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Show Escalante Chit Chat ' BY FAY ALVLY It has frosted enough to turn the leaves to Autumn hues and the temperatures are mild. We 8 are all still in shock from the X two deaths last week; the pass-f ing of Billie Davis left the town without a mayor and the North f Ward without a bishop. The fTown Board members and the , counselors are trying to carry on until other arrangements ' can be made. Mont Griffin is still in the Panguitch Hospital f but is responding to medica-tion. Ray Shurtz is resting bet-ter since Beryl started getting C him up in a wheel chair part time. Talmage and Venice Tay-tf'lor brought Clyde and Llllie ;" Spencer home. Clyde is well enough to attend church. Ber- lin Osborn was also out to t, church. Mrs. Crandal is still in , ' the hospital, someone reported she and Mont were the only if patients. "'V Deon Alvcy bumped her ankle causing a blood clot. The ' " doctor ordered her inactive f,cr ' awh'ilo so she and daughters Denise and Raylene went to , Bullfrog to visit Jancen and ' Brad Duncan. Judy Brooks -' wrecked a truck and Dale Wil-" son flew her to Page to find out the extent of her injuries. Last week Dale flew Abe Win-! sor to Page, he was thrown from a horso belonging to Charley Everett. Mr. Winsor Is ' still In the hospital with three broken ribs and one hip bone broken. They figured if he stayed inactive for a while he ; would heal without casts. The Wlnsors are helping the Cart-' crs with the Fall roundup. Mr. , and Mrs. Joe Carter went to 1 California. He will stay two . weeks, but she is due home in a week. The Grandmother, Mary, is looking after the family. ' Wo Grandmothers do come In : handy occasionally. Dot and Anthony Coombs went North and left their two kids with ; me, so there Is never a dull moment Last Saturday was the 5lst redding anniversary of Clyde and Lillie Spencer, the family got together for a dinner and visiting. Ncta and Morris are home from their jobs at Bryce Canyon. Neta said they had hauled things over there all summer so they had a pickup load to bring back. Cummings and Golda Gates and some friends from Salt Lake City came to visit relatives and fish until the hunting season is open. Gary Pollock came from Kearns to move his mother Ethyl up there for the winter. Cle-ma and Roe Barney and sons Tim and Scot came from Page for the weekend. Mitzie had a band concert in Phoenix so was not with them. Most of the teachers went North for UEA and gave the kids a vacation. Dale Wilson had business there so he took Susan. Ruth Hale and Er-ma Gates went to Cedar City where Ruth thought she had an appointment with the eye doctor but he was out of town so she made another date and took Curly to St. George and came back to Cedar for the date. Lela and Jessie Barker are here from the state of Washington visiting Nell Barker. Nell had Paul and Gayla Card-on and family from St. George, Betty Jean Ross and son from Colorado. Claron and Ruby Griffin took their Spencer grandkids back to Orem. Louis Brown brought Irene and two kids here and left them at the Hyrum Coleman home, they visited a week then Hyrum and Mary Ellen took them home going by Monroe to visit Donna Rae Barker and family, they planned to visit Valaree Davies at Aurora but she had flu so they went on to Duchesne and had dinner with the Browns then visited Flaming Gorge, then on to Rock Springs, Wyoming, where Irene and Louis are living now. Both Wards met together in the South to hear Lance Hatch report his mission to Hong Kong. His father, Logan Hatch from Reno, tailed first. Cindy Fontaln and LaFaye Bailey sang accompalncd by Dawn Griffin, then Lance told of his experience learning the Can-(continued Inside) ESCALANTi (continued from i nni pa-' tonese language and teaching the gospel. Ten of his missionary friends came to hear him; two girls and eight boys, most of them were students at BYU where Lance plans to go later. He and his brother Mike and their father went to Motnana for some hunting. Stanley and Neta Haycock had business In Salt Lake City. The Coleman people had a visit from Ada Perkle and Gay Reneke from Colorado. Kelvert and Edna Button daughter Susan and a friend, Nolan and Arvonne Button, Ar-dlth and her husband were here from Kanab. Thev came for the wedding reception of Lynn Button and Rhonda Mitchell who were married October 12 in the St. George Tem- ple. Lynn is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Button of Esal-ante and she is the daughter of Bishop and Mrs. Boyd L. Mitchell of Parowan, Utah. The weather is lovely to see and everyone happy should be, but we always remember that cold old December, the month of the Christmas spree. HHBmMBMMtlMMMMMMMalHiHHJJ |