Show I Turning Back the Pages I From tho Filet Files of The Times Independent d 20 Years Year Ago AgoTe The Te board of county commis commissioners stoners sl ners met this his week after a meeting of town businessmen Afew a afew few days daYA earlier and formally passed on the Ute staging of a county I fair again this year C. C S. S Thom Thorn Thomson Thomson son W was Ws s appointed fair manager mana mana- ger get and was given the go-ahead go by the commissioners to select his own committee Twenty venty acres of ot Moab agriculture agriculture agriculture ture land was planted to sugar sugar- beats this year by Moab farmers under contract to Amalgamated Sugar company of Ogden In an effort to determine the Ute adaptability adaptability adaptability of local soils solis for tor beets Plans for tor or staging the hospital I benefit show were nearly complete complete com corn with Wilh a fight card carnival carnival carni carni- val vat and aM dance lined up UJ I Cane Creek Oil company's company well near the famous Frank Shafer No 1 I was reported drilling at a depth of feet this week drillIng drilling drill drill- Ing a 12 Inch hole It was reported week to the Times that over men were at work at the Uravan minIng mining mining min min- ing camp getting out vast quan titles of vanadium ore The weekly Installment of A History of Moab appeared again this week the original naming and settling of Moab Valley beIng beIng be bed beding Ing the topic of the week A group of climbers from the Wasatch Mountain club of Salt Lake fake were In hi Moab this week While here hero they climbed Mt Peale and traveled throughout I the Arches national monument I with Dr J J. W W. Williams I 30 Years Ago AgoA I A party of twelve men IncludIng Including ing an International Newsreel cameraman successfully conI conquered conquered con con- I the Grand canyon of the I Colorado river this week after repeated attempts had been made madeI to the men to abandon I the journey I Schools were to open next I Monday according to a front froot- page feature I Music fans were anxiously awaiting the arrival of the famous famous fam fam- I ous Williams Singers next week when hen they were to present a 1 concert as part of a Western States tour The board of education was J plans to remodel the Star hall in Moab Monte Moreland well known Grand county character who for several years had resided in the Glade Park region a short distance distance distance dis dis- dis- dis tance this side of the Colorado state line was again in the toils tolls of the law because of his ed proclivities He was raided Sunday by federal prohibition officers from Grand Junction and suffered the loss of f a hu huge e still His trial was to b bo held In Salt Lake City I 40 Years Year Ago John L L. Shafer was seriously ill III of typhoid at t a Salt Lake hos host hospital pital R. R C C. Clark installed a moving picture outfit at the Jones theatre in Green River The Moab Garage was figuring on buying another large truck tUck for tor the Thompson Moab-Thompson freight haul lla lIa Allred entertained in honor honorof of her two cousins Leo Compbell and George A A. Larsen who were soon to join the army I A motor caravan consisting of ot four big cars passed through Moab en m route to Durango The San Juan Blade newspaper made Its It appearance this week Silver Sliver was selling at 89 cents an ounce th the highest price ever paid The h Valley y City reservoir had been repaired by the Bruneau Bruneau- Hill HIli Investment company of Salt Lake City and further Improvements Improve m ments menta nt there were ere planned |