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Show t I e. ren Pages-Sixty Per Cent Local News-You Can't Beat It For Three Cents. Order Your Copy Sent Regulal'ly Twelve Hundred Copies Of The JOURNAL l'l'o Work For You This Issue. Don't Hide Your Light Under A Bushel ~~~'-----------------------------~ MIDVALE CITY, UTAH, THURSDAY, l\IAY 21, 1925. VOL. 1 NO.2 v ~1 -------- MIDVALE SCHOOLS CLOSING EXERCISES The closing school pro.g1·am was gh·en at the Iris Theatre, Monday night, May 18, at 8 o'clock. It consiste(\ of a n operetta, "The Love Pirates of Hawaii," given by the students of the Junior High School, umler the <lirection of Mr. Ralph Jensen. It was followed by a first class picture show. Midvale School graduated the large,;t class in it~ history this year. About sixty students were promoted to high school. The program for the clo~ing week A New South Salt Lake County Industry---Refineries Clay Co. Plant Utah Sportsmen AssociationFormed Sandy, as usual, won the Jordan District Field Day with a total of 68 pornts. Draper, it's nearest rival, No, we don't red'er to the United scored 54 points. South Jordan took State::; of America. It's true that U. third with 23 points. Below i::; the S. A. is the proper abbreviation for complete final standing of the school::; the best land in the world-your Sandy, 68; Draper, 54; South Jor- home and mine. dan, 23; West Jordan, 18; Union, 15; It also stands for a new organizaGranite, 14%; Midvale, 12; Butler, tion formed at Geneva last Satur·<iay 8%; Hive.rton 6; Cr.::scent, 5; H1gh- when the Spot1:smens of the State land Boy, 1; Heniman, 1. held thei1· annual outing. The crowd began to gather at an The various Sportmen's apprec·aearly hour and by noon time all the tion of the State organized the Utah available parking space was filled. Sportmen's Association. It wil: be a The day was broken with showe1·s clearing house for the county assobut no marked interference was noted ciations through which suggestions in the sports. and recommended legislation nnu::;t Drape1· Girls won the ba~eball game pass before pre::;ented to the State from Midvale 6-0. West Jordan legislature. Gids proved bettel' players than the The association will make for uniCI·escent maids score 6--5. formity and CO-{)peration in the Fish The D1·aper boys easily overshad- and Game laws of the State and ought oweti the Bingham boys with the to result if properly handled in n·uch score of 7-3. good to the Sportsmen of the terIn the Girl!. Races Fairbourn of ritory served. Crescent, 4th g1·ade, Jac(}bson, Sandy, Long live the U. S. A. 5th grade, Naylor, South Jo1xlan, 6th gl'ade; Anderson, Sandy, 7th grade; Mayor Lester, of Munay, was a Kerin, Midvale, 8th grade and Hen- callel' at the Journal Office May 21st dricksen, Draper, 9th grade, were the and urged all Midvale fans to atte,ll first place winners. the ball g-ame there today. Quick, Dumas, Lloyd, Walker, Miller and Nelson carried away first South J 01xlon, seCO'Ild; Dumas, Sandy, prize ribbons in the boys grade races. third place. Grade Pole Vault Grade 220 Yard Dash Boys Day, Draper, first; Humphrey, of Smith, West Jordan, first; Sorct, Sandy, second; Stocki1.g, South J or- Granite, second; Larson, Sandy, third. dan, third. Grade 60 Yard Dash-Girls 9th High Jump Smith, Sandy, first; Day, Draper, Pullman, Bingham, first; Nelson, of second; West'und, Midvale, third. Draper, second; Vincent, Jordan, 3rd. · 25 Man Relay-Boys Grade Hig':r Jump Sandy, first; Draper, second; ButFmncom, Draper, first, 5 feet; Sor- ler-Granite, third. et, Granite, second, Lal'son, Sandy in 25 Relay-Girls third place. Sandy, first; Union, second, South 9th Shot Put, 40 feet 1 inch, Soret Jordan, third. of Granite, first place; Hick, of Draper 25 Man Standing Broad Jump second; and Lloyd, South Jordan, 3rd. Sandy, first; Draper, second; South Grade Running Broad Jump Jordan, thil·d. Miller, Sandy, first; Francom, D.raFaculty Base Ball per, 2nd; Jensen, West Jordan, 3rd. Nolth-9. South-1. 9th Running Broad Jump In a close and exciting of baseball Torkelson, Riverton, first; Nelson, game, Sandy, rep..- :enting the North Draper, 2nd; Garside, Riverton, 3rd. [End, won the District Championship Grade Chinning from Draper, the South end, winners. Sandy, first, D1·aper, second. The score wa*'> 9 to 7. Both teams 9th Pole Vault plarw fast ball. Dowding, ~a:-~dy'~> Nelson, Draper, first. centerfielder starred with a fine runGrade 100 Yard Dash Boys ning catch. Day, the Draper pitchet•, Smith, West Jordan, first; Stocking, hit a long home run. I Dr. Earl Douglas, fossil expert of the Cat·negie Institute, who haci charge of the excavation of the worl<l famous dinosaurs for the University of Utah, has been given complet<' charge of the setting up of the bones of these gigantic monste1·s. The act-. ive work of assembling the prehistoric giants will begin w.lhln the next few days by two experts who will work under the direct supervision of Dr. Douglas. The special tools and equipment re- ~ Budget System for School Districts FIELD DAY FOR JORDAN SCHOOLS SANDY CARRIES AWAY HONORS AT THE JORDAN DISTRICT TRACK .MEET YESTERDAY Will Assemble 'Pre-Historic Giant of school follows: • Monay morning, final examinations. Monday afternoon, matinee, ''The Love Pirate of Hawii," and a picture show, at the Iris Theatre, repeated Mon,lay evening. quired for the work are now being Tuesday, final examinations ar prepa1·ed. Special strongly construct1. day. cd work benches are being built whkh WednCL~dav, · · · . g the huge · field day at the Jonla1. . w1.11 b e capabl e of sus~amm High Schoo 1. Wednesday evening, a party for the blocks of stone in which the precious eig-hty graduates, their parents and bones are enclosed. It will take at a few invited guests, at. the church least two years to complete the mounting of the University collection amusement hall. Thu1 "day, promotion canis will be so delicate is the task of removing the bones from their t';tone enca~e issueti. Friday, upper grade students will ment. The Unive1·sity collection consist:; enjoy an outmg in City Creek Canyon. Foll()wing are the names of th~ of five specimens ranging from 17 to studenb g-raduating from the Midvale 100 feet in length. The largest ol School: these is known as the Diplodocus and Ander:>on, Niels when mounted will he about 100 feet Culley, Paul long. The animal has an extreme]) Canning·, Harold long neck and tail as compared with Javine, Arnold the rest of the body, the two together Lurwn, Marlon con,;titute about two-thirds of the toPugmire, l<.oss tal length of the animal. The BronPatience, Geot·ge tosarus, though not as long as the Richardson, Ward Diplidocus, was a much heavier aniReading, Lyle man and is thought to have a greatSoter, Sam er capacity for his vegetable diet. One Woodhead, Veri of the mo::;t valuable specimens in Cozzens, Met·rill the collection is the forty-foot carniAllen, Lillian vorous dinossaur or the "terrible Bowen, Beulah lizard," which has a head measuring Brady, Susie 30 by 36 inches, the largest ever disBrown, Verda such detail as they may desire. When Cozzens, Lucile the Boani of Erucation has heard the Christensen, Delsa taxpayers they may then determine Dokas, Mauxine Hughs, helen finally upon the budget. Kenin, Marg-aret It is to be noted that it is unlawful for any Board of Education to make Matherson, Marion Mills, Dorothy any appropriation in excess of the est~mated expendable revenue for the Marrow, Ruby ensuing fiscal year. It is also unlaw:J)okas, Andrew Greenwood, Foster ful for any increase of the budget as Hyke, Paul decided upon on or before June 30th. hler, Carl All unexpended balances of appropriLarson, Marlon ations shall at the end of the fiscal Mathews, Weldon year revert to the fund from which Naisbet, Ralph they were appropriated and any exP~terson, Harry isting deficits arising through excesPlhelps, Eugene sive expenditures from former years Robert, Rudolph shall be deducted from the estimated Sumbot, S.avero revenue for the ensuing year, to the Visher, George extent of at least 10 per cent of the Webb, Hugh entire tax revenue of the district for Bergman, Gene.!ve the previous year. B ~Verda While the budget appropriations cannot be increased, it can be reduc.... rk·topnt!.rsen, N or.11a Cropper, Carmen ed by the action of the Board of EduDavis Dorthea cation at any regular meeting during D ring, Ruth the course of the year. The law provides that clerks of the Boards of Education shall not draw Lindsay, Clarissa warrants on school district funds exReynolds, Lean cept in accordance with the Board of Swnbot, Marie Education. Peckham, F lorence This information is repeated in this Thomas, Amy 4-;sue in order that the Boards of EduWe.stlund, Helen cation, clerks and superintendents Snarr, Irene may have full knowledge of the l'esponsibility which 1·ests upon them as embodied in the school budget bill passed at the 1925 Legislature. Boards of Education will find the county committees of the Utah Taxpayers' Association actively interested in the budget. These county comBoards of Education should bear in mittees will welcome an opportunity mind that on or before June 30 of to sit in with the Boards of Education the present year they are to adopt a and discuss the items contained in the g~dget for the coming fiscal year and budget. This contact o'Il the part of 1t"1all make appropriations to gove1·n taxpayers will be found to he one of e>.penditures for that time. In ad- co-{)peration and not crit:cism; for it vance ' of determining definitely what is evident that the Boards of &lu1J1e budget should he they are to give cation are desirous of putting all 'ltotice of a public meeting-this not- possible economy in the CO'Jlduct of ice to be published in a newspaper of our schools without impairing their But reductions will he general circu lation within the district efficiency. at least one week in advance of the found possible and the budget system holrling of such meeting. At the public is the one direct mear1s devised by the hearing opportunity shall be given legislature to bring about this desired t axpayers t o discuss the budget in result. PRICE $1.50 PER YEAR 1. Loading Station on the llenvei' au d l'io Gr nde Western Railroad. 2. View of Valley from the Refineries Clay Company's Plant. 3. Vi e~ of th e Drying J]epartment of the Plant. -l. Another portion of the Plant. ti. View •k Treating Department. a Springs Open for Dancing The Refineries Cla) geles, California organization ha~ purchased a tract, of lar.d south of Draper near the "point of the .i.\Iountain," and is operating a plant at the pre;;ent time for the reco•ery of clay deposits. 'l'he~e deposits extend probably 2000 feet in the mountain at this point and several hundred feet in depth. ln early days, Draper residents disuovered this same fonnation crvping out on the .mountain side, and since it resembled soap in app.:arance, ~hey assumed that it could be u~ed rot that purpose. It was sold in stores of that vicinity for a time as ;;oap but was not entirely satisfactory and its use was bandoned, Finally last year, owners of the Sru·atoga Springs opened fo1· its pre-season of dancing last Satur<lay with a large crowd in attendance. The Dundee Merrymakers iml.nediately gained popularity with their 'IlOVelty dance music. The present pr.ogram is to give dances every Saturday until Decoration, probably after which time dances will be held several times during the week. The American Fol'k Fire Department held an outing at Saratoga Satunlay and with the rest of the merrymakers enjoyed the g-rand opening: The dance floor has been put in f11·st class condition and artistic dec-· orations throughout the hall add bhe finishing touches. tract succeeded in interesting out.-;itle Quite a number of Salt Lakers capital and today the clay mine is op- drove out in thei1· cars as the roads erated 24 hours in the day. to Saratoga from the paved highway The material in mind, treated and are in first cla~s condition. dried and loaded into railroad car~ on the main line of the D & R G W 1 ---------railroad on the company's property., Neartly 800 tons of the finished proOCa OCtOf OeS L ID G East Next friday duct are shipped monthly and of! coul'se, a~ soon as th~ tunneling and 1 experim.ental . work is. com~lete, this 1 produc.tJOn _will matenally. mcrease ... Dr. Alley, a member of the local 1 . Th~Ie ale many dep?s _ts o_f thu; · fh'ln of Hosmer, Alley and Quick l'ekmtl 111 the c~unt.ry but It _1s said that ceive an invitation by telegram this th~ Draper d1stnct depos1ts .are sup- week to read a paper before the en or to. all o_thers and f~r ~his rea~ on American Association fo1· the Study the Cahforma concern 1s mterestmg of Goitre. · itself J.lainly in production from this The Association meets in connectsource. ion with the American Medical AsAnd so the mountain slopes, once sociation at Atlantic City on May 26th considered waste land, good only for The doctor will leave Friday for Atmountain goat grazing in the su•,nmer !antic City. and skiing in the winter, have openDr. Alley has studied the Goitre ed ~~w avenues ior industry. Oppor- problem fr~m every angle and is retumhes are open every day to all of 1 cognize<! as an authority on the subus. Will we heed them and take on 1 ject. This fact is evident when the asnew responsibilities or shall we roll sociation, composed IYf speciaHsts idly along in the same old rut? throughout the u. s. and Canada request his presence and hh; views on covered. The skull of thu; anm1al ts the goitre problem. very rare and very few institutions in the ,,~orld are fortunate enough tol ., have the head of this animal, thus ROLLER SKATING A the find of the Unive1·sity is extremeHEALTHFUL SPORT ly valuable. One of the other two dinossaurs making- up the collection Roller skating fans have an opporis undoubtedly very young, measur- tunity to indulge in this pleasing ing only 17 feet in length. These 1 recreation at the Dundee Ball Room animals were very well protected with· in Midvale every Pight during the a thick horny skin which proved an 1 remaining nights. in this month. effective al'lnor in warding ioff Try out your agility with the roll- I I I· -----------.--.---. lI I danger. J ing foot pieces. Indian War Veteran Dies Special to the Journal Funeral se1·vices were held in the W.ard Chapel, Sunday noon for Andt-.ew Anderson, age eighty~ght years who died Thursday at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Chris Christiansen. Bish(}p T. F. Greenwood had ohat·ge. Mr. Anderson was born at Malma, Sweden, N(}vembeT 10, 1836. He emigrated to America si-xty-two years ago and was manied to Miss Nellie Jenson at Florence, Nebraska while coming to Utah with an ox team. Mr. Anderson has been on two missions to Sweden and one to Denmark. He was also a veteran of the Black Hawk war. Three sons, Andrew C. Anderson, of Do'-"'lley, Id:ilio and Ma1tin and Joseph Anderson of Union, Three daughters: Mr::<. Lindsay Brady of Bingham, Mrs. David Smart of Union and Mrs. C. A. Christiansen of East Midvale, 47 grand children and 75 great-grand children survive him. Mr. W. A. Garrett opened the services with p1·ayer. Choil' sang two numbers, Vocal duet by c. I. Goff and daughter, Cora. Sepakers were: W. D. Kuhre, Niels Lind, H. J. Burgon, Bishop T. F. Greenwood, President Soren Rasmussen. A vocal duet was given by Miss Gertie Forbusl1 and Mrs. Ivy Erickson of Murray. A violin solo by Ruby Anderson of Union The closing prayer by J. A. Banett. Interment was made in the Munay Cemetery. SECOND ISSUE-TWENTY TWO ADVERTISERS IT PAYS TO READ THE SIGN POSTS ON LIFE'S ROAD IS THE JOURNAL AN ASSET TO THE COMMUNITY'? IF SO, PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS Advertisers Who Believe In Their Community Betterment Conoco Products, Ted Wheeler, Agent, Sandy City, Utah J. C. Penney Co., E. R. Benson, Manager, Midvale Wells & Co., .Joe Wells, Manger, Midvale, Utah Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Co., C. F. Esperson, Agent Booth Mercantile Co., J. W. Booth, Mgr., Midvale, Utah. J. S. Morgan, Jeweler, Midvale, Utah C. J. Ridd Motor Co., FGrds, Lincolns, Midvale, Utah. U. S. Cafe, Samas & Thomas, Props., Midvale, Utah West Jordan Milling Co., John Aylett, Manager, Midvale Midvale State Bank, L. L. Olson, Cashier, Midvale, Utah West Jordan Lumber Co., J. A. Alcorn, Manager, Midvale Corner Meat & Grocery, Gilbert & O'Brien, Midvale, Utah Peters Studio, The Distinctive Photo Shop, Midvale, Utah Midvale Bakery, Where Bread Tastes Best, Midvale, Utah Cox's Market, William M. Cox, Owner and Manager, Midvale Dundee Ball Room, Saratorga, The Home of Syncopation U~ah Agricultural College, National Summer School, Logan Famous Clothing Co., C. E. Matthews, Manager, Midvale I. Lester, The Cleanest Artificial Ice, Midvale, Utah Elysium Theatre, Mr. Wilson, Manager, Midvale, Utah Iris Theatre, J. W. Johnson, Owner and Manager, Midvale Midvale Furniture, Go To Grass For :Furniture, Midvale LOCAL CONOCO AGENT IS A REAL LIVE WIRE • We invite your attention to the Contintal Oil Company's advertisement on page three of this issue. "Ted," the Conooo agent for South Please notify us of any misrepresentation in our columns. Salt Lake County is in charge of the The Journal requests and urges you to patronize them. Wholesale Distributing Plant at the West limits of Midvale City. He operates his own fleet of trucks and •!.. - · - -·-·-·-·-~~-•a_a_a_a_ o-•-a ·-· delive1·es CONOCO products to over thilty retailers in this territory. Mr. Wheeler, also operates the service station bearing hi.o; name at Sandy He is a live wire if there ever was one. You get the same standard of N b Th' W k 184 carloads SERVICE and QUA'LITY from "Ted" um er IS ee ..................-....-........ . and his distributors that has made: Number Last Week ............................-.... -..... 209 carloads the CONOCO line famous in ten of Same Period Year Ago . ..........-........... 189 carloads -a- ....... Carload Shipments Received At Smelter I the Westel·n States. •... u-g-·-·-·-g-·-·-~- -u .... _,_a a-o-·-·-·-· _g_L_G_I·:· |
