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Show : !n The good Sid lays 70 YEARS AGO 30 YEARS AGO 20 YEARS AGO July 16, 1909 ; The Uintah Stake Academy has purchased 7 acres of land for a new school site one block west of the Tabernacle block. One more acre may be added making the campus a com- plete and unbroken square. The ar-t ar-t chitect, Mr. Maeser of Salt Lake, is i expected here any day to look over the J site and conform the plans of the new building to the location. A $25,000 building will be begun this summer, l The people of the valley are pledging Jl their support. 8 y The State Board of Mormon Church School has promised that as soon as the Academy has fifteen students who desire to take a full four years academic course, the Board will furnish fur-nish the additional teachers necessary to give such a course. At present the Academy is offering only a two year "2 course. JJ The Dredge of the Uintah Placer 1 Mining and Exploration Company has ! been closed down indefinitely for lack Q of funds. The exact status of affairs is Snot known, as Mr. Brockman, the J manager, has left for Salt Lake, and no J report has been made by him to the -stockholders in regard to the matter. In - fact, Mr. Brockman has made no official of-ficial report to the stockholders the last couple of months or more. The machinery and property have been attached for wages. The Uintah Creamery is doing a steady business, although it is receiving only a small amount of the milk which it could handle with ease and profit. During the last month it has received on an average only a little over 1,000 pounds of milk a day, while it could handle without any additional running expense 2,500 pounds. i l' There is a scarcity of wheat and .'wheat flour in the valley. Mr. Ehrlich .jhas stopped shipping flour to the. 1 reservation. This has been necessary in order to make the present supply last for this valley and town until the new , wheat comes in, which will be about L iAugust 1st Mr. Ehrlich reports that the mill has had a fine year; it has ground 40,000 bushels of wheat into flour but could have handled much more. The farmers ; are begging to realize that there is a never failing home market for wheat, and the acreage has been increased about 20 percent this year; and the yield of winter wheat is reported to be exceptionally promising. Four years ago Mr. Chas. Glines started making a park and race track it his place in Maeser ward which Dromises to be an up-to-date resort in a lew years. The track is already one of ;he best in the state, and as it is the only :ircular, half mile track in this country ill the horsemen in this part of the state laturally come to this track for nearly . ill meets. Mr. Glines has spared no pains to make the track as perfect as Js:he conditions of soil permit. 0 S: 3; John W. Mott, Dragon, was brought ', before Justice Rebeau Calder, Monday i' for neglecting his four minor children, i i He waived preliminary examination : and was bound over to the District : I court. His bond, which was fixed at $500 ; has not yet been given. - Leo Thome has secured a three month old coyote pup, shot by one of the Massey boys. Mr. Thorne is mounting the pup and it will be on exhibition in his studio. 3 -; Mrs. Esther Bennion is still quite low. 3 i She had several sinking spells a few ijjdays ago, but has rallied again. j3; Captain Hall from Fort Duchesne gi made a flying trip to Vernal last week i in his fine, new, almost noiseless, "- government automobile. Sc Grant Carpenter, range rider, was bitten on the hand by a deer-fly in the Sj mountains a few days ago. The bite ! developed into blood poison, and Mr. Carpenter is nursing a bad hand. "Happy," the monkey formerly in yjjMr. Adams' possession, now belongs to Mr. Fern Young. Mr. Young bought fhim recently from the reservation, where he has been for the last year or Jso. He seems to have grown very Jsavage and fierce; the second day he was at Mr. Young's he bit Mrs. Young's hand severely; and he continues to act Sso ugly that she cannot get near him even with a buggy whip. Walter McCoy is making extensive improvements on his house in Maeser ward, which he bought this spring from Heber Timothy. He is putting a large porch on one side putting all windows on pulleys, and will paint all wood 3 s'work. The house will become one of the S. 'handsomest of the many attractive residences in Maeser. i- j Adelbert Colton has sold his farm of g ! 20 acres in Maeser with brick house and J -all improvements to Henry Green of ;Naples. The consideration was $4000. ? , lit 5 j; A bay sucking colt followed my team ? ; home from Maeser. Owner is welcome to same by paying for this notice. Enos Bennion. Vernal is not the only city that held a celebration. Jensen turned out in full - force. There were two very pretty 7 5. floats. Julina Dudley was chosen j1 Goddess of Liberty by 3780 votes ; Lizzie a- "S Haslem received next highest 1620. Lizzie represented Utah and 27 little r girls, Utah's best crop. r Hyrum Larson and wife have gome to their reservation home. Hyrum said they would stay fourteen months if they 3 S didn't starve out and have to come back J to Jensen. July 20, 1949 Rent control in the Vernal defense area, including all of Uintah and Duchesne Counties, has been abloished. Mayor, B.H.Stringham, received a letter Tuesday from Tighe E. Woods, Washington, informing him of the action taken by the federal officer. Effictive date of decontrol was July 13. A full-time secretary and stenographer are being sought by the Vernal Chamber of Commerce. The announcement was released following a board of directors- meeting at Hotel Vernal last Monday noon. The new Uintah County Hospital will be dedicated Monday at 7 p.m. by Heber Bennion Jr., Secretary of State. The new hospital will be ready to receive patients July 27. Erland Preece, new hospital manager, announced an-nounced Wednesday. Rates will be: four-bed ward, $7.50 per day; two-bed room, $9; private, $12; routine dressing for medical and surgical patients, $2.25 per week. Governor J. Bracken Lee, on a get-acquainted get-acquainted and road inspection tour of the Uintah Basin, will speak July 20 at a meeting of the Vernal Lions Club. David O. McKay, counselor in the first Presidency, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will represent general authorities at the dedication of the Uintah Stake Center. Clifton Laris, 33, native of Vernal who resided at Roosevelt, was filled instantly in-stantly Sunday afternoon in Mosby Canyon when the brakes of his heavily-loaded heavily-loaded lumber truck failed and his truck overturned. Seating facilities for older people attending Homecoming Events will be provided at the corner of 5th West and 2nd South. The seats will be available for these people so they may view the parade, listen to the program and witness the dance festival on the tabernacle grounds. Max Caldwell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Chellus M. Caldwell has been making a name in junior baseball circles ( this season in Salt Lake City. As shortstop for Lorraine Press he collected two hits out of three times at bat, made one out and three assists in the game last week. "Builders of Uintah," a book published by Uintah County Daughters of Pioneers, are still available in stores in Vernal, Vernal city office, and at the home of Mrs. James Olivers. Monday morning approximately forty men and boys met on the church property and commenced work on a new, open-air dance floor which will be completed before July 24. The Uintah County sheriff's office this week has been investigating a report that sugar was put in the gasoline tank of a Yellow Cab Co. taxi on July 13. Marcus Jensen returned to Nutter Ranch at Nine-Mile after spending two weeks in Vernal receiving medical aid ' for blood poisoning. A crowd of relatives and friends from Jensen and Vernal surprised Douglas Chew on his birthday. The party was held at the Rone Mae Ranch last Sunday and the day was spent visiting. Roofing contractors who are making bids on shingling the Central School building were requested Wednesday to call the Board of Education office for detailed specifications by Harold M. Lundell, County School Superintendent. Mr. and Mrs. Morgan Merkley announce an-nounce the arrival of a granddaughter, July 13 at the Utah Valley Hospital in Provo to Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Court. Mrs. Court will be remembered as the former Veda Merkley. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Huber received word that Mr! and Mrs. Dean Sessions are the parents of a baby boy born July 13 at the Basin Hospital in Vernal. Bernard Moon of Vernal won $214.30 as best saddle bronc rider to participate par-ticipate in the Vernal Rodeo which drew near-capacity crowds last Thursday, Friday and Saturday at the rodeo grounds. July 16, 1959 Roosevelt City Council this week went on record as approving the adoption of the additional Vz percent local option sales tax passed by the state legislature last year and is requesting Duchesne County to put this tax into operation in the county. Arch Dam Construction Company has commenced pouring concrete for footings of the machinery to be used in producing sand and gravel for the $29 million Flaming Gorge Dam at Dutch John. The Turner brothers of Utah's Uintah Basin have scheduled construction of a $100,000 planing mill on the east side of Heber. Red Springs campground, located along the Vernal-Manila highway, is being reconstructed and enlarged to meet the greatly increased recreation use by forest campers. A huge blaze that could be seen throughout Ashley Valley Thursday evening of last week caused from $6,000 to $7,000 damage to the Niles Haslem farm in Ashley. Completely destroyed were 130 tons of hay, a tractor, hay elevator and loader, feed mangers, and fences. Airplane plants of 43,264 fingerling brook trout into seventeen lakes of the Boulder Thousand Lake Mountain area was announced today. Recent visitors at the Coke Jeffries have been his father, Percy L. Jeffries, and his bride of three months, the former Mrs. Mary Ellen Richardson, of Grand Junction. They were married in Grand Junction on April 12. Mr. Jeffries Jef-fries is 83 in August and his bride 85. Ferrell A. Massey, Provo, formerly of Vernal has been awarded a Certificate Cer-tificate of Merit by the Winona School of Photography, Winona Lake, Ind. June Bastian, son of Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Bastian, Vernal has recently been named United Crusade Chairman for the Spokane Valley in Washington. The merger of Stauffer Chemical Co. and Victor Chemical Works last week was reported by men in the industry as a move that will speed the day when the huge phosphate deposits in Brush Creek will reacri the stage of development. ReNee Martinsen was crowned queen of the Dinosaur Round-Up at a dance held last Friday night. Her attendants are Miss Uintah, Carolyn Hatch and Miss Vernal, Elaine Jenkins.! |