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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1908
Page
7
Calico and lawn fabrics priced per yard from 6 1 4 to 15 cents. Various patterns and ready made waists. Ladies’ hose gloves skirts belts vesta towels rompers children apparel and shoes. Men’s socks underwear overshirts hats belts and overalls offered with prices. Located next to B. W. Davis Furniture Store. Respectfully Yours.
Various notices include music lessons offered by Miss Bessie Smart, sale of household goods, water shares in the Upper Canal, rental and sale offerings, a burn treatment product, lawn mower prices, a home rental wanted, library hours, hardware stock updates, and a lost gloves report. Items reference Vernal and Ashton areas with contacts and dates.
China glassware crockery lamps and silverware are offered by the Ashton Hardware Co with a bold claim of ready stock and competitive pricing to attract trade. The advertisement emphasizes extensive inventory and ready trade options.
For sale or trade a wagon harness and a fresh cow. Looking for horns, buggy, tent, and a saddle. Contact W. E. Ross, third house north of the creamery on the right side of the road. Also listing a blacksmith shop for rent in Vernal with two forges, inquire J. K. Bullock at 1711. New Schroms cell sealing fruit jars with rubber seals.
A thirty two acre farm near Vernal City offers extra good water rights and level soil. Fenced and partly seeded to alfalfa, located just below Ashley Central canal. Terms reasonable bargain. For particulars inquire of the county clerk.
The Ashton Hardware Co advertises Universal coffee per colators calling customers to inquire. It also offers a litter of Poland China pigs from a Kansas-import sow at $10 each. A contact line cites Joan N. Davis and a note on wedding or gift items promises unique selections.
The Congregational Church will hold a communion service Sunday morning. Miss Ederle will sing Cross and Crown by Thomas. The pastor will speak on Heaven, What and Where.
May day crowd enjoys a three mile trotting match between Art Rich's buckskin mare and LeGrande Young's brown horse. Mare wins heated two heats with even betting, time 2.45 in both, not enough for a third heat. Wild coyote act draws crowd. Mrs. Ross Musser shows slight improvement after illness.
The article notes Switzerland as the oldest surviving republic among practical contenders but highlights two earlier medieval successors. San Marino on Mount Titano in Italy is described as Europe’s oldest state and among the smallest, with no fixed founding date. Andorra in the Pyrenees, claimed to gain independence via Charlemagne, is presented as the other ancient republic with medieval origins.
J. W. Weist notes seed barley inquiry while L. M. Driggs and M. Glassman start a ginger ale soda water business with orders already on hand. Naples Nuggets reports the M I A closing exercises, club activities, a death, a buggy accident, and district school closing events.
An honored townsman suffered a severe dysentery episode and secured Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy after learning it was in stock with M. J. Leach, a Wolcott Vermont druggist. The patient was promptly cured and credited the treatment, available at Vernal Drug.
A local notice advertises cheap sale of furniture including a Born Steel range three heaters tables bed heads washstands cupboards book case and other items. Potential buyers are urged to see the seller at Dillman place two blocks west and one block south or at the office. H HW Holpaway.
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