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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1919
Page
8
Vernal community reports include Mayor D Colton’s confinement after a slight attack, teachers and students resuming duties, and returning servicemen among the well. Local officials reorganize the Board of Education. Red Cross planning aids veterans. Veterans Joe and Vern Davis news, ships and railway staff changes, and influenza updates across Roosevelt and Duchesne noting limited cases.
influenza cases diminish across the county with Maeser seeing a small flare up and Vernal about 18 cases in eight families. Three deaths in ten days tied to inadequate aid. Emergency hospital reopening cited as beneficial, and deputies are blamed in one neglect case. Local workers like Earl Thompson, Wm M Andersen, and Fuller Remington are praised for tireless service during the epidemic.
The Red Cross chapter orders knitting halted as a standard production pause. Knitters must finish yarn on hand by January 20 or arrange redistribution or return to the office. Emphasis on value of work and that all finished articles will serve a useful purpose. The note stresses prompt completion and appreciation.
County recorder reports a surge of mining locations over the past two weeks with 130 claims filed. Notable filers include J W Musser with 65 claims tied to Utah Consolidated Oil, plus D C Gustavesen C I Pierce and others. District activity centers in Moffat with aims to drill, and Cedar Butte's oil sands project noted at Whiterocks.
James Clinton Penfield died last Sunday morning from influenza pneumonia after a brief illness. Funeral services were held Monday at Vernal city cemetery. Born May 12 1888 in Washington Indiana he had lived in Vernal two years and ran a general repair shop. Survived by his widow two children father a brother and a sister all in Vernal and a brother in the State division in France the widow and children also ill. Bishop Geo KE Wilkins conducted the grave service and oversaw arrangements.
John E Roberts of Vernal filed with the state engineer for 46 second feet direct flow and 6 000 acre feet storage rights from Pot Creek. He proposes a 316 acre reservoir one mile below the existing site, capacity about 5 490 acre feet, with a dam extending five feet above the present dam. Water would feed 70 miles of laterals to adjacent lands. The plan notes current rights date back years and would cover both existing and applied rights. Two pipes would convey water from the reservoir to nearby lands.
Dr F C Myers of Spokane returns to Vernal during Dr ODonnell’s absence to treat influenza and handle medical and surgical cases. Notices announce an old Wilson schoolhouse sale bid deadline February 4 1919 and a stockholders meeting for Uintah Motor & Garage Co on January 14. Delinquent Burns Beach irrigation stock with a January 28 sale to cover assessments and related expenses is listed, along with reopening plans for Brigham Young University and a Vernal band and orchestra fund update.
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