Fourth of July Celebrations Share Vernal Festivities
A large crowd enjoyed Vernal's Fourth of July events directed by Paul Viking. Fort Duchesne Indians defeated Vernal 9 to 7 in a baseball game, followed by horse racing, boxing bouts, and a grand Imperial ball. Organizers from the American Legion Witbeck Post No 11 hailed local support and pledged annual celebrations.
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Paul Viking
Fort Duchesne Indiana
Vernal Ball Club
Fort Duchesne Indians
Lola Bourdette
Sammy Wise
Bill Stringham
Rev Guild
Bammy
J D Massey
Hollis Hulinger
Hollis
Dee Jenkins
Maeser
Ray Busty
Salt Lake
Dee
Busby
Gene Donaldson
Chuck Murray
Gou
Stoy Massey
Dalter Boyces
Tony Lopez
Idaho
Shead
Soucey
Roy
Roy Soucey
Howard Ellis
Vernal
Robbie Mason
Howard
Bobbie Mason
Imperial
American Legion
Just & Word
Witbeck Post
Nofi
A. G Nord
Legion
Ray Ashton J A Cheney
Rute C. Cooper
Witbek Post No 11
Vernal Express
Lions’ Band
Farm Bureau Seeks Market for 1930 Lambs
The Farm Bureau says it can market 1930 lambs with advance payments up to one dollar per head. Large lambs favored. burrs reduce value by two cents per pound. Lambs over 79 pounds face discount. call by July 1 to list animals, with buyers' response due July 15. E Peterson County Agent.
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Farm Bureau
E. Peterson
Flaming Gorge project eyed as key to arid lands revival
A July luncheon discussion cites Ralph R Woolley’s survey showing the Green River basin would hold 1 782 000 acres, with 652 500 irrigable. The Flaming Gorge dam could back water into Wyoming near Green River City, with Senate support and a 18 million dollar cost estimate. Public officials including Senator Smoot advocate early August meetings to advance the project.
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Flaming Gorge
Ralph R Woolley
VW & Geological Survey
Wallis
Green River
Utah
Colorado
Wyoming
I T
Utah Tso
Verna
Green River City
National
Smoot
Salt Lake City
Boulder
Colorado River Basin
Senate
de Elwood Mead
Sir Wells
Beoc John An
Reed Smoot
Governor Dern Opens Big Ft Duchesne Convention
Governor Dern will deliver the opening address at a major convention in Fort Duchesne. Orval d Adame, former Utah Bankers Association president, will discuss rural financing alongside Congressman Don B Colton and R H Rutledge of the forest department. An oratorical contest between Howell Calder and George Strebel features for the U BIC trophy as the finance committee seeks broad, cooperative county support.
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Orvald Adame
Utah Bankers Association
Don B Colton
R H Rutledge
Forest Department
E G Peterson
Odoennell
Uintah
Howar Calder
Ashton
Duchesne County
George Strebel
Uintah Basin Leaders Push Flaming Gorge Road Plan
At a Uintah Basin meeting the group discussed highway forty development and the Colton-Ovldie bill. Utah and Colorado officials urged federal action to fund a Craig road project, with local leaders pledging support while deferring broader moves on a railway project.
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Johnson
Colorado
National Congress
Colton Oddle
United States
H B Calder
Vernal Lions Club
Utah
Miller
Myton
Uintah Basin
Sheeley
Senator Smoot
Uintah
Inter State Commerce Commission
W .S Henderson
Bureau of Public Roads
Ogden
Craig
Siddoway
W L. Fletcher
Wilson Murray
B P Kelly
Jensen
Stringham City
Vernal
J Meagher
Thorn Hatch
J H Ratliff
Kenneth Richardson
J A Cheney
The
Lions Club
Installation of Vernal Lions Club Officers At Meeting
The Vernal Lions Club held its regular meeting to install new officers. Lion James H Wallis praised retiring president Ray M Duke and presented a gold signet ring, honoring Duke and secretary J C Anderson for their service. A delegation to the International Lions Convention at Center was discussed with J A Cheney W S Henderson and James H Wallis likely to attend.
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Vernal Lions Club
Dugwuay
County Commission
Lion James H Wallis
Ray M Duke
J C Anderson
Lion Duke
J A Cheney W S&s Henderson
James H Wallis
Community program features music and pioneer history
Naples and district residents enjoyed a joint program last Sunday evening with a whistling duet by Mrs Lynn Ashton and Exhelynn, a piano duet by Elaing Goodrich and Exmice Johnson, and an address by Father John R Young recounting pioneer experiences. Other attendees included John H Chatwin, Edna Birle, and President A Goodrich.
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Davis
Naples
Lynn Ashton
Exhelynn
Elaing Goodrich
Exmice Johnson
John R Young
Brigham Young
John H Chatwin
Edna Birle
A . Goodrich
Eduard MecKowen
Janes Barren
Wyoming
Redge
Chatui
Salt Lake City
Lewis Gardiner
Emma Gardiner
George
Karl
Ruth Goodrich
Diamond Mountain
Marion Hatch
Ranbow
Fiss Mable Merrell
Rae Merrell
Brush Creek Mountain
Harold
Claude Eaton
Watson
Jacob N Lybbert
Logan Cache County Purchases Site for Library Building
Logan and Cache County buy a plot on the northeast corner at First North and First East for four thousand dollars to construct a new library. The deal secures a central location and signals a joint project by local government and city authorities.
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LOGAN
Cache Countys
First North
First East
Fourth of July in Verna and local travel notes
Reports from Verna recount many residents attending the Fourth of July celebration. Family visits, haying efforts, health concerns, and local travel are noted alongside farming details and alfalfa seed prospects in the basin.
Push hoe size labor saver on Naples farms
A Naples farmer touts a homemade time and labor saving implement called the Push hoe made from automobile tires and pitchforks by Jacob N Lybbert and Joseph Tollier. The device allegedly cuts weed work in two hours as a standard hoe would take a day. A visit to Joseph Hacking’s ranch shows three boys and three horses replaced by automobile wheels on a hay shaft, illustrating potential savings for farmers.
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Verna
Daniel Adams
Afiza
Lawtrence
Ouray Valley
Alice
Bac
Flora Caldwell
Vernal
Bus Hatch
Birt Caldwell
Hay
L Caldwell
Ellis Caldwell
Maeser
Arza Adams
Bist Caldwell
Lenard Allen
Clifford Caldwell
Clyde Hacking
Bil Caldwell
Alton Beck
Winona
Carter Creek
Ernest Caldwell
Lyman Hall
Wallace Caldwell
Sam Rolfe
Fuller Remington
Jacob N Lybbert
Naples
Lybbert
Joseph Tollier
Mr Collier
Joseph Hacking
Alfalfa Seed Prospects Improve as Grasshoppers RemainDrawback
The article notes alfalfa seed prospects improve on the first crop except where grasshoppers are numerous. It discusses the need to start controls early, including poisoning before hoppers fly, and describes methods like balloon catchers and the Uintah Basin hopper dozer using petroleum oil to kill hoppers.
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United Basin
New Schedule Delays Utah Basin Mail From the West
The Duchesne Courier reports June 22 the Denver Rio Grande Western Railroad changes delay Uintah Basin mail by about twenty hours. Outgoing Salt Lake City mail arrives Duchesne next morning. Duchesne to Salt Lake mail arrives late morning. Air mail is delayed about nineteen hours. Merchants suffer bread yeast delays. residents urge Washington officials to reroute Salt Lake departures, not via Price, to restore timely service.
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Rio Grande
Uintah Basin
Salt Lake
Ducteene
Duchesne
Air Mail
Washington
Balt Lake
Price
Duchertne Courier
Not So Dumb Feeble Minded Man Hired For Wheelbarrow Joke
A feeble minded man is hired to push a wheelbarrow in a building project in a neighboring city. About forty workers line up to carry bricks to masons. The foreman asks why the wheelbarrow is upside down and learns bricks are still being filled as soon as he turns it right side up.
Uintah County School Board Reaffirms Bus Service for Districts
At the regular meeting the Uintah county school board discussed continuing the current bus system for outlying districts. The board decided transportation cannot be dropped, with budget trimmed to 17 600 for the coming year and repairs limited to urgent needs. President George W Perry and others attended. Superintendent H S Olsen was absent attending Berkeley.
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Uintah County School Board
Itraas Mnally
George A Slaugh
George W Perry
Roy Taylor
Klary Witmer
A @& Goodach
Russel Todd
H S Olsen
Berkley
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American Legon
American Legion Auxiliary
Lions
Governor Dern
Ft. Duchesne
Utah Basin
West
Lucky
Motor Service
Allenton
Pathfinder
Hag
Goodyear
Pathfinders
Eral
J.W. Pope
Leary
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