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Show INDEPENDENT A BULLETIN OF NEWS AND EVENTS OF INTEREST SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1935 VOLUME 3 NEWS - SPORTS- - WARDS ACTIVITIES SNJ How Sugarhouse got it's name is a story of inspired vision, heroic courage and typical frontier resourcefulness. The facts are these: TONIGHT A general meeting of all committees of Sugarhouse day at Saltair will be held tonight in the committee room of the Sprague Branch ' Library. committees will make final for the outing, to be held Auplans 10th at Saltair, and tickets will gust out to sub committees. be given earnest request of Mr. It is the Renstrom, chairman of the outing, that all committeemen be in atten-' dance. , f-Th-e old float to depict SUGAR - MILL Taking designs from a picture appearing in an old edition of a local newspaper, Jack Burt and Mrs. George Goff are working on the float to appear in the Covered Wagon Days parade. The Utah Idaho Sugar Company has joined with the Sugarhouse business men in constructing the float and according to persons who bave viewed thd plans, theproject will be one of the outstanding floats in the parade. WORK IS RUSHED ON ROAD CONSTRUCTION j j j In 1849 President Brigham Young sent John Taylor to England and France to investigate the possibilities of the manufacture of sugar from beets. He contacted Phillip DeLaMar, who showed a willingness to Invest money and his knowledge of the sugar industry. Machinery was purchased in England and shipped to America on the Rockaway. It was then freighted up the river from New Orleans to St. Louis, hence across the plains by wagons and oxen teams, at a cost of 9500 per ton. The machinery was first taken to Provo, but a site was finally chosen, by Brigham Young and Willard Richards on Parleys stream, in the heart of what is now known as Sugarhouse. In charge of the project were Captain DeLaMar, who headed the company; Abram O. Smoot, who built the mill, and Elias Morris, who supervised the bringing of the mill to Utah. j j j j j I The small building, housing one of the first beet sugar plants in the United States, was only recently tom down. It went into operation (in November of 1853, turning out molasses, which was used to make the first Sweets" enjoyed by pioneer children. The building was known as the Sugar House hence the name of this thriving and historic community! The structure was subsequently converted into a paper mill, which made the paper. on which the Deseret News was printed. I This week we pay our tribute to those sturdy Empire Builders Our Pioneers. ! I MARLO THEATRE EMPLOYEES HOLD ANNUAL OUTINC N NUMBER 27 An Epoch in American Industry LOCAL NOTES OUTING COMMITTEE MEETS NON-PARTISIA- j I I 1 SOCIAL NOTES 1 A delightfully arranged tea was given Saturday afternoon by Miss Margaret Taggart, on East Twenty-fir- st South street. In compliment to Mrs. William H. Shields, a bride of" the early summer, formerly Miss Marie Everson. Lovely garden flowers in pastel shades .were used in in the roams and centered the tea table in a silver bowl. Ivory princess tapers in silver candelabra, graced each end of the table. One hundred twenty-fiv- e guests called. - Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Schettler, 360 First avenue, announce the engagement of their daughter, Wanda Carol, to Horace E. Wilcox, 434 Ramona avenue. The marriage will take place Friday at the home of the brides parents. - Mrs. Lawrence Despain and daughter, Jane, wife and daughter of Captain Lawrence Despain,- arrived to make their home in the southeast Dr. L. L. Richards and family re- at, 1986 Fifth' East street. The turned last Wednesday from the Despains were formerly stationed at Pacific Coast Dental Convention, Fort George Wright, Washington. held at Long Beach, California, while on the coast Dr. Richards visited several of the coast cities, sevMcmbersof Primrose-SewinClub eral of the old missions and the San met Wednesday afternoon at the Diego exposition. They also visited home of Mrs. Eliza 'Wood of 520 Bryces Canyon and Boulder Dam. Wilson avenue. The Richards family left. July 3rd. DR. L. L. RICHARDS RETURNS - Mario Theatre employees held their annual picnic and canyon out ing in Big Cottonwood, Thursday. The part was in charge of C. O. Hawxhurst, manager. Those who attended, besides Mr. and Mrs. Hawxhurst were: Mr. and Mrs. Dee Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Malstrome and Mr. and Mrs. Marvin. gh, Extra effort on the part of the Gibbons and Reed and Christensen-Gardn- er Construction companies to complete the work on Twenty-firSouth street is being made because of the conjestion on the highwa while construction work is gong on The tracks from Highland Driv to Fifteenth East street have been removed during the past week and the resurfacing will begin within a few days. VISITING IN CALIFORNIA GOLF COURSE The BOND ISSUE AUTHORIZED and Mrs. V. Hugo Johnson 2003 Douglas street, with daughters, Delores and Mary Ellen, spent the Salt Lake City's bonded debt was past two weeks in California with increased 947,616 Tuesday by city relatives and friends. commissioners, when they ordered issuance of that amount of TESTIMONIAL HELD serial, general obligation bonds to A farewell testimonial in honor of pay for the Forest Dale golf course. Dwight C. Jensen, son of Mr. and The property, located at 2375 Ninth CLEAN TLAY GROUND Mrs. W. H. Jensen, 1950 Eleventh East street, has been acquired by East street, was held in the Sugar the city. A crew of twenty men from the House Ward chapel Sunday. Elder The city commission arranged for city parks department thoroughly Jensen will depart this week for the cleaned and repaired the Sugarhouse Australian mission of the L. D. S. a fund for the maintenance of the new golf course Wednesday. church. playground Tuesday. st Mr. 10-ye- ar of Miss Marian.. Dawson, daughter of J. V. Dawson, to Charles P. Mabey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Mabey, was soiomn-lze- d Thursday evening at the Dawson home on Douglas street Immediate members of the families were present at the ceremony and a reception for close friends was marriage Miss Eleanor Dawson, sister of the bride was her only attendant and Jack R. Day, cousin of the bridegroom, was his best man. Among the guests was Mrs. James Peterson of Clinton, Iowa, who arrived to attend the wedding. . . |
