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Newspaper

Vernal Express

Location

Vernal, Utah, United States of America

Date

May 26, 1906

Page

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Utah GAA selects Park City leader as department commander

B M Sperry of Park City is elected department commander of the GAA in Utah. The Utah Inter Collegiates between Utah and Idaho occurred in Salt Lake City with Utah earning honors. A May 18 track spike in Salt Lake City and wool shipments from Lehi are noted, along with the ongoing Smoot case postponements and a Provo rail extension dispute. The Uintah State Academy commencement saw extensive programs including diplomas awarded and student performances.

B M. Sperry Park City GAA Utah Idaho Salt Lake Tabernacle Western Pacific Salt Lake City Lehi Boston California Amalgamated Sugar Company Pacific Coast Ogden Gevi E Aa Lowe Company Smoot Dubois Clark Montana Burrows San Pedro and Salt Lake Railway Provo ZCMI D &R G San Pedro 5 R Thurman D &Rg J W. N Whitecotton

Thoroughbred Chestnut Blaze Shipped to Utah From Cimarron Stallion Line

A Good Colt notes the two year old Chestnut Blaze sold for 600 cash and sent to Utah with Charles O Neal accompanying. Sired by Vernal with grandsire Imported St Blaze, the colt is tied to Roxine and Iroquoise lineage famed in early American racing.

Cimarron Kansas Curley Hatcher S. F Archer Utah Chestnut Blaze Roxine Charles O’neal Norton County

Fourth of July Celebration Plans Formed in Vernal

A citizens meeting at the Social Hall last Saturday organized a Fourth of July 1906 celebration committee. Major Jycurgus Johnson chairs the executive group with Dr Brownfield W 8 Henderson J If Hardy as secretary and N J Meagher as treasurer. The plan places the festivities in Vernal and a general mass meeting will report progress.

Jycurgus Johnson Brownfield Henderson J If Hardy N J Meagher Vernal

Graduating Exercises for Uintah Stake Academy Seniors

The Uintah Stake Academy senior class held their graduation exercises on Thursday evening. The program opened with a class song, prayer by Heber Powell, and featured remarks by Class President Earl Case. Myrtle Hacking read an original history of the class, Ada May Rasmussen gave an essay urging greater student effort and praising theological instruction, Clarence Ashton recited a humorous prose piece, and Karl A. Pack delivered an oration on religious liberty sparked by Puritan arrivals. Two quartettes were performed to close.

Uintah State Academy Board of Education of The Uintah Stake S R Bennion Ilon Jaiden Bennion Academy Bassett Elmer Manwaring Kathleen Pack Lucy Goodrich Birda Timothy Byron Goodrich William Gagan Harden Bennion Hugh A T. Rassmussen J. W. Robinson Irwin Gerber Isabel Case Brant Stringham Leah Timothy Helen Merkley Leon Reader Verna Karren Amy Remington Arthur Manwaring Uintah Stake Academy Chaplan Heber Powell Earl Case Myrtle Hacking Clarence Ashton Ada May Rasmussen Karl A. Pack America

Indian Utes Reported Moving Toward Northern Reservation

Forest Ranger Grant Carpenter confirms a band of 21 White River Utes camped at Dry Fork with 1000 horses and 50 cattle. They march in military order, guard their location, and plan to council on grievances rather than return, seeking to live apart from white settlers. The plan prompts government authorities to consider next steps as residents await action.

Uintah County Vernal Grant Carpenter White River Dry Fork Silver Gate Deep Creek Ashley River Ashley Valley Sam White Rocks Fort Duchesne

Quarterly Conference of Utah Stake Held at Vernal Tabernacle

The Utah Stake of Zion announces its regular Quarterly Conference at the new Stake Tabernacle in Vernal Utah on June 2 and 3 1906 with a stake priesthood meeting at 9 am Saturday June 2 and a High Council session at 1215 pm. Visitors from Salt Lake City will attend and the public is cordially invited to participate in what promises to be an enjoyable gathering.

Latter Day Saints Utah Stake of Zion New Stake Tabernacle Vernal Utah Tabernacle High Council Stake Academy Salt Lake City S. R. Bennion CouLett James Hacking Stake

Roads through canyons deteriorate under record melt

The Wasatch Wave reports Daniels canyon road is in very bad condition with unprecedented high water cutting it in many places. Strawberry valley road is soft and nearly impassable to teams, but snow has melted and roads are drying rapidly.

Daniels Canyon 18 Strawberry Valley

Vernal Athletes dominated Fort Duchesne meet in several events

Vernal suffered a lopsided 29 to 3 loss in baseball at Fort Duchesne but won the track meet by nine points. Officials and judges included Stephen Beck, Mark Golightly, Lieutenant Crowne, starter Lieutenant Wells, and timekeeper Lieutenant Dawson. Readouts list multiple first places for Vernal including Reader and White in sprints, Meagher and Hammer throw, Coyle and White in jumps, and Quinn in the 890 yard run.

Fort Duchesne Duchesne Vernal Stephen Beck Mark Golightly Lieutenant Crowne Wells Dawson ABU R Reader W. Colton Meagher Quinn Lst M. White L. Freestone Smith Meacher Coyle McCreery J. Freestone Wilder Wolford Mulligan Box Iist

Vernal Central School Closes Nine Month Term With Drill

Closing exercises at Vernal Central School were held at the opera house with students from all grades performing. A seventh grade Japanese fan drill impressed the audience as teachers and students received certificates of promotion marking the nine month school year in Uintah County.

Vernal Central School Opera House H. W. Woolley Vernal

Death of Carl Edward Johnson Ends Maeser Student’s Graduation

Carl Edward Johnson of Maeser, age 16, dies after a weeklong illness from appendicitis and typhoid fever just as he was to graduate. He suffered during exams and passed away at 5 a m. His loss grieves the county eighth grade class and his parents receive the community’s sympathy.

Carl Edward Johnson Maeser Brownfield

Classic remedy touts Chamberlains for bowel woes

The ad claims rich men could not buy a better medicine than Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for bowel complaints. It touts universal physician approval for children and adults and notes the product is pleasant when mixed with water and sweetened. Walter Lloyd Drug Company sells it.

Rockefeller Chamberlain Walter Lloyd Drug Company

Sheep Shearing at Corrals Near City Draws Large Labor Force

Over three weeks about 176000 sheep have been shorn at local corrals. Around one hundred men worked there with pay at eight and a half cents per head, some earning as much as 1250 dollars daily, one worker averaging over 140 head in the period.

Rock Springs

Cattleman Reports Losses From Wolves Across Counties

Pat Sullivan, a South Fork cattleman, told the Courier he lost 26 head of cattle to wolves, mostly calves and yearlings, with even a guard dog killed. Ranchers elsewhere may suffer similar losses as Route and Rio Blanco counties promise rich harvests for hunters with trailing dogs amid large bounties.

Pat Sullivan South Fork Courier Rio Blanco Craig Courier

Conference at Myton on June 6 for Wasatch Stake visitors

A special conference of the Reservation Division of the Wasatch Stake of Zion will be held in the Columbia building at Myton on Wednesday June 6 at 10 o'clock a.m. and at 2 o'clock p.m. The public and Latter Day Saints are invited to meet visitors from Salt Lake. Stake presidency signs off.

Wasatch Stake of Zion Columbia Myton Salt Lake Wh. H. Smart Jos. R. MurchDock Jas. C. Jensen

Young Kings Aphones and Ina of Battenburg Wedding May List

A procession of world news covers weddings in Spain and Battenburg, a Salt Lake steamship link to the Orient, a Senate rate bill, bandit captures near Vancouver and a Bull Minor reward. Also details on the Simplon tunnel opening, a Nevada burglary, a Michigan Wisconsin forest fire, a Craig shooting, Zion city legal actions, New York auto theft, San Francisco saloon crackdowns, and the Russian parliament amnesty plea.

Canadian Mounted Pe- Lee Bull Minor Simplon Switzerland Italy Nell Kid Vaughn Craig Cole Vaughn Cross Zion Alexander Granger New York City J. N. Clarke San Francisco United States Lhe Hag Mdéde Council of the Empire

Salt Lake drugists plan retail venture in San Francisco

John J. Judson of the Nelden Judson Drug company in Salt Lake and Ele Colpin, long in the Vernal Utah drug business, were in Ogden for a few hours today then left for San Francisco intending to open a retail drug business in that city.

John J. Judson Nelden-Judson Drug Company Salt Lake Ele. Colpin Vernal Utah Ogden San Francisco Etrichen City Trpune

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