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Show FAVORABLE IMPRESSION L MADE AS VISITORS ENTER VALLEY FROM THE SOUTH constructing minature farms are being taken up in! some of the smaller grades. An art appreciation apprecia-tion course is being given to the older students. All the teachers are taking extension work from the U. S. A. C. Several of the homes here have been remodeled and painted and new modern up to date homes hav been built by Mr. and Mrs. Allen Leishman, Mr. and Mrs. Marion Mar-ion W. McBride and Mr. and Mrs. Francis Maughan. Also a new farm bureau service station has been built on the P. M. Maughan corner. Our Founders Day celebration was one of the outstanding events of the past year. This celebration celebra-tion was the fourth annual event of the kind and proved to be one of the best days put over in the county. Wellsville boasts of her wonderful parades but she didn't boast alone as all who witnessed it this year boasted about it too. With four bands, marshall of the day, trappers, American Legion, Indians, original pioneers of 1856-59-60-62 and 63 in cars, pioneer families in covered wagons, handcart hand-cart companies, some thirty beautiful beau-tiful floats followed by rodeo men on horses, rodea queen and attendants, at-tendants, a childrens section and the clowns made a parade which reached the length of the state highway through- town. A public meeting was held in the tabernacle taber-nacle with Mayor W. O. Christen-sen Christen-sen in charge. Dr. Adam S. Bennion of Salt Lake paid wonderful won-derful tributes to the pioneers and their achievements. Band concerts, con-certs, base ball games, a wild west rodeo and a dance closed the day; one long to be remembered in the history of our town. The Hyrum stake old folks outing out-ing was held here on the public park in August with each ward committee taking charge of its own members. A public meeting was held in the tabernacle at which numbers were given from each ward. Dinner was served to 280 guests on the beautiful lawns around the tabernacle. A free picture show was held at the opera house and a Donkey ball game played on the ball park after af-ter which all returned to their homes. In the month of August application appli-cation was made to the drouth relief committee for funds to buy material with which to construct a storage reservoir to supplement the one already In use, which is inadequate. Three thousand dollars dol-lars for material were granted. The project is completed at a total cost of $6000.00, thes supplying a long felt need and giving work to several people. This reservoir is forty by sixty by twelve feet. A sewer system authorized under un-der FERA as a make work project pro-ject was started August 13, 1934, at a total estimated cost of $10,-857.70 $10,-857.70 of which the city is required re-quired to furnish $2,345.10, all of which is expected can be raised by sewer connection priveleges of private residences and public buildings. This sewer system will take in the church buildings, schools, business district and the northeast part of town. The need j for a sewer is greater in that part of Wellsville than elsewhere because be-cause the surface ground water fills cesspools and causes them to run over part of the year, thus becoming a menace to health. Work has. progressed until the project is about one third done. Wellsville is supporting two dry goods stores, a drug store, state bank, confectionary, a lumber yard, hardware store, two garages, four service stations, two coal dealers, a grain dealer, a post office of-fice ad a billiard hall. The health of the people in general gen-eral is fair. However, there are a few cases of chicken pox and some people are suffering with colds. TTELLSVILLE Without excep-tion excep-tion people who enter Cache Valley from the south on the state highway, proclaim it as the most picturesque and productive section of the state. This im-c im-c pression, is the result, in part at least, of the condition found on entering the valley. Coming into in-to Wellsville, the fertility is equal to any part of the state with her beautiful trees, flowers, and shrubs in bloom in the sum-. sum-. mertime and her snow capped mountains and snow covered fields in the winter. Wellsville has a population of 1468 people and is divided into two well organized wards. The Wellsville Wells-ville ward is presided over by Bishop John J. Hendry, William - P. Leatham and Seth P. Leishman Leish-man as councilors, with Leland P. Maugham as ward clerk. This ward has a membership of 807 and their place of worship is the Wellsville tabernacle located on the Southeast corner of the public pub-lic park which is bounded on the north and west by the state highway. high-way. This tabernacle is equipped with a wonderful pipe organ which is unsurpassed by any other pipe organ in the county. The ward ! is preparing to improve the building build-ing by installing drinking foun-. foun-. tains and rest rooms and install-! install-! iing the hot water in the kitchen. This project will be commenced soon after the holidays. The Wellsville Second ward has a population! of 661 members and is presided over by Bishop Evan H. Bankhead with Evan O. Dar-ley Dar-ley and Oliver Bailey as council- f vors, with Robert P. Leatham as ward clerk. Its beautiful up to date chapel and recreation hall Is located two blocks south of the '. public park on the west side of the state highway. It has an ideal location and its grounds are Jbeauttful with flowers, shrubs, trees and lawns. 1 Each ward supports a iolly organized choir with Lamont M. AUenj as choister of the Wells- ' ville ward choir and Miss Gladys Hill as choister of the Second ward. Each choir is preparing to "Dresent a Christmas sacred can-'tata can-'tata during the holidays this year. ! Wellsville has enrolled at the s U. S. A. C. twenty students, and Isome one hundred and fifteen students registered at the South Cache high school; one attending Hennigers Business college, and one attending a barber school at Salt Lake city. The Wellsville 4 Junor high school has an enroll-i enroll-i ment of 156 students with V. R. Carver as principal. Walter Per- kins, Louis Brenchley - and Miss ,Ruby Leatham are instructors, with l Mrs. Millie M. Baxter as seminary Ateacher. This school is doing a good standard work which is on a par with any school in the state. The school only lost one game jut of four games of football this season. During the last Jour years a major project has feen taken up at the school and (,ias proved very successful. The Chool boasts of a school library, op. seminary and an opera each ar which are going on satis-ctory satis-ctory to all. This year's project is a junior gh school band. At the begin-ng begin-ng of this school year there were !y four instruments in the school w it boasts of a band with f orty-e orty-e members which is approxim-ely approxim-ely one third of the enrollment, r. W. H. Terry of South Cache the supervisor and Mr. Louis enchley is the instructor. Mr. :rry, who is a very good judge music, says the band is very I, ;11 balanced. Wellsville city ap-"opriated ap-"opriated a good amount to- irds the band and the school ard purchased one of the larg-instruments. larg-instruments. The school is (oking forward to an opera to i-esent early in the spring. I The Floradell school, with its l p7 students and 9 faculty mem-ers, mem-ers, namely, Mary Perkins, Elsie Bunnell, Margaret Litz, O. E. Nel-bn, Nel-bn, Chlo Anderson, Gladys lughes, Gladys Hill, Valene Pop-(leton Pop-(leton and Annie Buist, are work-ng work-ng hard to make this year a ban-,ier ban-,ier year. At present each grade i & planning Christmas parties. Haking houses and planning and |