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November 4,  2009

Newsletter

 

 

 

Just a reminder to treat those that serve us at the Sizzler well and remember to leave a tip for them before you leave.

Meetings:  Sizzler, 371 East 400 South, SLC 11:45 – 1:00 pm, Meeting Room (Northwest corner of Restaurant.) Round Table Meetings, Same Time & Location except in the Atrium. ** Board meeting is the 1st Wednesday of every month and is held at 1:00 pm at the Sizzler.                                                                                

WED 11/04

Larry Rigby

1:00 Board Meeting

WED 11/11

Speaker and Topic TBA

WED 11/18

Round Table

WED 11/25

No Meeting – Thanksgiving Week

WED 12/02

Speaker and Topic TBA

1:00 Board Meeting

SAT 12/05

Winter Party. .  Details coming.  This is in lieu of our meeting on 12/09.

WED 12/09

No Meeting

WED 12/16

Bell Ringing for Salvation Army

Smith's, 876 E 800 S, SLC
WED 12/23 No Meeting – Christmas Week
WED 12/30 Speaker and Topic TBA

WED 01/06

Speaker and Topic TBA

1:00 Board Meeting

WED 01/13

Speaker and Topic TBA

WED 01/20

Round Table

In 1919 …

 

President: Woodrow Wilson

Vice President: Thomas R. Marshall

Population: 104,514,000

Federal spending:   $18.49 billion

Consumer Price Index:   17.3

Unemployment:   1.4%

Cost of a first-class stamp:   $0.03 ($0.02 as of 7/1/19)

 

• Versailles Treaty, incorporating Woodrow Wilson's draft Covenant of League of Nations, signed by Allies and Germany; rejected by U.S. Senate.

 

•The 18th amendment to the Constitution, prohibiting the sale of alcoholic beverages anywhere in the U.S., is ratified (Jan. 16).

 

• About three-quarters of the Boston police force goes on strike (Sept. 9). Massachusetts Governor (John) Calvin Coolidge acts quickly to dismiss the strikers, saying that no one has the right to strike against the public safety.

 

• Race riots erupt in 26 U.S. cities during the course of the year, including Washington, D.C., and Chicago in July.

 

• Mahatma Gandhi initiates Satyagraha campaigns, beginning his nonviolent resistance movement against British rule in India.

 

A mere friend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.  - Russian Proverb

 

Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. - Italian Proverb

 

Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him. - Scottish Proverb

 

To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon. - Chinese Proverb

Larry Rigby’s Company …

 

His company developed a small device that sits on a person's head and in about a half hour kills all lice on the head.  Other procedures use chemicals that wash and kill lice over repeated applications.  But some of the lice have grown resistant to treatments and so clearing up the problem is sometimes difficult.

 

On November 4th …

1842 -  Abraham Lincoln married Mary Todd in Springfield, Ill.

 

1880 - James and John Ritty of Dayton, Ohio, patented the first cash register.

 

1922 - Howard Carter discovered the tomb of Tutankhamen in Egypt.

 

1924 - Nellie T. Ross of Wyoming was elected the nation's first woman governor, to serve out the term of her husband who died in office.

 

1956 - Russian troops attacked Budapest and crushed the Hungarian revolt under Premier Imre Nagy.

 

1979 - The American embassy in Tehran, Iran, was seized by militants and 90 Americans were taken hostage.

 

1995 - Israeli Prime Minister, and Nobel Laureate, Yitzhak Rabin, was assassinated by a right-wing Israeli.


Contact Information


B) Business, (C) Cell,(H) Home

President

Dave Nelson, (B) 486-7855, (C) 918-7617

Immed Past President/ Newsletter

Gordon Lewis,  (C) 915-6228,  (C) 706-4519, gclbowl@comcast.net

1st Vice President

Ed Tanner, (B) 524-2534, (C) 201-9908

Secretary

Mark Anderson (B) 568-9322 (C) 232-5560

 Board Members

Dave Nelson, Ed Rogers, and Ron Howell, Chuck Baker