Local and Personal Notes and Community Updates
The open season on doves and sage chickens began last Saturday. The Consolidated Wagon and Machine company will keep automobiles in stock. Trank Bean visited from Moffat to handle business here. Enos Bennion, manager of the Co Og, is a reported candidate for the legislature. Green river rose one foot in one hour amid mountain rains. Ike Burton and family and Miss Louie Fuller depart for a month’s outing across Taylor mountain and back via Provo. Official proceedings of the second Trans Missouri Dry Farming congress are available at the public library. Co J. Neal returned from Green river reporting wheat cut and shocked, oats being cut, fruit outlook first class.
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Ike Burton
Louie Fuller
Taylor Mountain
Provo
Trans Missouri Dry Farming Congress
J. Neal
Green River
President Smart and Family Return From State Trip
The article notes President Smart and family returning from Ogden and other state sections. His daughter Miss Bessie underwent an appendicitis operation in Ogden, described as very successful. News from Paris reports progress on a road project, with Steamboat set to gain a $15000 depot. Readers and Meaghers returned from Little Hole country after a successful fishing trip with a minor incident on the return ride when two members got lost for a couple of hours.
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Smart
Ogden
Bessie
Paris
Meaghers
Meagher
Ed Whipple and Mrs Chadwick Reach Idaho Falls for Horses
Ed Whipple and Mrs Chadwick started to Idaho Falls Idaho on Wednesday to bring back a batch of horses owned by Mrs Chadwick. Hl Blake, from Yort Duchesne, cut the end off a finger at work on Tuesday. Uintah county reportedly has not forwarded its assessment reports to the state board of equalization. Rebeau Calder was elected a board member and secretary of the Vernal Library Association to fill a vacancy left by Alta Newcomb’s resignation. Jennie Careless, visiting Bishop John N Davis in Salt Lake, returned home last Tuesday accompanied by her brother after traveling overland through the Strawberry country.
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Ed. Whipple
Mrs. Chadwick
Idaho Falls
Idaho
Blake
Yort Duchesne
Uintah County
Salt Lake
State Board of Equalization
Rebeau Calder
The
Vernal Library Association
Alta Newcomb
Jennie Careless
John N Davis
Strawberry Country
Creamery announces cheese vat arrival and price rise
The Uintah Creamery says a cheese vat will arrive soon after a delay caused by routing through Price rather than Mack and Dragon. Demand for creamery orders across the country exceeds current supply. Future butterfat price will rise to 26 cents per pound, up 2 cents.
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Uintah Creamery
Mack and Dragon
No Private Homes in China Share Space and Scrutiny
The passage describes Chinese housing as communal and open, with multiple families per dwelling and neighbors overhearing conversations. It argues there are no secrets, as rooms are crowded and social discourse is public, while only the affluent may dream of a private home shared with relatives.
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China
Circulation of Local News Briefs From Uintah County
Council members failed to convene due to a quorum shortage. Grant Carpenter of the Forestry service leads trail work in the mountains. Stan Ashton and family visited Salt Lake for a week. 5806 refers to a number in a local note. Burton lake and dance hall leased for weekly dances and band concerts. Miss Vern Dillman becomes night operator at Uintah Telephone. Miss Lillie Evans departs City Bakery role. Vernal ward youths host an enjoyable evening at the ward house featuring a Clara Spiers recitation. Forrest Adams returns from government ditch work and may join the summer surveying crew.
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Vernal Ward
Clara Spiers
Dredge Work Advances for Uintah Placer Mining
Dredge boat construction for the Uintah Placer Mining and Dptoration company moves forward as most machinery for the placer operation arrives. Mr Peters, master mechanic from Dages Wyoming, oversees the project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uintah Placer Mining and Daptoration Company
Peters
Dages, Wyo
Maude Adams Sails to Europe for Summer Vacation
Ashley valley relatives hear Maude Adams sailed last week for Europe for a summer vacation. Hadden Chambers, the English playwright, has written a new play for her to be produced next year. Stockmore reports a devastating flood from a cloud burst last week. Wheat fields were destroyed and roads washed out in places making travel impossible.
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Ashley Valley
Maude Adams
Europe
Hadden Chambers
Inglish
Stockmore
Taft and Bryan Clubs in Uintah County Programme
A Sunday evening program for August 9, 1908 features Taft and Bryan clubs in Uintah County. Activities listed include Congregation singing, invocation, soprano solo Calvary by Miss Sara Huliingrer, ten minute talk, A Theodore Johnson lecture, solo Fleet Days by Misa Almeida Perry and Mics Ferne Diliman, followed by benediction.
Special stockholders meeting for Ashley Upper Irrigation Co
Notice announces a special meeting of Ashley Upper Irrigation Company stockholders at Vernal Utah Court House on August 22 1908 at 2 pm. The agenda includes the auditing committee report and the levy of an annual assessment on capital shares, plus any other business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ashley Upper Irrigation Company
Court House
Vernal
Utah
Beggs Family Visits From Myton Discuss Alfalfa Acreage
C T Beggs and his wife and daughter Miss Dorothy visited from Myton. He plans 300 tons of alfalfa this year and 125 acres next year. Alfalfa on the reservation is belled for $1750 per field and the land has two Indian farms leased.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C T Beggs
Dorothy
Arrests and town tales of Vernal and Price figures
Ray Dodds faced a deadly weapon charge after a Saturday arrest and vanished post release without bond. In Price, JL Lowenstein praised Vernal’s advances including lights and a mill while noting a potential move here. A local man fined for disturbing the peace chose bread and water over work, paying his debt with jail time and Budweiser.
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Ray Dodds
Marshal Meeks
Wood
JL Lowenstein
Price
Vernal
Lowenstein
Vernalife
van Court
Liberty
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Carnegie
Malin
ST Ses
Ss. R. Bennion
J. H. Reader
N. J. Meagher
Consolidated Wagon & Machine Company
Trank Bean
Moffat
Enos Bennion
Co Og
My3ton
Gale
Bishop Davis
Grant Carpenter
Forestry Service
Stan Ashton
I . Moore
Burton Lake and Dance
Vern Dillman
Uintah Telephone Company
Lillie Evans
City Bakery
Forrest Adams
Taft and
Bryan
William Hide
Uintah Railway Company
Alhandra
Birns
St. Duchesne
J. Q. Logan
John Macandrews
Ujatah Railway Company
Tt. Duchesne
J, Q Logan
W IJ Allen
Ft. Duchesne
JouNn McAndrews
Vernal Trading Store
Ayeak
Vernal 5
Dubendorep Bros
Serge
John Streotman
Julia Marlow
Hamilton Brown Shoe Co
W. B. Collharpher
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