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Newspaper
Murray Eagle
Location
Murray, Utah, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1929
Page
9
Murray City's yard and garden contest promotes an outdoor living room in every back yard. A small city lot can fit the concept by leaving open space and planting in masses along borders with shrubs trees and flowers. The idea envisions green lawns blue sky ceilings and mural effects from flowering plants.
The Murray City elementary grades match or exceed the national norm on Standard Achievement Tests across reading, arithmetic, nature study, science, history, language, and spelling. Comparisons with Provo, Park City, Salt Lake City, Granite, and rural Utah districts show Murray generally at or above average, with seventh through ninth grades yielding mixed results.
Citizens are urged to prepare for summer by entering the Yard and Garden Contest. The program promises national recognition for beauty and civic pride, with entry forms available in the Bugle. Sponsors seek wide participation, while concerns about dogs damaging gardens are noted but not regulated.
A lively three act comedy titled Kempy presented at Murray Recreation Hall on a Wednesday night. The play features Erie Hutchison as Kempy Jams and Amy Reblusom as Kate with Thelma Call and others delivering strong performances. The plot centers on family mix ups and a budding romance with humor and wholesome scenes.
The Murray Eagle highlights page one news including a Power Plant folder and a contest entry blank for the Flower Garden Better Homes contest with promises of benefits. It teases humor on page two with The Blade of Picardy in a tamale heavy land and promotes page three comics as worthwhile.
A notice invites all Odd Fellows Rebekahs and camarades to a One Hundredth Death Anniversary celebration in Murray Hall Utah on Monday April at 7 20 pm. Sponsored by Salt Lake Lodges and Rebekah lodges with Murray Lodge 38, the event features a program of songs solos and a night of fellowship with refreshments and dancing.
A group of fifteen Taylorville boys under Win Kaaworm organized the Taylorsville Blue Ribbon Crop Club. Officers include Treed Mackay president Kenneth Spencer vice president Melbourne Wallace secretary-treasurer Wm Fisher reporter and song leader. Meetings set for the first Saturday monthly with next gathering May 4 at Melbourne Wallace's home.
The Bush columns note a Murray City and Vicinity Home Demonstration for Salt Lake County promoting a Cow Testing Association. Banks led by H A Robbins back dairy herd improvement with V L Martineau, urging higher production per cow and detailing cost benefits from improved butterfat yields across a 12 cow herd.
Mrs Ivan L Hall introduces a Salt Lake County demonstration series on nourishing early childhood. Leaders from Holiday Holliday East Millcreek Winder Taylorsville Blufdale Pleasant Green Granger Hunter cover foods to prevent rickets and proper sun, rest, and play for development.
A program for the M I A Conjoint Meeting at the Murray Ist First Ward on Sunday March 6 features speaker Dr A B Kr-ster and items including songs Shall the Youth of Zion Falter and readings by Margaret Cautin Virginia Lindsay and Florence Fricksay and a violin selection.
The Seventies dance, previously postponed due to a meningitic epidemic, will be held Saturday April 27 in the Murray First Ward Recreation Hall. Tickets bought earlier will be honored on the new date and organizers urge attendance.
Stop look listen flyer invites neighbors of Woodcraft to a card party at Fraternal Hall at p m. The event aims to bring neighbors together in a cordial social evening under heathe plees of the organization.
The Murray City Electric Power Plant began in 1912 and grew steadily. From 1914 to 1929 electric sales yielded 398,415.37 in revenue for Murray City, with customers gaining a like total benefit of 706,830.74 after half-price charges. The plant owes 6.04 to Worsley & Forman, offset by a city net worth of 10,404.04, leaving a claimed gain of 505,819.41 for citizen owners. Citizens' Committee, Murray City, Utah, issued this summary praising public ownership and service reduction.
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