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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1909
Page
3
A jumble of local ads lists tailor services, clothing, shoes, and home goods. It promotes pressed overcoats, dresses, suits, shoes, and furniture from several merchants. Also notes coal mining, livestock sale, eggs price, and housing rentals with multiple local names and storefronts.
O J Bracken celebrates a new baby with Judge Henry Webber visiting from Yort Duchesne. John Caldwell and wife travel from Dragon trading and hauling contracts are mentioned. Real estate talks in Chicago with Mr Glenn. The Current Topics club plans a Bazaar for Vernal Public Library with a dance in the evening. Wolves kill stock between Ashley Valley and Lone Tree despite efforts. Edith Wells and Minnie Hackett host 35 guests at Congregational church. helpers named. Gerald Stewart returns from Canada and remarks on staying. taxes and delinquency looming. Dry Gulch Irrigation enlarges Uintah canal with 160 workers and 60 teams. Tom and Andy Broumback move from Steamboat Springs for winter. others consider moving. Dr. Garrett O'Donnell returns from Denver after study. purchases Wagner Static C electrical machine with XRay capabilities.
L M Driggs sold his home and bottling works and left with his family for Pleasant Grove to spend the winter. The soda business was sold to the Eaton Brothers, who will keep house for Driggs' father. Driggs hopes to return when the country opens up. Jesse Glassford of Continental Oil sends apple photos from Grand Junction to promote home settlement. Owen Gray with Gray & Grosh telegraphs that he will visit Vernal to discuss water works for the city and push a spring start for trenches and pipe installation.
Last Wednesday Milton Nichols buried his infant daughter Stella who died of pneumonia. The service was at T F Caldwell's place with Bishop Colton presiding and Winnie Collett singing. Interment followed at Masser Ward cemetery. Other items mention Clara Hacking's ear piercing, Zina Stringham's Salt Lake Temple marriage, and local priesthood meetings plus residents visiting relatives and home improvements.
An old ad copy touts Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets as a mild remedy for constipation in children. It claims benefits are gentle and trustworthy, and mentions Vernal Drug Co as the seller. A Provo Herald note lists apple yields with an orchard example showing earnings approx 1800 dollars per acre.
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