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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1922
Page
3
A series of short notes lists residents and visitors in the area. Christiana McCurdy hosts and receives guests from Iowa to Salt Lake City while Averlin Stone and Erma Hatch visit relatives. Several residents travel to Colorado, Diamond Mountain, and Lapoint for visits or business.
A detailed ward social column from Vernal Utah covers a August 20 program with readings vocal solos and a sunflower dance plus reports of visits among local families including the Bingham Stringham and Jones households. It notes a Mt. A. I. A. meeting a bundle shower for Caroline Mable Jones and the engagement and upcoming Salt Lake Temple wedding of Owen Bartlett and Miss Jones.
Mrs Zilpha Wellman and T. G. Alexander returned from Salt Lake City after a nine day trip. Dismissed cricket infestations spur John Siddoway to buy turkeys for Diamond Mountain ranch. Miss Tressa Allred of Manila visits sister Mrs Chatwin. Ralph Rasmuseen recovering from deer fly fever. Yeager daughters learn their father is in Provo with a possible eye operation avoided. Walter Woolley home from Sacrament meeting. Calvin Jorgenson hosts six relatives from San Francisco Ouray and Cache Valley. Eight US Geological surveyors under W K Trimble survey Jensen canyon route to Green River City. Mrs Johnston has a fine baby boy. Coggeshall and Peterson from Carnegie Museum visit the quarry with Douglass. making moving pictures of dinosaurs. Mildred Harrison returns from East Lake City. Harmon Mullins visit Roosevelt. Alfred Harrison and wife welcome a baby boy born Aug 19 1923. Mrs Jessia Caldwell visits. Annie Stoker appointed district registration officer. Citizens urged to register and vote. Women and men head to mountains for wild fruit. Inez Allred hosts Ladies circle luncheon. Gradma Whitlock departs East Lake City. Mrs Redmond of Roosevelt visits. Bill Pope and Joe Snyder of Codaux view at Leeton. New telephone line Leeton to Lapoint. Mrs Perry Dewen’s accident with dog scare. she stops team from harming. Leonerd Farneworth welcomed baby girl. President B O Cohen and wife in Vernal. William H Smart visits B G Celtom family. Moffat hall dance well attended. Helen Curtis visits Farm Creek.
Mrs J N Lypbert reports Mr and Mrs Arthur Soderquist traveled to Yellowstone Park last Friday. Their daughters Stella and Hannah Richards joined. A Weenie Roast was held at Stella Richards home with stories and games. The swimming pool remains popular this summer with visitors from other wards. Jacob N Lybbert will return home from summer school in Logan. Mrs Floyd Allred of Poestelle Idaho is visiting the Allreds. her husband will join soon.
Mary A. Bingham reports on a government road camp near White Rocka with Dickie Caldwell visiting from Dry Fork and Ira Caldwell accompanying him. The Br I A rally drew about ninety people with games bonfire stories and a bonfire supper. Wm Woolf and Mrs. Mary Orsor attended from Roosevelt as President Wm H Smart conducts missionary work.
Frank Spencer and family of Provo visited Tridell this week with Mrs. Marie Anderson daughter of Mr. Spencer. Roy Taylor of Lapoint stopped by Tridell on Monday. Morley Jones traveled to Provo with a honey load and will haul fruit back. Stephen M. Ross and Loren Ross with Leland Morrill and families spent Sunday and Monday visiting friends at Lapoint. Wm. T. Green seeks to sell his cattle herd before moving to Salt Lake City.
Dr. Harvey Hullinger of Vernal and C. B. Bartlett of Tri dell spoke Sunday afternoon. Attendees praised Dr. Hullinger who has been a Latter day Saint for eighty years and shared memories of the Prophet Joseph Smith.
Former stake president William H. Smart spoke in Bennett on Thursday on tithing and church dues. Del Singleton and John Haslem Sr led visits to Green River, while Joshua Haslem Sr. handles precinct registration. Roads rough for visiting relatives from Salt Lake City. nearby travel to Salt Lake City for temple work noted. Bird loss from poison bait reported. grain and hay harvests underway amid light storms. Belleft society bazaar funds building needs. William Bowen, recently ill in Spanish Fork, hopes to return to his Bennett farm soon.
Charles Winder buys a new Ford. Mr and Mrs Ross Crandall journey to Taboina. The Jasper Pike family returns from Roosevelt where Mrs Pike was thrown from a buggy horse but escapes with minor bruises. Mrs Louis Thompson visits Roosevelt. A party at Mrs Flora Elliott’s ends with dancing. Jasper Elliott and Richard Henick vacation in the mountains. Supt A H Kneale is named Forts champion gardener.
Miss Addie Johnston and J C Gilmore of Salt Lake City visit Ross Johnston's aunt and uncle Mr and Mrs Sam Snyder in Leeton. Wilford Whitlock and daughter Audrey spend time here. Ross Crandall of Fort Duchesne visits Thursday. Ming Jensin Noble went to Vernal last week. The Ben Dye farm threshing machine is active now.
Kris Knudeson returns from a long absence for a short visit. Postmaster Lambert of Roosevelt meets Would haven of the Gusher post office and Mra. David Karren. Reporter 4 C. B. Atwood Jr. was knocked about after a stock ride on Brush Creek. his horse fell but he recovered. N G Sewards injured fingers in honey handling. A dancing party hosted by the Bm amusement club drew a large crowd. Ver nal Commercial club orchestra performed for Mrs James Gibson of Salt Lake City and her son Morrel and daughter Rea who visit. they plan to join Mr Giveen at the University of Utah in Germany.
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