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Newspaper
Pleasant Grove Review
Location
Pleasant Grove, Utah, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1933
Page
5
Provo area social and religious events are highlighted, including Sunday School concerts and a Christmas program in Lindon and Manilla wards. Attendees span Provo, Orem, and surrounding towns with gatherings at high schools and ward houses. Also noted are baby births, birthday celebrations, and a bridge luncheon with festive decor and a long guest list.
Notice: a special meeting of the stockholders of Bank of Pleasant Grove Utah County Utah is set for December 26 1933 at 7 30 pm to consider amending Articles of Incorporation. Proposals include increasing capital stock from 200 to 250 shares and authorizing debentures to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and rescheduling the annual meeting to 3 pm on the third Tuesday in January.
The Pleasant Grove Canning Company kept one factory at Orem running through 1933 handling carloads of cold pack strawberries and a late tomato crop. Payroll reached 15 000 dollars per month, with the firm planning to expand to two plants next season as market conditions improve. Prices to farmers for U S No 1 tomatoes rose from 9.50 to 11.87 a ton.
The Pleasant Grove Fire Department reports seven calls this year, five in the city and two in the county. City property loss $10,835 with $260 in overall fire loss. A new Dodge two ton truck and a pump delivering 350 GPM at 110 psi were purchased, plus a 100 gallon tank for small fires. Four new hydrants bring total to 38. Chief Josiah Kemp urges safety during Christmas and invites public to inspect equipment.
A Montreal Star fragment has a mother urging her son to wash hands for dinner. The boy inspects his hands and jokes that they are blurred rather than dirty, turning the moment into a light family humor note.
Mrs. Effie Adamson of Pleasant Grove died at home on Sunday December 17 after a lingering illness. Born April 22 1871 to Alexander and Emily Harris Bullock she married Wm H Marott in 1894 and after his death married John Adamson in 1928. Surviving are her husband five children eight grandchildren and several siblings. Funeral services were held Tuesday at the Timpanogos Stake tabernacle with remarks by church leaders and musical tributes. interment followed in Pleasant Grove cemetery.
Dean Walker directed the series with Junior players including Farrell West Eugene Haliday Kenneth Sehoney Arvil Wadley Cyril Thorne Hestin Wilburg Ernest Grua Oswald Farr In Sociology class they gave an assembly on present day economic problems. A Christmas program Friday features the one act play A Sign Unto You directed by Arvilla Clark with cast Eva Marie Conway Charles Harris Suzanne Grua Ann Gard Ray Milk Velia West Don Reed Peterson and musical numbers by E A Beck.
The Utah Poultry Producers Cooperative report shows the association ending 1933 with a net worth exceeding 1 million dollars for the first time in 12 years. It notes 7,000 members across Utah and southern Idaho, with eggs exports totaling about 500,000 cases worth 3.5 million gross and 2.8 million net, plus 1.5 million pounds of poultry exports and significant feed distribution locally.
The Second Ward M L A presents a Sunday evening program at the chapel featuring brass and ladies quartets, readings by Jesse Peterson and others, solos by Sarah Clark Miss Taylor and Ruby Williams, a Trumpet Duet, and selections by Delbert Fugal Maile and Antone Gleason with additional acts by Boyd Nelson and Ernest Grua.
The first horse race occurred in 600 B C at the twenty third Olympiad in Athens covering four miles. Eight years later during the twenty fifth Olympiad the first harness horse competition introduced chariots drawn by horses.
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