Veterans Parade in Vernal Honors Three Wars and Red Cross
Memorial Day services in Vernal include a 10 o clock parade from the court house to the cemetery with Central School band Witbeck Post American Legion and Red Cross leading the way. A program at the court house features prayers songs and tributes with veterans urged to attend in uniform and bring flowers for grave decoration.
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Vernal
Vernat
Court House
George Hi, Cruikshank
Central School
Charles Lewis
Witbeck Post
American Legion
Cross Girls
Agustus Smith
George I
Woodbury
Boy Scouts
Court House Grounds
America
Ashley Bartlett
M J Hersey
Whispering Hope
Jessie Hislop
Mima Davis
C J. Neal
Massa
Anton Strebel
H Walter Wooley
Merrill R Bennion
Ernest A Jacobsen
Mr. Hersey
Witbeck
Red Cross
Merrill Bennion
Community Day at Vernal Second Ward
Verpal Second Ward hosts a community day to level and plant the park lawn. Snellen Johnson leads 12 teams and 25 men for turf work. Lynne Ashton oversees planting. Ashley Bartlett heads the wood crew to cut old trees. Evening program aims to raise 150 dollars for chapel and park walks with humor and gallery visits.
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Verpal Second Ward
Snellen Johnson
Lynne Ashton
Ashley Bartlett
Fofclock
Edison Laboratory
Heber Olson
Ashley Bartleott
Marie Hacking
Walter G. Barnes
Albert Murray
Ouray
Jessie Hislop
Mima Davis
J Neal
Our Park
A. Harjing
Commercial Club to Place Road Signs
The Commercial club board advances a buy at home campaign to boost local trade and keep money in the community. Vernal honey is highlighted for branding and marketing with a distinctive table and more small containers planned. Road signs in Uintah County and along the Pike's Peak Ocean to Ocean highway are to be placed at key spots. A Vernal Commercial club subscriber list nears publication as Uintah Basin clubs arrange visits. Routt County guests plan a July 15 Vernal welcome.
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Board of Control
Commercial Club
Charles Neal
Commerce and Industry Committee
Highways and Byways Committee
Pike's Peak Ocean To
Ocean
State
Duchesne
Uintah
Anderson
Vernal Commercial Club
Uintah Basin
Steamboat Springs
Congressman Colton Addresses Congregations in Massachusetts
Don B. Colton of Utah spoke at Springfield Massachusetts 1030 am Hartford Connecticut 230 pm and New Haven Connecticut 730 pm on Sunday May 8 and gave an Easter Sermon in Brooklyn New York. The Springfield Daily News reported his remarks on Mormonism stressing personal testimony and a revelation to church founders amid religious confusion and missionary work from Utah.
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Stella Richards
Springfield
Mass
Don B. Colton
Washington, DC
Congressman Colton
Hartford Conn
New Haven, Conn
Brooklyn
Springfield Daily News
Don B Colton
Utah
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Bay Saints
Lennox Hall
Coltoy
Mormon Church
Reed Smoot named honorary life member of Old Comfort club
Washington DC May 14 Senator Reed Smoot of Utah has been notified of election as honorary life member of the Old Comfort club of Virginia Established recently the membership is limited to twenty five prominent national figures The club owns about 800 acres at the southern end of Broadwater Island Virginia It formerly belonged to James McCrea former Pennsylvania Railroad president who bought it for entertaining friends Facilities are being expanded to accommodate about 100 members The public is excluded from the grounds Honorary membership carries no liability or obligations and includes some of the nation’s top statesmen and professionals
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, DC
Reed Smoot
Utah
Old Comfort Club
Virginia
Broadwater Island
James McCrea
Pennsylvania Railroad
Graves and Mothers Remember the Fallen
Poem reflecting on unnamed soldiers buried across valleys and hills with magnolia blossoms or winter snows. It honors mothers who mourn blue-eyed darlings who died in war, noting sleep that knows no wake and the comfort that God alone may know their resting places.
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Lowley
call_ Jung
Vernal Club Honors Professor Douglass With Life Membership
The Vernal Commercial Club awarded Professor Earl Douglass a life membership during a Wednesday event at the club rooms. Douglass, eminent geologist for the Carnegie Institute, spoke on The possibilities of oil in the Uintah Basin, illustrated with shale oil drawings and slides. The audience, including John Rasmussen, asked many questions about oil seeps outcrops and hydrocarbon veins, with Douglass arguing that oil does exist in the Uintah Basin and will be developed in time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commercial Club
Earl Douglass
Carnagie Institute of Pittsburg
Dina- Baur
Jensen
Homer E. Rich
Douglass
Hfe
Vernal Commercial Club
Rich
Uintah
John T Rasmussen
Dr. Douglass
Salt Lake City
Gasoline Explosion After Lighted Match Injures Two Men
Sunday evening near the Mareser ranch two men, Lewis Colton and B R Moyes, were injured when a gas leak from a carburetor line was ignited by a lighted match. Colton suffered severe burns to eyes and face and may lose sight in one eye. Moyes escaped lighter injuries. Explosion linked to hot engine causing gas escape. They were rushed to town for medical care.
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Mareser
Lewis Colton
B R Moyes
Colton
Moyes
Mr Colton
Gaz
Uintah named for intensified rural consolidation study
Superintendent 3 S Olson of Uintah School District received a letter from Katherine M Cook a rural education specialist with the Department of the Interior asking Uintah County to provide up to date data for a United States and Canada wide study on rural school consolidation Uintah County is one of the few selected to chair this intensified study work begun by Dr IT W Fought and paused by war conditions Former Superintendent Earl Thompson prepared the county’s initial report
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S Olson
Uintah
Katherine M Cook
Board of Education
Department of the Interior
Washington
BPC
United States
Canada
Uintad County
Earl Thompson
Uintah County
Sidewalks Laid by Residents in Vernal and Uintah Areas
Several residents funded and laid new sidewalks at their own expense as part of city improvements. In Vernal second ward an extra walk was added from the gate to a property, while Uintah stake extended from the gate to the lumber yard. George A. Baese placed a walk before the lumber yard, and Henry Erikson organized enough donations for a sidewalk from the crossing to the lumber yard corner. The city supplied tanks and asphalt, with owners providing cash and labor.
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Vernal Second Ward
Uintah
George A. Baese
Henry Erikson
Tha Iumber Yard
Miss Mary Winder Heads to Provo for Summer School
Miss Mary Winder departed Monday for Provo Utah to attend a summer school program.
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Mary Winder
Provo
Utah
Vernal Commercial Club membership drive under way
The Vernal Commercial Club conducts a vigorous membership drive led by Secretary Anderson and Chairman George A. Baeser. The goal is to double membership in days and raise 100 to 200 new members in the coming month to spur growth in Vernal and Astley valley. Members are urged to join now before the drive ends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vernal Commercial Club
Ssoratary Anderson
George A. Baeser
Eich
Binning
Vernal
Astley Valley
Commercial
NOY Scouts of Uintah Stake Plan Hike for Saturday
The Boy Scouts of the Uintah Stake plan a hike to the Dinosaur Quarry next Saturday May 28 with units from Tridel Lapoint Maeser Naples Glines Ashley and Vernal wards gathering at Main Street at 7 30 AM Transportation will be provided and leaders will give packing guidance. Jensen scouts will join from Jensen with Professor Earl Douglass leading instruction on the quarry. George L Woodbury Stake Scout Master stresses collecting wild flowers for Memorial Day graves and asks all scouts to join the parade and graveyard ceremony.
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Uijntah
Dinosaur Quarry
Tridel
Lapoint
Vernal
Scoutange
Maeser
Naples
Glines
Ashley
Main Street
Jensen
Earl Douglass
Dindsaur
Stake
George L. Woodbury
Honey Producers Form Utah Association At Courthouse Meeting
Honey producers from across Utah convened at the courthouse on May 18 and 19 to form the Utah Honey Producers Association. Thomas Chantry and Dan H Hillman led efforts with C T Beggs serving as secretary. The non profit mutual group aims to bulk purchase, advise members, and create selling opportunities while protecting producers from speculators. Executive officers and a board including Chantry, M J Stewart, Beggs, William McKenzie, Andrew Vernon, Wilford Bellaston, and R T Rhees were announced for the first year.
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Price
Beamen
Thomas Chantry
Wellington
Dan H Hillman
Vernal
Co. T. Beggs
Myton
Utah Honey Producers Assocation
Ang
M. J. Stewart
C T. Beggs
William McKenzie
Castle Dale
Andrew Vernon
Wilford
Bellaston
Nephi
R. T. Rhees
Odgen
John Blankenship Celebrates 87th Birthday in Ashley Valley
Applendid birthday gathering was held at the home of John Blankenship the first white settler in Ashley valley. A Civil War veteran born February 12 1836 he arrived in 1873 and has long lived in the area. Attending were his children Mrs Blanche Koehler Myton Mrs Gail Hall Dry Fork Miss Flora Hall Dry Fork and Mr and Mrs Walter Carloss Vernal.
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Myton
Gail Hall
Dry Fork
Flora Hall
Walter Carloss
Vernal
Uintah Oil Official Visits Vernal on Business
W H Donaldson who manages the Uintah Oil and Exploration property at their Moffat wells was in Vernal on business last Wednesday.
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W. H. Donaldson
Uintah Oil and Exploration Company
Moffat
Vernal
Pike's Peak Highway West Of Vernal Best Earth Road In Utah
Vernal Utah reports completion of a six mile earth road west of Vernal on the Pike's Peak Ocean to Ocean highway. Resident Engineer J B Garn notes a 700 foot seven percent grade peak, varied with one half to three percent elsewhere, eliminating the road’s most dangerous twists. Road bed details include 24 foot fills, 20 foot side hills with 3 foot ditches, and 16 foot cuts with ditches on both sides. Cost around 61000 dollars includes all materials and contingencies. The Vernal Commercial club aided the project. work began last winter with open winter allowing progress. Engineers say the same expenditure elsewhere would yield more miles. Garn praises Vernal Uintah county and expects further road work when federal funds are released.
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Utah
J. B. Garn
Verhal
Highline Canal
Garn
Vernal Commercial Club
Engineer Garn
Vernal
Uintah
Price
Praise Given Uintah County's Good Roads
W H Cotten road supervisor of Rio Blanco County Colorado praised Uintah counties roads noting the snake John road will connect Rangely and Meeker. He said Meeker to Rifle roads are fine but Uintah roads are superior due to funding. He urged Rangely to Grand Junction road to boost Vernal tourism and urged the Vernal Commercial Club to support it.
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W. H. Cotten
Rio Blanco County
Colorado
Meeker
Cotten
Snake John
State Line
Rangely
Pike's Peak Ocean
Stock Going On Ashley National Forest Stock Move
During the week cattle are taken to the lower ranges on the Ashley National Forest. Supervisor Charles DeMolly notes the ranges are wet and muddy, which will affect cattle performance.
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Ashley Forest
Ashley National Forest
Charles DeMolly
DeMolgy
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Veterans OF Three Wars Red Cross and
Massachuetts
Eleces Utahn
GOD
E. Douglass
Watcis
NOY Scouts OF Uintah Stake
Mutuay, Association
John Blankenship
Pikes Peak
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