Show In the Good Old nays Days i 75 YEARS AGO till n 1902 s L' L Theres There's a song In the air airl Theres There's a star starIn In the sky I 1 Theres There's a mothers mother's deep prayer And a baby's low cry cryl And the star rains Its fire while the glad angels sing For the manger at Bethlehem cradles a King Theres There's a tumult of joy oer o'er the wonderful won won- wonderful birth For the virgins virgin's sweet boy Is the Lord of the earth Ayl the star rains rainy its it's fire and the glad angels sing For the manger of Bethlehem cradles a aKing King Kingl We rejoice In the light and we echo the song That comes down through the night From the heavenly throng Ayl Ay We shout to the lovely evangel they bring And we greet in His cradle cradIc our Saviour and King The smallpox epidemic is gaining more ground In Provo despite strict quarantine The schools of South Bountiful have been closed and all public gatherings stopped on account of scarlet fever A movement has been started among the businessmen of Ogden for mutual protection against shoplifters and petty thieves The two negro women accused of murdering Daniel Ryan a minor in Salt Lake City have confessed to putting morp morphine ine in his beer Ryan was drugged for robbery purposes and died of an overdose of morphine Chris Lemke a wealthy farmer of Oregon committed suicide by hanging His brother Claus committed suicide by the same means After attending the funeral Chris went to his barn tied a rope to a rafter in an old house and leaped from a box The men were 30 and 31 years old Both had families and comfortable homes owning properties valued at each Now and then we hear someone telling about what a benefit the Moffat road will be as it will create a market Just so but how about the market now What have you to sell Wheat is worth 1 a bushel How much have you to sell at that price Oats are crawling up to 2 per hundred hundred hun hun- dred Have you any to sell or cant can't you afford to raise oats for that price How much surplus pork bacon or lard did you raise theres there's tons of it I. I shipped shipp d into this valley every year n n Have you o any egg eggs to sell at 30 cents a dozen Better let them go now and give your hens a little extra care IIi HAY IS WORTH WOI 5 a ton in the stack and mighty scarce at that Are you going to raise hay and grain next year or are you figuring on making money with your team working on the grade of the Moffat road Better stay at home and work your farm for all there is in it and let the theother theother theother other fellow pay you at the rate of 20 a aton aton aton ton for baled hay and 3 cents a pound for oats to feed his team while he works on the grade The Ashley Valley farmer who farms his ros land is going to make a bushel of money during the next few years The man who penned this current piece of history knows what he is talking about After a great deal of study and worry we have at last Jast out why so many country editors get rich Here is the secret of their success A child is born in the neighborhood The attending physician gets 25 the editor gives the lunged loud-lunged youngster and the happy parents a send-off send and gets 0 It is christened the minister gets 5 and the editor get 00 It grows up and marries the editor publishes another winded long flowery article 30 YEARS AGO December 19 1917 The Carter Oil Company will drill a fourth wildcat oil well early In 1948 eight miles esl of r V Vernal Nearly persons attended the Randlett Randlett-Ouray Randlett Ouray Lions Club Charter night program and banquet held at the House Saturday evening ni Spon Spon- by the the V Vernal Gernal Lions president en oT of the new club is Bert Young The retail price of milk was advanced this this' week from IB lg cents to o Iff cen en filer quart The Vernal City budget for 1948 totalled Lorin Swain son of Mrs Bessie Swain and Frank Swain has finished his course at the California College of Mortuary Science with a final test score of 98 He lie will practice with his mother in Vernal The Piedmont Dairy Dairy- has purchased the Vernal retail route of Calder Brothers Dairy from from Land Hi-Land Dairy The Vernal Junior Chamber of Commerce showed flashes of their old form Saturday when they defeated the Roosevelt Vets 54 to 25 Members of the Barber Asphalt Miners Union Local who are employed at al Bonanza cast east a percent percent percent per per- cent vote this week to withdraw from the CIO Union of Mine Mill and Smelter Workers according to Irvin Moon chairman A total of 93 votes were cast Leaders of the local miners charge that the Mine Mill and Smelter Workers Union is communistically led TIlE THE SKIN OF the large male brown brownbear brownbear bear killed by Hyrum and Lyle and a smaller female brown bear killed by Asher Merkley have been donated by the hunters to the Utah Fieldhouse of Natural History Vernal the fastest growing community community com com- in Utah has' has within the short space of three years doubled its population from 2500 to Wings Store Girls Girls' Sweaters childrens children's infants' infants Sweaters 59 cents dolls 2 for 99 cents Lyle Taylor is us a committee member in charge bf f ihl city for the the annual Christmas n Half Ballat lf State Agricultural College Lyle is a sophomore maj majoring oring in agriculture Vernal has 17 restaurants and food serving establishments Mrs Virginia Hotzell was granted a divorce because her husband threw his golf clubs at her when she missed a putt she told a judge One time he threw her out of the car when she struck the thi curb as she was trying to drive ive o out of a parking space The j judge dge 4 granted the Divorce vorce Temperatures fell to new zero sub lows the past week The home of Henry B B. B won the lighting contest The diphtheria epidemic soared to a anew anew anew new high in Uintah County last week as as' asH 11 H additional cases were reported Santa Claus came to Lapoint Sunday driving into town behind a horse drawn sleigh He stopped at the town square and distributed candy and nuts to the children Then Santa ac accompanied by l his his' many young admirers went to the ward chapel where he Interviewed the children and promised to visit them Christmas Eve Lee Walker genial manger at did the honors as old St. St Nick The MIA furnished the candy and tells a dozen lies about the beautiful and accomplished bride the minister gets 20 and a piece of cake and the editor gets In the course of time it dies and the Doc gets from 5 to the minister another 5 and undertaker from 50 to The editor publishes notice of the death and an obituary a column long lodge and society relations a Jot lot of poetry a free card of thanks and gets No wonder so many country editors get rich I 20 YEARS AGO AGO l December The governors of the four upper Colorado River Basin states at a meeting In Cheyenne Wyo urged appropriations for Flaming Gorge and participating projects such as the Vernal unit as essential for defense dereme An outbreak of infectious hepatitis a virus disease of the t liver has occurred m tai ST towns during the pas past month The state health official advised Isolation and improved sanitary con con- Boiling of drinking water was also advised in some areas Ercil Oaks of East South was awarded the 25 first prize In the Jaycee home Christmas lighting contest Funeral services for Mrs Leslie Ashton 84 who died Sunday in inthe the Uintah County Hospital Mrs Ashton and her husband were founders of Ashton Brothers Mercantile Stores operating in V Vernal Roosevelt and lIeber Heber City Ci ty An expansion and remodeling program is underway at Ashton Bros Store to increase business capacity and Improve customer conveniences The rhe commercial feasibility of extracting oil from shale and a higher depletion allowance were the main points discussed at a recent meeting In Denver of the interstate committee on oil shale development CHARLES NEAL of Vernal and EG E.G. Goodner president of American Gilsonite Co have been appointed by byG G Gov v. v George D D. Clyde to represent Utah on the committee Youre You're an old timer if you can remember back when a babysitter was called mother In Gary Indiana its it's against the law to get on a street car within four hours after eating garlic Vernal's downtown main street properties the most expensive in the city were secured by homesteaders October 9 1863 according to an old document that recently came to light George E. E Johnstun was recently searching among some old papers when he found homestead rights to the Main Street section Chief vice of many people consists not in doing evil but in permitting it it GOLDEN WEDDINGS The Alvin Smiths and George Is eys Hayden Foster fell from a tree while pruning his fruit orchard and broke his back Sixteen more pages have been added to lo the new 1968 edition of the thc YOUr Fed Federa al In Income Tax rax l If 9 f y ms are discuss discussed and Jand answer Ilax- Ilax Tax Taxpayers ax payers will find it easy to use the guide In the game with Heber the Ute basketball offense was led by Captain John Gardiner with 27 and Grant Drollinger with 24 points The Mormon Tabernacle Choir is one ore of the largest and best known singing groups in the world Organized more than a century ago by Brigham Young soon after the settlement of Utah it has made several tours in the United States and in 1955 went to Europe where its performance was widely acclaimed aC in Great Britain and musical centers centen of the Continent For the past 29 years it has been heard every Sunday morning on a on a national radio broadcast and is is' the oldest continuous non-commercial non program in the history of American radio It recently celebrated its year with the Columbia Broadcasting System Without at advertising you W knoW L. 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