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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1909
Page
4
Citizens urge Vernal to establish a ninth grade this year and to create a four year high school by 1910 with county support. They also advocate a genuine kindergarten for young children and note water access improvements to serve the gorge community.
The message urges Vernal residents to vote yes on March 23 for General Indebtedness Water Bonds, arguing improved electric lights telephones and a water system would boost population and living standards. The appeal stresses water access as essential and calls for polling participation.
In Central school the eighth grade has twenty four pupils with seventeen girls and seven boys. The Vernal ward sees twelve boys, fifty five girls, and eleven officers and teachers. The piece argues for better male educational opportunities to prevent girls advancing beyond, and calls for sustaining boys’ education to keep the family unit strong and the nation stable.
Editors acknowledge Salt Lake papers highlight the plight of Uintah Basin settlers. Many are industrious homesteaders who lack water and faced a harsh winter slowing work on canals and land cultivation. If a $7,000 appropriation passes to fund roads bridges and seed for about 300 families, relief and employment would follow, with the LDS church sending a flour carload from Salt Lake.
A Utah bid for better bridges over Green and White rivers is contrasted with Colorado where eight steel bridges exist. The writer argues equity in legislation, cites Uintah Basin needs, and notes officials and legal figures attending district court in Ogden.
Fragmented notice describes a medical product claim for a pleasant effect with tablet use and urges readers to visit Vernal Drug Co for a free sample. Mentions a legal office notice and various names and addresses in a crowded OCR fragment.
A call to keep boys in school to become bread winners and citizens. The Interior and Senator Smoot back a dry farm land allotment in Uintah basin with 320000 acres under Vernal Land Office guidance. The piece urges residents to seek better schooling and facilities for children facing cramped conditions as a path to a nobler life.
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