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Newspaper
Duchesne Courier
Location
Duchesne, Utah, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1922
Page
3
Duchesne residents mingle in visits and moves as neighbors host and travel to Salt Lake, Provo, and Uintah towns. Local professionals like Dr. Browning and Rev. Smith update on work while families plan schooling in Salt Lake and Utah. Community gatherings include dances, candy pulls, and Strawberry Lake outings amid a backdrop of construction, gas installations, and civic updates about power lines and moonshine incidents.
Comparison shows Duchesne County boards set local district levies at 11.6 mills, with state funds and general taxes pushing total education-related levies higher. Carbon County display a steady rise from 3.4 mills in 1916 to 8.6 mills in 1924, with local adjustments amid state district school fund changes.
Ben Blow, national manager of the Victory Highway association, surveys the Denver to Salt Lake City stretch. He notes good mountain passes and scenic byways, with rough patches near Empire, Steamboat Springs, and Moffat county gravel work. The route to Vernal and Craig shows strong transport ties, including a profitable four ton truck run, while later segments near Fruitland and Strawberry Reservoir include government built improvements and forest service work.
The record tracks total levies including state general fund and state school levies in Carbon County from 1916 to 1922. Mills rise from 13.9 in 1916 to 22.7 in 1922, with values of 15.36 in 1917, 14.2 in 1918, 16.5 in 1919, 20 in 1920, and 20.7 in 1921.
James H. Wallis buys controlling interest in the Roosevelt Standard with his son W. L. Wallis slated as editor and manager. The Salt Lake source says the paper will align Republican, replacing long time editor Arnold Reef who praises past relations. Wallis reportedly plans to move back to Vernal and may seek Uintah county legislature or state senate seats in future contests.
Mrs Margaret Clegg of Heber age 82 recently flew over Wasatch county in an airplane. Sixty years ago she crossed the continent with a handcart company. She praised aviation and lamented that inventors were not yet available during her desert trek more than fifty years ago.
Wesley Thomas arrested in Steamboat by federal authorities on a Mann Act charge remains confined in Salt Lake jail.
Donald Jackson alias James Martin alias James Miller, freed by Utah board of pardons, was arrested in San Jose California and serves six months for a similar charge. Previously jailed in Salt Lake for second degree burglary, he pled guilty to vagrancy and began a six month county jail term, escaped, recaptured, and had his sentence terminated early by the pardons board.
Immediate outlining of the campaign for Don B Colton Republican nominee for Congress First district ordered by Ogden organized executive committee. John C Davis chairman with members DeMoisy Hall Call Anderson McIntyre to tour twenty five counties arranging speaking dates and promoting Coltons reelection.
The account sketches routes from Heber to Park City and Park City to Salt Lake City with terrain notes about nine teen miles of heavy mine-haul, plus Bear and Sun dances of the Ute Indians north of Duchesne. It mentions Heber’s Hot Pots limestone springs, Park City as a mining camp, and the Uintah basin as a vast inland region poised for alfalfa seed growth and global distribution.
Notables visit the Dinosaur quarry near Jensen with Dr. Garfield Smalley of Honduras and Sir Joseph Robinson of Montreal and London among guests. Professor Earl Douglass reports about a dozen complete skeletons and 375 scattered remains unearthed over thirteen years, with a striking new skeleton and a Stegosaur noted. Public interest grows as 10 000 visitors are projected in a decade and more than 500 this month alone.
A Myton meeting discussed reorganizing the local bank after the failure of the old institution. A plan outlines creating a new bank with $51,000 capitalization, transferring assets and bad notes to a special fund, and arranging stock sales and depositor credits while coordinating with the Federal Reserve. Local committees and Salt Lake City actions are urged to secure funding.
About two hundred people from Duchesne and nearby counties attended a dance in Duchesne Monday celebrating the town's electric lighting. Visitors from Roosevelt Boneta Talmage Fruitland and Strawberry joined the crowd as the hall glowed with shifting electric moonlight. The Fortie Melody Six of Boneta provided music while merchants and hotels connect to the new system and homes adopt electric devices, signaling rapid modernization.
A notice from Duchesne County Utah dated July 21 1922 states T O F Johnson M W Johnson Helen Johnson Jos Russell and H P Bekenenmyser are informed the subscriber has spent six hundred dollars from 1920 to 1922 on the Bobo Nos 33 35 and 36 mining claims to hold the properties under section 2324 of the US Revised Statutes. If co-owners fail to contribute seventy five dollars each within ninety days the claims will transfer to the subscriber.
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