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Show Kamas Valley Fiesta Days, July, 1989 13B Telephones of The Past The earliest service consisted of only one phone in the home of J. G. Lambert. When people were wanted on the phone, a messenger was sent out for them. This phone was used as a means of practical jokes. On April Fool's Day, a man was called to the phone and was told his brother wanted to talk to him. After making the trip from the other side of town, (a distance of ten to thirteen blocks), he took down the receiver and the conversation ran something like this: "Hello Mose, is that you? Mose, you'll have to speak louder. I can't hear you." After he became very excited about not being able to hear his brother, he was told that the phone had been disconnected, and that it was just an April Fool's joke. He was sent out to tell the first man he met that he was wanted at the phone. This continued for some time. Finally, the Bishop was called. When he discovered that a joke was being played on him, he remarked that he didn't think it was quite right to make a fool of a Bishop. Old Hoyt in Marion Thomas Rhodes Culinary Water in Kamas While Thomas Rhodes may of the prairies livestock possibilihave been obscure before mov- ties. and told about the cattleto Deseret in 1849, the same killing grizzlies, etc. on the Francis is now completing their ing cannot be true of him after the Kamas Prairie. water and sewer system and are to decade. He became a man of Unfortunately the story, and be congratulated for all their hard men in Salt Lake also the conversion of Thomas City, Utah. work and efforts to modernize their Thomas Rhodes was born in Rhodes, has been lost to history. town. 1794 in Logan County, Kentucky Partly because church record known as Nulslenburg). He keeping at that time was very (now During the 1964 summer the L.D.S. Church-i1835, poor and also the semiliterate joined season, an enlarged and adequate all the trouble Rhodes Again arriving at dates from memory of men, backed by relative Francis is also to be congratulated for likewise installing a water happenings, etc., an attempt is system. Those leading out in this are Mayor Walt Prescott, with made at the water story. It is quite well established that councilmcn Tay Mitchell, Warren cither in 1916 or 1917, the system McNeil, Clarence Bates, and Ronald was installed using wooden pipes Jacobson. The year 1963 saw natural gas M. N. Pack, Sr., Seth Pitt and In 193S, contract. the others having brought to Pcoa, Oakley, Marion, system was being installed. This was by Kamas, Francis, Park City, and commendable accomplishment was wooden replaced this pipe being done under supervision of Hcbcr City at Uinta's west end. metal pipe. Mayor Gordon B. Taylor with councilmen Demont Lou, Norman I Hoyt, Harold Anderson, and Reed Smithies, Phyllis Lewis, Clerk, Elmo Atkinson, Marshall. . , barn passed through apparently did not keep a that the Church had at that time, journal. He would sign all his and went with his family to papers Thos Rhodz. California in 1846. He moved to Utah in 1849. In 1857 he accompanied Brigham Young to the Salmon River in Idaho. (Note: Andrew Jensen to George Albert Smith 1936.) Thomas Rhodes went to Brigham Young, told him Happy Fiesta!! ' ."fife . ,s n ' fifeafflHsS QtB QB Ward Blazzard $225,000 home Oakley Main Street. ays Fiesta Congratulations from Entertainment gid unm am Thank JG GBW tiSD GW &GW am emo Atkinson Trucking Co. Utelite Sand and Gravel fin Qfisso 7,8-34146- 69 Hast 200 Smith Francis 00080000000000000000000000000000000000 gmmjjmm m am fflam 6 ami as anas 783-458- 5 3000000001 9 raaa? nuffiiw QM) 'gS- - |