Fort Duchesne Community Activities and Local News
The Owl Club enjoyed a lively Saturday with boxing bouts and a wrestling match. A boxing carnival is planned for Thursday night with several fine bouts. George Young sustained a facial cut. doctor treated the wound. Rumors say Fort Duchesne may be abandoned next summer. Christmas preparations and troop mail shipments noted. Mrs Slattery returned from Veinal for her brother’s funeral. A dance drew a large crowd amid widespread cold. Prize fights approved for meat week with main bout T Ryan vs J G Ryan. Quartermaster Leese traveled to Vernal with Corps Pack ing. The Jensen Ward Society plans an Old Folks Party on December 24 at Jensen Ward House. J M Lamb, longtime resident, visiting the reservation. A S Richardson operates Blue Mountain sheep business. Jensen ferry again running despite open winter. Local youths trap in the hills as coyotes and wildcats proliferate.
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Fort Puchesne
Moffat Bluffs
George Young
Sittle
Fort Duchesne
F. J. Slattery
Veinal
Jensen Ward
Itclies” Society
Green River Bridge Project Advances
Jensen correspondence reports daily progress on material for a new bridge across Green River at this place with active operations expected to begin soon LOE Gardner hauled a four horse load of timber to be shipped to Ogden Andrew Dudley Sr plans to leave tomorrow for Spanish Fork to visit his mother She
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Green River
Loe
Gardner
Dragon
Ogden
Andrew Dudley
Leive
Spanish Fork
Maeser Correspondence and Ward News Update
The Uintah State Academy band and orchestra performed a sing concert in the ward last week while plans for a new academy building advance. Ward conference saw strong turnout despite weather with stake officers in attendance and youth groups leading the evening. Charles Timothy, son of Drighaiwn Timothy, underwent surgery for a long-standing ailment. Levis Timothy remains ill with pneumonia at Duchesne Hospital. The ward hosted visits from a motion picture show this week.
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Uintah State Academy
Munese Ward House
Charles Timothy
Drighaiwn Timothy
Deaf community seeks film censorship over profanity in movies
Dedit mates accuse moving pictures of profane language harming deaf viewers and push for factory censorship. A. L. Williams Jr. urges manufacturer action while Mrs Bates notes frequent hard to follow talk in downtown screenings. Mayor Bach says the issue is for the humane society to resolve.
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Alisim ES Paes
Dry Gulch Irrigation Co Holds Enthusiastic Meeting
The Stockholders of the Dry Gulch Irrigation Company met December 6 in Roogevelt. Owen Beunlen was reelected president as directors Wm Zoo Chas Milligan Nick Wilson and Roger Herrick were named. The firm has about fifty miles of main canal and five hundred miles of laterals serving forty thousand acres. Water costs are projected under eight dollars per acre. The community adds electric power plans with a possible Myton Power and Light Company lighting Roosevelt and Thaddor.
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Dry Gulch Irrigation Company
Owen Beunlén
Myton
Chas Milligan
Nick Wilson
Roger Herrick
Poor Prospects for Young Suitor in St Joseph
A St Joseph youth and his sweetheart are described as having poor prospects. A friend visits at night and finds embroidery being done for a jewel case, while the young man supposedly lacks funds to support his name and status. Norman Selby purchases a $250,000 New York office building, remarking it is better to be well situated than hard up.
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Norman Selby
New York
Selby
St Toseph
Ming
St. Joseph
George
Primitive cave art yields rare male figures discovery
In Arieze Miance cave complex Portel Frotto and Louhens, Prof Rena Leaunet reports about 40 sketches in black and red. Two human figures stand out a long headed man and an apelike pose, while most drawings depict bisons, oars, and horses. The cave walls feature skillful black forequarters of a horse and a crunching boar amidst rough depictions.
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Anas
Rena Leaunet
Portel Frotto
Louhens
Arieze
Miance
Noulet
Yoga Athlete Seeks Rank in Indian Caves
A 14 year training tale follows Hava Suchman Daas’s education by priests in Central India to become a yoga master. The text notes a feat of balancing on fingertip ends for seven days under judges and claims mastery of 48 Hindu postures.
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Hava Suchman Daas
Black Caves
Central India
Bava
Goza
India
Daily Thought on Happiness and Understanding
A short reflective note states that happiness belongs to those who understand it and appreciate it. It contrasts wise people who recognize happiness with fretful individuals described as foolish children.
Those Poignant Regrets
A churchgoer frets over the contribution basket when his smallest coin is a quarter leaving a sour mood that spoils the dinner. The quip from the Atchison Globe reflects everyday money woes and social awkwardness.
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J. M. Lamb
Jdengen
Richardson
Blue Mountain
Jensen
Jenson
Maeser
Levis Timothy
Art Duchesne Hospital
Cleveland
Playue
Roogevelt
Erg Cay
Myton Power and Light Company
Roosevelt
Thaddor
Lake Fork
Joseph Ilurdy
Maniger
Roosevelt Mercantile Company
Arenss
Clas Bhergliff
The
Colorado Tiguee
Salt Lake Cuty
John Redmond
Pearl Drewstone
Wee
Lernal Alg
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