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Show "News Bits About Yesler-Yars" 5 YEARS AGO J. D. Walker, local building contractor, last night was installed install-ed as president of the Roosevelt Kiwanis Club by Dr. Milton Rig-by, Rig-by, lieutenant governor of the Utah-Idaho district, at an impressive impres-sive dinner meeting at the Frontier Fron-tier Grill, with the ladies of Kiwanis Ki-wanis as honored guests. To Mr, and Mrs. Floyd Peterson Peter-son went the top prize in the Christmas contest sponsored by the Roosevelt Community Christmas Christ-mas committee, and with top honors hon-ors went a $20 cash prize. And then in the business establishment division a woman who has been a persistent winner in the home group in years' past, Mrs. Tina Wiikins, stepped out and won the $20 bill for the best decorated business house the Roosevelt Hotel. - ' Wednesday morning came a call from an excited resident of Ioka to give us a few news items about people from that area, and especially es-pecially to let us know that, "Now we' have a few phones up here and are we happy'," she' said. A holiday wedding in a lovely setting was that of Miss Lila Duncan, Dun-can, who became the bride of Richard Bryce Larsen in a ceremony cere-mony performed Wednesday eve-night, eve-night, Dec. 20, at the Neola LDS ward chapel. Firelight cast a romantic glow upon the altar as the beautiful double ring ceremony was read by Bishop Lazeil Henrie. 10 YEARS AGO The first 1946 baby to be born in Roosevelt missed the arrival of the New Year by a mere 36 hours and five minutes. At 1:05 p.m., Jan 2, a baby girl was born to Mr. and Mrs. Ellis M. - Burton of Talmage in the Roosevelt Hospital. After a pre-season trip to Mon-ticello, Mon-ticello, and a workout with Park City, the Roosevelt Rough Riders will officially open the basketball season the evening of Jan 4. A game' with Uintah will herald the beginning of a six week casaba season. A sign in a Chicago barber shop a few years back, read, "We guarantee our haircuts, or refund re-fund your hair." At a recent meeting of the Uintah Uin-tah Basin Water Users Association Associa-tion held at Vernal, permanent elective officers were seated to serve during 1946. Leon Christen-sen, Christen-sen, county engineer for Uintah County was the choice for president; presi-dent; Willard Day of Roosevelt, county commissioner of Duchesne County, was elected to the vice-presidency, vice-presidency, and J. E, Wiscombe' of Roosevelt became the secretary-treasurer of the organization. 20 YEARS AGO Miss Blanche Lublin, who is attending the BYU at Provo, is spending the holidays at home with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Lublin. A joint meeting of the Utah and Colorado members of the U. S. 40 Highway Association, will meet in Steamboat Springs, Colo, on the evening of January 9th for ; the purpose of continuing the demand de-mand of completion of Highway 40. The Roosevelt ward Mutual presented their annual, three-act play, "He and She," Friday evening. eve-ning. Those taking part were Margaret Mar-garet Colton, Cleo Allen, Donna Lambert, Bernice Phillips, Naomi Dillman, Jimmie Harmston, Jim-mie Jim-mie Lewis and Bill Anderson. Mrs, Pearl Swain had as dinner guests' New Year's Day, Miss Mel-ba Mel-ba Gardner and her son, Les Swain of Neola. Les Mullins, manager of the Onyx Hotel, spent Wednesday in Salt Lake City on business. |