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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1924
Page
3
Local updates report Davis residents facing illness with Vera Smuth severely ill from pneumonia and measles while J. P. Atwood and family move to Mt. Dell for summer. Families host and relocate, students attend schools in Vernal and Naples, and sheep herding and mining work continue nearby. The Relief Society plans a Thursday bazaar at Davis hall with lunch.
The item lists residents and events: Isaac Glines loses a horse. various illnesses including Mrs. Abplanalp and Grandpa Lewis. Jensen boarding with Mrs. L C Duke. Alta Gillman and Belsie McKee take a school outing. Mrs. Annie Carroll ill. the Deans rent the Dean place for summer. visits by Joseph Winward and wife. the Stones from Iowa on business. Caroline Wardle returns from ten days with granddaughter Mrs Sterling Wes. cattle driven to Colorado. Uintah High School Seminary principal George Tanner spoke to the boys. Beehive girls provided program. Verdon Johnson gave an interesting talk. Asa Reynolds and Asher Bingham of Roosevelt visiting. sacrament meeting with Levi Pearson and Harold Hullinger as home missionaries. Ernest Eaton present and Verdon Johnson returned missionary. Elmer Bell and sister Ray Nebeker attend to father John Bell. Jacobson plan a shearing plant at his ranch in Glines. Theda Rold very ill. Ler Pearson to Salt Lake City for a traveling salesman job. Ivan Perry and Cecil Billings home missionaries. Jacobson family return from Salt Lake City. Charles Graham goes to Lapoint for crop. M M Batty stake president of the Relief Society went to Salt Lake City conference. Haller Enkson family out of quarantine. Leonard Perry family at Sacrament meeting. Mrs Christina McCurdy very ill.
Whiterocks held Spring cleanup days with active participation and notable improvements. Local visits include Rev Buckley in Whiterocks with Rev Howes, and trips by Frank Davis to Ouray and Vernal. Robert Mason buys a Buick from F A Gross. Ethel Murdock improves after illness. Castle Gate relief fund totals 94 dollars and Gun Club members attend a union meeting in Leeton.
A snow storm dropped about two inches after a wind storm while the Primary association resumed meetings. Mrs. Esther Harvey was sustained as secretary and Mrs. Ruby Rosa released for anticipated absence. Community visitors included the McConkins, Brigham McConkin, and Vernal guests. Farm bureau events, school activities, and memorial efforts for World War soldiers were noted alongside illness updates and a successful Tridell school track meet and athletic events.
O B Calder and son Leo traveled from Vernal last Thursday and returned the same day. Oscar Jensen visited Independ ence for work. Clark Larson works for A Richardson at Vernal. Calvin Jorgensen and wife and Melvin Jorgensen, Roosevelt High School student, spent Sunday with their parents Mr and Mrs Jacob Jorgensen. C C Larson of Roosevelt came by Monday to recruit interest in buying a threshing machine.
Sunday event featured student performances including piano solos by Anna Adams Opal Foster and Nellie Brough with orchestral numbers and a Creation piece. Local news notes report missionaries visiting from Tindall Elders Potter Harvey and Ross, and families moving into new residences on the main road east of town and at the John Noelsson residence.
Mary I Ashby honorably released from a California mission March 3 returns home Friday evening after attending a Salt Lake City conference and visiting brother Don Ashby and family in Provo. She labored in California twenty seven months and is welcomed back to Vernal.
Mrs Evan Smith and two children visit her parents Mr and Mrs William McKee in Roosevelt. Roy Warburton welcomes a nine pound baby girl born Friday morning April 11 at Mrs Warburton s parents James Manson. George and Keith Britt of Tacoma Washington attended their mother's funeral but arrived too late. Joseph P. Hacking home mourns a pet fawn that died. Hacking returns from Salt Lake City conference. Stanley James expected home at the White River sheep camp. Hans Hansen drives to Roosevelt Friday.
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