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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1908
Page
5
Nichols from Moffat visited Tuesday. Fred Wood came from his ranch on the reservation yesterday. Superintendent N G Sowards has been visiting county schools. Dr Garrett O Donnell weighs buying an automobile seriously.
L McNaughton returns home from Salt Lake after winter with family. John R Justices visits from the reservation as witness in John Birchell contest. L M Driggs and Warren Beers paint Uintah creamery ahead of resuming work. Parley Ford expected next week. Current Topics club gathers at Mrs B D Nebeker. Miss Phila Ederle presents on Francia Willard. Ed Brian Roger Goodman and Geo Freestone finish Brush Creek bridge at McKee ranch with county timber. bridge quality praised.
Harry Wood re papers and re paints his restaurant and installs electric lights one at the rear to illuminate the yard aiding himself and the night watchman in security and convenience.
City Marshal Meeks announces water will be shut off from city ditches on the twelfth of this month and remain off for three days. He urges residents to clean out the ditches during the outage to prevent flooding and improve drainage.
The county clerk and recorder collected fees totaling $526 for the past two months, with clerk fees at $265 and recorder fees at $261, nearly double amounts seen in any two earlier months.
Various brief items report people moving or visiting areas near Roosevelt Vernal Myton and Dragon including Mrs Frank M Young returning from Salt Lake Myron Mott moving with family to Dragon to haul wool W R Green Jr captured six baby coyotes near Brush Creek Mrs M S Locket touring Vernal and owning a homestead near Myton Frank Watkins and Elmer Eaton purchasing Eagle Market Charles Fox retiring from firm to herd sheep Earl M Fowler visiting from Myton for land office business Jesse Josephine Carter celebrates second birthday with thirty six friends and fifty two gifts T A Warthen settlers near Roosevelt active in crop preparations Captain Seales seeks Vera nal Rifle team match Ben Rich relocating from Nevada to Vernal sheep shearing begins strong wool market outlook Uintah county sues Fruita Mercantile for license nonpayment penalty up to 1000 Representative Howell bills to refer suppression of Indian hostilities 1865 67 claims to court of claims for compensation and Utah war expenses.
Judge Henry Webber and his young son Bennie traveled to Vernal this week to fetch seed oats and potatoes and plan a strong crop this year. He was granted a second entry protecting his land, the contest against his land was withdrawn, and the rival who contested Miss Eula's place did not appear. Webber lost a horse at Halfway Hollow on the trip and had to borrow another to finish the journey.
City reports ongoing measles cases and a quarantine after whooping cough surfaces in the Thomas home. The Black Dragon mine fire continues, while locals prepare for Easter services and church social. Officials inspect postal services, and a proclamation designates April 15 for tree planting.
At the Vernal Public Library association meeting Mrs Mina Pack was elected librarian. The library opens next Wednesday April 15 and all county residents are invited to attend.
While cleaning windows in the post office this noon Miss May Glenn fell from a step ladder. She was painfully but not seriously injured with a bump on the head and a scratch on the arm. The fall left her senseless for a few moments before recovering.
A gentleman, unnamed, predicts a regional boom as resources attract the Moffat road through the valley and soon the Union Pacific and Uintah Railway may run trains into or near Vernal, asserting his judgment makes the forecast worthwhile.
George Summers and family plan a move to their Lake Fork ranch. Dick Smith and wife visited Moffat this week, with brother William from Heber and William Preece from Myton. Forest Ranger Grant Carpenta returned from Provo to finish government waterheadgate work near Myton. J. Bracken attended a stockgrowers meeting in Randlett. Mayor J. K. Bullock, currently in Salt Lake, will seek an engineer to assess water works costs for the town.
W H Lawrence of Denver arrives en route to his ranch and says he is glad Vernal will have a public library. He plans to donate a handsome collection of books to support the project.
The Colorado Park Irrigation Company at Randlett elected Rev M J Hersey president replacing Arthur L Gray after a decisive vote. Five thousand five hundred sixty shares were represented. O J Bracken named secretary and Mrs J Q Logan treasurer. Directors elected included Frank Bean John H Evans Moses Moore Ira Bryant O H Bracken and Peter Jensen. The board approved steel flumes across Deep Creek and work on the main divide tunnel progresses.
A meeting of water users from the Vernal Lateral of Central Canal is set for April 18 1908 at 7 30 p m at Ashley Co op. ENos Bennion serves as secretary and will conduct the gathering.
Fred C. Hanrahan of Portsmouth Virginia endorses Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy after six years of selling and recommending it. He notes its reliable cure and customer appreciation, preferring it over other patent medicines for profit. Vernal Drug Co. sells it.
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