Community notes and visits enliven local week
Paragonal Ry correspondents Mr and Mrs Rulon Barton and family spent a few days visiting relatives last week. They brought Rulon’s parents home after three weeks with them. A group of 4 H boys visited Duck Creek Friday for a pleasant outing. Mrs Dena Williamson’s sister Nos Fonda of Salt Lake City is visiting, as is Mrs Clift East of Phoenix with her mother Mrs Belle Topham. Amasa Stanes assumed the post office duties July 3 in the basement of the J F Dunton Store. Mr and Mrs Rue B Dalley welcomed a baby boy born last night at the County hospital. West Ward Bee Hive girls invite children to a storytelling festival Friday at 4 p.m. in the ward chapel. Howard Joseph, while in Salt Lake City for Wagon Days, completed two courses in specialized shoe fitting and foot comfort, studying under a Dr. Scholl representative. He is ready to apply his knowledge in proper shoe fitting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rulon Barton
Rulon
Wm. P. Tapton
Duck Creek
Rue B. Dalley
West Ward
Howard Joseph
Salt Lake City
Dr. Scholl
Chicago
Howard
Summit News Roundup of Travels and Local Events
Max Dalley visits Grand Canyon for two to three days while Oscar Hulet attends summer school at BYU. Ardell and Elmer Madsen drive for Chauncey Parry in Kanab as a film crew shoots two scenes. California visitors Leone Cowdell and children stay with relatives in Summit. Relief Society attendees from Summit travel to New Harmony by Nelson Madsen. The Dalley and Isom families host visits from spouses and relatives. A Harrell Dalton threshing update corrects yield to about 51 bu/acre on 52 acres. total 283,000 bu stored. Local residents Flossie Ramsey and Gordon visit from Bingham. Ivan Hyatt to marry Bertha Seilo in California City. Ivan employed in Los Angeles area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrell Dalton
Lalton
Traffic Trends Push Utah to Expand Highways
The State Road Commission reports traffic on Utah’s main highways rising across the last six months. U S 91 at Draper crosses rose 25.22 percent since 1937, while southern Brake City on the same road gained 26.98 percent. Parley’s Canyon up 18 percent in three years. Chairman W D Hammond says widening and realignment are essential and funding limits threaten progress. federal aid hinges on preserving gas and motor taxes for road work.
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State Road Commission
Utah
Draper Cross Roads
Brake City
VU. S. 91
Parley's Canyon
W. D. Hammond
Hammond
Locals and Personal News from Parowan and area
WPA Sewing Center moved from the Court house to the City office building to ease space issues during court days. Mrs. Luella R. Adams leaves for Salt Lake City to care for the Matheson family while they vacation at the World’s Fair in San Francisco. Albert Benson remains in hospital after a rock struck his mashed foot. Visiting from California and Nevada, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Myers and family, and Mrs. Evangeline Woolley stop in Parowan on travel home from Yellowstone and Las Vegas respectively.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WPA
Court House
Couny Commissioners
Luella R. Adams
Salt Lake City
Scott Matheson
San Francisco
Adams
Roy Myers
Goodsprings
Nevada
Evangeline Woolley
Las Vegas
Myers
Yellowstone Park
Special East Ward choir practice urged by Director Ivan Decker
The East Ward choir is called to a special practice on Saturday night August 3 in the ward chapel by Director Ivan Decker and the ward bishopric. All choir members, past and present, are urged to attend. Also noted are visits from Mrs Ethel G Levi and Edward Dalton of Long Beach California staying with relatives, Dalton in poor health, and Mrs Nevada Adams and her children visiting Newcastle with her mother Amy Page Knell and other relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Ward
Ward
Ivan Decker
Ethel G. Levi
Edward Dalton
Long Beach
California
Mr. Dalton
Nevada Adams
Newcastle
Adams
Amy Page Knell
Notice to Yankee Reservoir Stockholders
The balance of all accounts to complete the Yankee Reservoir dam and creeks becomes delinquent on Sept 1, 1940. Will you please meet this payment on or before that date set by the Board for final settlement. Seety Owners of the Perowan Milling Company have met twice to discuss selling the local flour mill and other property. Wil ford Day offered $3,000, but the owners feel the figure is insufficient, so action is deferred to a later date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yankee Reservoir
Board For Final Settlement
David H. Richards
Seety
Perowan ‘Miling Company
Wilford Day
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Dena Williamson
Nos. Fonda
Mrs. Clift
Phoenix
Arizona
Belle Topham
Amasa Stanes
J. F Dunton
Alladin Theatre
Sun, Mon
Fred Astaire
Eleanor Powell
Comedy & News
Eee
Earl of
Robert Montgomery
Edward Arnold
Warner Baxter
Alice Faye
GMC
Parawan Service Co
Parawan Utah
Summit News
Max Dalley
Grand [Canyon
Oscar Hutet
Iulet
Ardell
Elmer Madsen
Kanab
Chauncey Parry
Motion
Leone Cowdell
Mrs. Cowdell
Philip
Dalley
Summit
Relief Society
New Harmony
Isaac Chamberlain
Wilford R. Lawrence
Lillian White
Ruth Dalley
Nora Madsen
Rebecca Smith
Susan Hulet
Mary Dalley
Nelson Madsen
Stanley Isom
Mr. Isom
Andrew Isom
Messrs. John and
Afton Isom
Southern
Army Air Corps
Hamilton Held
Tatter
Los Angeles
Elbert White
Elbert
Herbert White
Aubrey Lawrence
Golden Gate Exposition
Flossie Remsey
Gordon
Mattie Jean Adams
Bingham
Ramsey
Alvi Bensen
G. D. Hyatt
St. George
Ivan
Bertha Seilo
Captain White
John White
Hilderbrand
Parawah
Parawan
Parowan Merc. Company
Albert Benson
John §. Brown
el Monte
Georgia B. Mitchell
Maude
B. Parcells
Parowan
Elizabeth Murdock A
Heber City
Ambrose Guymon
Lancaster
Panguitch
Boulder Dam
Times Office
Mitchell's Variety Store
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