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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1934
Page
4
The Vernal Express notes subscription prices with annual, semiannual, and quarterly options. Rates listed include one year for $2.50 and three months for $1.09. Publisher and editor names appear, along with post office filing details dated March 13, 1909.
A statement notes an optimistic independent political stance and commitment to Greater Uintah County, with involvement in the Utah States RLSS Association.
The Uintah Basin in Utah is highlighted for its vast fresh water streams and scenic mountain views. Hinges Peak rises over 13 600 feet as lakes dot the Uintah mountains, with noted fishing and hunting advantages in the Intermountain.
The annual Waid Reunion on Tuesday May 2 featured a May Festival led by the Primary association. A play titled In My Grandmothers Old Fashioned Garden starred Barbara Calder es Rosa Jind and Edith Gregory as Grandmothers, with a garden scene decor and pastel costumes. Nearly every Primary child participated. At noon a chapel lawn lunch followed, with barbecued meat by Boy Scouts. The afternoon baseball game pitted married against single men and ended in victory for the married side, then a dance closed the event.
News notes describe Maeser relatives visiting from California and a sister of Adam Erickson and Wm Thomas. Several locals, including Genie Pills and Kare, Don L McConkle, and Afel Putt families, relocated to new homes on Pett Hill. Sheriff Emery Johnson pursued summer canal runners while a large group including Dick Slaugh and Jim Nichol visited Manila.
HE Walter Woolley recently served as stake superintendent. Sunday School Superintendent appointed with assistants Clive Perry and Raymond Gardiner. Mervin Hatch and Darrell Carroll enrolled at CCC camp in Uintah Canyon. George Erekson traveled from Diamond Mountain for the tour dance and free sailplane ride. Sacrament meeting Sunday evening directed by the Antonie Priesthood with Ralph Hodgkinson in charge. Claude Richens, Richard Woodrull, and Wes Winting gave talks. John B Eaton and H Walter Woolley were main speakers.
Last week Tuesday W G Nebeker and Mrs Byrd Kearl visited their brother A W G Nebeker and family noting dry dusty conditions in Rich County. Paul Iyman of Gunnison visited his sister and Miss Viola Poss. The Winns moved to town with their boys. Various residents moved, visited Vernal, or attended local events. A Mayland Hayden Toaster and a Quince Johnson boy celebrated birthdays. several couples traveled for business. Nellie Oaks and Davis Merkley weddings reported. many small-town updates and social gatherings recorded.
Prolific notes detail visits and travels of Atwood and Atwood kin to and from Provo and Idaho Falls, including Lewis Treescine fixing cattle troughs for state service. Graduates Hazel Long and Holy Cross Hospital ties headlined, with surrounding social events, measles outbreaks, and church repairs noted. Community members from Cedarview to Lapoint host and attend dances, dinners, and stake conferences.
fragmentary report lists Mr and Mrs Byron Thomas traveling to Salt for a new truck body and planning to move cattle to Colorado, with other incomplete mentions of local residents including Mrs Alice Wall of Ouray and the Adams and Nelson families visiting or functioning locally.
On Saturday Judge Charles De Mais sentenced Christy Murray of Jensen to pay a $25 fine for issuing checks with insufficient funds. The execution of the sentence was suspended until June 16 with obligations to make right matters with those he wronged.
Moisy may grant further leniency to Murray if by that date he shows the court he has done his best to satisfy obligations. If the June 16 deadline elapses with the fine unpaid, the defendant will be delivered to the sheriff of Uintah County and imprisoned for fifteen days in the county jail.
The chapel was decorated in a beautiful display as the community hosted a May festival.
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