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Show SUBSCRIBERS IN SUBSCRIBE AR-REA- FOR THE SUN NOW AND GIVEN 50c SAVE 50c DISCOUNT NO. 42 SAUNA, UTAH, FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1931 THIRTEENTH YEAR Independence Day Fittingly Observed Salinas Independence day celebration, with hundreds of visitors from a adjoining communities and with citizens out in force, proved the crowning feature of the summer. With the breaking of dawn a volley of blasts were fired and soon after the streets were thronged with and the day passed without any serious mishaps. The intense heat failed to run the celebrators to shady nooks, but all joined in and made the day one long to be rememSal-in- merry-ma- kers, bered. The parade was one of the open- ing numbers on the program. Led by an escort from Salina post, No. 36, American Legion, the parade coursed up and down Main street. Following the Legion escort came Salinas municipal band, nattily dressed in white uniforms and playing patriotic numbers. Following in line caipe the Legion Auxiliary float, with a number of little girls dressed ip poppy uniforms, Goddess, of Liberty," Uncle Sam, Utah, city officials, Salinas fire department, Boy Scouts of America, floaty repr&enting. business houses and citizens in autos. The Br.y Scout float Von the first prize of $5, the $3 prize being awarded to the Legion Auxiliary, and the business float entered by the Electric ' Shop was given third prize. Following the parade the masses assembled in ' Salinas beautifully shaded park,, where a patriotic program was given. Judge Bates was the principal speaker, giving the Indereadpendence day oration. Songs, ings and musical selections afforded a splendid program. The races held for the younger folks were staged before noon and the contests were keen and lively. Horse races at Tipperary, a ball game in the late afternoon and the dancing party at Retffnonto for the children at 6, followed by dancing for the adults, brought to a close a day of real enjoyment. MOUNTAIN RECESSES LURE BOY SCOUTS FOR OUTING Start for Victory group of Boy Scouts of America, comprising members of troop No. 28, of Salina, with bushels of grub, bedding and all the accouterments that would make life happy, left for the mountains Monday of this week, planning to remain for several days. The scouts will be located at the Scout "cabin at the head of Nioche, where trees, shrubbery and all beauties are to be found. The- troopers were taken to the canyon by Othello Madsen, scoutmaster. Fishing, games, cooking and other scout duties will form some of the activities of. the lads while enjoying the cool breezes. A BETROTHAL Arrange Meeting For UTAH Standing of the Teams. Won. Lost. Mr. and Mrs. Franc Mattsson, prominent in social circles in Salina, announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Ruth Mattsson, to Harry Shaw Bahen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Bahen of Logan, Utah. The marriage will take place late in sclrt-dul- July. Financing of Homes, Farms To Be Theme VaT cation, a few days of inspiration, a contact with outstanding leaders in the state and country, what would your answer be? All of this will be h. found at the encampment this summer. It is to be held at the Utah State Agricultural college on July under the direction of the extension service. ' Financing of farm and home and topics of building acceptable living standards will be the central topics for discussion at the annual short 15-1- 8, j course. According to W. W. Owens, general chairman, the program will begin on the evening of July 15 with a band concert, followed by tribal INSPECT LAND INTERESTS. dances, staged by Indians of the Dr. C. Leo Merrill and A. C. Prows Uintah and Ouray reservations. The spent Monday of this week in the first general meeting will commence Milford vicinity looking over their that evening when Governor George land interests and inspecting the new H. Dem, M- S. Winder secretary of well ditch which is being sunk on the the American Farm Bureau federaproperty. The new well, it was re- tion, and Director William Peterson, ported, is ' highly gratifying and "it will address the assembly. was announced that sufficient water . Thursday morning will be devoted wa3 now available to irrigate sev- to the study of exhibits and lecture eral hundred acres of land. Natural- demonstrations on dairying, livestock ly, the intense heat and. lack of rain management, poultry raising, gardenon many of the farms is playing ing, better hpmes, sheep and wool. havoc with some of the crops, but as At the general assembly addresses true Utahns, the farmers are holding will be given by President E. G. PeBashua Dorcas Kingsbury Fryer; tight and have not reached the real terson, Director Peterson and John panic stage Dr. J. Paul Burgess, T. Caine- III, former director of the 83 years of age, is a champion step who recently returnedfrom St. Louis, extension service, now employed by dancer. and Mr. the Union Stock Yards company of Mrs. Fryer, a pioneer of 1847, who accompanied Dr. Merrill Prows. Dr. Burgess visited in Milford Chicago. now lives at 549 Wilmington Ave., and Eeaver. The afternoon session of the sec- Salt Lake, recently took part in a ond day will be devoted to lectures play given by the Relief society at by Senator Reed Smoot, President A. Wells ward, and as a result of Mrs. in Fryers dancing, the act in which she W. Ivins, and H. W. Hockbaum, charge of the extension service in the appeared was awarded first prize. eastern states. The evening of July Not only are Mrs.' Fryers feet ex16 will be devoted to a band con- tremely agile, but her fingers are cert, a play hour, a dance demonstra- nimble as well, and she spends much tion and the production of Hamlet. of her time crocheting elaborate ar-- 1 A sound motion picture graphicalThe forenoon general assembly of tides with very fine thread. Ford of the the .This alert and active little old lady story ly portraying July 17 will be given over to child Motor company and its widespread welfare work and public education, was born in the old Pioneer fort on activities will be exhibited free of David O. McKay and Dr. C. N. Jen November 19, 1847, the first child of her parents, Dorcas Moore Kingscharge in a special Ford exhibit to be sen will be the speakers. In the afternoon the general as- bury and Joseph Corrdon Kingsbury. held at the Gunnison Valley Motor company, Centerfield, beginning Fri- sembly wfll hear lectures on better Her parents left Winter Quarters in day. July 17. The show will be open homes by Mrs. Rena B. Maycock, as- Nebraska on June 12, in company to the public from 2 p. m. to 10 p. m. sistant director of home economics, with' the families of Thomas Moore A Tour and W. L. Walker, manager for the and Stillman Pond, and walked much The picture, entitled show Z. C. M. I., who will tell of the art of the way across the western plains. will Ford the Factory, Through the gathering of raw materials, their in merchandising. In the evening the They arrived in Utah on September arrival at the Rouge plant in Dear- visitors will be entertained by the 29, 1847. The Kingsburys first went to Ogborn, Mich., and the numerous inter Logan Imperial Glee club and other and settled on the north bank of which den musicians entertainers. and they pass estingstages through C.' R. Arnold, senior extension the Ogden river, but heavy spring in the process of making Ford cars and trucks. It is, in short, an educa economist of the Ohio State univer- rains widened the waters to such 3 tion in the extent and meaning of sity and Mr. Hockbaum will close the great extent that the farm lands lectures of the encampment Satur- were flooded, so the family again modem volume production. moved north, settling on the Weber While an unseen voice explains each day evening, July 18. Tents vgill be pitched on the qua- river, not far from the mouth of Wescene, the audience is taken on a tour of the plant, through the great blast drangle for the accomodation of those ber canyon. ' I only remember small, isolated furnace building where ore i$ con- who attend the encampment; a nurverted into iron; into the open hearth sery and playground will be main- incidents in my early childhood, Mrs building where the iron becomes steel tained' for small children; picture Fryer declared, as she begaru..her and is poured, a white-ho- t liquid, into shows will be given each evening, as story. I recall the day my second into the blooming mill where well as play hour and other enter- sister, Mrs. Fryer Mersey, was bom. moulds; the steel ingots are made into bars; taining features will be in store for My aunt, Lenzoa Fryer, came to get me and tell me about it, and I was and into the rolling mill in which the the visitors. rewhite-hare steel very excited. And one time when 1 long bars of wajCv'&t' Grandfather Thomas Moores FlSdSejfr to at kinds sizes. clerk definite Peterson, genial duced Forty of steel, each being of a composition Max. Coherts store, Mrs. PetersoA and eating a peach, the stone caught in to serve a definite purpose, are used Rollo Peterson, are enjoying a week my throat, and I remember being of camping at Nioche. Of course, jerked up off my feet and shaken in the Ford car and truck. Fletcher plans to do a little fishing and thumped on the back until it The picture shows also the came out. I faintly recall one other on last page) in the meantime. j 1 top-hig- - h, , - manu-(Continu- two-da- St. Louis, where he completed an tensive training course, returned to his home in Salina Friday. After a brief rest Dr. Burgess will locate somewhere in the west where he will follow his chosen profession. Dr. Burgess took his first training at the Washington school for medics, graduating in June, 1930, and later took the interne training at the Baptist hospital, spending a year in this work. He wras released with the highest commendations and is now readj to enter into regular practice. Ilii record throughout his first training and the interne work has fitted Dr. in- Burgess for the profession he has chosen, apd when finally located permanently, he will have the best of recommendations. Former Salina Man Marvels a! Growth The growth of Salina, the present lively activities in the face of the depression that is so widespread, is cor tainly thrilling to anyone who ever lived here or who knows the true conditions as they exist. Your city is more beautiful and the fact that the several industries now operating, thus furnishing a substantial payroll monthly, is something to be proud of. The future of your city for a real industrial center is almost a certainty, and tlie activities here are gaining These were thc a wide publicity. of Johnson of Salt Erick expressions Lake, who, with Mrs. W. E. Miller and the Misses Merle and Lavern Miller of Murray, visited at the home of. Mr. and Mrs. J. Oscar Anderson gram has been arranged and there will be things doing all the time. The coming of the Denver & Iuo Grande band, comprising forty talented musicians, the crack D. & R. G. ball team, the staging of a real s rodeo at Tipperary flats Saturday and Sunday, the big dance at Redmonto Saturday evening at which the famed band will furnish the music, will combine sonic of the Homecoming high points of the high-clas- " " celebration. The band members, as well as the members of the ball team, are scheduled to arrive this, Friday, evening. crowd will travel in Iart of th ig one of the large buses operated by the Rio Grande Motor Way, while be used in many private cars continLake the Salt transporting gent. Early Saturday morning the band will travel south, giving short concerts at Monroe, Elsinore, Rich-- , field and Aurora. The musicians will return to Salina about noon and in time for the rodeo performances. The rodeo will start at 1:30 p. m. sharp, and in the program will be five fast horse races, featuring some of the fleetest animals in Southern Utah. This event promises to be a real show in itself. Much riv, ry exists between the owners of several horses and wagers have already been made as to the outcome. Mat Cropper, famed in the west as staging the most clever rodeos, is on the groupd and ready for action. He i, . carries 20 real buckers" and tha horses are going to be subdued or else some cowboy will hit the dirt. ' Cropper will have 20 wild cattle each ; day and there will be cattle roping, e wild and as a be loose and will turned the goats man with the lariat will try to place the rope over the horns of the wary last week-engoat. There will be thrills every minMr. Johnson left Salina- some forty ute of the rodeo, Saturday and Sunyears ago, and last week was the day. first visit he had made here since One of the big features for the" that time, and he marveled at the celebration will be two bull shown is that the D. & R. G. team between being progressive spirit gamest in putting over the several industrial and the Salina Salts. The games will enterprises. In relating little incidents be played at the Salina Ball park that happened while he was a resi- and are scheduled to start' at four dent of Salina, Mr. Johnson stated oclock. The Rio Grande boys, leadthat he was associated with John An- ing in the Tribune Twilight league derson in operating a sawmill in Sal- with eight victories and two losses, ina canyon in the early days, and he are a fast bunch and will make the boasted of being one of the first to Salts play ball. The Salts, however, saw lumber that was used in erect- hold a more enviable record. The ing the first church in Salina. boys have played in 12 games this Mr. Johnson, though eighty years season and have won every event. .. . old, is hale and hparty, and is keen Salina extends a cordial welcome in thought and delights in recount- to everybody to join in the s ening some of the early history, when festival, and promises Salina was but a village. tertainment for the visitors. hog-tiein- g, side-lin- d. - two-da- y two-da- y ENJOY SOUTHLAND SCENERY. Mr. and Mrs. August Peterson and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Jackson enjoyed a. motor trip to Zion National tunnel, park and the July 4 and 5. The visitors were enthusiastic over the beautiful scenery m the park and the marvelous enBarking on the highway in viola' buildtion ef the state statutes, and which gineering featjdisplayed in the ing, of the tunnel. After spending the is proving a regular habit with' pome night at Cedar City, they returned to drivers, resulted in a complaint Mina filed by Beauregard Salina Sunday afternoon. against Randall Hendrickson. Beaure- CLUB ILANS OUTING. ' gard, it is said, suffered damages to The Ladies Literary and Civics his car, and his wife, a passenger in club held the last meeting for the the Beauregard car, suffered a nersummer at the home of the president, vous shork. The accident which brought about Mrs. F. A. Mattsson, Wednesday afhappened Sunday ternoon. During the lesson hour, Miss the complaint, The night about eight o'clock, when Mr. Mary Mattsson read the play, Green Pasture," by Mark Conneliv. and Mrs. Beauregard were en route At the business session an nut In to Salina. The Hendrickson ear, it is was planned for the month of Au- alleged, was parked on the west sida. gust. Mrs. Mattsson served a (hiiny of the road, while the occupants were luncheon for eighteen members. conversing. The traffic, it is also claimed, was extremely heavy at this Mr. and Mrs. Albert. Corya, who point. Another car was ahead of the have made their home at Price the Beauregard car and when an opening past two years, arrived Saturday, and was offered it started to pass the Salina will be their permanent hoone. parked machine. Beauregard followThey will reside with Dr. and Mra. 0. ed, and when passing the Hendrickby the E. West, parents of Mrs. Corya. "Mr. son car, a machine driven and Mrs. George Brown also uptnt daughter of J. E. Nilsson of Monroe the week-enat the West home. They jammed the rear end of the car in which Mr. and Mrs. Beauregard were returned to Salt Lake Monday. riding, with the result of damages Dean Brown, Mrs. Brown, Billie above stated. Defective brakes on the and Bobbie Brown, arrived Sunday part of the Nilsson car will also be from Venice, Calif. They will spend considered in the complaint when it weeks vacation trip in Utah, comes to a hearing. Mr. Beauregard is not alonp in his visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. II. Brown and the Henry Fxa.nis opinion of cars parked on the on last page) home in Gunnison. Blocking Highway Ford Auto Plant ot STUDENT RETURNS Everything is in readiness for the IN WEST reception of the 2,000 or more visitWILL LOCATE ors at Salinas first Homecoming Dr. J. Faul Burgess, who spent the event, which opens Saturday for a y session. A wonderful propast year at the Baptist hospital in MEDIC high-elas- Free Movies Show i Fete Home-Comin- g LEAGlE. The district convention for the" American Legion and American Legion Fct. Auxiliary for district 6, comprising 0 1.000 posts from Sanpete and Sevier coun- 0 .000 ties, has been set for Saturday, July .000 18, and Manti has been named as 0 0 .000 the convention city, to according 1 .000 Frank Thurston, district committee- being every effort is being put forth to have every Legion member, every Auxilmen, iary member and all whether members or. not, to attend the session. The convention will be called into Th4 second half of the Southern session at 5 oclock p. m., Saturday, Utah Baseball league was opened last Jhly 18, and at this time questions of Sunday with only one game schedul- vitfaf importance pertaining to th ed, Elsinore playing at Nephi. The Legion welfare of the sixth district game ended with Nephi leading with will be discussed by prominent Lea score of 11 to 4. Salina had been gion officers and members, and plans scheduled for last Sunday in the for the state convention, scheduled league play, but an agreement was for Aug'Ost 13, 14 and 15, at Park effected with Ephraim, whereby the City, will be considered. At the Fark game was postponed until August 2. City meet a delegate to attend the e Other than this one change, the National convention to be held at Dewill be played as heretofore troit, will be elected. published. Richfield, it is said, will go after Predictions by fans and Wiseacres the 1932 state convention, and this are that the second half promises to will be one of the features to be takbe hotly contested. The several play- en up by members of the sixth disers in the various clubs of the league trict. One of the mathave added much ability through the ters, however, that will be stressed games played and many of the play- at the Manti and Tark City meets, ers have advanced materially. It is will be to have all men in announced that Nephi has added a the district get better acquainted and new pitching staff. Boswell, who was t0 again rub shoulders. Following out of the first half, is to be again the executive session a luncheon will seen on the slab for the Wheat City be served and all buddies will Sperry, another clever pitch- - j0y a better feed than they had when er, has also been added to the Nephi taking nourishment in the trenches, team. Following the luncheon all visitors who will at a dancing be entertained the for Gunners, Unfortunately rounded out third place in the first party, which will be directly under half, they are short in the pitching the supervisin' of the Legionnaires, staff. With Fredrickson coming At this function the public is invit back, which will afford relief for ed and plans are being made for a Erickson, the Gunnison boys are con- - big affair. Full details of the coming - j convention will be announced in the fident of making a showing. Salina, having made a wonderful columns of this paper next week, Attention, all ExService Men! record, winning eight league games; stands Whether and four open-dat- e you are a member of the games, thus far in the 1931 play, gion or "not, join us in this get . A hitting streak by the Salts contin-- acquainted party. . Salin and the ues league standing with an average of; Mr. and Mrs. Ferry Draper and iha was .353. daughter, Mavis, arrived Saturday Elsinore, too, will have added and were guests of Mr. and Mrs. John strength during the second half. John- - Ewles over the July 4th vacation son, the star pitcher, and who was days. Accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. slated to play with a Bingham team, Ewles, the visitors spent Sunday at is back in the fold with his mates at Fishlake. They returned to their home at Ruth, Nev., Monday. (Continued on last page) SOUTHERN ANNOUNCED. If you would choose a summer Novel Features Planned Legion Members League Players el warned my mother that- something was going to happen to my brother when he was two years old. As he was the only boy in the family, we thought a great deal of him, and mother tried to watch him carefully. She stepped into a neighbors one day and left him playing, in the yard. When she looked for him again, he had completely disappeared. There was a little furrow made for a ditch that ran up to the mouth of the canyon, bat no water had yet been turned into it. He had slipped down into the furrow and in an exploratory frame of mind had proceeded to follow it. It was almost dark when they found him, and he was sitting under a big clump of sagebrush, half arieep, half crying, his little arms folded across his chest, weaving back and forth, wailing Oh, Maw. Oh, - Maw I can remember a great deal about the way we lived in those days. We cooked in Dutch ovens and ground when our own coffee.. Sometimes, the toll prices at the mill were too high, we ground our wheat in the coffee mill, too. There was one time when flour was $6 a hundred pounds, and once it was so scarce that when the emigrants coming through wanted to buy it, we were forced to ask them $13 a hundred pounds. Often the settlement was very short of (Continued on page 4) Brings Complaint being d high-(Continu- |