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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1930
Page
5
The Jensen area reports a busy week with the society meeting at Mrs Lloyd GH reys to make quilts and socks, 4H gathering, a bundle shower for Mrs Perry Morgan, and a long list of local visits, travel, and sheep tending. Professors and officials push for a fossil quarry exhibit and improved roads to entice tourists along the Victory highway.
Plans advance for a public dinosaur quarry display six miles north of Jenzen Utah. Congressman Don B Colton helps open the project with a road into the fossil beds making the site a gateway for tourists. Fossils have been shipped east to major museums leaving only rocks in the quarries where mastodon remains were found.
The report notes pickles are a profitable crop under favorable climate and nearby salting stations. It highlights cucumber supply for pickle manufacturers and broad consumer demand despite modest food value, framing pickling as an appetizer alongside meals.
Practical guidance on growing cucumbers for pickling with details on soil prep fertilization spacing and harvesting. Michigan leads U S production with others like Indiana Colorado and California. Bulletin 7620 P outlines care from planting to market and potential profits per acre. Readers may request a copy from the U S Department of Agriculture.
Agricultural expert from Purdue University warns Indiana poultry growers that coccidiosis poses severe risk to chicks aged two to fifteen weeks. He stresses sanitation to prevent the disease spread via droppings and urges separating birds and cleaning houses and feeders to control infection.
The clearest path to dairy profits is feeding quality rather than quantity. Regular feeding improves milking output and farm profits, while testing dairy herds helps prove which cows maximize returns. Proper nutrition reduces grain needs while boosting dairy product quality and safety.
A fragmented 19th or early 20th century style exchange shows a humorous demand for payment for a duck and a garbled line about a husband and a check. The readable bits imply a criminal or civil dispute over money with odd, clipped dialogue.
Funeral services for J Earl Wardle were held Wednesday August 3 at the Vernal Second Ward chapel with Bishop A Theodore Johnson presiding. The choir sang I know that my Redeemer Lives and Whispering Hope. Speakers included Ivan Perry and Earnest Johnson, both Wardle’s boyhood friends and missionary companions.
Mrs Mas Jorgensen led service for George Wardle who died August 10 1930 age 24. John B H Eaton led prayers calling his salvation and resurrection. Pallbearers included Stephen Perry Verdin Johnson Ashel Perry Arnold Perry Clinton Eveckson and Don Batty. Wardle born July 5 1901 in Glines served a mission to England and Scotland 1924 26 and was stake president of Elders quorum before marriage to Alta Gilman May 31 1927 in Salt Lake temple. He died of pneumonia and heart leakage at home in Dragon after two years in the Second Ward mission work and is survived by wife parents three sisters five brothers.
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