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Show THE h PAGE SIX Carbon Awaits Play On Remaining Schedule THURSDAY, ri per JnnRN AL HELPERtUTAjL Backward G! anccs IT'S IN THE BIBLE Carbon high school has no region five league games on the slate until Taken from the files of the Helper Friday, January 31, so they'll have Times for 1927 an opportunity, between lengthy pracI'lans f.jr building a hospital in tice sessions, to sit back and watch Helper m- t with the approval of the other teams battle. , present at a huge chamber of schedule on the battles Remaining commerce banquet in the Liberty hall are as follows: Greenriver at Central; Tuesday night. A hospital costing Jan. 24 was considered to be about $fiij. North Emery at South Emery. Jan. 31 South Emery at Green-river- ; most practical for tiiis town .a committee of live men being appointed to NoNrth Emery at Carbon. Feb. 7 South Emery at Central; investigate the possibilities. Greenriver at Carbon. The Senate club at Carbon high Feb. 14 Central at Carbon; North school accepted three new members Emery at Greenriver. Feb. 19 North Emery at Central; during this past week. They are Paul Carter. Curtis Harris and Mike Carbon at South Emery. Feb. 21 Central at Greenriver; So. Emery at North Emery. Mr. and Mrs. Glen liallinger are Feb. 28 Greenriver at South Emhappy over the arrival of a fine son ery; Carbon at North Emery. at their home last Wednesday. This is tie first son in the family. BY BLAKE H ADDON D. FOR SPRING CANYON AND ROYAL COAL FRANK PUGLIESE Phone 146 Helper PISPUTES OP ANA170NAL CHARACTER WERE OfTEM 6 OW0SIM6 stmto CHAMPION j A mXW fflK Mf immnS WWE JW lhO Jy WiL JOE BARB0GLI0, Jr. Attorney at Stubby Peterson's "Miners" hoop squad, with two of their star players, Walter Kay and Gene Pressed, missing because of sickness, last week lost three games to fast teams in the Pint ah basin. "With many innovations successfully introduced during the year 194.), J. 1). Loftis Jr., increased the assets of the Denver club," the article read. "As originator of Rio Grande 'Appreciation Week, which was held last May throughout the system, he took the lead in creating additional activities and promoting interesting programs for employees." 30-2- CAN YOU FIND IT? Blake Haddon will pay $1 for Bible facts submitted by readers, and which are accepted by him for publication in this feature. Send contributions to this paper. Growth Of Helper After Days Of '49 Attributed To Railroads & Mining 93 Proof Th is National Distillers Products Corporation, New York City, N.Y. whiskey it 4 YEARS 01.1) . . . Pay Taxes Here . . , Pay Business Licenses Here . . . Buy Their Groceries Here Patronize Garages and Service Stations Purchase Clothing, etc. Here . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , Fitch 135 So. Main Funeral Director 300 PRICE Elvln Bills Governor B. N. Reddington Secretary Loyal Order of Moose Meeting Every Tuesday at LODGE HALL. s I P.M. I to in 1891. mission. Things were fairly booming in Helper by this time. The railroad employed hundreds of men here. The coal mines that were then opened Support City, Schools, Churches Work for Civic Projects, and Oranizations Give Employment to Helper People Place Their Money in Helper's Bank Boost for Local Business Firms Maintain a Home In Helper Support Our City Administration ID for men required The first business house was a small saloon; this was followed by the first store building, both being built in 1891. The first school house was built here in 1S93. Previous to that time school was conducted in a private residence. Heler precinct, including the road and School districts, was organized in 1892 and set off from Spring Glen precinct by order of the county com- 2 for Office Supplies and Printing Ccill At - or - Phone e PHONE &. Aside from the railroad buildings and houses, the first home to be constructed privately was that of J. Tom Pay Light and Water Bills Here Patronize Helper Drug Stores ...But W DicU Mitchell Embalmer operate the terminal. In 1893 the present commodious passenger station was built. The top floor of this building. was converted into a library and billiard room for the men, and remained so until the railroad 'Y' was built, when it became quarters for officers of this terminal. DON'T o o o . , FUNERAL HOME I PRINTERS . MITCHELL neigh-borlines- accommodation CUT-Of-TCW- N Watch Repairing Experts Guaranteed at THE JEWELERS With the annual Days of '4!) tele-- ' bratioa just around the corner, prom- were then stationed here, and a ising costumes that will recapture narrow gauge box car for a pasthe spirit of days gone by we here Accepted at Pennsylvania University senger station. recapture the spirit of memorable 1887 the railroad had Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Jones of Martin l!y the fall of events in the history of Helper's past. frame residences, have just received word that their built twenty-seveand Carbon soil county Although and in the summer of the following sou, Jack, former medical student at the very valley in which Helper lies ten more were erected. It was the University of Utah, has been acfelt the tread of oxen, mules and year by President Palmer of the cepted at the Pennsylvania Univerplanned horse teams drawing heavily laden road to make Helper a freight ter- sity, where he will further his schooners towards the luring prairie minal as soon as the line was stan- studies in the line of medicine. He gold fields of California as early as dard gauged, and these residences will commence his work in the East the year 1849, it was not until 1S79 were for the purpose of housing the next fall. that the first settlers decided to make men and their families. their homes here, near Price. And railroad Standard gauging of the line began striving for betterment of the comone year later, on July ", 1S80, Teach-oin 1SS9, and Helper became a division munity. These organizations now have Pratt settled here. The first houses erected were built point for the road. It remained so as one of their prime objectives the for thirty years, or up to the time promotion of friendliness and by the Rio Grande railroad (completbetween Helper and all sured through here from Denver to Salt the terminal was moved to Soldier in the twenties. Summit, communities. early rounding Lake and Ogden during 1883). These With the completion of the stanfirst buildings were a small frame dard gauging of the track in 1S91 the building near the tracks (now used for an express office), a bunk house road built a roundhouse and small A large railroad for the handful of section men who machine shop here. hotel was also erected to provide 20-fo- - Self Thorit Hatch gano. Fine Craftmanship also produces "Bourbon at its Best" Ted Professional Mr. and Loftis, formerly of Helper, rean active year as presclosed cently ident of the Rio Grande Service club at Denver, Colorado, according to a notice in the "Green Light," railroad publication. J. The United States Civil Servict has announced opea Commission School Operetta examinations for the f0 competitive Due to extensive work connected lowing positions: it '49 celebration, with the Days of $5500 a year. is possible that hte annual school Senior stenographer, $U'i20 a year for scheduled operetta, originally stenographer, $1440 a year' junior some time in February, will be post- senior $1410 a year, and jua' typist, Del-beponed until arch, according to ior typist. $12t'.0 a year. These ex. Oswald, music instructor. The animations are open to men only operetta chosen for presentation this Full information may be obtained acts in three a musical is play year rom Bruce Moffitt, of the entitled "The Forest Prince." Per- U. S. Civil Service secretary Board of , roles the to chosen sons leading play at the post office in this city are Jennie Keeler. Virginia Van Wer-ven- . m a , i lm Steve Starr and Owen Merrill, as related to the Helper Journal last week. Basketball Basketball fans were treated to a thrill not often experienced, when Rams met the Helper junior high LAWYER the Price junior high school hoop Office Closed Sat. Afternoon team last Friday at Price, for although Helper came out on the short Phone 1BO-Stafford Bldg. end by one basket, the two teams Utah Helper swept neck and neck into two breathtaking extra periods to determine the winner. as the Score of the game was final whistle blew, so an extra period was set to decide a champ. No Law scores were made in this period, so a second was set. near the close of Helper State Bank Bldg. shot by which a long, center-cour- t Phone 90 Helper, Utah Price swished through the hoop to vica team the southern give tory. High point men for the Rams were "Chick" Capece and Donald and Jewelry Diniick, followed by Ernest Prezel and Albert Breznick. More Basketball - All work By Helper's Rams expect to meet the Price team again tomorrow night at Helper, and the determined look in GIFT SHOP the eyes of loci team members seems to say that they won't be beaten again. The Rams are believed to have a very good chance of gaining a victory over the Price team due to the fact that the game is to be played on our own floor, which is considerably larger than the floor at Price. By Exam-ineis- Former Railroader Mrs. Albert Leo have a dandy boy who arrived Friday. Mrs. Leo was formerly Miss Josephine I'a. 1941 HELPER JUNIOR HIGH CIVIL SERVICE EXAMS. LISTED SCHOOL NEWS - Of Helper Retires As Service Club Head JANUARY 23, turn ft JOURNAL Phone 21 were working to capacity, and em ployed many more men. Business houses and residences began shooting up with startling rapidity. While not as extensive now, building has never ceased in Helper. During October, 1907, Helper was regularly organized and in corporated. The first officers were J. Tom Fitch, mayor and W. C. Brocket-- , Steve Gianotti and Louis Lowenstein, councilmen. This move proved to be a city awakening for the people of Helper. A franchise to a twenty foot strip of ground along Main street was secured, fences along thin strip were moved back, telephone poles taken from the center of the street, and the main street of Helper was widened to fifty feet. The stimulus that this improvement afforded caused people to buy suitable residences and build homes. Mr. Fitch gave the city a strip of land thirty feet wide and quarter mile long, which was immediately named Janet street and sites building mapped out along its course for residential purposes. In 1919 Helper was changed from a town to a third class city. During all the time of its first rapid growth IMper whs strong and tough -- it had to be, situated as it was in thp very heart of a rugged coal mining country. Finally emerging into a more modern and cultural stage, the city now has its social and civic organizations, all r rail MnmMca The Louisiana Purchase in 1803 added more than a million square miles l the United States. After securing an appropriation from Congress to explore the vast territory, President Thomas Jefferson chose Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to lead the expedition. Starting up the Missouri River near St. Louis in May. 1801, they returned in September, 1806. Not only had they found a land route to the Pacific and located a river flowing to the sea, but they had transferred the western boundary of the United States to the Pacific Coast. Lewis and Clark were the s who this vast new opened up territory holding so much of promise for the future of the country. trail-blazer- s There are in industry today. In the telephone service they are not only the men yw build the lines over mountains, deserts and in science in the Bell plains, but the Telepl lone Laboratories, ever seeking better wavs to do the job. trail-blazer- trail-blaze- rs Keeping the nation's channels of communication open twenty-fou- r hours a day is the job of your telephone company a responsibility it shoulders eagerly. Whether ii may be a local emergency or one of national defense, telephone men and women are ready. ... m The Mountain States Telephone Cr Telegraph Co. |