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Newspaper
Parowan Times
Location
Parowan, Utah, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1932
Page
7
Mayor Ivan Decker calls Parowan residents to observe 1932 as Civic Improvement War. Citizens urged to beautify and repair property and streets, work together with elbow grease, support neighbors, and keep efforts going year round to attract business and pride.
The council weighs replacing the old book system with a modern one at about 160 dollars, fixes city wages at 3 dollars daily, and contemplates permanent light plant work. Bank offset discussions and a renewed power contract with Dixie Power Co. are noted, with a Tuesday meeting on license charges for local firms.
Local residents attend meetings, visits, and family events across Cedar City, St George, and nearby towns. Notables include Miss Eleanor McAllister wed at the Fenton home. H.C. Parcells and Rowley families traveling to Salt Lake City for business and the Republican convention. and various family gatherings, birthdays, and funerals.
Summit Mrs Harold Smith and her little daughter who have been in Minersville for several days with her people returned this week.
Kanarra Dalley returns from Kangsh to help set up a sheep shearing plant near Cedar City. Jack Berry moves his family to Delamar Nevada for work. Many neighbors travel to Salt Lake City Cedar City Price and Las Vegas for work visits schooling and family occasions. A baby joins the Dalley family and a wheat shipment arrives for livestock feed.
A citywide celebration featured a mammoth foot parade led by G R Parry on a fancy horse with two highway patrols guiding the route from City park to the tabernacle. The day ended with a street carnival at the bank corner and the Chamber of Commerce ball and officer elections. Hundreds of visitors attended from out of town to join in the festivities.
A long prominent Parowan resident who helped build transmission lines to Paragonah and served on the city council and in business and religious life dies. He remarried in 1218 to Gwendolyn Mitchell Benson and is survived by several California-based children and relatives in Parowan and Salt Lake City. The note adds community tributes and local events including Parowan band performances, a playground baseball team, and updates from the Literary club and visitors.
Cedar City and other neighborhoods HALWS during a bank opening celebration the Chamber of Commerce held its annual election postponed from December 31. Moroni J Urie was elected president Wilson N Lunt vice president Charles R Hunter Oscar Larson two year board members John P Fuller retiring president one year member H H Lunt and Wm M Mace holdovers. George A Mitchell acts as secretary since Ernest Burgess's death. School superintendent N J Barlow left for Salt Lake City to attend a meeting of the State Athletic Association bearers of control. He plans to visit Logan seeking a shop teacher for Cedar Junior High Myron Brencaley, former shop teacher, is leaving.
Attorney R J Shay left this morning for Salt Lake City and Ogden to attend the Dar association and Republican State conventions respectively.
Megars I. E. Clarrison and Alonzo Christensen were among the New Castle residents in town for the midweek celebration, joining other locals in the event.
Forest Ranger Frank Seaman departed Thursday with Ranger Hiurst to the Panguiteh Lake area to plant pine tree seedlings.
Attorney Reuben J. Shay named bank counsel as the Bank of Southern Utah opens with a charter reducing capital to 50000. New directors appointed after resignations and a Federal Reserve move. Early deposits exceed 33000 while withdrawals run about 7000. Cedar Mercantile deposits in a wheelbarrow with guard and a rifle incident rumored among onlookers. Charles L B Petty among top depositors.
Bishop Wells A Williams traveled from Kanarra on church business matters yesterday, meeting with local leaders and discussing community concerns.
The Rotary Club entertained the new bank board at its regular weekly luncheon Tuesday noon.
Clayton Mitchell former cashier of the Bank of Iron County and bishop of the Fast Ward has accepted a job with Wasatch Livestock Loan Company in Salt Lake City and has moved there. His family plans to join him soon. brother Henry and nephew Claude will manage farming interests this season.
Paragonah Sunday School will present a Mothers Day themed program Sunday morning with all departments taking part. The M I A will suspend meetings for the summer months. Charles Stow from Phoenix, Arizona visits the Edwards family and will soon work at Hotel El Escalante in Cedar City. The Aaronic Priesthood program is set for Sunday afternoon May 15 in Sacrament meeting. Nora Lund and her children visited relatives in Hurricane. Frank Dunton, recently home from county hospital, shows improvement after diabetes and pneumonia. A quarrel over irrigation water led to two Paragonah women in Justice court with preliminary hearings scheduled, one set for tonight.
At a meeting of the newly organized Paragonah 4-H Turkey Club, Byron Robinson and Thomas Abbott led a discussion on raising and feeding poults. Poults have been ordered from Oliver hatchery in California to arrive mid May. President Herbert Topham presided. all members attended. songs were sung.
Government census figures show Illinois leading in number of tractors and Kansas second with California seventh on tractor acres across states. In total farm machinery value Texas tops the list with California tenth, from the 1930 census.
Mrs Metta Rasmussen marked her eighty seventh birthday on Monday with numerous friends and relatives visiting during the day. About thirty family members joined her for dinner that evening, with visitors from Cedar City including Mrs E Crane Watson Mrs George Wood Mrs Luella G Lowder Metta Matheson and other family members.
A collage of aphorisms and trivia on life, luck, health, manners, and culture. It touches on happiness, laziness, generosity, honesty, choice, aging, music at the movies, and a sardonic glance at Egyptian tombs and civilization.
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