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Newspaper
Duchesne Courier
Location
Duchesne, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1923
Page
2
The amusement committee hosted a Friday night dance to raise funds for Fourth of July expenses. Nearly one hundred dollars was raised by votes and ticket sales. Gina Thuby Petty was named Goddess of Liberty and Alberta Evans Queen of Utah.
Tabiona enjoyed two lively dances with the Kamas jazz band drawing a large crowd. A Kohler 110 volt lighting plant was installed for July 4. A raid netted $200 from a noted bootlegger as crops, including alfalfa seed, look promising this season.
The report lists residents visiting relatives and traveling to nearby towns including Fort Bridger Nephi Moon Heber Moon and families Will Milliner Mrs Rubie Swift Mrs John Hodgkinson Mrs Earl W Atwood and others The Turnbow brothers orchestra of Kamas has been active at dances and several families plan summer visits Also a birth is noted for Frank boy on June 24.
Mrs Id Hansen of Park City visits her parents Mr and Mrs Casper Sulser. Ernest Durtschi visits from Alma Burgeneer. Dr Homer BE Rich and family from Vernal spend a day with the Watkins. Harold Knudsen returns from Salt Lake. New York couple H R Leach stay with Mikkel Knudsen. Eva Cope goes to Provo to study next winter. Lakefork describes a stir with deer and hunting pressure.
A Duchesne shopping trip by Mr. and Mrs. James Anderson ends with the loss of a valuable animal by bloat. Joseph Draper reports near completion of a road through the sand and cedars on Blue Beach, improving travel. Fourth plans vary with fishing in Talmage and Mt. Home visits. Mrs. Stella Madsen visits her parents while Mr. Shelton departs Salt Lake in Lorenzo Tompson’s car. Virginia Walker and Stese Miles of Mt. Home visit Leah Beckstead. A baptism at Bishop Gurten’s Lame honors eight children.
Mount Born My H A Dace Aish family move to farm for summer. Farmers plan hay cutting but frost and cold spring reduce yield.
Bluebell and Mt Emmons played a baseball game last Saturday with Mt Emmons winning the contest. Hancocks and Goodrichs returned from Price where they delivered wool. Bertha Lyons, CFO, has returned home from Vernal after attending high school there last winter. D Hancock took his young son to the doctor for a blood poisoning issue in his hand.
Mrs. Jane Summers suffers ongoing gum infection after dental extractions and has been very sick the past week. Guests included Mr. and Mrs. James H. Moore and Emily along with Mrs. Eliza J. Gilbert visiting Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Shanks of Utah. Wilford Smith of Tooele, formerly local, greets friends at the Shields home. Moore family left for Salt Lake City. Mrs. Wm. F. Lloyd, earlier taken to Heber, hopes to return home soon if conditions allow. Mr. and Mrs. June Jenkins visited Nosevelt on Monday.
A large crowd attended the Roosevelt baseball game on Saturday. Local residents Will and Shell Clark planned to move to Wyoming. Visitors included Geo. Clark and son Robert of Altonah and Mr. and Mrs. Mack Nyberg of Rainbow.
Mrs. W E Wheeler and daughter Laverne arrive from Ogden. A road from Myton to Cedarview would aid growth. W J Johnson linked to a Payson Richfield stage line. Myton has one auto per ten residents. Utah averages one per eight. Aquila Nebeker calls for grazing land reserved for basin locals. Morgan Calvert sold steers at strong prices and notes drought in desert and mountains. Seventy percent of shade trees in Myton destroyed by loose stock. James Birch of Hiawatha visited Myton and Antelope.
Local obituary reports Norman Webb, nine, dies of diabetes. Families plan visits to Nebraska, Alaska, and Idaho. Myton residents host and travel. Beatrice Burdick earns honorable mention in national road essay contest. Turkey farming and local governance topics noted alongside family visits and travel through Yellowstone and Montana.
The Myton event drew about 2 500 people for a July 4 celebration with a sunrise concert, a dusty track, and a few mishaps. A four horse race ended with a fall, injuring a jockey briefly, while spectators enjoyed stunts by a sorrel horse and the patriotic program led by Charles Walkers.
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