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Show "News Bits About Yester-Years" 5 Years Ago Appointment of Willard A. Day. Roosevelt, to the Utah state road commission was announced Wednesday - by Governor Herbert Her-bert B. Maw. Mr. Day, who is completing his second term as a member of the Duchesne county board of commissioners, will assume office on July 1. ' A fire which started on Indian In-dian grazing land on the dug-way dug-way going into Uinta canyon Tuesday afternoon destroyed an estimated 150 to-160 acres of grass land and reached the end of the timbered area before it was brought under control. Fire fighters, under the direction of Frank Chamberlin, engineer at the Whiterocks Indian school, battled the blaze and, with the aid of a favorable wind, were able to check it before it reached reach-ed the timber. Mr. and Mrs. James W. Powell, Pow-ell, of Bluebell, announce the marriage of their son, Carl, to Miss Sarah Hardcastle, of San-' San-' dy. Utah. One of the attractive weddings wed-dings this month was that of Miss Colleen i-zisonoee ana uean W. Thayn, who were married June 22, in an evening cere--mony performed at the home of the bride's parents, with Bishop E. J. Nixon officiating. Alton Smithson, daughter of Mrs. Viola Smithson, of Neola, was graduated recently from the McCune School of Music in Salt Lake City, after four years of piano' training. 10 Years Ago C. I. Johnson left Wednesday for an extended trip through Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona, Ari-zona, where he will look over the seed situation in the southwest. south-west. Before he returns to Roosevelt, Roos-evelt, he' will go' to California for a visit with his family and will spend some time with his movie -actress daughter. Miss Laraine Day. Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Smith will arrive by bus from the east tonight and will be taken by Mr. and Mrs. Homer P. Edwards Ed-wards to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Milton Smith in Bennett. L. R. Smith and Milton are brothers and have not seen each other for over 40 years. Mr. and Mrs. Marc Wilkins and daughter, R e n e e, left weanesctay morning ior JjOs Angeles, An-geles, California, where they plan to make their home. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Murphy have moved into the Wilkins home. Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Waugh and two daughters, Beth and Louise, of Myton, left Sunday to make their home in Colorado Springs, Colo., where they plan to operate a tourist home. A Red Cross sewing and knitting knit-ting project, which calls for the completion of nearly 800 garments in six months time has been undertaken by ambitious women of Fort Duchesne, under the leadership of Mrs. B. R. Palmer, Mrs. C. L. Piper and Miss Jessie Phelps. 20 Years Ago With, the acceptance by the Utah water storage commission of the report made by W. W. Johnson of the federal reclamation reclama-tion bureau, on the. economic possibilities of the Moon Lake project in Duchesne county, the $1,200,000 project was launched Wednesday. Some six to eignt months ago several meetings were held in the Roosevelt Commercial club rooms to discuss the possibility of securing a sugar factory for the Uintah Basin, and during the course of the campaign as high as eight or ten letters were received re-ceived from Colorado and Utah interests, which at the time seemed to be very favorable. But it seems that the Basin people were the one who became be-came weak-backed and we claim the project was lost through the lack of interest. . The Misses Pearl Edwards, Bernice Harrison, Lulu Eldredge and Peggy Nelson entertained the two Roosevelt ward swarms of Beehive girls at a delightful swimming party and weiner roast. |