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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1920
Page
8
The Vernal Barpress publishes advertising rates effective January 1, 2020. Rates include airplay, non-contracted display, business locals, Hale notices, and legal notices with per-word, per-line, and minimum charges. advance payment required for all notices. Final proof and water notices have fixed fees, with contest notices at ten cents per line.
Miss Flora Collett of Roosevelt visits with Miss Ethel Colton. Mr York, previously ill with pneumonia, is improving. Mr and Mrs Lennon and children left Thursday for Denver on a visit.
Mario Jones underwent an appendectomy on Tuesday and is recovering well. Mrs. J. Sellers of Midvien, sister of Mrs. A. E. Dayton, departed Sunday for home.
John Siddoway is in Vernal after returning from his sheep camps on Thursday.
Charles Bowden married Nineene Thomas, both residents of Vernal. The ceremony linked two local families in a small town union.
Will Vernon of Maeceer closes a whal for the adjoining ten acres on his south line.
Mrs McMullen an orator associated with Mr A E Dayton, who has been visiting here, departed for her home in Hober.
Mrs. Main Dudley lies critically ill at her home with her sister Aunt Mary Butler traveling to Jansen to be by her bedside this week.
Williams H. Siddeway L. W. Curry and Ed D. Samuels came back Sunday from Salt Lake where they had been on business for some time.
Mrs Ora Ham Street and Miss Louise Hunt entertained Rebekah Lodge members with a lawn party in the courthouse park on Wednesday evening, showcasing community gathering and social activity associated with the lodge.
Virgil Massey arrives home from Fort Logan Colorado where he has served in the hospital corps to attend his uncle's funeral.
It is reported Rice Cooper passed the state druggists examination in every detail. He is expected back in Vernal in the near future to take up his work in the Vernal Drug company.
Mrs A J Timothy came back Saturday from Rifle Colorado where she visited her children for several weeks. Her niece Lila Radinall accompanied her and will stay there for some time.
Fred Gutherfe and family of Steamboat Springs, Colo., contracted for a forty-acre farm near Vernal while traveling Ashley valley last week. Harry Ratcliff gave them a valley tour. Tourists noted the weather differed sharply from Tennessee Pass where snow was reported on arrival. N. J. Hansen and Don Walton led Ashley Bartlett, Bishop Wilkins, W. A. Bingham, and Carr back from Fish Lake after learning of Mr. Hanson's death.
A visitor told stories of travel while selling embroidery, but an editor’s investigation revealed that a different man authored "Autobumming." The mixup exposed a misattribution in the office.
E. J. Newton of Vernal has returned from Salt Lake where he arranged an Indian Village for exhibition there this summer. He plans to transport 100 Uintah Indians to Salt Lake for the event.
Mrs. S. Carter entertained more than fifty ladies Thursday afternoon with games and music. Mrs. Walter Woolley sang Hawaiian songs and explained them for the guests. Dainty refreshments were served.
Mrs Earl Douglas spent a week with Mrs It Martin. Miss Edith Haddock visited Watson for ten days. Blanch and Love Dayton spend two weeks in Salt Lake and Hober. Harold Davis visited Salt Lake and Provo on business for about ten days. Willard Gilligan married Laura Duke at the courthouse last week.
Henry Herriott of Vernal will visit Middle Park and other Colorado points during his summer vacation, outlining a concise itinerary across regional highlights and family-friendly sites.
Mr Frank Merrill and his son An gus of Vernal are in Myton assisting with haying duties, aiding local farmers during the harvest season.
County Attorney Robinson and his family are in town for internal visiting relatives. While here, Mr. Robinson will attend to legal business.
Lyle Flinder of the Ashley Co-op left Wednesday for Salt Lake City to visit a few days. He will then proceed east to purchase goods for the store.
Billie Watson of the gents' furnishings department and Mr Armstrong of the hardware department of Zion's Co operative Mercantile Institution of Salt Lake are in town this week.
Mr and Mrs J W Robinson visited Mrs Ashley Bartlett in town and left for home in Provo Tuesday morning after a period of visiting.
Frank Watkins has accepted the principalship of the Duchesne school. Watkins is an attorney practicing locally, and the record notes the correct spelling is Frank, not A V Watkins as previously published.
The Anderson pool is leased by the Strollera Club for the season. Planned events promise to make the pool a lively social venue with several enjoyable parties already held there.
A man arrived in the city last week under the assumed name A C Collins claiming to be the author of the famous series Au tobumming which created a national stir that year.
Mr and Mrs Yorn McCarrel motored from Texas to Vernal on Saturday. He is interested in the old business with his brother in law. He notes Texas warmth, calling Vernal weather a relief after the Texas heat.
Frank Overman has contracted to carry the Vernal Jensen mall. He bought the contract from Seymore B Baow who had it for years. Mr Overman and his brother in law Frank Briers will likely be associated together in the garage business.
Last Friday evening Mr and Mrs Afri H Walter Woolsey entertained about seventy five guests at their home. Games both outdoor and indoor were played into the night with refreshments served. During serving, Kathryn Calder Altea Gillman and Ashley Bartlett performed numbers. All attendees said they had the time of their lives.
Listings describe multiple farms near Vernal with cultivation, crops, houses, orchards, outbuildings, and fencing. Properties include 46 acre farm with livestock, 80 acre stock farms, and 30 acres in cultivation with hay and oats. Prices range from 3900 to 10600 with trade options and accompanying machinery.
Leading citizens joined the Father and Son trip departing Vernal Monday with bands playing Diamond Mountain and a long list of local dignitaries including Presidents Colton Eaton Goodrich and Bishop Wilkins. A separate bank report for Bank of Vernal shows June 13 1920 figures with assets liabilities capital and deposits outlined in detail.
South Lapoint girls organized a Y L T K club Thursday afternoon. Officers elected were President Mary Rasmus sen, vice president Maud Labrum, secretary-treasurer Marvel Winn, yall master Jessie Wign Motta. The president hosted the meeting at her home with sunflower decorations and a light lunch before attending the Altona dance hall event.
Notices reach this office that July 30 in story 97 on the Farm Bureau page head Experta Gaping has been voided. It was impossible to catch this error before going to press.
The regular monthly priesthood and officers meeting of the Uintah stake will be held Sunday July 26 at 2 p.m. at Uintah academy. It is expected that State Superintendent Muir of the public schools of the state will speak to the general assembly at the start of the meeting. DON RB. COLTON, ERNEST EATON, A. G. GOODRICH, Stake Presidency.
Correspondents of The Express must submit material by Tuesday. St Pauls Episcopal offers a service at 41 o clock with Holy Communion and sermon for all area residents. Ophthalmia specialist Dr J J Bunwell from Salt Lake will visit the Travaders Home on Saturday and Sunday July 31 and August 1 with free eye testing. References say glasses are beneficial for health and vision, trusted by Vernal patients who commend the McCormick system 20-23 percent.
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