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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1906
Page
2
The county annual financial report is urged for careful study by readers to understand expenditures and county finances. Citizens are advised to clip the document for a scrapbook, enabling tracking of monthly commissioner expenditures and holding public officers to account.
Vernal observed a quiet twenty fourth with no official celebration. Residents visited creek bottom and canyon shide sites while others joined events in Maeser Social Hall Gimes O'Neil grove and Naples Rasmussen grove. Forenoon programs featured addresses music and songs followed by intergenerational athletic events and evening dances at usual venues.
The notice states dove season runs from August 15th to December 1st with a mourning dove allowance. Duck and goose season opens October 1st and ends January 1st. No spring duck shooting is allowed.
On July 25 Ward Murray appeared before Vernal city police court with Justice James O Niei acting as police judge. Murray pleaded guilty to disturbing the peace by riding on the sidewalk and was fined ten dollars.
A brief notice describes an upcoming performance of The Happy Family of Father Time with Thursday' s choir. The skit sings of a shopping day and the chorus, noting the work is pleasant and the public will see it in about a week.
On Sunday July 29 at 4 p m pupils of Willand Hanson assisted by local talent will give a musical recital in the Social Hall The programme includes selections from familiar composers and various instrument solos performed by students and guests arranged as a lively community concert.
A brief notice from Joan and Frances Nielsen extends heartfelt thanks to all who assisted them during their daughter's illness. They close with best wishes to all.
Call for bids for a Brush Creek reservoir at East Park near Joe Griffiths 843 mill. J K O Bullock invites sealed bids for scraper and earth works totaling about 9000 cubic yards. Owner reserves right to reject all bids. Bids due August 10. Specifications through J A Bullock, July 28 to Aug 4.
Summer months bring bowel disorders in children requiring attention. The best remedy cited is Chamberlain's Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, valued for promptly controlling any unnatural looseness. Foralk & Waller Jloyd Vrugg Company.
Delinquent stock list for Div Guich Irrigation Company Roorelt Utah shows amounts due on April 2 LUUG. Shares titled 118% with names and amounts posted for notice to stockholders.
Board of Directors levied a 25 cent per share assessment on capital stock in Roosevelt Lateral and Harding Lateral areas. Payable to the secretary in Roosevelt Utah by August 1 1906. Delinquent after August 6 1906 and sale at public auction August 16 1906 to cover delinquent assessment and advertising costs.
The sheriff captures Sant Johnson and E Snyder, private soldiers stationed at Tort Duchesne, accused of selling liquor to Native Americans. Sheaff Preece tried to arrest them Wednesday but was blocked by a temporary commander. Thursday the officer yielded, the men were taken to Vernal, and a preliminary hearing was set after county attorney Pope and Justice James O Neil met.
Building operations slowed by material delays. Crops thrive without irrigation under a dry gulch ditch. Mr Grade and Mr Downey return from a fishing trip above Whiterocks. Reports of petty theft target settlers cabins. Barney Rush and Samuel Sand3 prepare to plant turnips on the 25th. Mrs BR Rush files post office bond papers for Independence, now sent to Washington D C. High waters recede and travel increases as many plan to settle locally.
Arthur Vaughn and Winnie Hire stone of Lander report a 30 foot long herbivorous dinosaur like skeleton unearthed on the Sweetwater divide north of town. Dr Williston of Chicago University and the American Museum curator will travel to the site to study the rare fossil indicating an early Tertiary progenitor of modern horses.
Justice James O'Neil heard J. P. Rudy plead guilty to possessing and taking a calf lawfully impounded from Torrest Ross. Rudy was fined 31 and costs. In a separate matter two soldiers charged with selling whiskey to Indians pleaded not guilty and await a preliminary hearing set for August 1 with bail set at 500 dollars each.
To whom it may concern any indebtedness to Geo Billings & Son by note book account or otherwise not settled immediately will be placed in the hands of an attorney for collection. Please take notice settle and save cost Geo Billings & Son
Local ad promotes tire setting to prevent tire loosening and wheel damage. Claims faster service with no steam, sets tires on hardwood, guarantees work, refunds if unsatisfactory. Invites visits just south of Tahirahele, Vernal, Utah.
When inventor Maxini presented his gun’s power to judges he understated its carrying power, ending with surprise at the result. The same pattern appears with Chamberlain’s Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, which claims to cure diarrhoea dysentery and stomach pains, and is sold by Walter Lloyd Drug Company.
Owners Jas Burton and Jas O Neil report two estray animals found at the old Carter place three miles southeast of Vernal. A white mare branded M% on the right shoulder with left eye out, and a blue roan cow dehoined labeled FD on nightside at Ghnes Ward farm.
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