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Show Thursday, Septembe r 17,1931 SOUTH JORDAN FARMERS HOLD OPTIMISTIC VIEW THE MIDVALE JOURNA L • I + Do You Know? + The Sagull class of the Primary, under the direction of their teacher, Mrs. Dorthy Newbold entertained at a watermellon bust in the ward chapel J. H. McNaughton, of the Los AnFriday evening. Games were enjoyed geles stock yards, who recently reby Leah, Lola and Maxine Holt, La turned from a hurried trip by autoVern Burmingham, Mary Klodivitch, Daisy and Afton Beckstead, Ethel mobile through the intermol;ntain Stockings, Afton Nielson, Von Holt, country, says he noticed a wonderful Leonard Newbold, La Var Mabey, change in the highways all through Marvin Jensen, Ross Stewart, Rulon Utah, Idaho and Nevada. Nevada, he stated, seemed to be Nielsen, Everett Cooley, Iris Nielsen, doing the most active work in buildLaPriel McMullin, Quinten Shulsen, ing new roads and improving the old Don Spencer, Agnes Jacobsen, Leona ones. Oregon is also doing a lot of Mabey. new work, but mostly east and west Miss Catherine Beckstead was highways. In order to form a through hostess to the club to which she be- route from eastern Oregon and westlongs Monday evening, games and enr Idaho, known as the I. 0. N ., luncheon was enjoyed by 8 members. about 70 miles of construction is Miss Jeanette Wheeler of Salt Lake needed in eastern Oregon. Idaho has was a special guest. gone as far as it can building down Mr. and Mrs. Henry Nelson of Mur- to the state line, in fact over the state ray were special guests of Miss line, hoping that Oregon would fill the Marinda Beckstead Sunday evening. gap but so far it hasn't been done. The people of eastern Oregon and Harlod and Perry Holt of Dove Creek, Colorado, are visiting Mr. and western Idaho would benefit by having this Idaho, Oregon, Nevada highMrs. Perry Holt. Mrs. Perry Holt entertained at a way to Los Angeles and sh9uld speak miscellaneous shower at her home for it and continue to speak until it Friday evening in honor of her daugh- materializes. Idaho and Utah farmers, notwithter, Mary, a bride elect. Games were standing somewhat dry conditions and played and luncheon served to Mrs. Julia Rushton and Charles Rushton of low prices, are optimistic. Wheat and Hunter, Dr. and Mrs. T. M. Duck- barley are going into hogs and we worth, Mrs. Pearl Arch and Eva will get more pork supplies from those Byer of ·Salt Lake, Ruth Hula Peter- states than for many years. Nearly son, Jessie, Lenora, Bertha, Ida, every farm has its livestock setup and Reola, Bernice and Marie Holt, Fern the farmers are diversifying princiBeckstead, Mary McMullin, Glenden pally in "necessities" for which they Nielsen, Gloda Brown, Melba Norris, are able to find a market and in that Theo Ostler, Verena and Zelda New- way have some money coming in right bold, Iona Nelson, Beride Ronnenburg, along. Most of the people of this section Mary Holt, Mr. and Mrs. Perry Halt represent the pioneers who ltave and Norma Holt. worked out of conditions a whole lot Mrs. Perry Holt had as her guest worse than the ones they are now 1hotopAph, C•oul/Mo NAI/o...l R.•;/r~~q# Thursday her sister, Mrs. Luella Ball confronted with. of Green River, Wyoming. HAT the narrowest house In Canada and probably the narrowest In Mr. and Mrs. Cldye Beckstead and North America Is located at No. 6 Donacona Street, Quebec Cltyf daughter, Lois, Mr. and Mrs. John At the top of the front steps it has a maximum width of 7 feet 9 Inches. Wayman attended a surprise party at It was built In 1848 and rented for $5.00 a month. It is still occupied. the home of Mr. and Mrs. Willard A NOISE IN THE NIGHT Turpin at West Jordan in honor of By Emogene Lindsay, 8-B Mrs. Turpin's birthday anniversary, ed debt less sinking fund assets) was As the soft blankets of dark seemSaturday evening. $5,263,444, or $10.40 per capita. In ed to wrap more closely around us, 1929 the per capita net debt was Mr. and Mrs. Jim Beckstead and we snuggled closer to the cheery fire $10.65, and in 1917, $6.32. two children of Salt Lake were dinner as the logs crackled merrily in the Assessed Valu.atious aud Tax Levies guests of Mrs. Mary Ann Beckstead cool, still, night. The neat bed in the Sunday. The asses11ed valuation of property camping tent was welcome to our in Utah subject to ad valorem taxaGraduation exercises of the West tired limbs and weary heads after so 1 tion was $723,052,970 ; the amount of Jordan Stake Seagull girls and Van- much sight-seeing. In less time than guards of the Primary was held in it takes to tell, we were slumbering Financial Statistics of the State Gov- State taxes levied was $5,310,592; and ernment of Utah for 1930.. the per ~apita levy, $10.50. In 1929 the the ward chapel Wednesday evening. peacefully. Suddenly we were aroused per cap1ta levy was $10.43, and in A good program was enjoyed by a by the sound of animals' feet treading !The Bureau of the announ- 1917, $6.98. large crowd. around and around our tent. Cold ces a summary of the Census financial sta tisMr. and Mrs. Soren Nielsen visited shivers raced up my spine as I real- tics of the State of Utah for the fiscal ::>howa Good \;enau• with Mr. aid Mrs. Niels Nielsen at ized the bears were very near to me. year ending June 30, 1930. The pe r Stillness again and more stillness, capita figures for 1930 are based on Union Sunday. "How many are there In your fam· Mrs. Mary Shields has moved to followed by sleep, then came an enor- an estimated population of 506,000. Uy, madam?" West Jordan where she will spend the mous crashing sound, and the clat ter These statistics were compiled by "Just my husband and L" winter. Mrs. Emma Holt was guest at of dishes was heard. With one dash Chas. T. Prisk, Deputy State Treas''No children?" we were at the tent door only to see urer. the Shields home last week. "No." a fat Bruin helping himself to our Expenditures A large crowd attended the party neighbor's eatables and greatly dis"Any dop or cata?'! The payments for operation and given at Riverton Friday evening for turbing the dishes. "No." Mr. E . L. Crawford who has resigned As morning slowly dawned in all its maintenance of the g eneral depart "Do you have a radior• as scout commissioner of the stake glory we were wide awake, feeling as ments of Utah amounted to $9,513,"No." and Theodore Hutchings was selceted if we had never been to bed because 584, or $18.80 per capita. This includes "Now, have JOU an1 saxophones, to take his place. $3,656,430, apportionments for educaof the noises of the night. tion to the minor civil divisions of the planolas, ukuleles or other musical inMr. and Mrs. W. H . Newbold and state. In 1929 the per capita for struments?" son, Stewart, were dinner guests of SPORTS Mr. and Mrs. Lee A. Palmer Saturday The intermural football matches operation and maintena nce of g eneral "Indeed not. And why all these evening. have begun. The first game was held departments w a s $18.51, and 1917, questions?" last Friday afternoon when the boys 08.41. The interest of debt in 1930 "}!adam, I'm just the man who inof the · 9-A defeated the 9-B and 9-C amounted to $454,850; a nd outlays for tends to rent the house next door."boys by a score of 6 to 0. Clark Le- permanent improvements, $2,744,891. London Opinion. fevre, captain of the winning side, The total payments, the refore, for scored the only touchdown of the operation and maintenance of g eneral game in the second quarter. Frank departments, interest, and outlays were $12,713,325. The tota ls include all Head or Heart? Canning headed the losing side. "Lately," l.nforms a Tablet subscribTuesday the ninth grade midgets payments for the year, whether made played the eighth grades. The eighth from current revenues or from pro- er, "I am importuned, day and night, ceeds of bond issues. to subscribe to this and to that. ConWhen the gates of A Century of grade boys were winners by a score Of the governmental costs reported of 12 to 7. Frank Kamnikar was the Progress swing open in Chicago in above, $3,817,546 was for highways , sidering t11e times, wouldn't It be betstar for the winning team. The ninth 1933, strange visitors will be in at$1,685,752 being for m a intenance and ter to give a blt to each and ask no tendance. The "black sand men" and grade made all their points by for- $2,131,794 for construction. questions, than to be considered hard· their families, who hunted and fished ward passes. hearted?" "That," replies the editor, Revenues and farmed that region centuries ago, "we can best answer by quoting TheoThe total revenue receipts were PROJECTS PROGRESS will again appear. dore Roosevelt, the beloved. He said: $13,362,095, or The $26.41 per capita. This in the art classes are For two years, the Exposition has alreadystudents preparing was $3,393,661 for the art more 'Hardness exhibit than of heart, is a doubtful qualthe total cooperated with the Department of that will payments be held of the in year, the spring. exclusive Sofia of the ity, but it is doubtful whether it Anthropology of the University of Karaglanis, Yoshio Takagaki, Gene- payments for permanen t im pr ove- works more damage than softness ot Chicago in excavations of the Indian vieve Clayton, Pedro Loulias, Earl ments, and $648,770 mor e than the head.' "-Exchange. mounds of Illinois in order to repro- McGuire, and Max Watanuki are some total payments including those for duce for the Fair the lives of the of the better art students who are permanent improvement s. This excess Mound Builders, oldest humans we doing outstanding of revenue receipts is reflected in rework. know anything about in the MissisThe duction platoon of debt; also in purchase of Finger Wave and Shampoo ........$1.00 section of the school is sippi valley. Notable discoveries were planning to beautify investments the and in increased cash halls, march made last year and material suffi- properly, and have balances, not perfect shown in t his summary. Pee Wee Pennanent Wa.ve..........$1.00 hall discient for a magnificent display se- cipline. Property and special taxes r epresentcured, but excavations are continuing Members of the ed Dramatic 43.4 per club cent are of the tota l revenue Permanent Waves $6.50, $5.00, $4.00 in order to make the story complete. training for a school play learning for 1920, 45.4 per cent for 1929, and The black sands were laid down by poems and other dramaticbyselections. 59.5 per cent for 1917. The increase the glacier which scooped out Lake The Home Economics club is sewing in the amount of p r operty and special Michigan eons ago, and were thought very industriously on for the taxes collected was 134.4 per cent Veda Hanson, Operator.. Phone 11'7-J too old to contain human remains. gymnasium, fancy work,suits and necessi- from 1917 to 1930, and 4.5 per cent But recently there have been found ties for the home. The girls have all from 1929 to 1930. The per copita and the remains of ten individuals who made scrapbooks of "The Home special taxes were $11 .46 in 1930, occupied the region long before the Ideal." $11.08 in 1929, and $576 in 1917. mound builders. These black sand During the last few weeks, the of general departments, people who lived 2000 to 4000 years. rooms have been very attractively or Earnings conmpensation for s er vic es renderago, will be at the Fair. decorated. Cu~ains have been put ed by the State officials, represented The skeletens found showed the up, and the pupils have brought 9.3 per cent of the total revenue for black sand folk to be short and potted plants and We wish to announce that pictures to make 1930, 9.1 per cent for 1929, and 7. 5 husky, with narrow, long heads, wide school more homelike. per cent for we 1917. have opened a Dresscheek bones and heavy ridges over the Business and nonbusiness licenses making Shop at 65 First Avebrows. constituted 28.7 per cent of the total In the valley of the Illinois a nue, and are prepared to do all revenue for 1930, 22.7 per cent for "Hopewell" mound is being excavated kinds of sewing and remodel1929, and 6.7 per cent for 1917. and a great central pit containing Receipts from busines licenses conin!f of clothing at reasonable twenty-four bodies has been exposed. sists chiefly of taxes exacted from inpnces. On the bluffs above the river, domePlans for the registration of stu- surance and other incorporated comshaped mounds, probably dating back dents the Utah State Agricultural panies, the cigarette tax, and the sales MRS. HILMA WILES a thousand years, are revealing a collegeathave tax been on gasoline, completed, while accordthose from nonmost niteresting story of early life in ing to W. H. Bell, registrar at the col- business licenses comprise chiefly MRS. KATE WATSON Dllnois. lege. Preparations have been made taxes on motor vehicles and amounts Several of the mounds will be re- to receive a large attendance and paid for hunting and fishing priviproduced at the Fair. from present indications there will be leges. The sales tax on ga soline a decided increase in registration this amounted to $2,226,488 in 1930 and year. The extremely low cost of at- $1,474,045 in 1929, an increase of 51 tending college right now, owing to per cent. Soft Drinks, Cigars, Tobaccos and the scarcity of jobs, and the desire of Indebtedness Candies students to become trained for the The total funded or fixed debt outINDEPENDEN T POOL HALL advent of better economic conditions standing June 30, 1930 was $10,285,Angelo Denerls, Prop. Production of Chevrolet cars and are the primary factors which are ex- 000. Of this amount $7,260,000 was trucks in August totaled 54,958 units pected to keep up the enrollment this for highways. 61 North Main Midvale as compared with 51,622 in the same year. · The net indebtedness (funded or fixmonth of 1930, W. S. Knudsen, presiRegistration for new students dent and general manager, has an- take place on Monday, Septemberwill 21. nounced. Former students of the college will August, it is said, is the fourth suc- register on Tuesday, September 22. cessive month this year to show a Classes will begin on Wednesday gain over the corresponding month of morning, September 23 at 8 o'clock. 1930, and the output for August A special program for new students brings the total for the first eight is being prepared by a committee of months of 1931 to 643,410 cars and which Dr. W . W. Henderson is chair• trucks. The grime and dirt, the wear and tear of a severe winter has man. It is planned to hold a general Of the volume during the month assembly of the new students on Monleft its imprints on that car of yours. That's :why you should just ended, 50,985 were built for the day morning prior to the beginning of bring your car to us, let us give it the "once over" and we'll domestic market as against 47,264 a the actual registration process. At year ago. The domestic production this meeting instructions will be given be perfectly frank with you in advising what repairs may be for July also exceeded the volume for to new students. A faculty and stunecessary. July of last year. Mr. Knudsen stated dent reception will be held on Monday OUR ESTIMATES WILL PLEASE YOU! that this sustained improvement in evening in the Smart gymnasium. buying over 1930 indicates an increase Members of the housing placement in United States retail buying power. committee will be located at the Production will continue through t;hamber of Commerce and at the colSeptember. The current employment lege to assist students in finding figure shows approximately 33,000 board and room accommodation s as men on the Chevrolet payroll. they arrive in town. MIDVALE SCHOOL NOTES Funeral Rites Held For Elden G. Dimond FUNERAL HELD FRIDAY FOR GIRL TRUCK VICTIM Funeral services for E lden G. D!Bishop Horace T. Godfrey of Union mond, 9, son of Mr. a nd Mrs. Charles offic,ate.d at the fvnual o" Ruby AtDimond, who· died Tuesday, Septem- kinson, which was held Friday at the ber 8, of arthritis, w er e held at 1 Union w<>rd chapel. Speakers were o'clock Friday in the West Jordan Frank H. Berrett, Arthur Godfrey, ward chapel, Bishop W. W. Malstrom Bi~hop F. E. Blingb.urst of ~vrurray, being in charge. Opening prayer was and Birhop Godfrey. Mvsical numbers were a doub!e duet, "Sometime by Wallace Bateman. ·we'll Under~tu.nd," and "Be:wtiful The speakers w er e J ames A. B~te- Home," by Lucy Proctor, B:thel Graman, William J . Leak and Henry lutm, Lc ;a Nix and Lucy Godfrey, Cooley. The choir furnished three al!!O "Your Sweet Little Roeebud," songs, "My Father Knows," "Though solo by Mrs. Lucy p roc t or; soprano Deep'ning Trials" and "I Have Read ·()JO. •·r I r· \" ThAt Mv RcdP.emer of a Beautiful City," with Kenneth Lives," Mrs. Mcrvil Brown; a duet, and Rulon Hoga n s inging the solo •·1n the G!'.rurn of Tnmorrow," Betty parts. 'lnd Pesrie ('¥ittenden; a steel guitar Other musical numbers were "The solo by Phvllis Roberg The opening Nightingale Awoke Me Last Night," pmyer was l)y Ja<ob Griffiths and the by the eighth g rade gir ls' chorus of he J:tedic'ion W'lS pronounced by E. B. the West Jordan school, under direc- Smith. The grave in the Murray tion of Mr. Dickson ; violin solo, "The ' City cem£.tery was dedicated by John Trail of Long Ago," Richard Gardner A. Berrett. Members of Ruby'!l Sunand Harold Rindlisbach . Benediction, day school class were flower girls. D. R. Bateman. Int erment was in the West Jordan cemetery, Bishop Wilford Myers dedicating t h e grave. Mrs. Eudora Batema n a nd Mrs. [ Lock, Gun and Novelty Repairing. Josephine Bateman took charge of All kinds of repairing, Keys and the flowers with Beth Batem an, MaxSharpening. ine Gardner, Marie Ohwiler, Joy BateWE BUY Gl.iNS man, Dorothy Cramer, F ay Henderson, Dorothy Spratling, H ope Yates, 58 No. Main St. 1\Udvale, Utah Ruth Shulsen and Marg aret Hogan, little classmates, as flower gir ls. The following playmates w er e pall bears: Keith Bateman, Orland and Stanley BAI,ED .;;TRA W Dimond, Bla ine Lancaster , Everett Cooley and Loyal Blackett. Elden is survived by h is parents, 30c per hal"', or ~] O.(Hl a ton. three brothers, Lloyd, DeVearl and 559 E. Centt>r St. Midvale Billy; his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Dimond of West J ordan and • A. A. MALSTROM Eliza Lloyd of Riverton. WITTICH'S FOR SALE T UTAH OPERATION COSTS ANALYZED . CHICAGO TO FETE ANCIENT HUMANS Orchid Beauty Salon DRESSMAKING REGISTRATION PLANS COMPLETED AT U. S. A. C. I YOU CAN BANK ON THIS i"E SIGNS OF T"E Z.OOIAC MtE CENTURIES OLD i\.tEIR. TRUE. OR..IGIN IS LOST IN ANTIQUITV A DUCK'S SKIN DOES NOT GET PLAY POOL CHEVROLET CONTINUES PRODUCTION INCREASE ....... AUT O REPAIRS Up· To· Date C. J. Ridd Motor Co. WE-T, EVE~ WJ.IEW 1-\E'S SWIMMING IN A. RAINSTORM ~ IT IS OUR POLICY . That we be able to promptly supply the banking· service you need and deserve; that errors be eliminated so far as is humanly possible, and that your problems he given our most courteous consideration at all times. On!y as we adhere to this policy can we continue to prosper. Midv ale S tat 1\Iidvale, Utah Durant Sales and Service I nk |