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Newspaper
Duchesne Courier
Location
Duchesne, Utah, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1922
Page
2
Four families previously quarantined for scarlet fever are now out. four more are improving and will be released soon. Local activity included Sunday meetings and a basketball game between Wilcox Academy and Lapolini school, ending 16 to 16. A dance followed the game as many youths gathered.
MANNA born to Monroe Giles’s wife on December 5. Jack Mason travels to Park City for winter work. Eight loads of wheat sent to Kamas grist mill and to return flour. Earl W. Atwood and wife visited Tabiona on business. Mrs. Matilda M. Atwood learns of a baby girl born December 6 to Mrs. J. T. Murdock in Heber. Oran, Allen Curry, Ninlo Hicken return from Salt Lake City after Thanksgiving. three feet of snow reported on the divide. Travel remains steady. Mrs. Jack Mason and Miss Marvel Chatwin with LaRetta Moon visit T. M. Giles. Thomas Rhoades goes to Rock Creek to trap. Mrs. Clyde Lambert wintering with Thomas Rhoads’s family. Frank Clark and wife visiting with the Rhoadses this week.
Mr. Thomas Smart fell and hurt his back during a basketball practice last Monday night and could not teach this week. Mr. Hugh Barnes fills in. Mr. and Mrs. Bol Timms visited Roosevelt last week. Mr. Cyril Pitt and family left for Salt Lake City. Mr. Pitt will attend University of Utah this winter. Snow increases daily and a free dance is planned at Hayden schoolhouse next Sunday to celebrate the new floor. Neola lost to Roosevelt fifteen to twelve on Saturday.
Ira Winkler returns home proudly with his ride from Apaleo Miss Manny Lloyd. Residents work at Sunnyalde as fur shipments increase. A doctor tends to John Thorsen’s little son and pneumonia is diagnosed. Gardner Goodrich and Arthur Goodrich are involved in mountain trips for materials. Wm C Larsen travels to Price for work. Bristol couple return from Price. A district primary group hosts a party with teacher Irene Gate leading as host.
Mr and Mrs Burns McEyran report their infant is very ill and at home under care. Alva Murdock visits after taking interest in the family.
Mr and Mrs Wallace Jones visit, bringing cattle to feed. thresher broken. farmers lack seed and grain threshed. Dave Nye hosts fifteenth birthday party for Ted. UPALCO Upaleo Christmas lights. Dichesne stake conference in Upaleo on Dec 16 17. Moon baby improving after two weeks illness. Mrs Ambros Mitchell hosted by Mrs Aurther Key. Mrs Julian Potts returns after visits to Mayden Roosevelt Iaka and others.
The piece invites Apalco crowds to enjoy Christmas week with bright lights and song. It promises lively sports and cheerful crowds as the year ends, describing a festive, upbeat mood for the community events.
A write up notes that many local residents attended the quarterly conference at Roosevelt. Several individuals are mentioned including Walter Baird Ralph Miles and Clarence Johnson returning from Price task Friday evening.
A report from Hayden notes Dave Thompson of Altonah passed through Sunday en route to the fish hatchery and dined at J C Peterson’s. Arty Mitchell travels to Heber for a two week stay before serving as sheriff. A group gathered Friday at Chris Peterson’s for music games and popcorn with local teachers. Saturday sees busy Hayden school activity as Peterson Mitchell Prescott Simmons Peterson and others install a maple floor in two rooms, with work to finish by midweek. Mrs Arzy Mitchell returns from Vernal to visit her parents.
L C Colton attended a directors meeting for the Ourny Valley Irrigation Company in Vernal. Farmers prepare turkeys for Christmas markets. Roosevelt conference drew few due to weather. Mrs Hank Merkley visited Vernal on Monday. Indians gathered for pay day this week.
Local notes report a Mothers and Fathers program with a Friday night entertainment, lunch, and dances. A printing error earlier misstated seed Brown sales from Bonita, with about 50 000 pounds charged and sold. The Primary association plans a Christmas Eve event and a turkey buyer operates in Janeta. The Relief Society hosted a Monday shower for twin girls of Mr and Mrs Geo Fisher.
Last Tuesday evening a wedding dinner honored Mr and Mrs Leroy Stott at the bride’s parents home, Mr and Mrs Albert S Jenson. The meal featured turkey beef vegetables salads pie and cake. After presents were opened a wedding dance with the Fortie Melody Six followed. the hall was crowded and Bishop Oscar Wilkins and Mrs Lyons attended after returning from Price.
Last Tuesday evening with Alex Pace. Funeral observed for granddaughter Maxine McIntire. Cold windy weather and drifting snow hinder schoolchildren driving long distances. Saturday evening a house gathering honored David B Farnsworth Sr with many attendees. Timothys demonstrated carbide lighting impressing locals. Burton moved family back to Talmage from Duchesne. Warris and Hall took a Roosevelt trip for alfalfa seed. Threshing near end due to bad weather. Lesser Priesthood gave a large audience program Sunday. Jozsa left for Park City to seek winter work. Stanley and Mrs McDonald plan to move closer to town. Ninth graders sold Red Cross stamps. the leading side earns a free dance. Mrs H A Beckstead hosted a quilting bee on Wednesday.
Hugh and Bert Coleman traveled from Duchesne Friday toward Strawberry Valley to Heber. John Barberri and others from Tabiona gathered stray cattle in Fruitland. Francis Brooks was in Duchesne on business. Teachers and pupils plan a Christmas program. The beef herd returned from Heber after a second round-up. Snowstorms promise a white Christmas. Mrs. Mary A. Brooks and son George left Sunday for Nebraska to visit relatives. George Casper escorted them via Strawberry Valley.
James Ivie and Marlon Feller are down on Green river for several days, while threshing is retarded by a week of bad weather. Arthur Watkins of Lone Tree Poultry will ship about 100 dressed turkeys this week. R. H. Shelton and family have gone to California. Mr. Woodard took them to Price. Arthur Larsen has leased the Lee Cooper farm recently vacated by R. H. Shelton.
Aurilla Ross Gilbert wife of Leandrew J. Gilbert died Friday at the family home after a short illness from a throat abscess. Born April 14 1891 in Joseph Sevier County she lived in Joseph most of her life. Survived by husband three sons and her parents and siblings funeral was held Sunday at the ward house with interment in Joseph.
A fragment from the Buffalo Evening Times quotes Life magazine noting a paradox in modern fashion and expense. The remark recalls keeping up appearances while hiding wear on a recent pair of trousers.
Report indicates former German royals, now minimal in power, are applying for pensions tied to their former military ranks. Some advocate granting them an American soldier's bonus as Life magazine suggests.
Detectives report organized jewel thieves operate on Paris to Riviera and Italy express trains. Gangs watch for wealthy women traveling to the south of France during Riviera season and hold them up at gunpoint to steal necklaces and diamonds.
Harold Notee, possibly the youngest Arctic explorer, claims a six year two month record for continuous Eskimo exploration. He joined Stefansson on long expeditions and wintered at a camp, uncovering prehistoric tools and stone usage from Neolithic peoples.
A university romance tale recalls a senior and a prominent classmate. After a broken engagement the pair collide in a library and share an unexpected embrace amid a crowded public moment.
A Kansas City Star piece notes a Brilliant Ideal Chautauqua ending last week with about 8100 attending hints of townsfolk, landlords, and merchants debating the value of medicine shows versus Chautauqua for public good and profit.
A friend who spent months in the Sut notes New York feels foreign. He recalls municipal signs in English and Yiddish, subway chatter in many languages, and foreign language newspapers everywhere. In many city sections no American is seen or heard speaking English.
Officials in Nelagony Oklahoma sought help to identify a bank robber described as bearded. The suspect Andrew Tennings was captured clean shaven, contradicting the beard description and leaving investigators to seek clues.
The provided text fragment is too incomplete to derive a coherent news item or identifiable entities for a headline and summary.
The fragment hints at a vanished item and a puzzled speaker named Miss Cayenne who notes a partial eclipse of a wearer or object, suggesting a playful, cryptic scene in a formal setting.
A 1698 Sheffield report claimed a pan could direct ether beam oscillations to centralize weather. It noted failure of the instrument and referenced Leems scientist view that humans might influence weather to prevent disasters and aid farming. Sir Oliver Lodge allegedly showed fog could be affected by electricity, but methods were not practical.
The California road runner famed for sprinting ahead of horses while roaming western deserts. Once common from Kansas plains to Pacific coast Niles and central California to Mexico, the bird is now rapidly rare. It has limited flight, thrives in chaparral deserts, and is among the fleet ground runners.
The article explains coal origin from vegetable matter transformed over time into rock. It notes forests fossilized into coal, with Nova Scotia yielding tree remains six to eight feet tall and four feet wide. An English colliery reports fossilized stumps of 73 trees with attached roots and 20 foot trunks.
In a small town at the start of the school term Maurice, nine, had just received anti-toxin for a possible diphtheria outbreak. A few days later he confronted a passerby, leaning on a slender pole, and declared with astonishment and calm that he had been shot.
The New York Sun reports on a confrontation over income tax avoidance claims involving Sewrleh-l and the phrase natural indignation. The exchange questions the truth of a report and notes attempts to evade taxes through various methods without success.
Fragmentary lines describe a man accused of drink influence and a Miss Cayenne remark labeling him a bootlegger. The exchange centers on attire and perception of sobriety amid alleged liquor involvement.
In a Farm Life dialogue Milicent asks why the neighbor looks tired as she explains their new baby at home has been broadcast through the night. The quirky exchange highlights rural family life and neighbors sharing domestic happenings.
In Toulsvite a courier reports a dispute over mulion rubles charged for haulage. The exchange questions a promised gag and the drayman’s fee as recorded by the Courier-Journal.
A garbled OCR passage presents a mosaic of aphorisms and musings on ambition, patience, style, practicality, and human folly. It touches on vanity, governance, health, wealth, and happiness with scattered names and phrases, lacking clear narrative but offering isolated maxims and observations.
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