Show 10 jas B reed and family were down from whiterocks monday they made the trip in their new ford touring car the young ladies of the mutual improvement association of the roosevelt ward will entertain the old folks at the amusement hall friday afternoon september 10 wednesday evening a crowd of about thirty young folks met at the he home of R S collett on the west side where an enjoyable lawn awn party wag waa held various games virginia reel and songs were among the diversions si perkins predicted rain and there was rain the refreshments consisted of fruit sherbet cake watermelon and punch residents of the nine mile section coming into price this week state that about a dozen men and some thirty teams of eggleston mathew are now working at cottonwood bridge a mile this side of whitmore ranch the work through the canyon is about complete about the same force is employed this side of helper by the same firm sun price we wonder why J E L carey is 13 so anxious to place roosevelt in uintah county the brick walls of the trinity episcopal church are finished the building is feet A 11 II ward of nucla eucla colo was a business visitor in the basin sin a few days the past week we feel grateful to prof R budelier for a fine mess of trout the uintah basin land office born to 1 air lr and mrs homer P edwards sunday august 29 21 a girl all concerned doing well born to mr and mrs J P may friday september 3 a girl mother and child doing well john gribble Gribbl of monarch was saturday he had been to myton and stopped over on his way home A crowd of young folks enjoyed a corn roast on the dry gulch near the C P bingham home on tuesday night of last week lots of rain for this section of the basin the past two lays days and now everything every thing on the surface is the color of emerald have you killed any sage hens this season they were ripe september I 1 and the season remains open until september 15 some of our married folks enjoyed a corn roast at the home of mr and mrs paul watkins on tuesday night of last week only one thousand part of the weeds in the city were destroyed on cleanup clean up day week before last there is still work for willing hands prof L R beagley came in from salt lake the past week prof beagley will teach agriculture in the high school here next winter dr E J morton hs some sweet peas in his garden adjoining the hospital which are of a large variety and are as beautiful as any we ever saw wm B erekson who has been visiting friends in this section of the state for the past two weeks returned to his home in salt lake tuesday the brick work on the johnson building is completed dixon bros finished the work S saturday the carpenters are now busy working on the roof mrs byron D of vernal was visiting her parents here mr and mrs capt whitlock a few days the past week she left wednesday for salt lake mrs andrew roberts probably leads when it comes to rais raising tomatoes in the basin the fruit is firm and luscious and second to none in the country M R neilson of spa spanish nish fork purchased 40 acres of E L hoag land the past week the place is 41 miles southwest of roosevelt the deal was made through george pearce returned from salt lake thursday with a crowd of prospective buyers he left here sunday with a load for salt lake no doubt he encountered heavy roads on his return trip lynn orser ray jordan karl collett raymond reef garl bracken and wm neal took a trip up in the mountains saturday evening for a little recreation they returned late sunday eving evening and reported a fine time has it occurred to any one that a city election will be held this fall the brigham young university at provo utah will begin its fortieth academic year september 23 1915 registration days thursday and friday september 23 and 24 class clash work begins monday september 27 A A mitchell of bennett traded his 80 acre piece of to carlos lambert of salt lake will past week mr mitchell will move to his farm in a few days the de deal al was made through the uintah basin land office mr dr and mrs W H bishop and son per perne ne of ft duchesne passed through here saturday en route to salt lake mr bishop is taking thirty days leave and will spend a portion of his time in idaho the roosevelt band have the contract for playing for the uintah basin fair at myton on september 16 17 and 18 the boys arc practicing every day in order to furnish the fair crowd with good music J M russell and party re turned from the Lake fork country saturday whre wh re they were prospecting and fishing their horses got away from them and came home beating them out by several laps about forty gypsies passed through town thursday to vernal they only stopped over night the city marshall told them to kindly move on which they did they claimed they were from brazil A mitchell of bennett passed through town the past week en route to heber and salt lake he was accompanied by lon mitchell and family lon mitchell will wil I 1 live in heber heber this winter and send his chidden to school the roosevelt auto co have the agency for the dodge cars in this section of the state craig harmston the president got in here with a new car saturday its a beauty and for pulling power it is hard to beat the mail was again late saturday evening arriving here about midnight Is it possible thit that the drivers are killing time along the route the uintah railway system allow anything of that kind on their line the tha past three days the wilkins water well has been making twelve gallons per hour the gateris wa teris getting clearer and has a very good taste there dont seem to bo be any salt in it As soon as the new cable arrives they are going to drill deeper the roosevelt school boys are to meet principal R budelier on the school grounds thursday morning at 10 for the purpose of cleaning the grounds the boys are expected to bring rakes hoes and shovels ice cream will be served at the noon hour 0 J bracken this afternoon 1 received a telegram that his wife had had an accident with their new dolge dodge car which she was to drive e out olf t from row salt lake and that the cais car was badly damaged it is thought that some of the members of the party were hurt some how bad cannot be ascertained the accident occurred in salt lake and mr bracken left at once for the capitali capital vernal express |