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Show Denver, Colorado. The safe for the new post-. post-. office arrived and it sure is a beauty. Kopp & McGarry had the contract to haul the safe from the station and to place the same in the vault. It took Len and Bill McGarry and four other able-bodied men from 5 o'clock in the afternoon until breakfast time the next morning morn-ing to complete the job. 25 Years Ago Donald Beal made campaign chairman for the Summit County Coun-ty Red Cross Chapter. year old son, going from Heber to Coalville, the boy became exhausted. ex-hausted. His father carried him some distance and thinking him dead, left him on the snow about a mile south of Atkinson and struggled on to the nearest house, Meechams, a mile west of Wanship, and five miles from where he left the boy. A party went back in the morning and found to their horror that the boy had revived and followed the tracks of his father for a quarter of a mile before succumbing. suc-cumbing. The winters seemed then more severe than now, probably because the settlers were few and far between. Wm. Reynolds. 57 Years Ago The first program held in the new Lincoln High School auditorium was given by the Columbian Society. Those participating par-ticipating on the program were: Emma Sutton, Ethel Birkbeck, Herman Hamilton, Clarence Johnson, Florence Benson, Tom Welsch, George Stanley, Virgil King and Ruth Baxter. After the program two basketball games were played, the first between the Snyderville and Freshman team. On the Park City team are: Virgil King, Vic Peterson, George Stanley, George Gidley, Clyde Peterson, Snyderville; Osmer Rasmussen Robert Johnson, Osmond Rasmussen, Ras-mussen, John Hicks, Harry Hicks. The second game was with Kamas and the Park City team. H. Fred Egan was appointed by Governor Maw to a position in the State Industrial Commission. Com-mission. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Aubrey announce the marriage of their daughter Carol, to Mr. Henry Berriochoa, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alphonso Berrichoa. Mr. Virgil Street acted as best man and Miss Virginia Berriochoa, sister of the groom, attended the bride. Patients at the hospital include: in-clude: Baby Hill, Baby Aber-nathy, Aber-nathy, Sam Kidder, ArleenLef-ler, ArleenLef-ler, Simon Malinak, Billy Arthur, Chas. Bye, CarolSund-strom, CarolSund-strom, Mrs. Joyce Shipley, and Bob Young. Garry Tate, manager of the Tri-State Lumber Co. will attend at-tend the Utah convention of Lumbermen. f -T Now appearing at the Dewey Theatre: "September Morn" with an airy freshness that is charming. Street Commissioner Charley Char-ley Mair did a good thing for Main Street this week, and at the same time gave employment employ-ment to several worthy men" much in need of a few days work. The snow piled up on each side of the street was shoveled shovel-ed in the center of the road thus giving it a chance to thaw these warm days. A fine baby boy was born to Mr. and Mrs. Owen Grib-ben. Last Sunday, four members of the Wasatch Mountain Club, of Salt Lake came to Park City on the train fully equipped with skiing paraphanalia for a several sev-eral days trip into the hills. They were enroute to Brighten where they intended to enjoy the excellent skiing afforded by the snow covered slopes in the vicinity. From there they will return to Salt Lake by way of Big Cottonwood Canyon. While here they talked to some of the local skiers who on the same day, two small parties from town enjoyed good skiing in the hills. Fraser Buck, Chet Jensen Jen-sen and Edward Hawkinson journeyed to the lake flat country coun-try and found the skiing very good. The other party consisted of Frank McCluskey, John Savage, Sav-age, Red McDonough, R. Norton, Nor-ton, Jack Crawford and E. R. Wright who hiked to the King Mine and rode down over the tower line of the aerial tramway tram-way until they arrived at the tension tower, from there they turned eastward and came out upon the brow of Treasure Hill, overlooking town on the west, immediately opposite the old post office corner. The American-Chinese population pop-ulation was increased with the arrival of a fine baby boy to Mr. and Mrs. Charley Chong, of the Senate Restaurant. An eight pound girl and a six pound boy, twins, to Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Fraser. City Attorney W. J. Burk is soon to leave Park City to accept an important and luc-ritive luc-ritive position with the United States Fidelity and Trust of 50 Years Ago WINTERS IN THIS COUNTY SIXTY YEARS AGO Your "Twenty-Five Years Ago" was very interesting. I will try to tell you about some incidents that occurred in this vicinity some sixty years ago: Mr. Anderson in walkingfrom Kamas to his ranch in Gorgoza had his feet frozen so badly that about half of them were amputated. am-putated. He lived there many years afterwards, a genial host to many teamsters who were often marooned, sometimes being be-ing several days breakinga road to the top of the Summit about three miles. A Mr. Hanks, uncle of our late townsman, Geo. Hanks, attempted at-tempted to walk from Salt Lake to Heber, but must have become exhausted, as his body was found next spring in a clump of quakenasp about a mile south of the Homer Ranch. He had whittled whit-tled a pile of shavings his pocket knife was lying beside him. Dutch John, an Overland Stage driver, got off the road in a blizzard about a quarter mile east of Kimballs, the mail sta-tion sta-tion and realizing the futile attempt to find his way, drove around in a small circle all night, walking behind the coach;, thereby saving his life and four horses. But, poor fellow, his feet were so badly frozen that he too lost about half of them. However and back on his old job, a much admired jehu-now called 'skinners. But the most distressing incident in-cident I remember was a man named Norton, with his twelve |