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Newspaper
Duchesne Courier
Location
Duchesne, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1928
Page
5
Duchesne residents share visits from Salt Lake City Provo and Vernal and plan trips to Myton Price and Payson. News covers births illnesses school events dances auctions and social gatherings with emphasis on family and community ties.
The column lists numerous residents visiting Price, Green River, Tabiona, and Myton with trips to Roelk creel and Edmund Webb farm. It mentions marriages, hosting visitors, missionary work, and a Ladies of the N H W club gathering with specific names and a tea-like social afternoon.
George E. Adams of Vernal will travel to his old home in Vermont for the summer. He hasn t returned in over forty years and expects to reconnect with boyhood friends. He notes the old swimming hole remains unchanged.
Two bay horses with a star are missing. Jeff Knight reported them in Duchesne Utah. The larger horse weighs about 1050 pounds and bears a quarter-circle AP brand on the left shoulder. a second horse weighs about 850 pounds. A finder should contact Hol Young in Duchesne, Utah. Also included is a State Engineer notice from Salt Lake City regarding a water appropriation application by Joseph Smith for Indian Canyon Creek in Duchesne County with protests due within 30 days. notices list file numbers, dates, and legal requirements.
Residents report many fashionable kegs and visitors in Myton last week. Notables include Miss Alice Todd and Mrs Fannie Bjarnson hosting in Duchesne, Mrs Fred Wahlquist noted as unwell, Hoosevelt in town, and Harald and Mr Terr Tuttle traveling to Salt Lake. Community events featured a Duchesne American Legion dance and a road crowd, plus a service station at Tingley corner renamed Palmers Services Station with a ladies rest room.
The article describes two arsenic based formulas to control cutworms. No 2 uses wheat bran with white arsenic or Paris green and molasses mixed with water and amyl acetate, spread over infested ground. The second formula uses wheat bran with weed killer arsenic and other additives and is broadcast moist but not wet, with water added as needed.
Duchesne defeated Roosevelt 12 to 9 last Saturday at Roosevelt. Duchesne led early, allowed Roosevelt to tie in the eighth with five runs, then pushed ahead with three runs in the tenth. Indications point to Duchesne not finishing last this season. Other games noted: Vernal 14 Neola 4.
At the next regular Duchesne County School District meeting a public hearing on the 1928-1929 budget will be held at 10 o'clock AM at Duchesne. Clerk Cutlon Mickelson announces the event.
State Engineer's Office notice from Salt Lake City Utah dated May 1 1928 states the Little Ned Creek Irrigation Company with principal place of business in Fruitland Utah has applied under the Utah session laws to change the place of diversion and use for 3 cubic feet per second along Currant Creek Plouger Insurance Go.
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