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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1930
Page
3
Residents and visitors share short reports of travel visits, engagements, and deaths. Dennis Winn, longtime Ashley Valley resident, dies in Price Utah at 97. John Winn and family mourn his passing. survivor list includes Winns in Price and Wyoming. Community life updates include weddings, fishing trips, travel to Lapoint and Blue Mountain, and local gatherings at Caldwell, Collier, and Atwood homes.
Local Jensen residents report visits from family and friends in Salt Lake and Sunnyside. Notes describe fishing on Ashley Creek, a Markham reunion in Maeser ward, a Jensen bridge swim, life saver rescues, hotel changes at Hotel Atta, and ongoing tourism and dining activity as tourists stop through Jensen.
Dry Fork and Mrs Forest Slaugh visited Mr and Mrs Joseph Massey and family on Monday. Mrs Masney and Mrs Slaugh are sisters. Lloyd Taylor and child drove from Lapoint to bring supplies to their sheep camp Tuesday of last week. Junia Chivers visited relatives and friends including her sister Wilda. WoL Caldwell learned his brother George, now in Brigham, has a severe facial erysipelas.
Mr and Mrs Moront Moon and Vera Moon join J T Richards and wife, Roy, and George Richardson plus Mack McReady and wife from Los on a friendly visit to the Clarks.
Tridell reports Grant Morrill leaving for Alpine Summer School to brush up on subjects for Uintah school year. Stephen and Margaret Rass depart for Paradise Park with Leland Morrill family. Owen Bartlett seeks medical exam for Gwenna at Vernal after her stay at Paradise Park. Seth and Mrs Wilson visit Tridell and share pride in their Roosevelt home.
Rainbow Mr and Mrs Marlon Hatch left Thursday for a trip to Galt Lake City. They expect to be gone about three weeks. Mr and Mrs Earl Miller are in Vernal so that Sarl may be with his father who is seriously ill. Kenneth Shanks, Ldonant Allen and Mr Nelson spent last week in Grand Junction. Mrs Home Ford has been on the sick list this week. Dewey West, visiting his father Lawrence West for the past month, returned to Salt Lake City Thursday to resume work and attend school upon its opening. Mr and Mrs Marton Demar Gale, who spent the summer in Vernal working for Altric Goodrich, are here resting with their parents Afr and Mrs Luther Gale. Those spending the weekend in Vernal this week are Mr and Mrs Marvin Peterson, Mr and Mrs Reed Bodily and Leonard Allen. Mr and Mrs Harden Nelson and daughter Marion were dining out.
A shaded diagram in a literary digest shows Utah as the sole white spot in the west and six across the United States, indicating more than 3 percent church membership. The map marks Wyoming Nevada Arizona Colorado as black states with under 45 percent churchgoing. Other white states include Louisiana Alabama North and South Carolina. The data come from The United States Looks at Its Churches and federal religious census.
Vernal and Rainbow residents shared travels and visits last week. Mrs Warren Billings returned to Rainbow after a month in Vernal for medical care. Families hosted overnight guests from Vernal and Grand Junction. A wedding in Logan was announced with plans to live in Canada.
The survey shows major shifts in American religious thought with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints doubling its membership in the last decade. Other denominations have grown less than in the prior decade, while the Methodist Episcopal church remains sizable with about 3.79 million members.
Local notice urges spending with home merchants to support the community. It highlights that purchases help pay the tarea, maintain the colony, and keep roads bald while promoting advertisers in the paper.
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