail launched a big subscription campaign offering a Chevrolet car as chief prize to cantos contes tants Cants grand county yearling steers steer averaging pounds In weight brought about 36 per head orthe on or the Kansas City market while so 80 poUnd 80 pound lambs sold for about 5 per head Weaner calves calve were selling locally for about 20 a head E. E W. W Stout arrived In Moab Moat to take tale the teaching position of ol music and Spanish In the local high school succeeding Floyd Kennedy resigned He lie was to tc tobe tobe be joined soon by his family Mr and Mrs James Hoffman returned to Sego from Sheridan Wyo where they attended the thel funeral of Mr Hoffmans Hoffman's fa ther they 40 Years Ago This Week The funeral of oC Phil Crout Croul was largely attended by friends from over this part of ot the state An article describing cliff dwellings along the Green and Colorado rivers written by Robert Rob Rob- ROb ROb-j ert Woodruff was published Bert Dalton went to Provo to attend school By Dy a vote of 19 to 11 Monticello Monti Monti- cello taxpayers decided to establish es a town library C. C R Christensen was elected mayor Jones of Blanding threshed 1242 bushels of ot wheat wheaton on his his' dry farm which yielded 33 bushels per acre J J. J P P. Larsen W. W A. A Shafer and W. W D. D Hammond the ward bishopric bishopric bish published a notice that tha t tany any further disturbances at atre re re religious religious religious re- re meetings caused by young men and boys would be dealt with b by the law The high school boys' boys and girls' girls basketball teams had In in- Invited the Green River teams to contest at Moab this week weekend week end This was was probably th the first Instance In stance of ot interscholastic athletic ath letic games In southeastern Utah The Times retracted a news item m published last week that thata a daughter was born to Mr and Mrs Mrs' Carl Nielsen It wasn't a girl but a 1 boy |