Representative Colton Makes Maiden Speech in Congress
Washington July 16 Rep Don B Colton of Utah delivered his maiden speech in the house on the new tariff bill. He defended tariff protections for sugar farmers and potash duties, citing government import figures and urging consideration of local interests and home ownership in policy. He argued the need to shield farmers from unfavorable market conditions while noting the impacts of fertilizer costs on crop care.
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Washington, D. C
Don B. Colton
Utah
House of Representatives
House
Colton
Congress
United States
Stevenson
Potash Tariff Debate On American Potash Industry
The discussion centers on potash content in fertilizer and tariff effects. Hon Don B Colton argues tariffs would be small per ton for farmers and notes America’s shift from German imports to domestic potash production. Mr Stevenson raises crop destruction concerns and potash use across industries.
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Colton
Stevenson
Mr Stevenson
America
Germany
West
Naples Relief Society Worker Buried Saturday
Amy Ann Collier Gardiner, born January 8 1878 in Provo Utah, died of heart trouble at 7 PM. She was a longtime Relief Society leader in Naples and mother of nine, five living. Funeral held July 30 in the Naples ward house with burial at Vernal cemetery.
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Naples
Amy Gardiner
Amy Ann Collier Gardiner
Theodocia Keeler
Joab Collier
Provo
Utah
William Gardiner
William, Jr
Ruth Cecil
Golden
Reed
Naples Ward House
A. G. Gooditch
Ernest Eaton
John Kay
Vernal
Edward Watkins
Marking of Highway Through Intah Basin to Start Soon
Vernal awaits a marker crew for the Victory Highway with yellow and dark blue markers described as a beautiful neon-like combination. The article argues the Vernal Uintah Basin route is the logical path, warning against diverting traffic via the Midland Trail to Price and Grand Junction. It emphasizes economic benefits for Vernal and Uintah Basin and urges routing the Pikes Peak Ocean to Ocean Highway through Rangely oil fields into the basin.
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Intah Basin
United States
Pikes Peak Ocean
Grand Junction
Price
Uintah Basin
Great
Vernal
Ocean Highway
Trafic
Pikes Peak
Rangely Oil Fields
Vintah Packing Plant Expanding Output Under New Management
The Vintah Packing & Provision Company, now under A Haring Ieddly, is boosting daily output. It plans to save costs by having farmers bring their own stock, seeking many hogs cattle and other livestock to meet rising demand. The plant acts as a major cash market for farms and a steady outside income source, reinforcing coopera tion between farmers and the facility.
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Vintah Packing & Provision Company
A. Haring Ie
Haring 8
Uintah County Finances For Year Ending June 30 1921
Uintah County presents its most complete financial statement for the year ending June 30 1921. The report details every dollar spent and all recipients, showing the county's finances in splendid condition and within receipts. County officials invite inquiry into the figures and statements.
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Express Fg
Uintah County
State Board Fixes Levies for Year in Utah
The State Board fixed levies for 1921 based on assessed property values in Utah. General state levy is 2.2 mills, down 0.2 from last year. District schools levy is 4.5 mills, up 2.1 from last year due to a constitutional amendment. High schools levy totals 6.9 mills, up 0.2 from the first year.
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State Board
Utah
Body of Seth McConkie Arrives Home Next Saturday
John McConkis receives word that Seth McConkie, who sacrificed on the battlefields of France, will arrive home next Saturday. Funeral services are planned for Sunday August 7 at 4 PM in the tabernacle. Witbeck Post No 11 will oversee arrival and firing squad will salute at the gravesite. Tho Maeser ward bishopric will conduct the services.
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John McConkis
Seth
France
Tabernacle
Witbeck
Funeral of Mrs Ashley Bartlett Held Today
Thursday morning gloom spread through Vernal as Mrs Ashley Bartlett died Wednesday evening. The funeral is set for Friday at 2 PM at the Vernal Second Ward chapel with her parents Mr and Mrs George Billings of Provo in attendance, along with relatives from Salt Lake and Idaho.
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Vernal
Ashley Bartlett
Vernal Second Ward
George Billings
Provo
Rlso
Salt Lake
Idaho
Conjoint Ward Program Planned in Vernal
The Vernal First and Second wards announce a joint meeting in the Second ward chapel Sunday at 7 30 p m. A vocal duet by Mr and Mrs W H Burgener a senior girls chorus reading by Mary Winder a vocal trio by Mima Davis Jessie Hislop and Mrs O J Neal a talk by Mrs Alameda YP Brown a brass quartet by Professor W I Burgener and company are on the program.
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Second Ward
W. H. Burgener
Reading
Mary Winder
Mima Davis
Jessie Hislop
0. J. Neal
Alameda
Brown
Brase
Professor W
IT Burgener and Company
County Commissioners Hold Regular Monthly Meeting
The regular monthly meeting of the county commissioners was held Wednesday with full attendance. Important business was transacted but space constraints prevent a full account from being published this week.
Farewell for County Agent J H Wittwer Monday
A large crowd gathered at Uintah Academy to bid farewell to County Agent J H Wittwer and his wife as they prepare to move to Clark County Nevada. Despite rain, attendees enjoyed a program of songs prayers remarks readings and a Vernal Band performance followed by five games and refreshments including ice cream and cake then dancing to close the event.
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Uintah Academy
J. H. Wittwar
Clark County
Nevada
America
A. G. Goodrich
I G. Smith
Ashley — Bartlett
Ernest Eaton
Reading
Mary Sander
J H Wittner
W. 8
Henderson
State Road Commissioners Visit Vernal in Ashley Valley Tour
Chairman N. C Paulson and George N. Casto of the State Road Commission visited Vernal on Wednesday. They met with county commissioners in an unofficial session and praised Ashley valley's beauties and resources before departing Thursday morning.
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N. C Paulson
George N. Casto
State Road Commission
Ashley Valley
Students' Recital At Second Ward Chapel
The students of William F Hanson present a piano recital on Wednesday August 10 at the second ward chapel. Admission is free. The program features Birthday March Theora Johnson and William F Hanson Crimm Elin Wilkins Childe Waltz Popcorn Boy Cram Mary Lon Thorne Winter Blossoms St Joseph La Mar Gillman Melody from Der Freiwitz Nova Hanson Alpina Flowers Bohm Naida Splera Cradle Song Kern Vera Calder Alp haid's Dream Labitzky Edytha Neal Meditation Morrison Lois Burgener Rustle of Spring Sinding Prelude Rachmaninoff Elva Eaton The Palms Fantasia Léybath Theora Johnson.
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William F .Hanson
Second Ward
Bohm
Theora Johnson
William F. Hanson
Crimm
Elin Wilkins
Childe
Cramm
Mary
Lon Thorne
St Joseph
la Mar Gillman
der Freiwitz
von Weber
Nova Hanson
Alpina Flowers
Naida Splera
Cradle
Kern
Vera Calder
Labitzky
Edytha Neal
Morrison
Lois Burgener
Sinding
Rachmaninoff
Elva Eaton
the Palms
Léybath
County Board of Equalization To Reconvene In Uintah County
State Board of Equalization notified Uintah County Commissioners that the County Board of Equalization will reconvene on August 8, 1921 to adjust the assessed valuation on blooded sheep deemed slow. Cattle range in Uintah County to be raised 15 percent over the assessed value per the official notice sent to County Clerk Charley A. Hatch.
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State Board of Equalization
Uintah County
County Board of Equalization
Charley A. Hatch
Moonshine Plant Found Under Vernal Garden
Sheriff Lafe Richardson tracked illicit whisky flowing into Vernal from the western county. Arrests of Teddy McKewen and Eugene Foster followed tips, then searches on Quebean river Indian land uncovered a buried garden room with a trap door and a large amount of evidence. A second site near the Ouray district headgate yielded 350 gallons of mush and parts of a still. Evidence from both moonshine operations was turned over to the Indian department for federal action.
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Lafe Richardson
Vernal
Randlett
Teddy McKewen
Eugene Foster
Richardson
Quebean,s River
Sarantinos
Foster
McKowan
Yvol Qq
Ouray District
Cvidences
Indian Department
City Council Sets 1921 Tax Levy At 16.9 Mills
With Mayor absent, Councilman John Bates presided as the City Council approved a 16.9 mill levy for 1921. The plan divides into 2.6 mills interest, 5.0 sinking fund, 2.0 contingent, 2.0 streets, 2.0 sewers, 2.0 water works, totaling 16.9 mills.
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D. Coulton
Salt Lakee City
John Bates
Counciiman
John N. Davis
Charles, de Moisy
Jess
Birth in Hawaii As Woolley Family Welcomes Boy
City Recorder H. Wieline Woolley received a cablegram announcing the birth of a baby boy on Saturday morning July 30, 1922 in Hawaii. Mother and infant are reported well and Woolley plans to return home around September 16.
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City Recorder
H. Wieline Woolley
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Naples Relief Society
WILLIAM = GARDINER
Vintah Packing Plant
Seth McConkie
County Commissioners
J. H. Wittwer
STATE
City Council
Son Dorn
Hawaii
Bank of Vernal
Suis Bank 18
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