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Show -News Bits About Yester-Years" 5 Years Ago The New Year was two hours and forty minutes late in arriv-fng arriv-fng for Mr. and Mrs. Melvm Mecham, but that it did arrive evidenced by a baby girl born to the Mechams at 2.40 a. m. Mrs. James Lemon, of Ioka. A mass meeting, held at the call of Horace L. Allred, temporary tem-porary chairman, took place in the Roosevelt Ward amusement hall Monday evening for the purpose of organizing the Roosevelt Roos-evelt area for the 1947 Utah Centennial. Elmo Nelson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Elmo Nelson, of Upalco, and husband of MaRee Edwards Nelson, was honored in the January Jan-uary issue of PFC Magazine through his series of features on "Youth in Public Office. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Scholes, who were married Dec. 19 in the Salt Lake Temple, were honored hon-ored guests at a reception Saturday Sat-urday evening at the Arcadia Ward Hall. The bride, the former form-er Miss Erna Larson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 'Milt Larson, was lovely in her wedding gown of traditional white satin as she stood with her husband to re ceive their friends. 10 Years Ago D. D. Nicholson was named chairman and Homer P. Edwards, Ed-wards, Lynn Orser and M. F. Wilkins members of a committee commit-tee appointed by the Roosevelt Commercial Club to make plans for the Open House to be held February 8 at the Roosevelt hospital,. hos-pital,. This group will work with the hospital general committee. com-mittee. Joseph Moysh, county chairman chair-man of civilian defense, and Ted Harmston, county chairman of the committee on tire allocation, will attend a state conference of civilian defense leaders to be held at the Newhouse Hotel in Salt Lake City on January 5. Miss Mary Dillman. who Is home from the U S A C for the holidays, entertained 12 of her friends at a cleverly arranged party last week, theme of which was Old Mexico. Present were Betty Pierce, Donna Benson, Bonnie Jo Pierce, Loya Benson, Carol Birch, Karma Dee Harmston, Harm-ston, Helen Demos, Margaret Demos, Edith Harrison, LaRue Eldredge, Margaret F e r r o n, Maurine Timothy and Bernieco Mowrey. Dorothy Dillman and Sybil Mitchell, dressed in Mexican Mexi-can costumes, served a supper of Mexican dishes. Tuesday evening the same group of girls was entertained at a prettily arranged party given giv-en by Miss Carol Birch. 20 Years Ago j Director of the Bureau of Redamatfon, Elwood Mead, and Chief Engineer Walter, give final fi-nal o. k. on Moon Lake project. Commissioner Newell B. Cook reporTs that 516,000 fish have been Planted in Duchesne and Uintah counties during the past vear. Practically the entire number num-ber were planted from the Whit'erocks Hatchery. A turkey hen owned by James E Bacon, of Cedarview, makes the feathered birds of her territory ter-ritory set up and wonder what kind of hen she is, when regularly reg-ularly for the past three weeks, every other day she struts out into the open field to- a snow-made snow-made nest and lays an egg. Mr. Bacon says that if this hen will teach his chickens the art of laying eggs all winter, he will sure go into the poultry business on a large scale. We have heard of the goose and the golden egg, but what about the turkey that lays the cold storage egg. Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Angus entertained en-tertained at a turkey dinner on December 25. Covers were laid for Mrs. Mary E. Freston, Mr. and Mrs. John S. Redmond, Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Freston, Ardella Freston. Mary Lou Redmond. Burt Burgess, Cecil Mitchell, Clarence Redmond and Lewel-len Lewel-len Baskin. |