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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1934
Page
4
Community events announce a three day rodeo starting next Thursday featuring multiple races and purses from 5 to 60 dollars with entry fees. Proceeds fund Ashley and Davis yard chapels as local families donate and prepare for a birthday dinner in honor of Mrs Henry Workman. Local residents and CCC members plan to assist and attend.
Engineers report 1400 acres across multiple projects on the Green River bottom lands will support about 1000 people with additional winter feed. Corn stands 2 to 4 feet high on 200 acres watered by a 70 hp gasoline engine. Projects include 10 inch and two 8 inch pumps feeding 440 acres with government fuel, fencing wire, and some gear supplied.
A string of social visits and family trips fill the weekend as residents from Rowse to Feet Bridge share time with relatives and attend events. Members from several households visited elders, prepared children for school, and hosted guests at homes across the area in a flurry of kinship and community activities.
Mrs Karl Cotler and Mrs Vavre from Vernal visited relatives in this community on Sunday. Also seen were Mrs Wallace Wreeks and other locals enjoying the gathering.
A dance at Leva Bottoms featured the Roosevelt orchestra with a large crowd. Local families, including Exsunds, Jorgensens, and Stoddards, report visits, medical care, and farm work. The Needlecraft League hosted by Nina Adams. typhoid inoculations occurred. transportation efforts for Vernal students continued. many relatives visited in Vernal Maeser and Lapoint.
The report covers missionary expenses by Mrs Alta Waidie and talks by Miss Zahmsor M and Mrs Wilfod Anderson of Lyndon. Visiting at David L Richards home are Mr and Mrs Clide Chis els and others, with family visits from Salt Lake and Pleasant Grove. Several volley ball games and tennis matches are noted, plus a trip by Mr and Mrs George Hemstalk to Salt Lake.
Ashley and family visit Dickens Neb to tend late brother G E Gare trells property. Many locals like Mrs Lon McCarrell Mr and Mrs Jesse York and Miss Kern Bennion enjoy Green Lake outing. John Powell builds a new house on his farm and aims to finish by winter.
A mix of community updates from Fort Duchesne Idaho and surrounding areas. Obits, travel to Salt Lake for funerals, farm work schedules, and family visits are noted along with a local baseball game score and Labor Day events. Names include Albert Campbell Gene Litster Stanley Roth and several local families.
Local residents report a week of visits and family movements. Martha Osborn returns to Salt Lake City after visiting Maeser and Tridell relatives. Mrs McConickle and family relocate to Maeser for winter. several Miss Merkley relatives and friends visit ranches and homes in Vernal and Mantle.
About 200 camp members attended a Wednesday night religious meeting at Kaler Hollow Camp DF-3. Captain T E B Curtis and Colonel David A Smith spoke, with musical selections by camp members Wesley Hansen Charles Waagen and Francis Showell. The event is part of a monthly cycle of eighteen camps hosted by Captain Curtis.
CCC company No 1965 near Vernal has begun conditioning its winter camp for occupancy. An advance attachment has been transferred to the site 75 miles south of Manth. Preliminary work under Capt Vernon Peterson and Albert A Smith aims to build twenty barracks, officers quarters, mess hall, wash houses, and other outbuildings. If plans hold, camp ready about October 10, under 1st St Harold E Smith Gav Res Camp Constitution Officer.
Agriculture reports that the June 1 hog production reduction target may be met. Based on data from 149 600 farms, spring pig numbers are 27 percent below the 1932–1933 averages, and sow farrowings from June 1 to October 1 are projected 4 percent lower.
Lea Smith and family visited relatives for a weekend before returning home from a two month stay in Vernal Utah. The report mentions transfers, school plans, and social gatherings with neighbors and friends across the region.
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The piece lists local figures such as Eliza Harvey Chyde Merkley Glenn Mor rill and Aberimn high school Principal Reed Morill visiting home folk in Tridell. It notes a ward mission sale of baskets, a forest service camp trip, and a joint wedding anniversary celebration in Whiterocks canyon.
The fragment notes residents including George Strebel in Salt Lake City and Provo, Arnon Wilkins and family heading to St George for schooling, and Uh Wilkins with family planning a move. Bernice and LaNviar Pearce of Los Angeles returned home after visiting. Orval and Glenn Goonie h accompany them to Salt Lake City.
Mrs Hattie Horrocks and family from Arcadia visited relatives, Russel Francis and Thog Todd Morris Buckwalter, at their homestead. Buckwalter, employed at Untah Canyon, traveled home with his family for the weekend.
Delegations led by G A Cooper and T A Trimble seek federal aid for local initiatives. One plan would fund 43 cabins on the Green River pumping project near Leota Bottoms, plus community ice houses, a recreation center, and housing for farmers. An $8600 appropriation and $200 insurance threshold are noted. Mrs Pumphrey reports danger on the Whiteriser swinging bridge with a missing cable and poor truss condition.
Utah growers signed wheat contracts have received a total of 47254483 dollars from the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. Proof of compliance forms have been completed and sent to Washington for the final payment of last year’s crop. The forthcoming payment will be nine cents per min a local expenses.
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