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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1926
Page
6
Evan Perry and his wife are visiting relatives from Park City. Lola, the young daughter of Mr and Mrs Penfield, has undergone a tonsil procedure.
Pleasant Grove residents recount family arrivals and visits. Mr and Mrs Ray Olson of Pleasant Grove visit Mrs Olson's parents. Mr Olson returned, Mrs Olson stays a month. New baby boy at G L Cluff home. Mrs Etta Alexander hosts miscellaneous shower for Mrs John O Nell. Several residents travel to Cedarview and Lapoint to visit relatives. Community events include MI A program and UH Service bureau talk by R O L Bixton.
Waterways running twenty miles through wild country feed a power plant and are plagued by deer clipping into concrete lined canals. Workers build bridges from wool covered tree trunks where old deer trails cross. Taddera are set along ditches to help animals climb out. Fences fail to keep deer away and some creatures are repeatedly pulled from the water.
Crew aboard a large United States submarine faced a clever rat infestation after returning from a South American voyage. Rats multiplied in storerooms and tight spaces, resisting traps. Clubbing parties were organized as daily sallies failed to fully eradicate the problem.
Report recalls the September 11 1777 clash on Brandywine Creek Pennsylvania where 19000 American troops led by General Washington faced 18000 British forces under Lord Howe. Americans suffered about 100 deaths with British losses near 300 as Lafayette played a noted role in the fight. British victory allowed occupation of Philadelphia on September 26 prompting Washington to move to Germantown and then winter at Valley Forge.
In New York Captain Rene Fonck asserts airplanes show great progress after recalling a boyhood moment when a scientist dismissed a Bleriot as a wood and wire contrivance. Louis Bleriot is quoted as retorting about a new born baby’s potential.
Local residents attend dinners visits and church events. Students improve school grounds while a school truck accident injures two riders. Teachers and families travel to nearby towns and arrangements are made for winter housing and hospital care.
The Lapoint boys are playing the same as Mr and Mrs Brennen during an extended visit at Fred Dickson’s home in Fort Duchesne. W H Smart moves to live with daughter Mrs James Rasmussen. Mr and Mrs Don McConkle spent the weekend in Vernal. Mark Woolley and wife visited friends in Cache Valley. F Lundberg plans another tract east of town for fall planting.
A baby boy arrived October 1 to Mr and Mrs L B Anderson. Wim P Merrell is recovering from a serious illness caused by the flu. Weekend visitors from the mines include Hogg Veirell Marie Harrison Merrell Aghel Manwaring and Lva Merrell. Michael and Joeneh brought in their sheep from the mountains this week.
A ConWint M I A session held last Sunday evening marked the season opener. The program featured Harrison A Justice and William J red piano solo Mary Slaugh vocal solo May Neilsen lecture The Devine Mission of Joseph Smith by Lawiy S Gardiner Stake L M A president Mrs Jane Merkley attended. Ward Metal officers include Mark Cook president Leslie Anderson Leland Collier as counselors Ada Cook president Ivy Manwaring Elsie Henry as counselors Frank Goodrich trombone solo and May Neilsen vocal solo. Baby girl born to Mr and Mrs Joseph Collier on Monday October 4th, their fourth child and second daughter.
Sculptor Gutzen Borg tam explains at the Illuminating Engineering Society meeting in New York how the Breast Mullina memorial was carved on Stone Mountain in Atlanta. A giant scene of a warlike host rises across the face, with a 10 foot tall central figures and 1616 objects stretching over the grand rock “feet long.”
A detailed description of an early electric lantern projection project on a mountain rock face, followed by community notices. Family and temple travel plans are reported, including trips to Salt Lake City for conference and genealogy work, a home fire incident, and a surprise birthday gathering for Mrs Peters with 25 guests.
A clipped item notes deer and wildlife affecting mountain hydroelectric operations. References to owls, squirrels, and damaged lines hint at higher tension on power infrastructure as deer disrupts regional energy grids.
Roosevelt figures announce moving families to town for the winter and occupy the Chandler house. In the Republican primary Jerry Walker wins nomination and Mark Woolley names for justice of the peace. Attendees at Vernal convention include Vic Lefroy Taylor and C L Knight.
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