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Newspaper
Duchesne Courier
Location
Duchesne, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1927
Page
5
A long list of residents and visitors keep busy in Myton Duchesne and nearby towns. Ambulant travelers include Lawrence Goff Salt Lake trip and Carl Santesson Grand Junction visit. Socials cover marriages births and reunions with Moon Lake and Moon Lake celebration attendance. Regulars report hospital stays drives and farm moves while Dr. Hewitt joins Ft Duchesne Indian health work and community events fill the week.
Mr and Mrs Wallace Moffitt entertained relatives at a dinner honoring Mr and Mrs Gardner who returned. Wilford McConkie hosts his Vernal nephews aiding hay crop. Moroni Fisher from Vernal visits son George Fisher and family. R Johansen of Salt Lake on short vacation. Mr and Mrs Ford of Milford visit Mrs Ford's parents Mr and Mrs Evans. A large crowd enjoyed the event on the 23rd in Dragran Utah.
Weather officials describe fulgurite as a glassy irregular tube created when lightning travels through sand or rock. The central path volatilizes, leaving a hollow tube with glassy walls and rough outer edges.
A lively standee crowd in the top gallery at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York forms a democratic cross section of music lovers from many lands. The only rule observed is silence during performances as a Russian piano teacher, a German butcher, a Hungarian laborer, and a Cuban music student blend into the scene.
A historical note recalls Native American sign language as a universal system with many spoken languages. It mentions difficulties teaching sign language, a man who lived with the Sioux in Dakota as a boy, and a decade spent to learn a handful of words.
The secretary, irked by a rough morning, is asked by a new member where to hang his coat. The member’s confusion prompts a terse reply, revealing the secretary’s role and a tense mood within the club.
The article explains that shifting New Year from March 23 to January 1 disrupted eight days of festivity ending April 1. People who clung to the old date became easy targets for fools who sent them on errands and gift rounds on the discarded day, spawning the tradition of April Fool pranks.
Mr and Mrs R U Price from Salt Lake will settle in Duchesne. They purchased lots 26 27 28 and 29 in Block 30 and begin a 30 by 30 dwelling with garage and outbuildings. O A Halstead and James Hatch supervise work. Price family previously lived in Myton and Mr Price served in the veterans bureau with duties in Denver and Salt Lake until 1926. He hopes to obtain water for a land lease on the Leland beach near Myton.
For sale two miles west of Myton Utah 120 acres of good farming land offered cheap for cash or trade for city property in Myton Duchesne or Salt Lake City. Details via Mrs W H Fitawater. Also 1180 acre ranch for sale with 1120 acres grazing 360 acres cultivated, private ditch, small 4 room house, farm implements team and wagon crops included. Terms. Write A B H McAffee Duchesne Utah.
Ordinance bans parking at any angle except 45 degrees between Sixth and Seventh streets. It requires backing from parking position and turning left. It forbids driving around the D Street Seventh Street or Sixth and D Street corners unless kept to the right of the stone marker.
A historic ordinance declares violators under sections one two and three guilty of a misdemeanor. Convicted individuals face a fine of at least five dollars and up to thirty days in jail or both. The ordinance takes effect August 15 1927 and was passed July 5 1927.
Sheriff sale announced by Helper State Bank against Fred J Davis and Mary J Davis in Duchesne County Utah. On August 6 1927 at 2:00 PM at the county courthouse front door the property described as Lots 2 3 and 6 in Block 9 Duchesne Townsite with all improvements and water rights will be sold. Dated July 2 1927 by Sheriff Arzy H Mitchell and attorney Pops.
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