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Show Escalante Chit Chat - KAY ALVEV We got four or five inches more snow of a very wet soggy variety, and we really did not need it as there is still big banks of that which came last month. It has warmed up some so maybe we can get rid of the cold stuff. So many students and teachers were sick school was closed last week to was all other public gatherings except the funeral services which were weU attended Edson Alvey said he thought this was the first time since the 1918 influenza epidemic that the schools had been closed for sickness, but in checking with Lorenso Griffin found there had been several times this had happened. Dr. Kazan treated so many people he suggested a quarantine, so many people thought It was some sort of vacation, so took their little bleary eyed sneezing kids snd went to visit friends and relatives to toll how sick they were. The kids went back to school Monday, 29th. Dr. Kazan took Melba Gates back to Page to be hospitalized and tested, she was mighty sick but feeling better the last report. Jane Woolsey had talked with her kids in Page, California and Florida and they all had flu so it is quite general. Vada Martin's three year old son in Florida was home from the hospital after having double surgery, they never tell Jane until the worst U ever The flu Is ip Oklahoma slso, Eddie Neely called us; LaVee and both girls hsd it but were over it, he had escaped so far, he said their temperatures were between 60 and 70, the kids playing outside and here we are in snowbanks. If any of you boys are planning for the Spring marble games it might pay to follow Usher Spencer around, he said he thought he was going to lose his marbles with all this snow and the cattle situation what it is. All the men who are well enough are working with the cattle but are still losing some, they get so poor they cannot resist the cold. Road cop, Jim Reynolds was here telling about a course In Defensive Driving that was a-vailable to our town If enough people wanted it, it is an eight hour course and they would like twenty students, preferably married couples. The Li-ona Club was asked to spear head it and they held a meeting but president Ervin Burrows was down with flu so vice pres. Grant Thorson took charge but there were so few present they did not make anv definste plans. Be thinking a-bout it and if you want the course watch for further information, there will be some contact either by posters or announcements rhere will be a four dollar charge for the course The Arthur Mclnellys got word they have a new grand child a fine bby boy born to tconti'.ued inside) ESCALANTE (continued Chan and Hetty in Kansas, he is also a great grandson for the S J Alvcys Merlo Kay Woolsey went to Beaver, Wyoming for a week's visit and brought Joyce Gams here to see her sister Judy Kelly and family. Work is progressing on the Kelly home, Ron Mech-am. Dale Rider. Tom Oobel and E M Rider of Cedar City are here working on It. John Droubay had business in St. George Lowell Porter of St. George was here visiting friends and relatives, he went to Salt Lake and brought Vera Young with him to visit Whi-tey and Maralda Porter. Lowell says he will retire soon from his job on the police force then plans to spend a lot of time here in his old home town. All of the school teachers who were well enough went to Cedar City for a special meeting. Robert Wells took a car load of seminary students there. Harvey and Evndean Liston took daughter Uthna Poulsen to Salt Lake to catch transportation to Virginia to join her husband Elvonn. who I is in the Service. They picked up daughter Lol Rac in Richfield and she accompanied them, then came on home for the weekend. Harvey Dean Gates and a missionary companion came here to visit between semes ten at the BYU, they said they did not care if they got snowed in and had to stay here. Arcoln Gates and three kids spent a weekend in St. George with her parents, the Andrew Spencers, she said they feel fairly well, trying to dodge the flu. She hated to leave Sunny Dixie and come home to the cold snow. Marjie and Thurman Spencer are back to traveling by truck; Thurman was gone. Marjie down with flu so had son Sam come to town for medicine and groceries. He rounded a corner hitting a slick snot and slid into the back of Boyd Alvey's car parked at the family home. It did not "damage "Boyd's car too much but the front of the Spencer car is not worth much. Vernon and Margene Stowe and Lucile Cowles took sons Stanley and Dennis to Salt Lake to enter themission home, ' Rol and Mina Porter had bus- 1 iness in Richfield. Nelda and Ivan Willis can easily find excuses to go to Cedar City, so many of their family are there, they hit the January sales and got an automatic washer. Some of the college kids made it home; Marlyn Liston and Linda Alvey are more contented now as they managed to become room mates in Logan. Jane Roundy had a two day visit from Othello Lay and his wife May from Warden, Washington, they were on vacation touring Calif, and Arizona and came back this way. He is the son of Joe Lay who married our own Aunt Annie Alvey. There are three sides to a controversary you can see if you are bright; there is bis side and your side and then the side that't right. |