Show LESLIE AND STELLA celebrate their wed- ding anniversary on Les' September 9 at their home at 2nd North in birthday wedding anniversary for r Les and Leslie Thacker will celebrate their wedding an- September which is Les eightieth birthday actual wed- ding anniversary is September An open house will be held at their home at West 2nd North in Vernal September 9 from to 10 p.m. The couple has two of Ver- and who teaches school in ten grandchildren and eight Stella is a lifelong resident of the Ver- nal Leslie moved here from Wyoming in 1917 on a saddle horse car- all his worldly He met Stella in Maeser and they were married September 1922 In the Salt Lake At that Phillip and Mary were one of few people in the community to own car Model T and Les and along with another Cur- and Evah paid the Str- per couple to drive them round trip to Salt Lake City so they could be married in the Stella remembered that the narrow back seat was pretty crowded but the passengers took turns sitting on the edge of the seat on the long journey over the b dirt rather than be separated by having one sit up They left very early in the morning and arrived there about ten o'clock that Les courted Stella in a horse and buggy which was their mode of transportation during their early mar- ried He was well known around the area for his excellent team of horses and with that team he hauled some of the first gravel for the road from Merkley corner to He was also hired to haul the full-length trees to Venial to build the grandstand at the In the early as Scout registered the first church Boy Scout Ferron Hacking was the first Scout in the county to take the test and pass for Boy One of their early homes stood on the site of the present Maeser Chapel The building committee asked the if they would sell their which was located in the center of the so that a chapel might be built in a central The agreed and for next five years rented a house across the street until in his f pare could build them the house on the corner just south of the It was in this house that they raised their As chairman of the beautification committee in Les helped mix and pour the cement around the Maeser Chapel he also helped with the cement work around the Ver- nal Utah Stake Center and the old He said that all of the out- side cement work at Maeser was donated back in those days and most of the work was done by the Boy Scouts and In the early the couple owned and operated a 12 unit apart- ment building in Vernal 2nd They ran that business for 30 Stella was active in and in 1918 had won a trip to Salt Lake City for completing five At Salt she took first place at the State Fair and won a trip to D.C. |