Show this week twenty years aro ago kp issue of august 20 1919 about people from parowan carowan Pa rowan paragonah Para gonah and cedar city got together monday under tinder the leadership of the iron county farm bureau and made a tour of the farms of parowan carowan valley the group was lead by county agent alma esplin eser county commissioner commission er H I 1 adams and farm bureau president david sharp and included in it were dr harris dr evans prof wallin and maude may babcock of tile the agricultural college at lo 10 gan the misses ida caddie and clara orton were home after spending a year in kanosh and were planning on running the hotel owned here by their mother miss glenna marsden had entertained a large group of her girl friends at a social at her home on thursday afternoon of the week before mr and mrs warren pendleton were visiting here from Or derville I 1 with relatives and friends mr and mrs frank orton of colorado had spent the past several weeks here visiting his mother mrs selena helena orton and other relatives and friends mrs flossie hutchings and family were here from downey idaho to visit with the alvin benson family S R burton W W pendleton and the brothers were to leave the last of the week for sa salt it lake city taking with them some fine sheep to sell at the national ram sale the following week A large number of men from here and paragonah Para gonah spent friday in bear valley hunting sage hens several of the local ex soldiers were endeavoring to form a post of the american legion in this community all former soldiers were to be eligible to join the organization with a membership of 15 required in order to re receive ceide a charter and all posts so organized before november 11 1919 were to be known as charter posts the state road commission has a crew of men at work northeast of town at the state gravel pit 9 getting etting out gravel for road maintenance purposes 2000 yards of gravel are to be crushed screened and separated into piles for various uses with about yards of it out on tuesday evening |