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Newspaper
Duchesne Courier
Location
Duchesne, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1922
Page
3
A crowded menagerie of local visits and events spans Duchesne and nearby towns. Mentions include Mrs W Sweatman’s Tabiona trip, Duchesne weddings and birthdays, a campaign swing by Ernest Bamberger, and a Walters company stage engagement at the Opera house. A long travel diary recounts a Strawberry River journey through Utah, Nevada, and Arizona with camping, scenery, and rustic road trials.
The Moffat road soon ends receivership as a New York financier group plans to take over. Although operated as an independent line, it will effectively become part of the Western Pacific system under this financier network that also controls multiple western railroads. Construction of the Moffat tunnel proceeds with completion in three years and the Dotsero connection is expected to open Routt county’s resources to the Denver and Rio Grande Western, unifying a vast western railroad system.
Farmers nationwide poison millions of grasshoppers amid ongoing efforts to curb damage. Officials note numbers remain high and impact remains significant despite reports of lower losses.
A large blaze at the Denver and Salt Lake Moffat railroad shops at Utah Junction near Denver destroyed virtually the entire plant. Time estimates losses may exceed one million dollars, rivaling a November 7, 1920 fire in damage.
The Ute Sun dance near Whiterocks is in progress and likely to close Saturday night. Petroleum figures show a slight week to week drop in US crude production to 1,441,350 barrels daily for the week ended June 24, with Wyoming and Montana field output up by 700 barrels. Imports at principal ports for the same week totaled 1,932,370 barrels, down from 2,505,100 barrels.
A Denver firm plans to build a large oil shale refinery facility about 16 miles south of Wamsutter to treat thousands of acres of shale. Construction hinges on a railroad line from Wamsutter to Craig, with four factories already designed to separate crude oil from shale under a new process, per the Craig Empire.
Mrs. George A. Downey of Willcox Academy Vernal describes a jitney trip to Los Angeles. She traveled with her husband and granddaughter and notes a pleasant journey with good weather and roads, the only rough stretch along the route.
A list of thirteen missteps in setting moral standards and judging others. It cautions against self righteous aims, seeking universal opinion, judging others by one’s own enjoyment, and insisting on perfection in one’s actions.
A compact reflection catalogues aims to judge character without leniency. It contrasts external usefulness with internal worth, urging discernment over excuses and measuring a person by inner merit rather than outside support.
1915 delegates to the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers union representing about 70 000 members unanimously adopted a resolution pledging the group to support abolition of the liquor business. The piece argues labor as a whole does not seek a return of wine and beer.
Word reaches Myton that a comprehensive topographic survey of the Green River from Green River Wyoming to Green River Utah will commence next Monday. The three to four month project aims to assess power and reservoir possibilities using a 2300 mile river trip and a side trip down the Yampa River in three specially built boats. Nine feasible dam sites with potential about 1,500,000 horsepower will be investigated.
The Woodmen of the World hosts a full day from morning to night with patriotic exercises, a well-attended hall program, and a concise address by RK. M. Pope on liberty and rights. Mountain Nome ball club did not arrive. a lively match between married and single men entertained crowds, while veteran musicians GB. V. Barlow led a superb band. Evening concerts, a packed show, and a well-attended dance capped the celebration.
A comic piece features Smithers and a waiter in a zigzag dialogue about how Smithers wants his liver served. The absurd mishearings and titled mispronunciations drive a playful clash over culinary precision, ending with an improbable request for kidneys.
A Milwaukee Journal item describes a lunch at a chop house where a girl wearing a bobbed hair style, tortoise shell glasses, a green earrings, and a jade cigarette holder reacts in alarm upon spotting a tall distinguished man identified as a professor. The woman hides the cigarette and removes the earrings as the professor sits without acknowledging them.
Formosan women demand abolition of the engagement money paid to families at marriage contracts. They reject being treated as livestock and insist on personal consent and educated grooms. Authors warn ongoing high engagement prices sustain polygamy, while pre marriage chastity remains strong among Formosan women.
In a playful exchange a Beatrice figures four children and one boy, describing a large family with four sisters and one brother. The quip frames a humorous misunderstanding and hints at a busy household dynamic.
Instructions describe crushing egg shells or small objects into a bottle, add soap suds, shake, then rinse with clear water to cleanse the bottle.
The sale notice in the Fourth Judicial District of Utah Duchesne County lists Consolidated Wagon & Machine Company as plaintiff and John F Gardner and Bertha Gardner as defendants. The document indicates a judicial sale action with the district court involved.
In Duchesne County Utah the Van Kleek Bacon Investment Company plaintiffs seek sale of East half of Northwest quarter and South half of Southwest quarter in sections 36 and 26 township 1 south range 2 west plus 100 shares of Dry Gulch Irrigation stock with water rights. Sale July 26 1922 at 2 PM at county courthouse front door subject to a first mortgage of 2000 dollars.
Sheriff sale set for July 26 1992 at the Duchesne Utah county courthouse to auction 160 acres in sections 18 and 19 township 1 south range 1 west including 100 shares of Dry Gulch Irrigation stock along with water rights and a mortgage of 2000 dollars. Defendants include Wimmer Collett and Seeley parties.
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