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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1925
Page
5
At a Friday evening assembly Reginald Cook congratulated high achieving students. Honor guests Miss Doris Alexander Vera Johnson Mabel Richardson and Leonk Gurr presented awards for basketball track and cross country involvement. PMID
Beasta Ivers on captains Junior girls receive pennant. Cast members Earl Marshall Vera Calder Viola Murray Dorisa Alexander get pearl pins. Conrad Cooper and Ruth Goodrich win top honors in dramatic reading. Martha Lamoreaux earns Hoeft and O'Donnell medals. Debating team and publications staff receive medals and letters. Senior class donates The Temple of Sinawawa. Honor dance noted as a social milestone.
Vernal citizens form a permanent Court of Honor for the Uintah stake to support Boy Scouts advancing toward first class tests and Eagle Scout status. The group elected Poutha Calder and nine others with Mr. Henderson as president, with a June 12 meeting to designate leaders for Scout activities.
Verda Dat chelar won first place in the violin contest at a late high school day. Norman Olsen, former Vernal music teacher now in Salt Lake City with Mrs Olsen, stated Dat chelar was one of his students.
A worker was injured after stepping on loose planks that gave way and penetrated the foot. He received prompt medical treatment at the site in a local facility.
Willis Johnson, an elderly farmer, shifts his herd from cattle to sheep in a surprising livestock change.
The note indicates Ha Rhee will move cattle from A H Ranch to Mae Mountain pasture in Moat county and enter the sheep business, per Breamboat Pilst.
Wilson Murray, county clerk, returns from Diamond mountain with news that few sage hens were seen during the trip. John N. Davis notes that both his herders and he observed very few chickens in the lambing bands area.
Miss Ellen Long drove a Nash and Postmaster J. P. Rudy of Fort Duchesne drove a Ford in a collision at the Red Planer corner. The Ford sustained a broken wheel and other damage while the Nash had fender and driving rod damage. Each party will pay for their own damages.
Dr. Albert Bjornson of Richfield Utah returned home Monday after a short Vernal visit last week. He practiced medicine there 26 years ago and enjoyed reuniting with old friends. He noted great changes in Vernal and predicted a bright future for the Uintah Basin.
Norman H. Freestone son of Mr and Mrs George O Freestone now commissary clerk in a large rail road camp at East St Louis Illinois with charge of the camp He has been with the company over a year and recently promoted He previously worked about a year and a half ago at Newton Bros harness and saddle shop
Lowell Wardle, employed at the Vernal Federal building, was injured Wednesday morning during a removal operation. Further details about the incident or condition were not provided.
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