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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1908
Page
5
Miss Leia Atwood returns from Indian Canyon and Preston Nutter visits Ver nal on business. The Vernal Military band prepares Fourth of July music while Ashton assists in the hardware store this summer. Notes on local families, dances, club meetings, elections, and fishing trips fill a busy community update.
Witbeck and Reader report 4 800 lambs from 6 200 ewes at about 94 percent. They sold wool for a little over 11 cents this spring, vs 22 cents per pound last year. Congregational church youths hosted a strawberry and ice cream festival at the DeMoisy residence, led by Helen DeMoisy Gale Blankenship and Wilda Davis, deemed a social and financial success.
Ed Samuels and J N Davis have spent a week turning over ewes and lambs contracted at three dollars ahead. The practice, called old pelvers or gummers by some, aims to cull inferior stock in fall, lamb early in April, and market both ewes and lambs in June or July for a profitable price.
Mrs Geof Adams and son Forrest fished Brush Creek this week. Grant Carpenter returns from Lewis Allen draw with snow reports from the mountains. Charlie DeMoisy arrives back from Nevada. Ig spends weeks visiting parents. W S Perry reports a fine crop from Deep Creek. Joseph MacKnight served as district court clerk last term. Rev Ludwig Thomson alters summer plans, likely to Vernal. Edmund Hirsch term in state penitentiary expired, may return to Vernal. A local literary club forms with Louis Kabell Jr as president to study Shakespeare.
Miss Katherine Fenton owning a ranch near Myton was among the Vernal visitors this week. Formerly a Colorado Springs social favorite, she is regarded as an expert horsewoman.
Chas H. Glines arrived back from Ogden a few days ago accompanied by his daughter Mrs. Leah Allen. Mr. Allen, who also visited, hopes to settle here again if he can secure employment after three years in a furniture store in Ogden.
Sheriff McNeill has brought back men recently convicted in the district court from Salt Lake. In the state penitentiary are Uintah county inmates Will McCarrel Marion Woods Roy Hodgkinson Ed McKee Joe Thompson Joe Workman Will Hepburn.
A health notice urges careful reading and action to prevent the spread of house flies. It stresses installing screens to keep flies out of homes and notes that house flies are direct carriers of disease per them.
On June 21 the sun reached its longest day with sunrise at 24 a.m and sunset at day noon as the sun points north. After lingering at this peak it will begin its southward journey toward the farthest point on December 21.
Miss Hazel Ashton returned from Salt Lake where she attended a summer school and received her state certificate. She will teach next year at Winter Quarters after a successful year at Central School, leaving many patrons and pupils saddened by her departure.
Miss Mamie Calder of B Y University and her brother Mentzer Calder of the University of Utah return home for the summer. Mentzer held a university scholarship and a splendid record. He will represent the New York Society of Self-Culture this summer and introduce a book published by that society titled Correct Social Usage.
Community updates report Pat Markey joining Lloyd Drug Company and Hyrum Moulton visiting Vernal, with Heber described as dull. Others plan work on Myton townsite ditch extension, while Roseberry brothers return from Rangely with oil land indications. Spring winds damaged small grain and a club gathering hosted by the Varia ladies featured games and a dance.
Beekeepers start stocking honey cans in anticipation of the extraction season beginning mid July. Much of this year's crop will be packaged in paper bags. Early word says the harvest should be good.
Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets have cured many stomach troubles. One man spent two thousand dollars on other treatments yet was cured by a few boxes. Price twenty five cents. Samples free at Versnal's Drug Co.'s store.
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