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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1912
Page
3
Uintah County plans a September 18 39 fair with emphasis on a permanent fair board and early premium list publication. The newspaper stresses community involvement and learned lessons from prior fairs to build up local prosperity.
The Commercial Club is described as the city’s pace setter and exemplar not a mere business concern. It reflects the community’s best drama and opportunities, guiding civic life through collective wisdom and leading development for the common good.
The Vernal Express invites local residents to contribute articles on practical horticulture and farming. Editors note the Ashley valley climate soils and conditions as key context. The aim is to share neighborly knowledge and support community welfare through this new reader contributions column.
A collection of brief notices from Vernal Utah area: hir of Salt Lake City in Vernal. Miss Florence Tramilton returns to Murray. Bishop Victor Billings with family visiting Maeser. Bishop Archie Richardson in Jen son and Walter McCoy in Omaha with sheep shipments. Miss Dessie Bahn to Denver after month in Vernal. Carter fishing party reports good hunting and fishing. Sheriff Richard Pope to Canada to escort Andrew Anderson. Mrs Hamilton from Kansas City on camping trip. Roy Bentley home to settle mother’s goods. Cedar Valley letter notes lean times. old buffalo gun found by Al Tilia while crossing Josephine Basin. Vernal youths attend Jensen dance with minor mishap on Yellow Dugway. weddings: Jennie Gurr and Leonard Lewis married at Losin Rever. Orel Wilson and Karl Tenney wed at Maeser. couples plan trips and future moves.
Two Vernal men Milo Hadlock and Douglas King were in an accident on Irush Creek slope last Saturday afternoon. A unhitched trace caused the team to surge and overturn the rig. Hadlock was badly stunned and bruised. King escaped injuries. The rig top was demolished. Caleb Birchell visits his brother Joshua in town, plans Salt Lake City trip. Glines Ward farmers set prices for Wheat, Data, loose hay, and baled hay.
A Department of Agriculture bulletin No 44 reports on the food of 1,399 stomachs from flycatchers, showing about 95 percent animal prey and 5 percent plant matter. The study notes these birds mainly eat harmful insects, aiding poultry by reducing hawks and jerows, with mild species-by-species habits and prey lists.
Guano shipments from French Somaliland may lead to a direct steamship route to the United States. Argentine markets open for American fruits while California fruit growers spend 1500000 to advertise oranges and lemons. American capital clusters in Panama for farming and manufacturing. Canada expects a 240 million bushel wheat crop this year. Olive oil crops may fail next year in Smyrna. China’s improving finances are boosting its role in global commerce.
Provo Herald reports the city assigns Tuesdays and Fridays as girls days at the public swimming pool while four other days are designated for boys. W OD W Roberts presented a dial board to the pool and Eied Moore gave six folding chairs and several barrels, with Startups contributing barrels as well.
A new macaroni factory for the Price Wacaroni company began excavation this week on the ground south of the tube baker building beside the Denver and Rio Grande depot. The structure will be brick and concrete, facing east, 30 feet by 80, three stories high with offices, store room, hopper and fan rooms on the ground floor and a labeling room plus three fan rooms on the top floor. Estimated cost is about $22,000 for the building and $10,000 for boxes and other necessities.
A letter describes two creameries in an Ashley valley area with far smaller population yet higher butter output. One creamery yields eight hundred to nine hundred pounds daily, another one thousand to eleven hundred pounds daily. The writer notes several patrons with weekly checks of one hundred to one hundred twenty five dollars and others not below one hundred dollars.
A letter from Salt Lake City dated Aug 10 notes Mr and Mrs Wax Brown and party brought their Haynes car home in good shape. They express regret that repeated rains spoiled much of the inter basin trip’s enjoyment of natural beauty and dormant possibilities. Augustus Stocker signs the missive on behalf of the party.
A warning about catarrh ointments containing mercury and their health risks. The notice lists makers and brands, including Walla Family Pil and Cheer & Co, and cautions against use due to mercury toxicity and potential harm to the sense of smell. The text references dates and product lines in a damaged OCR fragment.
A Berkshire Vermont traveler notes relief from constipation and indigestion after using Dr Kings New Life Pills. The testimonial asserts the product aids stomach, liver, and kidney troubles and costs 25 cents at all druggists.
A Vernal garden oddity arrives via Julian Mackay of Jensen showing a rattle snake cucumber 28 inches long and rapidly growing with varying sizes and shapes. Mackay also notes multiplying beans with pods bearing tiny flat beans, observed in a dish turning to swollen rice-like seeds.
From Halland The Vernal Express received a mailed photo card from Noland of Tiders William Smart Mark Hingham and Mentzer Calder. They express pride in being born in a land of freedom and all three are well.
The article explains the second foot or acre foot of water as a unit of flow and volume. It defines a second foot as cubic feet per second for a stream one foot wide and one foot deep, and an acre foot as 43 560 cubic feet to cover an acre one foot deep. It notes conversions to gallons and mentions irrigation storage use and California miners inches.
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