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Newspaper
Parowan Times
Location
Parowan, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1937
Page
8
The report outlines planned policy debates as lawmakers prepare for the session. Governor urges cautious expectations on government services as direct primary legislation and voting reforms surface. Economic goals push to curb youth migration with job growth projected at 24,000 new roles for the idle and 9,000 more for natural population increase.
County Clerk W Clair Rowley issued marriage licenses to George Evans Stonebreaker and Thelma Elgins Warp both Cascade Idaho, Iussia W Jones Enterprise 21 Lex May Mont 17 Enterprise in the past week. Social note reports Mrs Laura Paramore hosted a birthday party with many attendees including Mrs Mary Marae dan Mrs Laura Basson and others.
Board discusses pay for gravel from Ula ground to Ravet route, considers A W I A project with Edward E Taview to remove dead trees, and tentatively declines it. Mrs Granville Warren seeks Jerome arrangement. board assures disclosure of all tendencies. County bids for auditing arranged. welfare office to handle all indigent aid. deputies and janitorial staff reassigned. Farewell social planned for Eldar Bartlett before mission work. bridge party at Adams home with prizes. newborns and travels noted.
Locals and personal news note Weekly travels and family visits. Rex Ward and Kenneth Dalton spent part of the week in Salt Lake City on business. Arthur Joseph, manager of Sparawan Mercantile, was a visitor to Salt Lake City. Mack Fenton enjoyed a weekend at home in Oden. Orlando Adams attended a nephew's funeral in Beaver after a skull fracture at Miners Hospital Fork City. Benson returned from California for Christmas. Mrs Ortoin traveled to Heyward California to visit Beth and Maude McDonald who recently married. Jewel Wilcock's son, hospitalized with pneumonia, was discharged home. Students return to higher institutions after holidays. Amelia Topham and Rylan spent Christmas in Salt Lake City. Marlo Topham returned from Salt Lake City after New Year’s visit. Nora Orton and daughter Mary spent holidays in St George. Mary returned to school. Have you good neighbors They have lent us everything we needed.
A humorous exchange unfolds as a man offers a pound for a puppy but the seller refuses claiming the dog belongs to his wife. He says selling him would break her heart, suggesting a tea party alternative and a lighthearted stalemate.
A cultured man faced death without final words, joking that his culture would guide how he framed his last thoughts. He died while pondering how to phrase it.
A famed footballer endures crowd hostility on pit day as players shoulder the humiliation. After the match a grubby urchin slips him a paper with a mocking inscription, noting the player's drink problem with a sad, blunt autographed quip.
A talkative traveler bores passengers by discussing his dog Caesar in a railway carriage. An old man suggests buying a muzzle and having staff put it on, the boastful reply being that the man would strap it on himself, a quip the bystanders agree would suit him.
The Irishman recalled jungle adventures with "Ammunition, food and whisky had run out" and thirst. He quipped that water existed but not for cleanliness, as quoted in the Atlanta Constitution.
In the Royal American Bulletin a quip frames a courtroom moment with a prisoner asked his birth and a judge pressing for a response. A farmer coins a dismissive remark about luck as the crowd ponders the prisoner’s fate.
Path finder Magazine records a quip about marriage with Mrs. Naggby noting she kept her vow to marry the best man in the world. The brief dialogue reflects witty remarks on wedlock and reputation.
In this quirky Pathfinder Magazine snippet a hen named Urbane roosts on mail, while a rooster teases her as homesick. The joke touches on mail order eggs and parcel post humor.
In a school conversation, Edmond states he is advancing well both athletically as a halfback and academically, while a quoted exchange questions why a man who has never married might be labeled a woman hater.
The master of the house suffers a slice of bacon at breakfast then angrily accuses his wife over the poisoned meat intended for the rats. The wife remains calm and calls the maid Maggie to address the fault.
A brief humorous exchange features a pebble suggesting a small presence in life and a response implying the speaker could become more significant if he were a boulder. The dialogue hints at aspiration and fate in a light, witty vein.
Mr Decker becomes principal as Mr Snow serves as State Senator. New teacher Mr Marsden will take some classes. Students win leading roles in a school operetta from a large cast. First assembly of 1937 set for Dec 8 with devotional, prayer, yells, and talk. Junior Prom committee chosen. year features rhantauguas and a telescope project with lens grinding and barrel search. Violet Stevens returns to teaching. Bob Mick loses job in Nevada.
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