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Show I BEAVER I . ; Mrs. R. Pearce. is spending a few days in Salt Lake on a business trip. Mr. and Mrs. Clark Showalteir and little son Garth are spending the holidays with (Mrs. Showalter's mother, Mrs. I. Lessing. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Jensen and children chil-dren of Cedar City were visiting with Mrs. Jensen's mother, Mrs. Henry Skinner during the holidays. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Larsen left for Pasadena the day after Christmas in ordeir ito see the East-West game of Champion post season football, and also Pasadena's New Year's festival, fes-tival, an enormous event taking place iannually. Mrs. Jane Black, widow of the late John Black, prominent Indian War veteran, was honored on her 84 th 'birthday annivelrsary, New Year's day, by a dinner at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Melvin Mathews. Math-ews. Intimate friends of Mrs. Black were invited guests. Kent Morgan, Ralph Frazier and Harry Adams arrived from Los Angeles An-geles New Years day and visited in Beaver till Sunday, Kent with his parents Mr. and Mrs. Kent Morgan, Sr., and Ralph and Harry at the home of Jean Hales. In the sudden death of James Christopher Whittaker, southern Utah looses one of ihs most substan-tian substan-tian and respected citizens. Mr. Whittaker was born in Cedar City, 1859, son of James Whittaker and Mary Ann Arthur Whittaker. While a young man, his parents moved to Circleville where he has since lived. The past forty years Mr. Whitta- ker has been actively engaged in tarming, livestock, and various other oth-er businesses. Christmas Cheer was taken to more than 100 needy children o Beaver Christmas eve by members of the- Lions Club, who purchased toys for each child in the twenty or more families visited. Two of the Lion members who are merchants took a whole family to care for and it is; reported unofficially that shoes needed clothing, toys, candy, nuts, these two families while subbing for and even groceries were taken to Santa. .. n |