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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1923
Page
2
A boastful figure known as Tha Curious Guy roams conversations, eager to intrude and outdo Mr. Edison in questions. He proclaims an insatiable inquisitiveness, turning private matters into broadcast chatter and declaring day lost without exposing others.
A compilation notes visitors to Vernal and Jensen including Joe Haslam, M. Taylor, H. J. Reynolds, Mrs J H Massey, and others. It records a Uintah School district board meeting, hotel registrations from Craig and Salt Lake participants, and local business trips by residents such as Marion Shaffer and Hatch Murray. Updates mention land filing by John W Robbins, Thelma Hunt postoperative status, Maeser Calf club travel, and Ver nal Electric manager Roy Coupe returning from East Lake City with traffic and road conditions noted.
Midwest Oil-Mutual Oil Co plans test drilling on the Boundary Butte structure at the Utah Arizona border, specifying AMT foot. Naples junior high ninth grade will remain in Naples per a school board decision made at a special meeting held last Saturday. Harold Lloyd film Grandma's Boy plays at Vogue tonight. The Armstead day dance at the Orpheus Monday night attracts many attendees under the American Legion Witbock Post No 11. Wendell Pops returns from California trip, traveling with S A Shakespear. Miss Winona Johnson from Salt Lake City visits family, including Mrs Emma Johnson, and works as a Kepley company bookkeeper. Mrs John Chew of Jensen leaves for Gunnison to attend her parents birthday, Anthony Metcalf and wife. Mr Metcalf 80, Mrs Metcalf 82. Mrs Chew stays overnight with daughter Mrs Nilo Hughes.
Allie Workman of Gimes ward had his left foot crushed when a wheel ran over it while loading cobble rock for the Victory highway west of the L. D. 8 tabernacle. He removed the load, went to Vernal, then home, and suffered significant pain over Saturday and Sunday nights. Construction work is by Young and Company.
A. G. Young and company advance grading on Project 10-B with abutments for bridges being placed by Mosers Batty and Caldwell. A cobble rock base runs west from the L D S tabernacle toward the Ernest Eaton home. After grading, the road to the High Line canal will be surfaced with crushed rock by Young and company.
J B Farrar of Winthrop Maine visited his brother W E Farrar a Vernal Utah merchant Sunday evening. They last met 35 years ago in Hopkinton New Hampshire. Farrar traveled from Price with nine passengers and 500 pounds of baggage. Mrs Farrar visits Cincinnati Ohio and plans to join him in Vernal. Their parents are alive with sisters Elsie Smith La Crosse Wis and Lillian Hayden Providence RI.
Under the Vernal Gun and Rifle club last week the final 100000 rainbow trout were planted at the Whiterocks hatchery. E Fred Sargent and Supt W H Cook supervised river planting, while J H Ratliff transported and planted fifteen cans above Brush creek falls. Sargent Ratliff donated services and Ratliff provided truck service. The Gun club funded and built the hatchery and has led planting efforts to date.
Rail line workers and families, including Ot s Horrocks Mrs M Hatch EB Zimerjin and Dwight Dow, traveled between Vernal Watson and Grand Junction Colorado. Supt John McAndrews and roadmaster E S Gurr spent the week on road work while Rev M J Hersey preached in Watson Rainbow and Dragon. Misa Virgil Engbersen rode to Veluel Dragon Utah.
Maeser calf club led by LeRoy Carroll with 11 members had a photo taken after winning the Uintah State Bank's $250 Jersey bull calf award for the best club in Uintah County among Boys and Girls clubs. Afton Bingham won first, Elmer Hofeltz took third. Grace Adams earned second in the Junior sewing club. Carroll plans another calf club and continues work in Maeser.
The Vernal Chamber of Commerce gives up Calder building recreational rooms and sub-leases them to George Converse for a Vernal Athletic club. The chamber will relocate to E A Manker’s office, which will become the new hub for community service and Valley and Basin development efforts.
County officials led by County Clerk Wilson Murray Treasurer W Henderson and County Attorney J T McConnell drew the jurors for the December term of district court. The term begins Monday December 3 with jurors to report Tuesday December 4 in Vernal and nearby locales.
Whiterocks fish hatchery received one case of native trout eggs from the State fish and game department. Superintendent W. O H Cook oversaw three more egg casts this week. Each case held 500 000 eggs, half native trout and half Rainbow trout, not eyed yet, promising fertile numbers. Hatchery to run at full capacity for first time, state commissioner D. H. Madsen calls it a complete success.
The Current Topics club holds an open meeting Friday November 23 at 3 p.m. in the Congregational Church. Honorable Thus W O Donnell will deliver the lecture. Ladies of the community are invited to attend.
On Friday November 9 Mrs Bybil Collyer hosted the Current Topics club at her mother Mrs L F Woodards home. Father L J Fries delivered an engaging lecture on The Background of Poverty as part of a lecture series. Mrs Byron Thomas organized the social hour and Mrs Mary Watch won bridge honors before a delicious luncheon.
Mesdames Lee Caldwell and Nile Hughes hosted a surprise party Saturday evening at the Hughes home for Mrs. Jane Murray. A large number of neighbors attended with Mrs. Mayme Hacking of Maeser as a special guest. The evening featured games and other social amusements with refreshments served.
Mr and Mrs James Coupe announce the marriage of their son Clair Coupe to Elva Cruikshank daughter of Dr George H Cruikshank former Vernal mayor now of San Diego California The newlyweds will reside at Redondo Beach near Los Angeles where Mr Coupe is employed They are well known in Vernal with many friends and the Express extends best wishes for their happiness
Miss Nell Preece stenographer for International Smelter in Salt Lake City visited her parents Mr and Mrs William Preece. A family reunion was held at the Preece home on Sunday with Co J Preece William Preece Jr and families from Myton plus Shuritt Mia Lafe Richardson and families in attendance. Miss Preece returned Sunday to Myton and left Tuesday for Salt Lake City.
A party was given Thursday evening by the Vernal Second ward parents class to honor their teacher George N. Larsen who has been placed in stake Sunday school work. A splendid crowd attended.
The American Legion sponsors an essay contest on immigration with the title Why America Should Prohibit Immigration for Five Years. Open to boys and girls in grades 9 to 12 at Uintah high school junior highs and Willcox academy. Rev Father Louis J. Fries offers a $10 prize for the best essay under 600 words. Contest closes at midnight November 24.
At a Uintah High School assembly on Armistice Day, students heard readings including Vera Calder as a Soldier's Mother, and Reginald Cook and a Foreigner. Glenn Wellman and George L. Goodrich shared experiences from France and Armistice Day 1918. The mixed glee club performed Going to Study War no More and other pieces, with Columbis the Gem of the Ocean and Taps sung under Prof. William F. Hanson.
Uintah County farmer F O Lundberg, known as the Uintah county turkey king, hosts a flock estimated between 1200 and 1500 turkeys at his Fort Duchesne area home. The birds fill trees, barns, and roosts, with 38 young toms gathered in the barn yard. Lundberg, his wife and two sons actively care for the birds and other farming work, including alfalfa seed. He serves as president of the Western division of the Uintah county farm bureau and plans to market over 800 turkeys for Thanksgiving, shipping dressed birds to Price for the Utah Poultry Producers' association to New York.
A. E. Humphreys of Denver and J. H. Ratlif of Vernal Utah filed with state engineer R H Caldwell for 6500 second feet from the Green river at Split mountain canyon used year round for power and 171 second feet for irrigation to 12000 acres in Jensen and 81.5 second feet from Brush creek to irrigate 5700 acres. Water will be conveyed 2 1 2 miles by flume tunnel canal and pipe line with power return to the river. Electric power would light and propel machinery in Uintah county Utah and other Colorado sites.
W O Donnell was employed as special attorney to prosecute J H Evans who shot Christy Anderson on Oct 27 in an altercation over a fence. County Attorney Ray E Dillman hired Daniel Alexander of Stewart Stewart and Alexander to assist Ernest H Burgess for the defense. Evans was bound over to the district court after the hearing. W Smith served as committing magistrate.
A classified item lists a missing girl notice for Mrs W H Coltharp, and a found item of a bridle at a residence with a contact at Ellis Merkley. The same issue promotes a Saturday night showing at Vogug theatre of Brasa Commandments featuring William Farnuni, described as highly recommended.
Charles A. Hendricks of Whiterocks and Miss Alice Reed were married November 6 by Justice Irvin Eaton. Carl Moosman and Ettie Ellingford of Whiterocks, son of James Moosman and daughter of Thomas Ellingford, were granted a license on November 7.
A. G. Goodrich, Uintah school board clerk, reports October census totals 2901 students. The counts include 148 boys and 1418 girls of school age, down 110 from last year’s rally.
Willcox academy held an Armistice Day program with patriotic exercises and a performance of the Star Spangled Banner. A B Thomas, secretary of the Vernal Chamber of Commerce and a teacher at the academy, delivered an oration on the duties of the American citizen. The program concluded with a school dismissal for the day.
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