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Show The Word horn Boulder By NETIIELLA GRIFFIN To the uninitiated it might be supposed that finding one school teacher to come to an Isolated community would bo easier than finding two, but such is not the case, Supt. Russell Mcrrell of the Garfield school district told an attentive audience here last Friday. Parents, teachers, and others interested in maintaining if possible a two-teacher school met with Mr, Merrell and As-sistant-Supt. Talmage Taylor to try to find a solution to the desperate situation of a shrunken school enrollment that threatens to reduce tho school to ono room. Mr. Merrell is convinced that finding a single qualified teacher who would be willing to come to Boulder and undertake Its wide spread in age groups made .necessary by this change would bo hard to do. It is much easier, he says, to fyjd two qualified teachers to conie this far out, especially if they are man and wife, as (continued on back page) BOULDER are the present teachers, Claud and Nina Robinson. The alternative of transporting the whole group to Escalantc seems pretty formidable, considering' the more thant one-hour long ride ovei a poor road each morning and night. It would be seventy miles a day for some of the children. That's quite an ordeal for six vear olds. Various plans for finding additional children were discussed. Mrs. Alice Alvey, president of the PTA is taking the lead in soliciting for needy children. Boulder is fairly bristling with problems these days. The Farmstead Water company was reorganized last week with LeFair Hall at its head and with a determination to try to increase the number of water users to a point where the company could use black instead of red ink for its accounts The Circle Cliffs permittees on the winter range, meeting with Max Bruce of the Bureau of Land Management, finally reached an agreement Thursday on allotment boundary lines and laid plans for building thirty miles of fencing to be completed by next October. Laying plans and getting the fence built are two different things however. It will be a difficult and expensive job. In much of the territory, post holes will have to be blasted out. About eight dollars a head for the cattle on thai of the range is the estimate. By the way, wherever do these people who write for the Public Forum in the Salt Lake Tribune get the idea that the cost of range improvement is borne by the taxpayers? The cattlemen are all nappy this week because of the bountiful snowstorm, and most of them are heading for the ranges to put their cattle on the high, dry places where the best feed can be had, now that the cows can eat snow instead of trailing to water. Ivan and Kirk returned from the range Saturday. Irene King received wora Saturday of the oath of her grandmother, Mrs. Lydia Wilson of Salt Lake, a former resident of this county, A funeral service was held in Salt Lake on Monday and another in Cannonville on Tuesday. Interment was1 at the Hillsdale cemetery. Colds and influenza are ag- ain making their rounds am ong us. Gertrude Ormond, Nina Moosman, and Esther Coleman have had to have med -cal attention this week. Mr. and Mrs. Lorin Moosman and Mrs. Ruby Ormond made a trip to Provo last weekend. Mr. and Mrs. Evan Peterson of Richfield were guests at the Emeron Peterson home Saturday night. On Sunday they all went to Escalantc where they joined others of their family in honoring their mother, Mrs. Amanda Peterson on her birthday. Evan Call, another mem'jei of the Call Construction company, has joined his brothers on the work at the GarKane power plant. Since .this is his lirst trip to Boulder, his fellow workers wanted him to see my colored slides of the scenery of this area. Accordingly, they, with other guests, enjoyed an evening at my home on Sunday. Mr, and Mrs. Preston Moosman of Bicknell visited with his parents, the Criss Moos-mans", o n Tuesday and Wednesday. |