Show centennial NEWS the second official centennial event will be held monday feb 24 at 8 p in according to sports chairman ken sommers the basket ball circus is coming to town A picked team from morgan county will be selected to meet the broadway clowns a group of colored comedians rated as the topflight negro exponents of hardwood magic besides being the craziest bunch of clowns they are a great basketball team a team of five giants and one midget so be sure and attend the circus monday february 24 and then the third official event will be the opera blossom time which you certainly wont want to miss tickets will soon be on sale at the drug store there wi will 11 be a matinee in the afternoon for children up to high school age and the evening performance will be for adults only and of course those of high school age do you know that morgan valley valey was war known to trappers previous to the time the pioneers entered morgan in 1840 lansford W hastings the famous explorer took a company of emigrants from the east bound for california down the weber river passing through what is now morgan county according to andrew jensen late assistant church historian commencing next week the history of morgan county will be written as a serial in sri this paper this is a complete and comprehensive history of the county count y written and compiled by mrs airs william chadwick for the daughters of utah pioneers mrs airs chadwick has spent many years gathering this information has interviewed many of the pioneers since passed away and has always been of the utmost help to all groups in the community in supplying facts of morgan county history there has been so much demand for county counts history this year that the centennial committee is going to apons sponsor or this publication |