July Fourth events and local notices in Uintah County
Community pages list 4th of July balls at Social Hall and Workman's Hall with supper by Mrs White, grand fireworks arrival, bowery prep, and Adams Band performances. Provo to balloon ascent, roller flouring mill work, and horse races on Second South. Also notes on local deaths, family travel, and a gossip anecdote from a blacksmith shop.
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Af. Browne
Isaac Burton
England
Uintah County
Sylvanus Collett
Provo
Vernal
Alfred Johnson
Uintah Mercantile
Second South Street
Frank
Vernal Stake House
White's Restaurant Ball Supper Menu and Lions Story
Bill of Fare for the Ball Supper lists roast chicken veal loaf lobster salad Minnesota rolls and other items for one dollar per couple. Two local boys, Richey Byron and John Thompson, chased mountain lions in Soldier Canyon, killed one lion and a captive, and returned with an injured colt then found a second captive and the carcass of the mare, reporting a tense hunt and a dramatic encounter with a six to eight and a half foot lion.
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Messrs
Richey
Byron
John Thompson
Soldier Canyon
E. B. Lang
Price Telegraph
Burglar Held Hundred Men Then Captured in Pa
Namona Pennsylvania June 20 A Philadelphia burglar W P Desert faced 100 armed men at Cheswick all night and surrendered when 50 men broke in. A ten hour firefight left Desert with one eye shot out and his left arm disabled. He is suspected in fifty Western Pennsylvania robberies in the last two weeks.
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Namona
W. P. Disert
Philadelphia
Cheswick
Pennsylvania
Ogden Standard
Ashley Upper Irrigation Company Special Meeting Notice
Notice of a stockholders meeting at 1 o clock Saturday July 1 1893 at the 4th ward school house to amend the articles of incorporation to conform to Territorial Statutes by order of the board of directors D H Bingham President Also county bid notice for 10000 feet of merchantable lumber to be sawed into bills for Uintah County with delivery by September 1 1893 bids due July 17 1893 at the County Clerk's office Ashley contact B O Colton County Clerk.
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Ashley Upper Irrigation Company
4Th Ward
D. H. Bingham
Ashley
Uintah
B. O. Colton
Court House
The Heyday of Youth A Question About Milk
Nar old asks if milk makes people fat and is told by his nurse that yes. The nurse compares cows and people to illustrate the idea that milk removal could affect body weight. This brief describes a humorous exchange in a Harper Young People piece.
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Narold
Harper Young People
Few Stops and Blunders in Neighbors Talk
A quip filled exchange shows Bartlett joking about neighbors buying a new organ with three stops while Jackson replies humorously about meals. The Grenoble Monthly notes missteps in apology style as a lamp reveals curiosity. The Chicago News Record records a line about compliments turning awkward during a parlor moment.
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Bartlett
Jackson
Des Moind Argonaut
When Is a Woman Not a Woman
A brief exchange from Texas Siftings humorously riffs on gender roles with a Jewish Corkle type quip about a mail clerk provoking the joke about identity.
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Corkle
Texas Siftings
Summons in Vernal Uintah County Utah Territory Court
W T Brown is summoned to appear in Vernal Uintah County Utah Territory to answer a suit by R C Camp U S Commissioner and W G Hullinger for twelve dollars owed for merchandise. If served within Vernal Precinct return in five days. within Uintah County ten days. elsewhere twenty days. Failure to appear may lead to judgment and costs.
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Commissioner's ‘Court
Vernal Precinct
Camp U. 5S
A.D. Hullinger
W.T. Brown
W. T. Brown
Vernal
Uintah
Utah
Also Mentioned on This Page
Vernal Express
Vernal Uintah
J. M. Banger
Workman’s Hall
Sawyer's
Richard Jensen
Salt Lake
Davis
White’s Restaurant
Minnesota
Nar
Tommy
Sis
Grenoble Monthly
Squears
Chicago News Record
Campy Us
Conmmitusioner
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