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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1937
Page
2
The piece reflects on the July Fourth holiday as a joyous national birthday marked by bands, crackers, and grand displays. It emphasizes sacrifice of servicemen, reverence for the Constitution, and enduring national unity, urging loyal defense of freedoms and equality under law.
Summer drownings rise with heat and careless habits. The piece warns that many drowning victims can swim and stresses safety: cramps, undertows, and dangerous eddies threaten even skilled swimmers. follow simple rules and exercise caution.
A compilation from Vernalrsquos column recalls George Erickson returning from Rawlins and a near accident involving H C Rupels title boy. It notes Tal scate sold to Thos McNeil, plans to Lake City, Jubilee preparations, summer school under Prof Gesso wards, and local road improvements to Brush Creek aiding Ashley valley settlers. Mentioned are James Gibson Weston Verran home on vacation, Hilda Ashton competing as Goddess of Liberty, and local marriages and events including Chas H Bowers and Emma Page.
The piece critiques Roosevelt's redistribution proposals, arguing the plan aims to boost spending through tax shifts, wage legislation, and targeted taxes on excess profits. It outlines velocity theory, potential effects on employment, prices, and national income, and notes ongoing debates among economists and advisers.
A fragments filled memoir details a move to Ashley Wallis after a failure in Dirty Devil country. The narrator describes grain hoards, livestock provisioning, midwife fees, neighborly pork and beef gifts, and building a two room cabin on a Steph en Atwood ranch. Snow and sleet delayed wagon arrival as April travel yielded to a late spring landing.
A man recounts leaving family behind to work for Peterson In Glines ward, irrigating a seventy five acre farm and harvesting two thousand some bushels of grain for twenty dollars a month. When road opened he’s homesick missing his mother and siblings and an old love, returning to a bare log cabin on the homestead in late fall.
The speaker recalls hardships hauling water a mile and a half away for two winters and guiding stock to water while parents never complained. He reflects on opportunities from unsettled land, ordination as a dead con, and becoming quorum president, learning that prayers are answered in life’s organization.
The Relief Society hosted a ward dinner with a program featuring H Walter Woolley and Mrs Pearl Eaton from the stake board visiting Sunday School. Glenn Lee announce birth of a baby boy on June 19. MIA to hold sunset service with President Wallace Calder speaker. Various visits and local notes from families and residents including Ira Nelson and Cuba Case.
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