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Show "News Bils About Yesler-Years" j EDITOR'S NOTE: For the next few weeks the "Backward Glances" column will publish stories taken from some very old Basin newspapers, yellow with age, that were brought to our office recently by Cy Lar-sen, Lar-sen, a resident of the Basin since 1905. The first article to appear is taken from the May 26, 1911 issue of the Uintah Basin Record, Rec-ord, published at Myton, Wasatch Wa-satch county, when Fred L. Wa-trous Wa-trous was its editor: The Moffat Road Will Be Pushed Prominent Denver Capitalists Raise V Of A Million DENVER, Bay 23, 1911 All obstacles to the building of the Moffat railroad from its present to Salt Lake, have been removed according to the Post, by action of twelve Denver capitalists, who have subscribed $750,000 to take care of the present indebtedness in-debtedness and thus clear the way to the beginning of a new financing plan. The men are Col. C. C. Dodge; John F. Campion, Henry M. Porter, Gerald Hughes. Charles Boettcher, Samuel M. Perry, G. G. Liebardt, Lawrence C. Phipps, J. K. Mullen, John W. Springer, Thomas S. Hayden and William G. Evans. Social Brief (Printed exactly as taken from the May 28, 1911 paper) By the time this is in type, William C. Perry and Anna Ploeger will be man and wife. They started Sunday for Salt Lake City with that end in view. Mr. Perry has been a resident of the Reservation since its opening and has a claim on Blue Bench. He is also one of our well-known merchants. Miss Ploeger resides with her brother some six miles east, on the Du- chesne, and is a handsome and well liked young lady. Your scribe joins with their many friends in wishing them a long and happy life. 5 Years Ago Long discussed plans to organize or-ganize a community band have materialized at last and steps are being taken to call a group together for rehearsal, according to Johnny Cook, one of the instigators in-stigators of the bend idea. "We believe that we can provide a needed public service and splendid splen-did recreation if musicians will interest themselves in becoming members of the band," Mr. Cook stated. Donald Louis Laris, recently returned from service with the Army in Manila, was guest of honor Wednesday evening at a birthday dinner at the residence of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Laris. Safeway Store entertained the employees and their families at an outing Sunday. The party left Roosevelt at 7 a. m. Sunday Sun-day morning and cooked their breakfast at the park in Uintah canyon. A turkey dinner with all the trimmings was served at noon. Lt. Comdr. W. D. Orser. son of Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Orser, has received his honorable discharge dis-charge from the Navy at the Personnel Separation Center in San Francisco, Calif. 10 Years Ago Mrs. Homer P. Edwards, prominent Roosevelt civic leader, lead-er, was elected one of the vice-presidents vice-presidents of the state Parent-Teachers Parent-Teachers association at the annual an-nual congress held in Logan last Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Among the 365 University of Utah students who were named Saturday as winners of a scholastic schol-astic honor award for the winter quarter were Frances Jue and Alyce Marie Jue, of Ft. Duchesne, Du-chesne, nieces of Mrs. Wong- C. Wing; Agneta Norgard. of Vernal Ver-nal and Leonard Burgess, of Roosevelt, son of Donna Burgess. Bur-gess. All four will receive cards of congratulation from the "U" administration for their excellent excel-lent scholastic mark. Roosevelt high school athletes piled up the largest number of points in the annual county high track and field meet held Friday on the Roosevelt high school campus. Roosevelt emerged from the events with a total of 110, Altamont with 6OV2 and Duchesne Du-chesne with 35Vfe. Garn Gilbert, of Roosevelt, was high point man. scoring 15 points. Fred Cook and John Tryon left Tuesday morning for Salt Lake City. They are the first young men from Ballard ward : to enter the armed service un- !der the draft. . 20 Years Ago There is no time like the present! pres-ent! Lay aside your cares and worries for one day and be a real sport be at the Big Park in Uintah canyon at 10 o'clock the morning of May 1. Bring your lunch and prepare to stay all day with the crowd and have a good time. . The Roosevelt Fish and Game club has been working hard for the past two or three weeks paving the way for a grand and glorious outing. Due to the untiring efforts of the Roosevelt Fish and Game club, better than $500 will be spent on the Uintah canyon road during this early spring. Final arrangements were made Saturday when the Calder Creamery company, of Vernal, purchased the Roosevelt Bottling Bot-tling Works from Christy Anderson. Ander-son. It is understood that Bruce Calder, of Roosevelt, will be in charge. Mr. and Mrs. N. L .Peterson's home in Myton was burned to the ground Monday night. It was thought to be caused from a short in an electric wire. |