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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1929
Page
8
A garbled entry from March 13 1909 references arcond class maker at the pent office in Vernal Linh, noting subscriptions and advance payments like 32.50 and 1.50 for three months, with political affiliations implied toward the Digger and greater Ashley valley.
A stream of short items reports births, marriages, visitors, and community happenings in Vernal and nearby towns. It notes a baby girl born to Mr and Mrs Orin Gearien and other newborns, visits by families from Salt Lake City, Nevada and Alberta, and local travel plans. It covers reunions, church and club gatherings, house moves, and school and civic events with numerous named individuals and places in Utah and Nevada.
The Ladies Ald Society met at Mrs. Oro Hemstreet’s home with sixteen members attending. Ratt presided as officers planned the next meeting at Mrs. W A Banka’s home on August 21. Reunions and weddings filled the news with the Batty Siddoway wedding in Salt Lake City, celebrations for Mabie Siddoway and Marion Batty, and a baby born to John A Walls in Paris Idaho. The Wilcox Academy alumni reunion drew about fifty, with a campus lunch and plans for annual observance. A Uintah Stake Relief Society officers reunion occurred at Mrs John N Davis’s home, with twenty five living officers present and a group photo taken.
Edna Crowther Ririe finished a brief musical season in Vernal with recitals by her students Monday and Tuesday at the high school. She leaves Wednesday for Ogden with family. Neighbors express admiration for her talents and hope she returns next summer.
Wm B Wallis and Maller Witbeck with families and J Clive Davis and kin departed early Monday for a weeklong camping trip east of Glenwood Cole where Mr Witbeck runs his sheep operation. Meanwhile the office staff pushes to publish two solid papers as the manager takes vacation, while today’s games echo NF A quarter century ago.
Apostle George Albert Smith leads the dedicatory prayer at Vernal First Ward Chapel as crowds fill the building and grounds. The program features choir, solos, addresses by Elder Don B Colton and Elder George Albert Smith, with floral decorations and floodlit grounds.
Old Time Players directed by R Jensen staged "Bound by an Oath" to a full house, reviving 1909 era costumes and performance. Richard Jensen directed, with notable turns by Don B Colton, Byron Nebeker, June Allan, and others, as audiences admired the era piece and the cast’s seasoned delivery.
Definite dates September 26 27 and 28 were set for the Uintah County Fair at a meeting of the Uintah County Fair Association. Improvements for the fairgrounds include 30 more feet of bleachers a permanent poultry exhibit building twelve race horse stalls repairs to the main hall and grandstand and fences with bids for all work to be let. Governor Dermhes postponed his Uintah mountains outing for state duties and will speak at the U BIC then Vernal before heading to the mountains accompanied by friends from Salt Lake including Oliver J Grimes.
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