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Show An Independent Newspaper Devoted To The Interests Ot The People Ot Rich County and Lower Bear River Valley Volume 9 Number 27 $1.50 Per Year In Advance Randolph, Utah. Friday July 31, 1936 Texas Centennial The Execution of Only Legal Execution Held in Rich County Exposition News Patrick Coughlin DALLAS, Texas, July 28. Three hundred and two flags, valued at were torn to shreds when a wind tore through the Texas Centennial Exposition at Dallas recently. This was a little less than a third of the flag's which fly over the Worlds Fair, and represented less than a fourth of their cost, for attendants had warning enough to take down the more expensive standards. The flags of six different nations have flown over Texas since 1619 when DePinedo landed on the gulf coast. Now 925 float over the Exnosition held In celebration of 100 years of independence. The 925 includes many battle standards, used in the Texas Revolution, as well as many different sizes of the six flags the red and yellow standard of Castile and Aragone, the flemr de lis of the Bourbon kings of France, the Mexican Eagle, the lone star of the Republic of Texas, the Stars and Bars of the Confederacy and the Stars and Stripes. The flags Were about all that was damaged by the high 'wind and rainTHE PICTURE SHOWS GUARDS SURROUNDING THE TENT IN WHICH THE FIRING SQUAD WAS storm except Some of the scenery for HIDDEN. THE VICTIM OF THE EXECUTION WAS PATRICK COUG HLIN. The Cavalcade of Texas, and Follow the Parade. Both shows were delayed a few days. Buildings, concessions and exhibits were undamaged. Cavalcade is the $250,000 spectacle depicting the history of While Parley Hart was driving to Texas on the Worlds largest stage, Mr. and Mrs. Humphery Kearl, Mr. while Follow the Parade is the suc- Montpelier last week, his six year old and Mrs. Sidney Hyden, Mr. and cessful Federal Theatre project revue eon opened the car door and fell out. Mira. DeVerl Whittington and Mr. and from the West Coast. Mrs. Merrill Sprouse, all climbed into lie suffered a gash in the back, of his head . and several bruises. He was ton pickup and visited .fine a MORMONS OPENtreated by Dr. Rich at Paris. Yellowstone Park on the Twenty-fourth- , COLORFUL CONFERENCE and over the week-enThey Miss Eva. Schofield of Fish Haven all returned Sunday night, worn out. Palmyra, N. Y., July 24 (Special visited several days here with her sisHowever, they report a splendid time Dispatch.) Today nearly a thousand ter, Mrs. Afton Gheen. among the geysers and bears. Latter-DaSaints were assembled here at the birthplace of their faith in their Miss Olive Irwin of Glendale, Cialif. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Hodges and fain annual Eastern Conference. They had and Miss Grace Irwin who attended ily of Portland, Oregon, visited among come from twenty eastern states. Can the summer session at the Brigham relatives and friends on Thursday last. We .note that it is twenty years since ada, and from Utah and California. Young University at Provo, are at For three days they will hear mes Laketown. Olive expects to remain he left Garden City for Canada, and about fourteen years since he moved sages from Church leaders, including until the middle of August. J.. Reuben Clark of Salt Lake Citv, from Canada to Portland. first counsellor to the president East Miss Efrnimn Lout and Pheoibe Weston ern States Mission President. J)onr . li spent the week-enMr. and . Mrs. Gerald Whittington at the Fish Haven Colton of New . York will have and family of Long Beach; called on charge of the conference. us Sunday and visited with us in SunOver a hundred young Mormons, A very fine program of events was day school, after which he made a canvass of the town to visit a few minmissionaries, of the church in the carried out here on the 24th. At 4:36 school utes with his many East, will participate in the three days a. m. early morning salutes. 10 a m. a very fine parade. Then the other sessions.: chums. It is over fifteen years sinew At night, the 89th annivesrary he left Garden City and he expressed horse, bicycle and of events featured LEWIS JONES the Mormon .pioneers, their descend- foot races; ball games Laketown vs. himself that he was certainly pleased ants staged a campfire program, of Kemmerer, with Laketown victorious with a visit to his birthplace, if it was songs and dances in period eosume Then an interesting program. The final for only a day. LEWIS JONES IS NOMINEE FOR with a covered wagon to give the event was the dance at Fish Haven. JUDGE Mrs. Owen Telford of Randolph, setting of the old West. with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Wride and the week-enSunday a sacred pageant dramatizspent two children of Long Beach, Calif., George D. Preston Gets Unanimous Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Sprouse. ed the Book of Mormon, and Vote for District Attorney. the story of Joseph Smith who were Sunday visitors at the home of Mrs. Mary Hyden, Mrs. Warren brought it to light a century ago. The Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Robinson. . Lewis Jones of Brigham City and for the Whittington and Mrs. Bessie Alsop, ot ampitheatre spectacle is on the Mr. and Mrs. Parley Hart and dangh George D. Preston of Logan are the Ogden, spent the week-en- d among relaslopes of Oumorah Hill where the his tives. ter Floriene, and Mr. Roy Moffat spent Democratic candidates in theand First toric volume was discovered. disJudicial District for judge The gleaming shaft of Angel Moroni Saturday and Sunday at Ogden. trict respectively. They attorney, Mrs. Uel Gam of Fielding, Utah, Is monument on Cumorahs summit was with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Reed, while working on the were named at the district convention visiting floodlighted each night, while a flour 18. N. J. Hodges. ish of trumpets were sounded from conveyor of the state road at Gardeu in Logan, Saturday evening, July are at present county the hilltop. City, had the misfortune to hurt his The candidates Box Elder and Cache President Woodruff Stukl and Stake knee cap. He was taken to Paris for attorneys of t Counties, respectively. . Fred Price were in attendance RENTAL AND BENEFIT PAYMENTS medical care. Clerk Of the total convention vote of our Ward Conference Sunday, July at UNDER THE AAA PROGRAM Elders Brown and Matthews of Lib- Mr. Jones received 43 for judge, and 26. A large turnout of ward members Logan city attorney, was a pleasing sight to both the visit Rental and Benefit Payments under erty, were the home missionaries ar Leon Fonnesbeck, 23 votes. The Box Eider brethern and bishopric. the AAA program In Rich County. dur- our Saoramen tmeeting Sunday. Thev received was almost unitedly for Mr. Ing ing the five month period ended Mav both gave very interesting and time- delegation votes. 24 23 of their Jones, giving him Mr. and Mra. Julius Wright are on 31, 1936 amounted to $16,836.09 ac ly talks. Cache County gave Mr. Jones 17 of their vacation traveling up through to Alinformation cording received by Mr. Vara Cheney of Logan and Miss its 39 votes. Rich County gavea half the northwest, down the coast through len T. Sanford , State Director of the and of Its three three Jones week-enviswere Nenbl. of California, in New Mexico, where they National Emergency Council. This Kendall votes. Mr. Fonnesbeck received half a will visit with their sons. Glenn and sum brought the total for the three itors at the O. E. Cheney home. vote from Rich county, one vote from Seth for a few days, and then on their year operation of the program to Box Elder county, and 22 votes from return home, his is Wahlstrom N. Oliver painting $22,630.39. through Bryce Canyon, Cache Counter, and visit Boulder Dam and other Utah Under the program payments for, house. It looks mighty fine. ' of Mr. Preston as wonders. J nomination The i three years in Rich County, were as H Mark Wright who has been work- district attorney was unanimous. follows: was nominated by William E. Davis Garden City has flowing water thru 522.86. ing at the J S. Alley ranch at South of Wheat$17, Brigham City, present district at- Its mains at last, and all of our .citiwith Midvale to home returned s Eden, $5,107.53. zens are taking advantage of the wonHyrum Nebeker, who went to Salt Lake torney. Sugar Mr. Jones was placed in nomination derful flow of water direct from spring The total amount released in Utah Monday. for the judegshlp by Will R. Holmes--, to kitchen. as a result of the Rental and Benelit 1 Mr. and Mrs. Richard Lamhorn mo- Brigham City editor. Attorney L. E. payments over the three year? is Nelson of Logan placed Attorney JOIN THE U. S. MARINE CORPS to Ogden Saturday. tored of which sum $206,400 has i Fonnesbeck in nomination. been paid out during the first five ElMr. and Mrs. Arnos Robinson and . A motion was placed by the Box months of the current year. Congress recently authorized an in to name the district at- crease der delegation Lake Salt to motored City of 1000 men in the United The total of such payments through- daughters, the judge was voted States Marine Corps. As a result to torney before out the United States. according to Wednesday. Mrs. Robinson expects " ' ' -down. there will now be more opportunities recent figures furnished. Is $1,223,104.-187.85- . visit there for a time. ; ; Mr. Jones Is completing his fourth for desirable young men to serve with ' Mr. LaMont Passey of Paris, Idaho consecutive term as county attorney the Marines. '. 1 Box Eider county. He will be reis who successfully pass SOUTH REUNION HEI D AT painting the exterior of Mm Mary of as espousing the cause of the theApplicants, called home. K, Westons may be transferred examination, RANDOLPH JULY 24th county and the sheep, and cattle in- to the Marine Corps Base at San Diego 1 terests in connection with the propos- without delav. OPEN GAME SEASON ; The South Reunion was held at Raned! abandonment of the Promontory Anyone interested may obtain literdolph at the home of Mr. and Mrs. branch of the Southern Pacific, as ature Lincoln season in for The and information by consulting game open 3S Joseph E. Hatch. Aboift Including well as preventing the railroads lesschildren, attended. Dinner was serv- county as set by the state game and ees from keeping citizens off the pub- Postmaster Wm. E. .Marshall, or by to the Marine Corps Recruited Friday noon, followed by a genealo- fish commission at their mid summer lic lands to railroad sections. writing adjacent Is as in follows: Room 46. Federal BuildStation. Cheyenne, meeting ing gy meeting. Saturday most of the Elk and moose, October 15 to NoFrancisco. San ing, crowd went to Dakota. The following S.iTs. CLUB MEETS t put of town people attended: Wm, R. vember 30 ; deer, October 15 to NovemOctoto 15 15 ; ber grouse, September CLUB MEETS THIMBLE NIMBLE and Ed South of Idaho Falls: Mr. and Club S. S. of the S, A Mrs. Earl Andrews, and family. bf ber 1, and the sage chicken season will was held meeting Helen of Leader home the at AuThe Nimble Thimble Club met TuesTrenton ; Mr. and Mrs. Geo. South, be Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, Brown, Thursday, July 16th. and two children, of Burley. Idaho: gust 9, 10 and 11. Ookeville Regist r. day, July. 28, at the high school buildin nest and poached eggs Eggs in a Mr. and Mrs. Ross Fox and family. tomato sauce were demonstrated by ing. The time was well spent in cutValois and Edward South and Sarah HOW TO COOL A HOT HEAD ting out amd sewing on pajamas. The the club. ' . meeting was adjourned at 5 p. m. and Spencer, of Salt Lake City : Mrs. Geo. Fae Longihurst acted as hostess. will be held again next Tuesday. White arjd daughter, of Ogden, Utah. Spend ten minutes in my barber The meeting adjourned at 4 :30. TEGGY KENNEDY, A very nice time was reported. chair. Youll not only get immediate The club sold refreshments at a '' ' ' Reporter. relief from the heat, but youll really dance Monday, July 20th in Woodruff. 1 look like somebody, too. MAE EASTMAN. DAVE SMITHS BAR3ER SHOP Comming Rich County Reunion Reporter. $12.-(K)- 0, WPA HISTORICAL WORKERS EARTH STORY OF THEFT UN- OF RASPBERRIES THAT STARTED BLOODSTREWN TRAIL TO FIRING SQUAD FOR PATRICK COUGHLIN. 65-mi- le $25.-000,0- . Laketown News Garden City News 400-ye- V-- 8 - 1-- 2 d. (By Hugh ONeil, WPA Research Worker and Bryce W. Anclerson, of the Ogden Standard Examiner Staff.) How the long arm of the law reached out for a pair of young men who stole two cases of raspberries from a peddlers wagon in 1896, and sent one of them before a firing squad in the only legal execution ever performed in Rich county, Utah, is revealed in documents and photographs located by Adolph W. Larson, supervisor for the WPA historical survey at Randolph. The two young men, Patrick Coughlin, 21, and Fred George, 19, perpetrated the theft that started this Interesting and grisly case by pinching the raspberries near Salt Lake City. They were captured by local authorities, charged with potty theft, and lodged in jaiL Couglilin had previously had trouble with the authorities, and had served short jail terms for several delinquencies. The confining atmosphere of prison walls did not appeal to him. Whether he had to use much persuasion to induce George to help in the escape will never be known, but the fact Is that the two youths managed to break jail and proceeded to leave the vicinity of Salt Lake with greatest possible speed. the ADD HORSE STEALING- -. y , d , old-tim- e . d - 66, d Corn-Hog- - . V ' . . 4--H : . Subscribe for Reaper ; To aid in their escape, Coughlin and Oeorge placed themselves in real jeopardy by stealing a horse in the vicinity of Morgan. It will be recalled that horse stealing was a major crime in the early days. Before the advent of law in the west, horse thieves were4isually summarily punished by stretching their necks with the hemp necktie." When the people of .the territories organizfed legal forces, they took care to provide heavy penalties for anyone who made free with anothers equine stock. SO Coughlin and George, transformed by the horse theft from petty thieves to major criminals, knew well what awaited them if they were captured. And to prevent that capture they their second major crime. Fleeing from Morgan, the two went over the mountains to a sheep camp In Summit county. The county sheriff learned of the fugitives whereabouts and apporached on horseback. He was met with a blast of gunfire. His hand was wounded and the horn of his saddle was shot away. The trail was becoming steadily hotter. Quickly the youths took leave of the sheep camp and headed for a cabin located in the mountains east of Coalfar-fam- com-mite- d ville. - Continued on page three NEWS FROM LAKETOWN SEWING CLUB 4-- H of our Wilma Kearl, club, is on a brief vacation in Salt Lake City. June Price, while practicing for the fell from the bicycle bicycle races and was unable to run. the sewing machine Margene Eller, in company with family, motored to Ogden last Sunday. Our regular club meeting was held at the Domestic Science Room WedClub leader Bernesday afternoon. on the importa talk tha Kearl gave ance of milk in the diet and gave a demonstration of Strawberry Malted The recipe was found in The Milk. leaflet which was sent to Way Milky leaders our by the extension service. of It made a delicious drink and eachwish us enjoyed a large glassful. We we could have such practical demonstrations at each club meeting. We are all talking and planning for dub outing at our coming county Laktota. All the girls have nearly completed their childrens costumes and will be readv to start their sport dresses, vice-preside- nt 4-- soon. RUTH ROBINSON, Club Reporter. BIG FAMILY PICNIC " In the Monte Cristo Park Sunday, , July 26th, the families of Jake Ruf i. Charles Frazier, Frank Frazier. and Agnes Frazier, had a Annie-Frazier- , large picnic consisting of 45 people. A large family lunch was held and a very good time was had! by all. Out of town visitors at the --picnic were Mr. and Mrs. Bill Groo and family of Salt Lake City; Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Rufi and family of Evanston; Mr. and Mrs. Vallier Frazier, of Evanston : Mrs. Maggie Baird and Bonnie Kimball, of Helper, Utah. v |