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Show A Bulletin of News, Activities and all events of interest WEEK'S in the Southeast part Lake Salt City. A section that la the Is the finest Residential rnd fastest growing part of fci.lt La'.:e Valley, oc curing of NEWS SUMMARY SUNDAY, FEB. 26, PUBLISHED IN SUGARHOUSE 19S9 The end of the long Spanish civil war seemed In sight either Saturday or Sunday as the Madrid officials had agreed to an offer to virtual surrender. Financial and business leader who discussed Secretary of Commerce Hopkin's recovery plan Saturday for the most part expressed approval. ULU.MK VII. SUGAK HOUSE. SALT LAKE CITY, EARLY TRANSPORTATION HISTORY OF SUGAR HOUSE AND THE SOUTHEAST SECTION MONDAY, years of service with the transpor-atlo- n company. They have worked, courted, married, built their homes and raised their families, and have seen their children settle, all during the time they have worked with a single employer. Also all these men operated street Original Mule Car Used in Salt Lake City Fred TImmins, Driver. Photo Taken 1888. In the fourteenth holdup of servwas Fred Timmlns, now on 'cars into the Sugar House district past 45 days the group the retired list and who started to during their early connection with bandits escaped with 167.78 when - ' a wealth they held up a station on East work for the company in 1880 and the entcmriffe is now acting as door keeper .at of anecdote and reminiscence which Third South. the present cession of the State Leg- we shall try to pass on to our readislature. Fred is a large handsome ers by listening in on their converTUESDAY, FEB. S8, 1939 ice stations in the J The governments first criminal prosecution for violation of the wage-holaw, ended today with pleas of guilty, and the imposition of fines. totaling S1500. ur Local active, physically sation. Henry is talking -s- aid he,"When I first started operating out into! the Sugar House District property was so cheap and the population so scarce that I could have bought 5 acres almost anywhere for aa little as 500. Why I passed up the pur chase of 5 acres at the corner of El' WRITER VRCKS CAUTION "SAVINC DEMOCRACY" IN Sermon by the pastor, "Stewards cf the Evangel." "If the United States is again to 5 p. m., Intermediate Endeavpr. save the world for democracy, if we Installation of Officers. are again to spend billions of dol7 p. m., Senior Endeavor. lars to save England and France, The Annual Congregational Din- we want to make darn sure that ner of Third Presbyterian Church when they are saved, they are sav will be held in the Church Dining ed as democracies." This exhortaRoom on Wednesday, March 8th. tion vas given University of Utah An interesting and helpful program students and public by Theodora will be a part of the evening's en- Dreiser, celebrated American novelMembers and friends ist speaking on the University tertainment are supposed to bring their dinner Master Minds and Artists series.' England and France were not (a pknic dinner, dishes and all) before the war, Dreiser democracies and join in good fellowship around a common table. said, though they were regarded as The author pictured great A most Interesting program was such. held Saturday evening when Cub class inequality in Europe between Pack 8 held a Parents Night. The poor workers and the wealthy ariststatboys told their parents about in- ocracy as ha had seen it, and condiundemocratic same "The ed teresting things they had done England was through the past two months; Neaf tions exist today. Walker entertained on the accordian never a democracy and Isn't now." and Jimmy B runner on the violin; "England and France are In a uniBobby Phillips gave a most Interest- comer again," Dreiser told the "and the cry Is ing talk on "Deep Sea Life" and versity audience, save must we now that beard again presented his unique collection of sea shells. Gordon Simpson presid- those countries, as 'democracies.' ed. Pack 8 now numbers 51 boys If we enter the next war we had from 0 to 11 years of age. Thirty better be sure those countries will of the boys were present and about really be democracies when If s H 50 parents and friends responded to over. And while cleaning up for their invitation. Advancement Bad- democracy abroad, we might clean up for democracy over here." ges were presented to 10 boys. on meets Cub Pack The Saturday DEAN BENNION TO DELIVER afternoon at 2 p. m. MEMORIAL ADDRESS th South in those days.) It was then run. by John .Thompson. , And the round house of the old John W. Young railroad was on the southeast corner, and across the street to the North was the station and yard tracks, and we had to watch out for the switch engines crossing the street And Bert Smoot had a I can remember Harvey's saloon and Roy Decker's barber shop." said Fred Timmlns, "Pshaw!" "The sugar House you describe was Btore, and Plana for extending the city's traffic safety program as rapidly as possible were disclosed today. Advancing the license fee 110.00 on marble machines was enacted to- Dean Milton Bennion of the University of Utah School of Education will deliver the fourth Frederick William Reynolds Memorial Lecture. to be given in January, 1940. Dean Bennion will choose a subject In a field in which he has given special study. This lecture is given each year by a member of the University faculty In honor of the late Frederick William Reynolds, founder and. director of the University of Utah extension division. . HOUSE ROTARY-ANN- S TO MEET FRIDAY, MARCH 10 SUGAR day by the state legislature. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1939 Public hearings of the house apcommittee confirmed propriations HENRY SCHUETTER todays rumors of war department end mentally, with a flare for story plan to make an air base at Ogden, and a manner and action telling Utah. of a man of much younger years. It was told to the senate today Also there was Henry Schuetter, that the making of an army base at present Number 1 operator in point of seniority, who started to at Guam would cost billiona. work in 1891 at 21 years of age. Local Police will begin war on Henry, or as he says his wife, is bandits who are making a crime the proud owner of the beautiful home at 1555 South Thirteenth East wave in Salt Lake. street. He has lived in the southeast section most of his life and in adTHURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1939 dition to operating a street car has Eugenio Cardinal Pacelll, was elected 262nd pope today and immediately ascended the centuries old throne of St. PeteH as Pope Plus xn. Senator Logan of Kentucky told the senate today that passage of the United States neutrality act "gave the green light to dictator nations of the world to move on democratic nations. - Local Charges that members of the sifting committee were victimized by outside pressure and that lobbying is being carried on more extensively than at any other former session, brought a request for an investigation. Rotary-Ann- s House The Sugar will meet for lunch Friday, March 10, 1:15 p. m., Jeanne's Tea Room, Mrs. Ella 3022 Highland Drive, Stratford will preside at the meeting and program which will follow LaVern Parmley, win the lunch. give a book review, "Rebecca." Musical selections will be given by Evelyn Gray Neff. venth East afii! Seventeenth South (it used to be called Eleventh South in those days) for $800." "Yes," said Jake, "I started with the Company after you did, but when I started I can recall but five or six busincsss houses, around Sugar House. There was a lumber yard on the southwest corner, and the post office was in a little frame ! ht ht ht post office. Five service windows will be build in the lobby, which will occupy fifteen front feat One hundlock boxes will be red thirty-tw- o installed and a superintendent's office will occupy a portion of the front of the structure. Specifications' will call for bids on "brick exterior walls, limestone trim, stone cornice, wood window frames. , granite steps and platform and railings and lamps of wrought Iron, i No Definite Date Of Construction Mr. Puddum's letter regarding the post office was written to Mr. Smoot after the latter made a special request for something definite on when the structure would be erected, following numerous inquiries from local civic organizations and individuals. Mr. Purdum stated that while no definite date could be named it would be In the very near future. C OF C MEETING TO BE MARCH 8 The monthly meeting of the Cugar House Chamber of Commerce will be held Wednesday, March 8, at Jeanne's Tea Room with luncheon being served at 12:15 noon, according to an announcement by Sidney J. Ottley, president of the organization. Arrangements have been made to have Charles R-- Mabey, former governor of the State of Utah now associated with the Build. Corporation, as speaker. EAST MILL CREEK BETTERMENT GROUP MEETS Calling a meeting of residents of the East Mill Creek, area, the officers of the East Mill Creek Betterment League conducted a general Funeral services were conducted meeting in the East Mill Creek amusement hall Wednesday Wednesday morning for Mrs. Sarah ward FRED TIMMINS a metropolis compared to my first recollection of it. Of course I was born there September 3, 1864, in a dugout on Twelfth East My father arrived in the valley in August of '61. Nine of them started across the plains on foot, and only five of them got here, but they walked all the way, end enroute he buried bis father, mother and a brother and a sisl- er. Yes sir! They walked all the way uid carried my oldest brother who was only five," This brother is now 84." "The first bouse my father built was on the north side of Twelfth South (Now Twenty-firSouth) about half way between Twelfth and Thirteenth East streets, and he didn't get a .roof on before winter set in, and we lived there in that rooflms bouse all winter. My first recollection is of only two business houses in Sugar House Father Thompson's and Smoot's. was Bishop Smoot's First Counsel JAKE HILL or, and he made the first iron nails shack In the lumber yard where it ever made in Utah right here in had been moved from a former Sugar House in the old mill. You at Twelfth East and Twenty-fir- know, he was nail maker by trade, South (we used to call it Twelf (Continued on page 8) st Although the final act that would insure const ruetlcn of a new post office in Sugar House, that of paying for the ground upon which the building is to be constructed, has not been completed, plans for the structure were recieved In Salt Lake this week by Postmaster. I. A. Smoot from Smith W. Purdum, fourth assistant postmaster general, of Washington, D. C. The outer walls of the building will be constructed of brick and will be a one story structure, meas feet, nine inches uring seventy-eigacross the front and one hundred, eighteen feet deep, having a square footage of 9.056 in the ground area. The new building will be twenty-eigfeet feet wider and fifty-eiglonger than the one now occupied by the Sugar House station of the Funeral Rites Held For Southeast Matron CHARLIE KROGH st A Deer wandered Into the vicinity GEORGE BARRETT East and Thirteenth South and after being chased by police time to ftrm and build houses as and detectives, ran off to the side lir.es. During the years between mountains. 1893 ant? 1927 Henry built seven houses and remodeled three others The weather man who evidently in this district, purchasing all the has become weary of foreaa ting materials in Sugar House. j Utah weather said that it may be Then there was Geo. Barrett wh6 is stormy or it may not well it has next to Henry in seniority and Char-H- e been snowing ever since. Krogh who is Number 3 man and of Tenth UNIVERSITY NOTES Jake Hill who In Number 4. George J. ELBERT NASH, Minister started on the cars in 1803, Chailic Kin 1899 and Jake in 1900. Altogether - 9:45 a. m., Church School. . a. m., 11:00 Worship Sen-icethese four men have more than 174 A peace without union between the C I. O. and American Federation of Labor wai discussed today aa a possible outcome of the President's appeal to end organized labors civil war. extremely S. I. A. SMOOT GIVES LATEST llth and 17th South The Supreme Court condemns sit fellow NUMBER 1939 (Eljurrlt Nairn down strikes, and upheld the rights of corporations to discharge employees who took two keys of a building for a sit down strike. The house refused today to interfere with the treasury department's purchase 'of silver. 3, NEWS ON POST OFFICE FEB. 27, 1939 Local In the snowsllde at Ophir, three were killed and two injured seriously. F"RIDAY, MARCH Slitrii Old Timers Reminiscence on Ancient Traction Operations The worst blizzard' of the season swept over central Washington and A statement by the Utah Light north central Idaho Saturday, blockand Traction Company in a iccent ing highways, and causing death to issue of the Sugar House Bulletin at least eight persons. that it had served the Sugar House Local With a small majority the Community for the past fifty years house of representatives passed H. set the editor to thinking that perB. 139, which, if enacted, will In- haps some of the older employees crease the personal income tax to of that company might have some very interesting stories of those earbe paid by at least $75,000. ly days, so he had some of these Four carload of cabbages will be old timers rounded up and got distributed Monday and Tuesday by them started to talking. In the the Salt Lake County Welfare HOME EDITION Meikle Bain, 72, who died at her evening. Various civic and) county W. P. home, 1744 Lake street Saturday of A.' projects were discussed, Includcauses Incident to age. three ing, bus service, sidewalk extensions, Mrs. Bain is survived by sons and four daughters. Bishop Harry T. Oscarson of the Richards Ward of the L. D. S. church conducted the funeral ser vices. Lincoln Ward M.I.A. Shows "Lela Wala" "Lela Wala." Indian operetta set in Colonial days, had its first at show- the Lining Thursday evening coln Ward Auditorium and was pronounced of high merit in that besides the beauty of the music and scenery, the complete operetta showed unusual finish for amateur performers. The operetta Is being presented by the M. I. A. of the ward will make two more showings this week, Friday and Saturday nights. The cast includes nearly ons hundred people, a chorus of eighty and eighteen principals and an. orchestra. Earl Donelson Is director with Leroy Slcator directing the (Continued on Page 8 etc. A. B. Paulson, architect, gave a on the Federal Low Cost bousing project, now before the legislature. The League went on record as favoring the law, and favoring; such a project in Salt Lake County. Mr. H. A. Sorensen, chairman of the Board of Education of Granite School District, spoke regarding the affairs of the district Ths following Executive Comr't-te-e was elected: J. V. Glade, pi rodent; Mrs. J. J. Stewart A. C. Melville, secretary; II. A. Scrensen, John Neff, Shirley Hourly, Gordon Hinckley, Dr Munn Q. Cannon (holdover), T. I. Irvine (holdover). Refreshments were Ecrved at the close of the meeting. talk vice-preside- nt; At a meeting of the East Mill Creek Water Company stockholders, held prior to the Betterment League meeting, the incumbent Board of Directors were elected: L. C. Heugly, president; John StlUman, A. C. Melville, S. N. Cornwall, E. Ot Bales, and P, M, Hlxson, |