Show I Looking B. B Backward d Through the Files of The Times Independent 20 Years Ago This Week Sixty members of the Grand Junction Lions club visited the Moab club and were entertained at a banquet and program H. H I W. W Balsley Baisley was toastmaster The I affair was the most successful suc in the history of the local club The state of Utah lUtah had assumed assumed assum ed all federal aid Toad road costs relieving relieving re reo lieving the counties of costs on state roads Six tons of Red Cross flour was distributed to needy families famil ies les by the Moab Lions club Mrs Evelyn Thornton of Fort Hall Idaho youngest daughter of Postmaster and Mrs F F. M. M Shafer died at Blackfoot and her body was brought to Moab for burial Mrs William Rakestraw formerly for merly a a resident of Moab died at Portland Ore The Moab Boy Scout troop under the direction of Scoutmaster ter A. A H H. Newman was giving a minstrel show Friday evening to raise funds for a summer trip High school baccalaureate services were scheduled for Sun day evening Graduates were Laurence E. E Riordan Boyd Doyd C. C Jorgensen Lyman E. E Duncan Albert Brown Drown Arden Johnson Wilcox Ellis ElUs Stocks William Stoc Stocks s Russell RuSell Wise Helen Gordon Pearl le Beth Swindle Marie Shafer Carroll Carroll Car roll Woodruff Inez Johnson and Helen Bush Commencement exercises ex were to be May 4 A son was born to Mr anc and Mrs George A. A Brig Larsen Larson Six inches of snow fell at Mon Mon- 40 Years Ago This Week Colorado and Utah good roads boosters were working to get a proposed transcontinental road routed by way of Grand Junction Junc June tion and Thompsons It was expected ex automobiles would travel the road the next two years According to records in the Salt Lake weather office the iu precipitation at Monticello had been the heaviest II In the state the past bast ut year amounting to 2739 inches Mrs Irene C C. Corbetta niece of If Mrs LydIa Ann Taylor of Moab was drowned on the Ill Ill- fated Titanic which sank In mid Atlantic Atlantic after striking an iceberg A flow of gas encountered In Inthe Inthe inthe the Moab Oil all Company's well on Klondike ridge caught on fire and the drilling crew worked for two hours to fo put out the flames fames Several members of the crew were severely burned Th The Relief Soci ty was planning plan ning to give Its old folks' folks party May 1 1 Mr and Mrs D. D M M. Cooper entertained en entertained en their many friends at ata ata ata a wedding dan dance e. e James L. L L Wade was operating the Maxwell hotel Harry H. H Preston and Boyd Hammond r returned c tu r n e d fr from 0 m Thompsons canyon where they surveyed a townsite for the American Fuel Co Albert Maxwell purchased Andrew cattle The Utah Rare Metals Co shipped a carload of uranium ore from Its Us claims near Richardson Rich ardson valued at The Busy Dusy Women's club en at a card party in the court room A Democratic mass conven conven- lon was called to Ito elect delegates delegates dele gates to the state convention Goodman and Green had fin fin- shed fished shearing their sheep at Rattlesnake |