Show Turning Back the Pages From the Filet Files of The Tho Times-Independent Times 20 YEARS AGO AGOA A whooping cough was fatal to a f Moab child this week Doctors were vere In hopes of control control- t ling ng the tho outbreak immediately Dr bt t r. r J. J W. W Williams D. D E. E Baldwin Bald win t L. L N. N Meador and Mitchell representing the Moab Lions club motored to Dolores Dolore this week where they attended attendee a D meeting of southeastern Utah and Southwestern Colorado officials officials off I- I dals aimed at Improving road conditions in the Four Corners Comets area A Monticello youth was killed and several people Injured in a serious automobile accident neat near Muleshoe San Juan county some twenty miles south of Moab Moab sugar beets beeh were lookIng look took Ing good and a large targe promise ol of seed was In the offing according I to a state inspector who looked over the fields this week There were about 25 acres In the valley this year and it was hoped that thata a total of per year could be put into cultivation so 80 that Moab might become one of the major beet seed producing centers of ol Utah The Cane Creek No 1 well down the river from Moab was In this week according to H. H L. L Rath president of the Cane Creek Oil company The fourth carload of Big Dig Indian Indian In In- dian dlan copper ore are was en route to the smelter this week and re- re urns urns on earlier shipments showed show show- ed that the grade was running very high 30 YEARS AGO With one exception Grand county school district had the smallest bonded Indebtedness of any district in the state according according accord accord- ing to Superintendent C. C N. N Jen Jen- sen Lester B. B McMillin from Missouri Mis Mis- sour was named principal of Grand high school at a recent scho school l board meeting The Amasa Larsen ranch house and corrals in er Valley were 1 burned this week when all the hands were out of the Valley t Damage ge gevat was vat estimated at several thousand dollars Articles of Incorporation were filed flied this week by Taylor Son Sonto Sonto Sonto to operate a general gener l mercantile storage hotel restaurant pool Ool hall and sheep shearing business at Thompsons The cryst crystal t Carbon company of Cisco was wu finding a large mar market ket for the carbon black produced In their mill at that place Danger of high water on the Colorado river was believed passed pass pass- ed after a weeks week's e cold ld spell had halted the thawing In the moun moun- 40 YEARS AGO The Times Time was Wat 21 years old this week and a feature of this Issue was an article written by byJ J N. N Corbin founder and for 10 years editor of the paper In reminiscing regarding the printing of the first edition Editor Corbin wrote How big that first subscription subscription subscription sub sub- looked It was handed In as the second copy came off ort the old hand press by C. C J J. J Boren Doren since deceased an upper valley rancher and stockman lie He came Into the office and said I hear there Is a newspaper In Moab and for answer one was handed to him After Arter seeing it U was what it purported pu to be he asked how much It was and was told two dollars a year and forwith two dollars jingled on the stone with the remark Well this one Is w rth two dollars for tor I dont don't suppose suppose suppose sup sup- pose there ever will be another The state road commission planned planned plan plan- ned to expend 1000 per mile on the road from Thompson to Bluff now designated as a 11 post road the federal government to pay one half of the cost |