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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1906
Page
3
Miss Myrtle Hacking is suffering from a severe attack of typhoid fever. Enoch Lybbert was a Vernal visitor on Tuesday. He reports everything prosperous in the Fort Duchesne section and says they are doing well with their sawmill.
Expresa reports two fine potato specimens from Barney Grade's farm near the dependence. The crop was irrigated, indicating the soil's high productivity and promising yields for the region.
Prof A T Johnson, a Uintah Stake Academy teacher and recent woodworker graduate, worked at Garfield smelters over the summer. Prof Snow, Limtah Stake Academy principal, with wife and family, and Robert Robinson arrived Monday. Mr Robinson is J W Robinson Hy Meeks & Son lease their livery to Ed C Sumner of Grand Junction for twelve months as Meeks plans to move his family to a reservation homestead and improve it.
Work on Stake Tabernacle resumed last Monday morning. Apostle Rodger Clawson departed for Salt Lake City that same morning. The Gardiner home welcomed another son. A new baby joined Mr and Mrs Hodekinnon. John Butterworth and W S Nichol of Roosevelt were in Vernal on business last Wednesday.
Rev JH C Tracy will hold services Sunday September vth at Fo'clock p m at the Congregational Church. Clarence Ashton and Mertzer Calder will attend State University the coming winter. Clarence will go out with Senator Bennion Monday. About October 1 J N Davis will return to Vernal from Salt Lake with 100 head of Merinorama for sale and five head of registered Ramboutlettes.
G W VanGundy left yesterday for Dragon with eggs and vegetables and will bring back a load of Grand Junction peaches. He plans to attend the fair at Grand Junction a little later.
Vernal reports two locals, Ray Dillman and Wayne Decker, are attending the University of Colorado in Boulder after leaving Vernal last Saturday morning. Miss Teri Dillman and her sister Belle will winter with Dillman relatives in Chariton Iowa.
Miss Margaret Crook will leave for Vernal next Wednesday to teach school. Her friends here regret parting with her and wish her God speed in her new post.
R. M. Rasmussen arrived from Roosevelt on Tuesday with a kiln loaded with about 30,000 brick. He traveled to challenge the homestead filing of Mathias T. Smith.
Ashley Bartlett and family with Prof. J. W. Robinson and Bishop George Billings left for Provo last Tuesday afternoon. Monroe Shepherd joins the party and will study in Provo this winter. Prof. Robinson will teach at the Academy, Ashley will teach and study, and Ross Bartlett plans to go later to attend Provo school.
On Wednesday September 5 the Register and Receiver heard three land contest cases. Represented by Pope and Tyzack, the contestees did not appear. Cases involved Simeon E Atwood versus George B Wright of Grand Junction Colorado Rasmus M Rasmussen versus Mathas T Smith of Vernal Utah and Edwin R Wardle versus John Penfield of Palisade Colorado.
Local notices promote ice cream for parties, leather goods, lumber supplies, and hardware in Vernal Utah. Vendors highlight harness, doors, windows, and building materials plus medical cures for horses and retail subscriptions. Frank M. Young handles Desert News subscriptions.
For years Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has grown popular and now stands as a staple medicine with vast sales. It targets acute throat and lung diseases such as coughs colds and croup and is pleasant and safe to take. Lloyd Drug Co sells it.
Had tetter for thirty years and tried countless remedies with little relief. Three boxes of Chamberlain's Salve cured me. It was torture but now breaks out only a little, nothing like before. If Beach, Midland City, Alabama. Chamberlain's Salve for sale by Lloyd Drug Co.
Mr John Wall Mrs Wall and Mr Miles Batty have returned from Vernal where they visited relatives and friends. They report that all are prospering in that section of the country. Wasatch Wave.
Professor A B Anderson, a familiar figure to county residents, has retired from teaching and purchased his father’s Leh farm. He plans not to return to school teaching for several years.
The Willcox school will open September 10 with both church rooms used for classes. A complete four year high school course is offered. The teaching staff has been increased to five and the school is now well equipped for work.
Rev H C Tracy arrives Saturday night as the Willcox school’s new principal. A graduate of Oberlin College he previously taught at Oberlin Academy Whitman College in Washington and Anatolia College in Asiatic Turkey.
Joseph Rich and his mother Mrs. Jane Rich arrived home Saturday from Salt Lake City. Mrs Rich will stay about a month in Vernal then return to Salt Lake City to spend winter with her granddaughter Miss Essie Rich who attends school at the L D S University.
In the sanctum of the Express an exhibition features vegetables raised at Roosevelt by Mrs. Col. F. Harmston. Seeds planted June 16, with crops grown without irrigation. The produce is praised as fine specimens proving the soil’s productivity and the climate’s warmth this year.
Hugh Colton, five, suffered severe hand injuries when his fingers were stripped by a moving hay cable pulley. Dr. Garrett O'Donnell treated the hand and warned one finger may remain stiff. Emery farmers count on record alfalfa seed yields with $5,000 to $7,000 per strong acre in profits.
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