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Newspaper
Parowan Times
Location
Parowan, Utah, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1932
Page
7
The article notes unusually fine field crops with strong alfalfa and grain growth plus good harvest prospects. Weather, adequate moisture, and lack of frosts are cited, along with reduced pasturing as reasons for improvements and anticipated plentiful hay, grain and early fruits like spices and currents. Gardens show increased interest and promise.
Oscar M. Lyman chairman of the cemetery committee calls for community help at Chea cemetery cleanup Monday sponsored by the American Legion. He urges leaving native grass except where leveling lots requires removal, warning removal encourages thistle seed beds. Brush and weeds should be cleared, grass preserved where possible.
Primary associations of the two wards held their spring festival last week with events in the West Ward on Friday and the East on Saturday. Wind forced the East festival to move from the church lawn to an alternative site.
Miss Gelda Taylor, soon to be married in June, hosted a trousseau tea yesterday afternoon for about two hundred friends. Mrs. Lorin Orton and Miss Grace Orton assisted in receiving guests while the Misses Bessie Aortig and Bessie Halterman poured. Other helpers included Misses Jean Walker and Ora Williamson with the serving.
Sheep men loaded wool this week with 50 meters of fiber signed at 4 percent of a pound. Many received advances and spent more than they could deliver, leaving several in hardship. Some had not taken advances and may have to rely on later shearing outputs to cover losses.
A terse notice requests sending Orit within a day or two to subscribers with overdue subscriptions. It asks for a remittance and lists flour at 1.00 per bag and cereals at 50 cents, with stock fed at proportionate prices and low prices at John Mortengen's Farowan.
Rudben Pectol 19 of Washington Utah and Lucila Stapley 17 of Paragonah postponed welding until fall after obtaining a county license in 2018. Lucile’s mother vetoed the plan, ruling the proposal invalid and triggering a refund request from the groom.
Mrs. John H. Pendleton is at Junction aiding with an ailing mother. Mrs. Julia Lyman visits her daughter and son in Richfield with two grandchildren, Ray’s kids, staying currently.
Mr Ami Witt avoided a wool advance and reports good quality wool fetching top prices. Mrs Adelinda Thornton traveled to Salt Lake City with her son Byron and his wife for a week or two visit. Mr Wilford Day departed for the Coast this morning with unknown business.
Miss Dalton and Miss Adams visit destinations near Salt Lake City and St George after graduations. Cedar City prepares for Elks convention with a parade and boxing event by American Legion Post 74, while budget figures show a drop in school expenditures from 1930 to 1933 and a hearing set for June.
Aanarra Mills Leila Platt and Leila’s party visit California while Riley G Williams recovers at home. Samuel Pollock and Lorenzo J Williams work in northern Nevada sheep camps. Leon Virgil Davis return from Hurricanes Valley after completing a shear job. Mrs Hannah Williams recovers at home. Lynn Reeves celebrate birth of a son May 43. Parrows family visit from Paroway to see Mr Junius William’s family.
Summit residents report Mrs Vern Dalley returning home with a new baby from Cedar. Local shearers Ivan Dalley Oscar Hulet and Ivan Willner work at Sand Springs Buckhorn Flat while others travel to Nevada and Salt Lake City for business. Wesley Clores funeral and Groves asylum stay noted. Crops look promising amid recent high waters. residents plant corn and tend homesteads.
A crew of twelve men under John Nelson is clearing the Cedar Long Valley road above Webster Flat toward Cedar Canyon with two teams and two tractors. They aim to open by June 1 despite much snow. A second crew works from the opposite end, reaching Duck Creek midweek. crews remain eleven miles apart per Forest Supervisor Gurr.
Messrs William and Richard Patmar visited the county treasurer yesterday. Millard Halterman and other Cedar City residents were in town on business. Notices include clothing orders due, cabbage farming tidbits, and several residents and visitors from Nevada Utah Oregon California and beyond with movements to Salt Lake City Bryce National Park and Bear Valley.
Forest reserve permittees in the Dixie Forcat area may have cattle counted onto the reserve tomorrow if their assessment to the local livestock association is paid. Ranger Frank Seaman authorized the statement noting June as the usual entry date but an earlier date was approved due to feed shortages.
Notice to alumni announces a meeting in the military auditorium Wednesday evening June 1st at 9 o'clock to elect officers for the rear and to transact other business. All members urged to attend. Signed Silas Topham, President.
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