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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1927
Page
5
The Vernal Express lists James H. Wallis as publisher with notice of second class matter at Vernal Utah. It indicates a 250 per year advance subscription rate and formal newspaper mailing details under federal act.
Miss Eding Murray of Bingham visits her sister Mrs Wallace Hicka and Mrs Sarah Swenson of Spanish Forks in Vernal with Mr and Mrs Earl Swenson. She is the mother of Mr Swenson.
J K Bual'eck who had been seriously ill is able to rise a little each day and many friends wish him speedy recovery.
Leona Brass, Margaret Starck, and Tauline Martinsen visited Gusher on Saturday to see Miss Brass’s fourth grader and Mrs Harmon McCarreil.
Mr and Mrs T G Alexander returned Tuesday evening from a business trip to Salt Lake City. They brought in two new cats.
J W Pope Garage delivered Star Cars to W L Fletcher of Vernal for a four door sedan, Dave Karren of Vernal for a six touring, and Fred Wall of Jensen for a roadster, with the delivery noted in local business records.
Me, Mrs Pantha Calder and son Edgar returned home Tuesday evening from Salt Lake City where they had been on business and pleasure.
Mr and Mrs Ray Ashton and Miss Eva York returned Sunday evening from Salt Lake City where they spent the past week on business and pleasure.
Mr and Mrs Francis Dauwalder announce the birth of a baby boy on Tuesday June 7 at Richena hospital. Mother and baby are doing well.
After a prolonged drought hurt Diamond Springs ranch forage, a heavy Sunday rain revived pasture. Early fishing party members Dr J M Frakke Dr Lloyd Shimmin Wallace Hicks Wallace Siddeway and Herbert Snyder left Tuesday for Joney Hole and returned by week’s end.
Mr and Mrs Frank Davis and their children Lola and Howald of Salt Lake were Sunday visitors at the Byron Thomas home. Ronald remained for a two week visit. Ralph Stringham, three, sustained a broken right arm after falling from a board high a few feet, and is recovering well.
Mr and Mrs Phillip Watkins and their daughter Chyllfy of Salt Lake City, formerly of Vernal, have returned to make their home. They are living at the home of Mr and Mrs J Emery Johnson. Mr Watkins works in the grocery department of the Ashley Camp.
Mr and Mrs E Petergon and family leave Thursday for Nichfield Utah to join Mr and Mrs P Petergon for their golden wedding anniversary on June 18. The entire family will be present except one physician in New York. A tourist in Vernal reported torrential rain near Carbondale Colorado Tuesday noon making travel heavy.
Mr Cheney and his young son traveled home Tuesday from Salt Lake City. Mrs Cheney and Mrs Sander announce the birth of a baby girl on Friday June 10. Mother and baby are doing well. Sunday visitors included Mr and Mrs Earl Freeman and children, Mrs Flosate Hoesch, Mr and Mrs Marg Fope, and Mr and Mrs J E Rich in Roosevelt.
The couple from Brangely Cole welcomed a son on Monday June 13 at Richen 4 hospital. Both mother and baby are reported doing nicely. Local car dealer L H Alan Chevrolet Co announced several deliveries including a Cadillac cabriolet and a roadster. Misa Louise Hughes, daughter of Nile Hughes, returned to Vernal for summer vacation after studying at the St Mary of the Wasatch academy in Salt Lake City. Nile Hughes said the trip from Salt Lake City to Vernal was rain soaked.
Mrs E D Gilbert and her young daughter Betty Lou of Yuma Aziz are visiting Mr and Mrs C J Neal in Vernal. Mrs Gilbert will be remembered as Reba Gwynne by longtime Vernal residents. The pair plan to stay through the summer months. M P Smith of Salt Lake City and Ed Watson, former chief geologist of the Utah Oil Refining, were in Vernal Thursday regarding plans to drill a new well on the Ashley Valley structure ten miles southeast of Vernal.
George E Pope and E J Longhurst left Tuesday morning for the old Dyer copper mine on Brush Creek mountain to attend preliminary work as actual mining operations are to resume this summer. The property was recently purchased by Mr Pope at a delinquent tax sale.
R C Cooper and his children came home Wednesday evening after visiting relatives in Provo and Salt Lake. He noted Utah County suffered extremely heavy rains during the week and Salt Lake County also received substantial precipitation that affected most parts of the state.
Mrs Hughel returned Saturday from Detroit where she accompanied the aged parent of Mr Siughel to Vernal. She also visited her sister Mrs Ernest M Louis in Washington DC and toured Mount Vernon Arlington Cemetery the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier the U S Naval Academy at Annapolis and other sites.
J A Cheney cashier of Uintah State bank and N J Meagher cashier of Bank of Vernal attended the State Bankers association in Salt Lake City. Cheney spoke about Uintah county boys and girls club work while Meagher attended his daughter Mary Alice's graduation at St Mary of the Wasatch academy.
Mr Wolfrom division manager of the Utah Light and Power Co. and Mr Tucker sales agent for Provo division arrived from Provo Thursday and will return Sunday. The ladies praise Ashley valley and Vernal describing it as a wonderful little city isolated at its feet. They are enjoying their stay very much on their first trip.
Yearold Davis came back Tuesday from the Diamord mountain sheep camp of John N Darig & Sons and Tepotia. Lambing was completed with a 100 percent increase. Cold weather losses were negligible due to a single storm, yet coyote depredations caused more losses on the mountain.
Milas Afton Bingham of Maesar spoke at a State Bankers association meeting in Salt Lake City last week on the dairy calf project. Wag Dingham won the 1925 state dairy project championship for the boys and girls club work. Bingham leads the Mae ser girls' string club and has shown late remarkable success since 1923. Charlége Carter returned from a southwestern Idaho trip visiting Jerome Twin Falls Burley Hagerman valley and Craig while meeting his son Charles.
News reaches Vernal of the death of Sarah Virginia Crockett born in Boonville Missouri she died in Price on June 11 thirty year resident and mother to R W Crockett publisher of the Price Sun affectionately known as Grand ma Crockett. Survivors include her children and grandchildren with long service by the Ladies Aid Society in Price.
Vic and Mre at 8am moved with Murray and family into the Shepherd house located west of the Red Front garage.
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