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Show ' BEAVER BRIEFS HIGHWAY 91 TO BE WIDENED AND IMPROVED SOUTH OF BEAVER " Bids are soon to be called for on a highway construe- j I tion project south of Beaver, which will cover 8.7 miles of ' lnVhway 91 along the ridge and south to Muley Point, and ' to the Bone Hollow Junction. It is expected that some of this road will cover a new course and will be similar to the nev highway near Scipio, which has a 40-foot oiled surface. - Many accidents have happened hap-pened on this road south of Beaver and a wide new road will eliminate much of the hazard haz-ard of the present road. John Davis, 47, local jeweler, jew-eler, passed away at the family fam-ily home Sunday at 9:30 p. m. of a heart ailment. Mr. Davis was born March , 94. 1904. at Bnaven a son of I Cyrus and Nellie Dean Davis. 1 He married Viola Ludlow, July 19, 1929, in Salt Lake City. They lived in California 13 years before moving to Beaver to make their permanent home. Besides his widow, he is survived sur-vived by his mother, Mrs. Nellie Davis of Beaver, a daughter and three sons: Mrs. Eyvon D. Martin Mar-tin of Pioche, Nev.; Pfc. Jack Davis Jr., with the U S Air Force, now at March Field, Calif.; Gary and Ray Davis of Beaver; one grandchild; two brothers and three sisters: Philo Davis of Reseda, Calif.; Chal-(Continued Chal-(Continued on Page Four) has been outstanding in musical C Mrs' Bakes has served as a Relief Society teacher and U,-kPrl for many years m tne fffo Smer Davis. Follow- ' SL completion of the pro,-. ect by July 1st, the L I commission has agreed four blocks on Main sti I the paved road to the . . 0 Prima. y Association. Four of their five sons and ;,,,ghters are living: Vaness p ke' l'r- Luoiel I'viuniock ana vis Sue Skinner of Beaver, j Dewe Bakes of Pme-dale, Pme-dale, Wyo. They also have nine .mctehildren and nine great-Kti,ndchildren. great-Kti,ndchildren. ! Marraret Ritchie ,a registered I nu Iks "from San Diego, Calif., I .;,pL.cl serious injury Saturday I ovi-img when her car went out lot' control 15 miles south of Beaver and rolled completely over She suffered cuts and oautes but did not require hospitalization. hos-pitalization. Patrolman Lowe Barton investigated in-vestigated the accident. A Beaver boy, Burton W. Robinson, son of Mr3. Etelka White Robinson, has been named one of the valedictorians at Utah State Agricultural College. Col-lege. He is believed to be the first Beaver County student to receive this honor at this particular par-ticular school. Two valedictorians were named because of their almost identical records of straight 'A' grades and other activities. The other honor student was Clarence Clar-ence Felix of Logan. Mrs. Ann Harris Parsons of Los Angeles is visiting relatives and friends in Beaver- for the first time in 10 years. She is 'staying at the home of Mrs. Mollie Harris. high water ditches so that farmers farm-ers on the benchlands have been able to water over their lands pretty well. In "good" years the river I sometimes flows more than 500 second feet of water at this i time. It is hoped that more i high water will come during June. The cool weather prevailing pre-vailing now in June has taken 'the water down to around 119 second feet. .. at 2 p. m. Wednesday in the First-Third Ward Chapel under direction of Bishop Wallace D. Yardley. Burial was in Mountain Moun-tain View Cemetery, under direction di-rection of the Southern Utah Funeral Home. Special graveside services were conducted by the I O O F Lodge, of which he was a mem- j ber. I Spring run-off water, which reached 210 second feet late in May, has been running in the Beaver j Briefs Continued from I'age One, mer Davis of Beaver, Mrs. Ella Earle and Mrs. Aletha Cote, both of Long Beach, Calif., and Mrs. Ray (Mattie) Murdock of Arlington, Va. Funeral services were held Ardella of Moroni visited last Mrs. Ha Faux and daughter week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Tanner. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Bakes will celebrate their 56th wedding wed-ding anniversary Sunday, June 10, with an open house reception recep-tion at their home between 2 and 6 p. m. Friends and relatives rela-tives are invited to call. Mrs. Bakes, the former Belle Fotheringham, was born June 4, 1871, at Beaver, and Mr. Bakes was born April 14, 1873, in Bradford, Yorkshire, England. They were married in Beaver June 10, 1895. Mr. Bakes operated a blacksmith black-smith shop for many years. He is a charter member of the Beaver I O O F lodge and Mrs. Bakes is a charter member of I the Rebekahs. I Both have been active mem- j bers of the L D S Church. Mr. Bakes sang for many years in the Ward Choir and in quartet numbers at many funerals. He i Lillian Thornock has recently i been insalled as president of the Beaver Business and Profes- sional Women's Club, to sue- ; ceed Mrs. Mildred Pickard. Other new officers are Naomi j Packard, vice-president; Max- i ine Fotheringham, secretary, 1 and Elsie Hales .treasurer. I The Eusy Bee 4-H Club is : holding regular meetings under ; direction of Ella Firmage and Vilda Esplin, leaders. The J U G 4-H Club has Mrs. Verona i Morris as leader. ! . i George A. Parkinson recently recent-ly celebrated his 85th birthday with a family get-together at Ponderosa Park in Beaver Canyon. Can-yon. Sixty-three descendants attended. A contract for completion of i |