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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1929
Page
7
Vernal Utah weekly newspaper cheeky masthead notes editor Wit. B Walms Maeyer. Subscription rates listed and political stance declared. Published Thursdays by Che Bernal Express in Ashley Valley.
The report notes unofficial high readings on the same day as the government observer A Theodore Johnson logged a temperature of 6 degrees above zero. The belated summer weather was evidenced last Sunday with a 105 degree unofficial mark at Jessen.
The Thalia club gathered at Mrs Warren Chase's home on July 1 to honor her birthday with readings by Mrs Warren Chase and a story about Warren and Helen. Mrs Annie Hatch delivered current events, and Mrs Annie Abboth attended as an invited guest. Gifts were exchanged and a delightful luncheon with tasty treats was served.
HLM Lamdell travels to Logan for the annual convention of vocational agricultural teachers of Utah, to be held July 8 to 22. A special dairying course will run daily with an expert from the east as principal instructor. On July 6 teachers will visit Weber and Davis counties’ agricultural projects.
Polly With a Past delighted audiences Friday at Imperial Theatre with Vern Calder as Folly and Grant Calder as her scheming brother. The lively drama drew strong praise from performers and patrons, marking one of the budget features of the evening.
Verne Caldwell of Meeker hunter bounty hunter in Uintah county brought into Vernal the pelt of a young mountain lion. Two others leapt away as dogs chased them on Moy mountain slope near the Utah Colorado line. Estimates claim 150 lions in the Ashley forest and adjacent regions north and east of Vernal with deer and sheep losses supporting the figure.
Mr and Mrs Allan travel after attending the Shriners convention in Los Angeles. Allan and Al sailed to Honolulu aboard the Malola, joining Imperial Potentate Leo V Youngworth and about 800 Shriners and families. In Honolulu a grand ball at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel honored visiting Shriners, with Governor Partington as guest. Allan notes Honolulu’s strong business, active shops, and similar prices to the mainland, while describing rising foreign influence and diverse race mixing shaping city life.
Mayor Cooper and his wife and children returned from a three week trip through the east and middle west. They visited Whitesville West Virginia his hometown, Washington DC, Atlanta New Jersey Philadelphia Niagara Falls and Canada before skirting Lake Erie to Columbus and Denver, reporting good business and collecting activity, weather fair though hot in the west and summerlike.
The Dry Fork community reports a wedding dance hosted by Mr and Mrs Chellus Cattell in Marset was well attended. Mr and Mrs Wall and many locals visited for Monday events and a lengthy list of guests attended dinner hosted by Mrs Caldwell. A mix of social calls, family updates, and regional travel followed, including a trip to town for dental work and a party for Electa Caldwell before a move to Craig, Colorado. The narrative blends community social life with personal anecdotes and a dramatic, lengthy literary interlude.
Sunday evening conference by the Dellef Society Stake Board in Glines featured a Sunrise breakfast last Wednesday hosted by Trail Builders led by Bertha Feld and Ming Hodgkinson. Various local groups attended gatherings, songs, and demonstrations. several families hosted dinners and quenched social visits, with Seagull girls and leaders entertaining mothers at a Southam home. An MIA Stake Board talk, quilting party, and ball playing at Maeser were noted, alongside a Primary meeting and visits by local residents to nearby towns.
The readable text mentions Mim and Sigiel Lopez amid a hall moment, Lydia Dentine planning a Ogden reunion with Burkstead kin, Argile Roper noted, Theo dore Johnson and Minnie McKee listed, and a sheep camp trip for Mr McKee. A picture show at Glines chapel drew a large crowd. James Holfetts bought a section of the Pridt Hansen place.
Fragmentary text describes a heated confrontation with threats of arrest and imminent harm. Vague names and actions suggest a violent incident connected to a potential murder, including references to a captain and a harrowing scene near a doorway. The garbled OCR preserves the tense mood and implied danger.
Davis bee Lorena Simper returned home from Salt Lake City after visiting relatives. Mrs Mary Atwood visited Mrs Ida Bowthorpe last Thursday. Mr and Mrs Walter Simper visited Mrs Jennie Brimhall in Vernal last Thursday evening. Ida Bowthorpe and children visited Mrs Phylinda Bowthorpe in Vernal on Wednesday. Miss LeaVon Atwood hosted a party Monday in honor of her sister Nellie’s birthday. Linnie Simper returned from Provo and other points after month of visiting relatives. Dee Chivers visited from the wheel camp last week. Mrs Lorg Atwood is ill with typhoid fever, cared for by her mother Mrs John Scott.
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