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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1921
Page
5
The strike at the High Cost of living ends with a large raw material surplus and lower prices. Labor costs drop and base prices for many articles are established. We have reduced our prices to meet these new base levels and list several examples comparing old and new prices.
Local editor received home brew, a wedding notice, and an auction sale report. The notice records Wm Smith and Miss Lucy Anderson being married at a farm east of a cluster of roads on her breast and two white calves present. Rev Jackson tied the knot with hay rope. The couple planned a nine to ten month delayed homecoming with a baby buggy and kitchen utensils, fifty chickens, and farm tools noted at the sale attended by about seventy guests.
Washington Feb 12 The senate agriculture committee advanced a liberal amendment to the agricultural appropriation bill allowing 1921 grazing fees to be paid in two installments August 1 and October 1 without interest, with penalties for delinquency. Additional amendments authorize surplus war explosives for stump removal, continue wool clip recoveries, fund seed grain for drought areas, and provisions for sheep station buildings near Dubois Idaho. Smallpox guidance urged isolation and careful care to protect families, with school exclusion for symptomatic children and a March meeting date announced.
Notice states that at a February 1921 board meeting in Vernal an assessment of 40 cents per share is due to W. S. Henderson, Sec-Treas., by March 16 1921. Unpaid stock by March 15 1921 will be delinquent and sold at public auction April 1 1921 at 2 p.m. at the secretary’s office to cover assessment, advertising, and sale costs.
Wool growers of Uintah County elected officers and adopted a wage scale for herders and camp tenders due to lowered market conditions. The scale sets men’s pay at 66 to 75 dollars per month, higher than surrounding states and reflecting cooperation with sheepmen. Supervisor William M. Anderson of the Ashley National Forest was thanked for assistance.
Roosevelt February 10 Threshing of clover and lucerne seed will keep local machines busy all winter. More seed was grown this year than ever before with one farmer threshing 1400 bushels and several between 600. Most farmers handle their seed through the farm bureau shipping to Balt Take and storing there until the market improves.
On February 10 a warranty deed from Warner Quinlan Asphalt of New York to the American Asphalt Association of St Louis was filed. It covers 218.52 acres in sections 4 16 22 and 34, Township 98 108 and Range 24 East. Consideration was $1 with $40 Internal Revenue stamps.
At the annual stockholders meeting 2068 shares were represented and directors elected include W. H. Coltharp George Adams Walter McCoy John H. Reader B L Dart Bart Owens C L Ashton. The board then chose officers with Coltharp as president Reaxler as vice president Dart as treasurer Ward Ireland as secretary and J J Johnson as manager replacing J H Coltharp. Johnson has installed about 500 plants and worked globally before joining in Myton.
Attorney General Harvey Cluf states a person injured by a defect in a county road cannot collect damages from the county. In response to L. C. Montgomery, the letter described a rider whose horse broke a leg after a bridge plank gave way. The request for horse value, expenses, medical bills, and damages was refused.
The L B. 8 Church relief drive reports progress toward $260,600 for starving children abroad. Eighty-one stakes report in full or in part, with 44 wards still to submit, two stakes remaining unseen in distant districts. Salt Lake teachers association contributed $468.24 to the fund.
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