Show I Looking I Backward Through the Files of The Times-Independent Times 20 0 Years Ago This Week Seventeen students graduated from rom Grand county high school at it commencement exercises held In n the Star opera house Dr E. E E. E 2 ErIcksen of the University of Utah delivered the address The graduates were Helen Bush ush Lylan Lyman Ly Ly- man lan Duncan Helen Gordon Boyd loyd Jorgensen Inez Johnson Pearl Laurence Riordan Ellis Stocks William Stocks MarIe Shafer Russell Wise Car Car- roll oil Woodruff LuDell Wilcox Beth Jeth Swindle Alene Butt Albert Al AI bert Brown and Ar Arden Johnson New officers of the high school student body were elected as follows Paul Shafer president Dean lean Shafer vice president Orson Day secretary and Jos Jose Jose- I phine AlIred Allred cheerleader Prescott Frescott T. T Stevens pioneer cattle attle and sheep man ot of the Paradox and La Sal mountain district died at Palm Springs Calif alif at the age of 86 66 A son was born to Mr and Mrs Earl Dalton H II H. B B. B Evans was named wa wa- for the season Fifteen tons of government wheat were being distributed In Inthe inthe the le county by the Red Cross for forstock fortock forstock stock tock feed I IThe The county de de- tided to level and gravel the street treet In front of the hospital The old canning factory tat lot was vas bought from J. J S. S Westwood by y the county to be used as a aate I state ate road shed Moab high school won third place lace In the regional track meet at t Price being nosed out by 1 Carbon arbon and Uintah Clay Davis was building building- a service station on on the corner of Main and 2nd North streets I Moab school students were the guests of the Ides theater at a showing of the all talking all talking picture Abraham Lincoln I 1 40 Years Ago his Week The Relief Society entertained all the old folks of Moab at a aTh aThe aThe Th The Times TIm published pictures May day party sparty There was a banquet and program and historical accounts of Moab's Mo Mo- Moab's abs ab's two oldest citizens Felix citizens Felix G. G Murphy 84 and J. J H. H Stan Stan- 81 Uncle Billy Hayes and sons I Archie and Harry arrived from Mancos to work on their mining min I ing claims' claims on onDry Dry Fork of Mill creek With a big fruit crop and ample am am- ample pIe Irrigation water assured Moab toab farmers anticipated a prosperous prosperous' season Seventy thousand sheep had i been she sheared sheat dat at Cisco this beIng be be- I Ing trig the busiest shearing plant in the state I Henry Crouse had kept a detailed de de- I tailed record of Moab weather for 22 years The Times pub pub- I limned fished an account of Mr Crouse's faithful work written by a government government gov weather official j i Many lany Moab people were moving In ing Ind t to Grayson Blanding to locate La Sal was also being settled rapidly I A A. M. M Rogers return returned d from Brumley ridge where he located Ia a group of claims containing what he believed was one of I the of 1 greatest deposits um In the west I |