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Newspaper
Las Vegas Age
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1928
Page
4
Mrs N A Harvey arrives home from a three week vacation in Salt Lake City and Ogden. Her daughter Carmen remains for a longer visit. Mrs Harvey notes cold weather and a light snow storm in Ogden during the trip.
Jake Beckley underwent tonsil removal in a Los Angeles hospital early this week. He was released yesterday and is expected home Sunday. Beckley has been in poor health for some time and doctors hope the surgery will bring noticeable health improvement.
In an interview with the Age before its opening on Thursday Os car Kantner, master of ceremonies, called El Portal one of the most beautiful and conveniently arranged cinema palaces in the west. He praised the color scheme, seating, Wurlitzer organ, and modern projection and ventilation systems as near perfection.
A snapshot of community life with residents returning home from illness and travel, business trips, and social visits. Included are multiple marriage licenses for Humm Avery and McCrandall Young, Barnum Leavitt, and others, naming their ages and hometowns.
Mrs Daisy Nungesser newly elected head of the Rebekah Lodge Nevada returned home Thursday evening with local delegates Mrs Frank A Stevens and Mrs Wilma Burns. Local Rebekahs celebrate her honor praising her loyal work and expect further honors. Leonard Arnett also attended the annual Reno meeting.
Mr and Mrs F C Bishop spend their honeymoon at the Dunhams home in Los Angeles and plan to return at noon on Number 4. They will reside in Las Vegas. Mrs Bishop was formerly Lage a machinist at the local recat shops.
Zion National Park reports 10 089 visitors by June 23 from 31 states DC Hawaii three Canadian provinces Sweden and South Africa. Private auto travel dominates with 9499 people in 2840 cars and 590 by stage. roads to Bryce Canyon Cedar Breaks Kinab Forest and Grand Canyon North Rim are in good condition.
International News Service reports from Stockholm that at Vouni, ancient Aspeia, excavations reveal a royal palace dating to the end of the archaic period. Finds are extremely beautiful, mostly feminine figures, some copying Greek statues. The statues are stone and terra-cotta, all showing strong Greek influence.
Henry Rice Jr. son of the veteran county commissioner drove from Logandale this morning with his sister Mrs. B F Mosher and Miss Marguerite Mosher and his niece Miss Edna Mosher. They visit the old family home while Mrs. Mosher and daughter reside in Logan Utah. Henry notes that locals are busy with tomato and cantaloupe crops ripening.
In Beirut a wave of threats targets women who appear unveiled in public. Proclamations urge men to defend tradition, with rumors linking a new book by Zein Eddin and the example of Queen Soraya of Afghanistan to the push for unveiled dress.
Want ads seek a new modern furnished apartment at 1325 are 7th street. Lost green motorcycle battery and small parts. reward offered to Leonard Copeland at Western Union. Furniture for sale through Mrs. Southerland south of depot. Cleaning and pressing by Long Distance Tailor Shop at 1st Street. J. G. Jenkins, Prop. Phone 69 224 1-2.
Paris reports that France has not adopted Prohibition and lists a six month supply order for Saint Martin penitentiary on Ile de Re including 32,000 quarts of wine and extensive food items such as potatoes beef beans vegetables rice and sugar for inmates.
A compiled roster shows guests at Hotel Nevada including A C Moses, Albert Olcovich, Chas Kohler and wives, H M Metcalf and family, W M L J W Carson, N B Busby and wife, Ray Shade and wife, L F Thomson, Neal Hamilton couple, Doris Hill, Oscar Kantner, Jos E Jones and wife, J R Jacob, Kenneth Eichery, W W J McClement of Los Angeles, J T Walters, Louis A Speller, Mary Stillwell Boul of Reno, among others from Reno to Des Moines and Salt Lake City awaiting lodging.
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