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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1910
Page
5
A jumble of classified notices, lost items, bargains, and farm appeals from Vernal Utah. Listings include hay for sale, cattle and pig ads, farm rents, furniture and fashion goods, mislaid glasses, and a call for cash-only credit ending. Names like Woods restaurant, Adams, Vernal Trading Store, and E W Davis & Co recur.
Birth announcements report a daughter to Will Gagon’s wife and a son to Lewis Colton. Mrs Turton returns from Green River to visit a ill sister’s child. Ida Preece returns from Salt Lake with millinery plans. May Glench recovers from typhoid threat. Harvey Beddo’s eye injury worsens. The Christian Home church files incorporation at the Utah secretary of state. Dan Lybberts plans water-seeking season with an expert digger. Blue Bench settlers unite for water. dry farming on the beach draws interest. Percy Gowrich plants 80 acres of fall wheat.
A list of assorted grocery prices is presented with items such as tomatoes per case, coin per case, fruit cans, baking powder, tea, tobacco, crackers, peas, lye, soda, rice, salmon and other pantry staples. The text reads as a catalog of unit prices and product names without coherent narrative or date context.
The column records a mix of community updates from Whiterocks including health news, travel, and local happenings. It mentions Yingh Coltharp recovering from sickness, visits by Tess Evang and Dr Carhart, road conditions, weather remarks, church services, a fatality of Dilsworth, business trips, ranch news, and social club activities.
The CT Club with Mrs Sarah Hullinger Perry and others reported $212.60 raised in nine months from bazaars dances and donations for the Vernal Public Library. George Dixon of Moffat, a machinist at the Ute land Mining Co. property, says the mill produced maximum value from ore during a recent run and predicts a big boom for the locality as a rock breaker is set to be installed and the mill restarts when weather allows.
Warren Colton in Philadelphia on a medical study mission supported by the Mormon colony. His sick child improved with aid from the local college faculty friends. A Chicago telegram reports A T Sheldon very ill. Sheldon, partner of Pardon Dodds, once allied with Staley and Mease in prior ventures, had faith in this country and backed it financially.
Local tin shop in Wert Vernal advertises custom bathtubs smokestacks and galvanized roofpipes. Services include repairing guns and bicycles with puncture proof tires and installing galvanized troughs at 23 cents per foot. Phone number listed as 90a.
Bleghert the fine Pa cheron stallion was sold to a Vernal buyer and kept in the valley. Ver nal Imported Horse Association stockholders met recently and May or Samuels proposed purchasing Siegerbert which was accepted. Finances were weak and many stakeholders felt they overpaid, with five thousand dollars paid for Siegerbert. Hal is praised as a beautiful specimen of Utah stock.
Local residents including John Caldwell and John Wahtte visit Vernal and nearby towns. Hotel renovations at mines and new cook arrive. Families from Fruita, Meeker, Montrose register at the Vernal hotel before heading to Vernal. Sunday school plans and a rheumatism remedy advertisement conclude the column.
Stark Bros Nurseries operates general offices in Lovts Mo and lists agents for Uintah Reservation Myton and Vernal Utah with berry stock and distribution roles noted.
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