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Show LAYTON. UTAH, DECEMBER 3. 193J VOLUME TWELVE Farmington Man Inventor of Stove Boulder Dam Does Appointing Agents Gov. Experts Say Not Alter Climate Special from Washington to the . NEWS-EXPRES- S , ' Hae Lake Mead' over 106 miles e '.'long and the. largest exert-the in world water of ' body d any incluenoe On the weather .and climate of Americas driest desert, .in the hcar.t of which it was created by construction of Boulder '.Dam . jn the Colorado ' River? This question,' about which there has been much speculation, now can. be. answered, .Emphati man-mad- no. ' Lake Mead was not expected 'to influence the weather f the southwest, John C. Page, acting commissioner of the Bureau of It has Reclamation, said today. not done so and it will hot, An investigation was begun last whenunauthoritative .summer statement's were circulated that percepptible changes in the climate and weather were resulting 'as Lake Me&d grew behind Bould--, er Dam. The Bureau of Reclama- .tion had calculated in' advance the rate of evaporation from Lake Mead which could be. cxpepcted. . These calculations indicatedthat insufficient moisture would be Lst lo cause k noticeable alteration in' weather conditions. A . series of tests are now 'underway to check precisely the amount of evapo'ra-lio- n actually occurring, .and while the records- obtained are too short to be conclusive, they indicate the ' calculations made in advance will . be found to be closely accurate, Not wishing to await the of these tests, information was sought by the Buiei of lamation from- residents near Boul der dam from airplane pilots who fly aver Lake Mead each day, and . from meteorologists of the United States Weather Bureau at' Phoenix, Arizona, . Reno, Nevada "and Salt Lake City, Utah, who are in . the weather records of the vast area surrounding Lake . . overihe salt lake domevule. . con--.elusi- on Rt-e- - - -- ;Mead. ." J. Ceil Alter, meteorologist for the weather bureau at Salt Lake ity, summed up the evidence ob- taine'd'wilh this observation. compaprison, the water l.j . ia. pitcher on a sppeapkers stand is about as effective in an. auditorium as Lake Mead is in modifying the climate. . Seventeen pilots and of .a. great western air line which .sends planes d;tfly across Lake Mead were. questioned. Fifteen reported they had noticed .no change in eT. fan : r Mr, and Mrs. .Merrill Holbrook and daughter, Merrillyn of Bountiful have returned 'home .from' San Francisco where Merrillyn underwent a very successful oj oration fob eye trouble, three, weeks before. . While in Frisco, . they passed over the San FrancisCo-Oaklan- d bridge, which they say is as wide as. the road to Salt Lake, this side of Becks Hot Spring's, and is a double decker the upper deck' being yride enough to permit three cars abreast, both going and coming. On' the lower deck, there are three lanes for trucks and room for two tsreet-- ' car tracks, however; the street cars' are not al .. operating yeti! It is said they took in $1,600 the first weeh the bridge was opened and at that rate the an-hou- money that va3 borrowed . - Holbrook Spend 3 .Weeks in Frisco ; i . Mr and Mrs. Merrill . -- crib-bng- e, at a arevf - - oT & four - L e EARLY MAIL SERVICE icas .first postmaster. In 1672, a monthly mail service wasestablished between New York and Boston, but it was soon discontinued and not resumed until about 10 years later. Between 1673 and 1691 beginnings in postal serv ice were made in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania Maryland. .The Intercolonial Bostal Union was. started by private parties under sanction of the British crown in 1693, the post roads being made through the forests' Carrying letters from Philadelphia to Boston took six weeks, and iti winter service was frequently interrupted; In 1907 the British government took over the system. In 1737 Ben jamin Franklin became postmaster at Philadelpphipa and did much to ward improving the service, later becoming deputy postmaster-generof the British colonies. The postal, system was a losing business, and Franklin paid the deficits out of hi3 own pocket for several years. He later served for short time as- postmaster-genera- l for the cjlonie3 during the Revolu- & L. During the four winter months Mrs. 'Anna Elizabeth Marti a recreation program pf sports tangerter, 76, widow of Nicholas will be carried out at' CCC Co. 940. Bangerter.-o- f Bountiful; died Mon A complete organization has at the home, of her stockholders of The twenty-ninday. night been developed by Carl Alvord, Mrs. daughter, Mary B. Fink, In the Farmington Land & Live and a board of directors, set lip. Salt ljke City of ailments incident Stock company would receive betThe organization consists of Cap- to advanced ter than $i,000 apiece, if they own age. tain J. Ilobart' Miller as director; She was born April 26, I860 In ed equal amounts of stock, from his. assistants will be Jerry Quick Kallnach, Canton Berne, Switzer- the ' company, which money has E. H. Hansen, and Carl. Alvord; land. beds-just been received from the govand the barrack .leaders, Charles She came to Utah wth her hua ernment for the 10,400 acres of U&A,. Hughes, llehry Yn Mete ran, Del baqd in 1882, residing in Mill land the company owned in the Miller, and Joe Matt. Creek Salt Lake county until 1891 hills east of Farmington and south The program will consist of the when she moved to Bountiful in this and Morgan counties. The following sports: A and B series where they purchased the Sidney land, was wanted primarily for in basket ball, ping-pon- g singles, Kent pplace which is one f tho fklod control J&JtUlS IK purposes and to regping pong doubles, call shot, beat farms' in Bountiful and where ulate grazing which is one feature . JSfoW'.dK' rotation, the fellows who she has since resided, of the flood control work. choose brain work rather than ac Mrs. Bangerter was the daugh This land is in the area that tion may participate in checkers ter of John and Elizabeth Izind-ol- f some months ago was added to and chess, other sports will be sof Marti. the Wasatch Forest Reserve. Speed ball horse shoo singles, and horse She joined the church in her na' According to Clyde H. Wilcox M&.62 shoe doubles, and volly ball, tive land. Her husband died in secretary-treasure- r, L his company The competition, will be carried 1915. an, has reeeivedj $31,200.60 but a liton between, tho 4 barracks, each Mrs. Rnogerter had been active tle of this Tponey will be needed barrack will have a team represent in church and work since for disincorporating the company,, K. Adams Succeeded ed in each sport- and will carry on coining to this tcmpple She was and to papy some other small country. competition' with the other three prominent in the Relief society iq bills connected with the closing up ' ; . barracks.. . Bountiful and Mill Creek and at of the deal. By George Dibble will The program be carried out the time of her death was a memSelling the land and disincorpor On School Board on a point system;, each team will ber of the Centerville First ward. ating the company probably does receive its place . points in accorSurviving besides her daughter, not mean that the present stockdance to thq place it receives in Mrs, Orson N.; holders will be forced out of the Fink, are six ; in addition' to..thc place Alma',, Alfred and fons, Ernest Bang- cattle business for they will no .The election Wednesday made each barrack whit-- has a erter, all of popints, B. doubt bo allowed to graze certain Arnold Bountiful; a .change of one members on the' team in every contest and represented N. number of cattle on this same of Salt Adolph Bangerter school- board; namely George for a will receive additional Lake sport Also land 36 are City. by paying certain grazing Dibble succeeds K. W. Adanisl surviving. each joints, fpr being represented and and fees, grandchildren complying with the rules eight greatboth of Layton. John, R. Rampton time. ', ' and grandchildren. regulations required by the was A small banner will be presentFuneral services wilt be held government. Mr. Rampton had four rivals at ed the barrack which .wins each this .The company was incorporated first but one withdrew, before elecFriday afternoon in tho Cenand the barrack, which has terville First' ward ' sport, inIn 1900. J. II. Wilcox was presiand H. Mrs. Ella chapepl Srixith tion,, leaving accumulated the m6st points at terment will take 'place in the dent, and I). L. Rice, vice president and Joseph N, iuptnam. Hampton the' conclusion of the last sport Bountiful and Clyde 11. Wilcox, secretary-treasur- er cemetery. received 333 votes, Mrs. Smith,. will bo., presented with a ' played 148 and Putnam 5,. large- baner as ' the outstanding Between $700 and 800 a year Pasquale Marinacci, a raeek .'There were' three' candidates in barrack in athletic competition. of Syracuse, N. Y., tired of had been paid by the company ia the fourth, precinct; namely R. W'. ' Last Tuesday, the board of di- being frightened by the honks of taxes to Davis and Morgan counAdams, George Dibble aHd Jofceph rectors met and the. organization arrogant. motorists, invented ties annually, which the two coua W.' Johnson. Layton, Clearfield was to the board' who cane with an presented raucous horn lies will no longer get now, and S.outh Weber voted in this elec criticized and approved of it. - It attached. Nowusually tion.-Mrhe honk back, can Dibble received '367 votes whs voted that the basket ball Mrs. Kate Lenz of St. Louis evenbeat drivers auto to the or' in the . Mr. ' Adams, scries got under Dec. at .way 8, was honk. has been .His 245 and Johnson' 68. pagranted a divorce because her noisy 'cane that time barrack No. 1 will play husband to and ho it become kept a catfish in the bath expects barrack No, 2, and in the second tented, tub. two weeks, preventing for popular among S- game barrack Not 3 will take the walkers. . members from taking a bath. waxed floor against barrack No. 4 All games will be played in the Gaiup, D. U. P. Bountiful Junior high school gym. Farmington . - ELEVEN Widow of Nichols Sports Program $31,200.50 Goes Dies For. Winter Months At IJangerter .. At C C C Co. 940 Home of Daughter To Stockholders of Wmoviit T. R. Cottrell, formerly of Farmington, but for some years past, of Pittsburg, Penn., is appointing agents in this county to handle a portable stove of his own invention while he resided in the eastern iron manufacturing metropolis. He has already established is now in and the east agencies touring the west to do the same thing out here. You will see his ad explaining the stove in this is su of this paper. Mr. Cottrell related some of his experience when a .boy helping P. Felt and his son, Vern, get I. out the Argus which then printed in Farmington, lie remembered how they .had to work all night to get the paper out by morning. The task of turning the big wheel on the press to print the papers also lingered with him. One of the first .official actions copoerning mail service in the American, colonies was an order by the. General Court of Massachusetts, in 1639, which directed that letters to be. carried overseas should .be left at the home of one Richard Fairbanks, who would see thCni placed on board ship. Hence Fairbanks has been called Amer- NUMBER could each-sport- . . - : - . in, ; . r . - throe-.places- - ; Aurelia long-sufferi- Rogers been . 1 paid back in ten years, howevef they have 20 years in which to. M liquidate the debt, . If the volume of business keeps Aurelia R. Rogers camp, Daughthe fares will up, it is likely-that- ' .of Utah Pioneers, of Farmters be reduced. An automobile contain met at' the homo of Capington, ing five papssengers can cross for tain Leona R. Stewart. The camp be EROSION . WORK CONTINUES ' IN LIME .CANYON Payment by the govermne.nt for land in the Lime canyon area, on which soil 'erosion projects have been .carried on, makes it possible for CCC Co. 840 to continue .work 65c. conditions. almospheric Two was in terrace building. tion. feaid that they believed the time It is a great attraction and a Tho following .officers voted in Fr'ankliri which has elaSpsedAlready this full there have established post routes wonderful' .'achievement. since Lake , by acclamation: -been completed about six miles of to '.Georgia-witto form in February from Massachusetts, Leone ,U. Stewart, captainp; terrdees 1935 was too . sho-r- t to make any and the transfer of owner numerous cross ' routes and Sadie Foss Elliott, first vice presichange evident. will ship all the appointed postmasters in permit continuation of dent; Myrtle 'B. Maxfietd, second the erosion- projet without . inter. Residents near Boulder Dam and communities. Thus was principal in cities close by the Lake said vice president; Edna F. Nichols, ference, Additional terraces are they had noticed no difference in the foundation laid for the .splensecretary-treasure. Sadie S. Clark did constructed Unitbejng and a number of service which the. the climate. postal Artie II, Sessions, regishistorian;. ed States now V. experamenta floats.will .be. in- -, George enjoys. 70 trar; Lucy Ii. Avery, custodian oj Sager, associate- me-.- '. . in stalled rock structure which are The first postmaster-generleorologist of the weather bureau aprelics; Ada J. Steed, choister; Lila being built in the at Reno, said, The creation of pointed. by. President Washington drainage chanT Miller, organist; Clara S. Rose, nels. .Lake Mead has had no appreci- was Samuel postmathe Osgood but able effect on the climate of south- Ursel Steven Rose, 70,' formerl- class leader; Dora Robinson, chapThe work in' these areas will ster-general was not considered rn Nevada. y- of Farmington, died Tuesday lain. There were 'three new mem- continue as long as the weather March.. 29th up, And had a pleasant evening' THURSDAY, 1829. a cabinet Jn that until officer Summer rains over southern Ne bers &3 follows: Amanda in voted in the dining saloa. on entertainment well so I and . Garland, home in his agree conditions permit according to Su SleepSlcepp T. Barry was- ap at William Vada are Der'n year and A1 Newmta thundershowers. Ira Ardit'h A difficult Heard genrally Anderson; Bertha perintendent board ship that I have Mr. Rose was born in .Famring-ton- , Richards, Masses of moist air from the Gulf pointed to the office by President Wehmeyer. break-fats- '. Lake Salt in . wrestle City. for time I. Hand in The Cart time getting up lesson, Elliptt. ' ' ' Mexico move inland over MexMay G, 1867, son of Alley Ste Andrew Jackson.' deck ' was on do toniglY it to again I I. slept Pioneers manage Ada always givfen by ven and Alvira Smith Rose. . He ico and thence into Arizona vnd it was rather cold and however. although somehow, . Steed. New Mexico during the summer, was married to Nellie Burns in the I sat on the very prow of .the strong wind was blowing. Clock A sketch of the life of Sarah ahead tea commonly resulting in intense lo- -. world. During: other months of Salt Lake temple 40, years ago, ship from 8 until 10 this- morning, and watches are turned 24 Harrod was read tense local storms of cloudburst this Elizabeth Steed been minutes has each' twelve hoO an Carlpnd or was day the lie early period precipitation ' spry, watching the waves, proportions. by Ethel Udy; man. . than the normal. and merchantile clouds and sky. Slat-Wthe greater farmer the ind March flying fish, SATURDAY, The rains in the southern and These same variations ' could ., Mr. Rose was a high priest and The meeting was dismissed and were alternately of ocean and rain thoughts My and Bpixy eastern portions of Nevada this undobtedly have been expected, home and folks, of my future woke me this morning. We r had been an assistant superinten- a dainty luncheon was served by beeii were had there sumof this ln ufust Mr. Alter said, type, ?f8r the hostess and a social hour enwork and studies, of next sea rather schooL a in rough the in dent Sunday aboring Mrs. " Sager said. When thf are no Boulder Dam, as they are conMyrtle. Irene A. Stathis, '25 mers baseball, and, though try as and it seems to be getting the betof Lake Mead is compared with sidered to be ntirely within the He is survived by. his widow; 2 joyed by all iq'thqtohome that ori-S. wife of .William Stathis passed would to prevent them from doing ter of nearly everyone. R and Art Aurelia belonged Garginally the thousands of square miles over control' of the usual precipitation children, Helen and Horace, away early Tuesday morning at a so, they constantly turned lack to are nearly ready to cash in they . which such showers four brothers and sisters, L. Rogers.- The .camp was named in Salt Lake hospital after are distribut- producing influences. land; six days Tahiti. What memories! If I were hopel R still strives manfully to ' ed, and when the fact that the In 1905 and 1906 the ' Colorado A. Rose, Plymouth; II. S. Rose, her honor. illness. twins, one of me would spend his eat, even though he has to leavo of evaporation fromp the lake River broke its banks and overW. J. Mrs. Haws, Mrs. Stathis was born in Dor life down there while the other the table several times per meal. surface is being constantly carried flowed into the Imperial Valley of Tremonton, and Mrs. A. J. Barand Byrnes sell 'Messrs. Sniff home. Idaho Falls, I lay down on the hatch for ancc, Kanea3, June 17, 1911, a chap remained at n 111. away and mingled with dry air Southern California, forming fish skim fire at insurance a Princeville, watched I Idaho. flying St. Anthony, couple of hours before dinner, but over a vast area i3 taken in acdaughter of Earl and Elizabeth Sea in what previously had ber,. what must have the spray drenched me and the for ming along Wire Adam3. count, it is at once apparent that been a desert basin. Before the ribeen blocks. Suddenly two sea wind blew my blanket and pillow rio imporptant effect on local rain-- . ver was returned to its channel. The family moved to Green Riv- birds spotted him from on high away several times. Tall is likely to be found. Salton Sea had covered 440 square er, Wyo., when Mrs. Stathis was and Bwoopepd down together to Rs radio wa3 performing mer' Walter B. Hare, meterorologist miles. Mr. Sager points out that ended fishic a little but small him, very she where lived ' grab girl rily for the third class in the dinf.the weather bureau at Phoenix, it has been conclusively shown until she married Mr. Stathis five his aerial maneuvers just in the ing salon tonight, but he, poor dived under the ;Sau!.' was possible that humidity that the creation of Salton Sea fellow, was not able to sit up and years ago. They moved to Farm- nick of time, and those within a radius of a few mile3 of had no effect on the rainfall of its talons anc to waves escape it. ington where Mr. Ttathis has oppr beaks. The the lake might , be raised suffi-- . surrounding area andnhne on the at enjoy disappointed v gulls, vated a farm for the past three thus 1st Easter of SUNDAY, April oiently to be noticeable in records temperature and humidity being deprived of their prey, years. . kept over a long pepriod of time areas more than a quarter of a circled and went wheeling off in Sunday and also April Fools Day. e but that the effect of Lake Mead mile3 from its shores, Yet the No tricks, nowl Tommy from WisSurviving besides her husband, search of other and on the climate otherwise would be consin and I took an area of Salton Sea was more. three are, sons, James, John and fishes. swim. The pool sprang a leak, negligible. V. Strain. than twice that of Lake Mead. and Lewis, all of Farmington. Swimming Circulation of the atmosphere is doubtful if they will reit and Construction of Eoulder Dam of . my the greater part Interment will be in the Farmfor use any more "this trip. it js such , Mr. Hare said, was deck on that and creation of Lake Mead has pair hatch The afternoon. ington cemetery. much of the moist ai exert to of us from thirj-eh- ri Several continue will from exerted ard my bed all night. Souththe laxe will be carriedrising to went the first-claton the IIo influence 30th up March great FRIDAY, Ive swallowed a fly, gasped out of the State of Arizona.entirelyr, west, charthe ? attended and The said. Mr. Page Cross Bun Day I and we hac I Margery Maxwell, Chicago opera em for breakfast! ; The captain regardless of the direction of acter of the Colorado River below We crossed the services. star, as she finished the line all services its movement, it will become so Boulder dam has been changed enwere, equator from osuth to north at charge, and ehflused and scattered over such things come homo to rest while 7:42 a. m. We were required to Church of England vari .y. from an erratic stream to a tirely a wide area that its influence will perennial stream on which irrigaThe weather stays coe singing in concert at Fargo, N. D. fill in a customs declaration. . : oe reduced to a minimum. conThe constrong breeze blowing. I i Conductor Kryl stopped the orconfidently. The ocean has roughened tors can In the opinion of Mr. Alter, tributions rely I awakened wa3 Arthur and made by Lake Mead R sever;! causing stationed at Salt Lake Ms te&U'; VV H chestra; the singer left the stage; siderably, the crash of waves, to feel Lake through control of floods and Withey City, of rid the got and to returned fly, oes not exert It is surprising how toughened against my porthole r any apprecia-.'nerc- e through increasing the flow of the finish her song amid loud ui applause. our skins are to the sun. We to smash through. Ill on the climate, even river during summer doughts have or its immediate tens of very front portlfle C" surroundings. lie added to the scurity of influence After being arrested for bigamy swam and lolled in the burning hand side (landialbe: sefor sun No rTUftud weather records of thousands. magical James L. Robb of Glasgow pleaded heat of the equatorial which showed deficient pre on the climate of the southwest veral hours this afternoon, and the ship, and my tv . that he had forgotten his first mar suffered no ill effects. awful jarring when cipitation during several months has been claimed for this project since Lake Meak has grown to be and none is necessary to its comriage. At night wo hooked Rs radio noses into a wave. the largest artificial lake in the plete justification. . co-pil- - Re-organiz- ed - - Mead-began - Ursel S. Rose of Garland Dies at The Age Of - al . r; - . Mrs. M. I. A. Stathis of Farmington Died . . - Tues. In Salt Lake - va-p- . or Sal-to- The Burning Match , sur-fac- not-so-wi- se , after-brexk-fa- 3t sun-bathi- ... I ri'-ro- s! More--ove- tl f n 71 (I if, not-so-goo- d. ! , ; X om |