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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1907
Page
2
Special rates on time joined advertising offered with low per insertion costs. Professional cards listed at $9 per year. Local notices and entertainment events billed per line with modest charges. Community welfare notices published as news matter where no clear scheme or fraud detected.
A Vernal note expresses relief at a week with no mail from outside, and a printer notes satisfaction with a temporary lack of newspapers. The author also mentions heavy snowfall and road closures, shrugging at the disruption.
Citizens hear that the Express will no longer regulate the weather or publish forecasts. The paper signals it will abstain from predicting rain or other elements, preferring to let the weather “paddle its own canoe” henceforth.
Six more inches of snow fell Monday afternoon atop twelve inches already blanketing the valley. Farmers report undisturbed fields show about 19 inches on the ground, with heavy January snows anticipated in this corner of the state.
A correspondent advocates a daily west bound mail service via a Vernal to Theodore route through the reservation. The letter favors the Colton Theodore path as best, while opposes abandoning the Dragon line and emphasizes the need for a reliable daily mail connection westward.
County Superintendent N G Sowards reports Uintah county school census at 20300, with county funds of 3670 apportionment and state per capita 1337, totaling 6861.82 for Uintah schools. The spring 1907 apportionment is promised as the largest in state history, though exact totals are not yet known.
Last Sunday H Coltharp and Robert Spicer exceeded the speed limit driving a sleigh team along Vernal avenue. Marshal Richardson brought them before City Justice of the Peace Nebeker on Monday January 14 1907. Each pleaded guilty and were fined two dollars sixty cents.
Kingston Jamaica councilman W O Reilly Fogarty writes that one bottle gave quick relief from a troublesome cough and he plans to obtain another bottle. For sale by Walter Lloyd Drug Co.
In reply to the Third Term National league, Governor Cutler states he favors a Roosevelt reelection in 1908. He argues the third term question does not apply, citing Roosevelt as the strongest, ablest advocate of honest Americanism, despite friends and foes.
Local notes lament failing telephone service and long delays on the line to Vernal for medical calls. Stock conditions along the river improve with mild weather while cattle head toward Colorado. Community meetings tease local reforms, a bridge plan on Green River, and a pending creamery.
Last Wednesday night a group of school children faced a dangerous incident when Joseph Rich pointed a loaded 22 caliber rifle at them and fired. Orson Mackay was wounded in the cheek but not seriously. he is recovering under Dr Garratt O Donnell care. The event underscores the dangers of handling firearms and the need for parental discipline to deter such risky behavior. An advertisement at EW Evans residence in Vernal offers a 31-23inch wagon and work harness.
The Uintah Stake Academy reports a productive period with Bro Manwaring teaching twice weekly and likening students to basketball players nearing a goal. Erwin Collier elected Prep president as class energy grows. Supt Cummings visited, praising Devotional hours and predicting a new school building and expansion next year with an additional teacher. Harden Bennion and Ure Slaugh spoke to the students at devotions.
A plucky Oklahoma girl Miss Lulu Hood and her mother moved to Theodore from Oklahoma in 1905. They endured a broken wagon trek, settled a mislocated homestead, dug a well built a cabin and worked two miles daily as a stenographer before securing a farm on the Duchesne bottoms near Theodore.
Stockholders of Ashley Upper Irrigation Company are notified that at the December 3 meeting in Vernal Utah a resolution authorized canceling all outstanding certificates and issuing new ones under amended articles. Certificates will be issued by the secretary free of charge through March 1 following the meeting. ay aoe residence Maeser Utah.
For sale 40 eglonis of bees with honey extractor uncapping harvests and smoker in first class condition all for 146. One building lot 6x13 rods with young orchard and shade trees. A complete home as soon as buildings are up opposite Vernal School. Also 235x132 ft property with small four roomed house half block east of Vernal School. Building lot 23x12 rods one block west of Uintah Stake Tabernacle. For particulars inquire at Vernal Deress Office or write J Thompson 1149 Maple Ave Salt Lake City.
An exchange mocks country editors enjoying a light workload between press days. It describes the routine from office desk to press, noting callers delivering weekly news, quick writing, composing, and the fast turnover to the printing process.
In Uintah County Utah the Naples Precinct pounds a blue roan horse about six years old branded with scissors as estray. The animal, held to secure $360 damages caused at J M Allred’s premises on January 1, 1907, will be sold at public auction to the highest bidder on January 28, 1997 at 10 a.m. If not claimed, the animal will be sold.
Reader notice claims Chamberlain's Pain Balm relieves rheumatic pains and improves rest and sleep. Sold by Walter Lloyd Drug Company.
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