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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1937
Page
5
Vernal society hosts a Halloween Hallowe'en carnival on Oct 30 at the Imperial Nail bar with fortune tellers pirate treasure at the fish pond and refreshments. The dance is sponsored by MT with Mrs Harold Davis, Clair Hopkins and Mrs L G Noble leading the committee.
Names, visits, and events across Lapoint and Vernal Utah list travel, family visits, dances, church and club activities, and local notices. Highlights include connections to Swensen Bigelow Caldwell Stoker and Rasmussen families, a wedding dance, CCC service recalls, and BPW district and Junior Girls activities with regional figures and venues.
Court records reveal submembership and corporate details in an injunction proceeding led by Nicholas Papedakis of Gushtr In a fording. The corporation Dokis Is & Greek claims religious and educational aims with no profit motive. Names listed include Edgar Bar and several international applicants. Since Mr Noel became County Clerk, several individuals have sworn allegiance to the United States, among them Michael Kasteinakis Joseph Barnes William Morrison Andrew Matthew Verholt. The report also mentions market notes on coast products and sweet cream usage.
A compact listing of monthly events includes dances, boxing contest, ball, harvest and Thanksgiving, plus community meetings and club activities. Highlights feature Halloween and Christmas Eve dances, Armistice Day events, and county commission sessions alongside school activities and a Pheasant Hunters dance.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert McCain celebrated their golden wedding with a 46 member family dinner. They were married October 11, 1689 in Tennessee and moved to Jensen 37 years ago before later residing in Southern Utah. Attending were A. J. Nelson and several Nelsons from Jensen.
Forty years ago neighbors gathered at Charley and wife Carters Merrill ward home for a quiet social evening. Vernal attorney Fr Weltman was in Price earlier in the week. Bullocks visit town from Wanship. Burton family homecoming from relatives. Mrs Hatch becomes mother to a girl. Prof Giles plans operetta with local children for next Monday at the Opera House. Fort Duchesne to receive two infantry companies and quarters are being repaired.
Twenty years ago Bid Seab and BD Walls 13 were temporarily employed by the government at Pt Duchesne in the Indian Agent Kneale's office. Principal R L Sainsbury of Uintah Academy returned from Salt Lake after attending general conference and the state fair. Corey Hanks, famed opti mist and disabled by blindness and lacking hands, spoke in Vernal Monday. D G Lolliver arrived from Brown's Park via Denver reporting Denver snow. Frank G Slaugh of Vernal and Miss Mary Peterson of St Pleasant were wed Oct 3 at Mantt temple. both widely known in Ashley Valley.
Lester Arnold Ellsworth aged 26 and Juanita Watkins aged 18, both of Vernal, obtained marriage licenses. The filing notes indicate consent ages and residence confirmed by local clerks.
National Reemployment Service announces about two hundred harvest positions in Idaho for meet and pointe crops. Interested individuals can obtain full particulars by contacting the service at Duchesne. The notice cites a bumper harvest with a shortage of harvest labor.
A federal court issued a permanent injunction against United Prosperity Plan Inc forbidding sale or offer for sale of Prosperity Trade Certificates until registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Judge Tillman D. Johnson signed the order Saturday, and the SEC filed a bill of exceptions over the court’s omissions regarding applications and agreements.
In a rural encounter, County Agent Russell Ieetch wrestles with a misfiring gun beside a large boulder. Anxious bystanders watch as the hunter realizes the hammer was cocked but the trigger unreleased. The deer fades into the hills, revealed as grey rather than white.
A notice directs readers to contact the REAL Es TATE SALES OFFICE of the Federal Land Bank at S12 Ben eficial Life Building, Salt Lake City, or reach A Theodore Johnson in Vernal, who is named Secretary-Treasurer, for sale details and inquiries.
A fragmented piece blending a hunter's anecdote with a public speech on Buck fever and widespread economic strain. It links personal caution in the wild with national concerns like inflation debt taxes prohibition and bank regulation, urging steadfastness in trying times.
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