Show HAPPENINGS IN IND AND AROUND DUCHESNE DUCH NE I II D Dj ByM iT M. M r SMITH I John Green en d oppe iJ front from Heb Heber r Tesse Jesse Washburn will soon go goto goto to S lt Lake where he willm will have m e an nn operation performed Dave a e Breede reports report having killed a large e grey gre wolf in Indian Indian In lit- dian canon Fitzwater has been heeti appointed appointed ap op pointed secretary of Blue Bench Ir Irrigation ig District No 1 1 Mr and 11 1 Mrs O Oscar 3 Johnson on January 4 a daugh ter Born to Mr 1 and Mrs l Alma Bri Burg Burgener near Myton l January January Januar 4 a n daughter daug The infant nt child of M. M.- B. B Pope and wife is r reported ported ill with ith pneumonia Andrew Andre Murdock l the sheep sheep sheep- man dropped in ill from fronI h his is herds Sath Saturday 1 day i-day Game Warden M. M B. B Pope had official busi business ness ness' in V Vernal Ed Eel Hart went out to Colton and brought in in the bridge con con- tractor returning l Tuesday Frank Davis has added a bakery bakery bak bak- ery cry department Mrs l l Rice ice as ns chief baker Bread pies and arid cakes cal cs Mrs 1 Ed Hart fart is ia now now assistant assistant assist assist- ant to Postmaster Fitzwater Thure Eckberg Eckberg- came came down flown from the bench to do trading Saturday Jennie Brennick and Della Delia Spratt were shopping here Sat Sat- George k took a load of wheat to the th Roosevelt mill ll to exchange for flour last week weck Charles Charles Barton w who o rides the tile range e arid anti is js familiar with stock cond conditions reports ca cattle in fine shape and the range e better better better bet bet- bet bet- ter than ever eyer Chas R. R Barton Fred Johnson Johnson John John- I son and V m. m Cr Crayer ver have written written written writ writ- ten their congratulations to their old friend Ei Winter Winterbourne I bourne who wrote the p prize ize I word 50 story entitled The Tile Cowboys Cowboy's La Lament went II which won the Denver ver P Post st piano Joseph S. S Birch is taking his first real trip trio ou oui of the Reservation Reser Reser- 1 since its opening pening- He lie started last week for the big big- mining milling camps of if Nevada in iu search of employment t He is an experienced miner miller Wednesday George S. S B Bowers and wife started for Cotton Colton with Dan Powell as driver 1 Mrs rs Bowers is on her way t to visit isit her fo folks ks in In Tennessee while Mr Ir Bowers goes to Salt Sait Lake for eye treatment The Duchesne dramatic club is now rehearsing a n new play pIny which ch intend they putting on the tIC boards about St St. Valentines Valentine's Valentine Valen Vaten- tines tine's day It is l laid id in Ari Arizona Arizona Arizona zona and is a act five drama The cast will be g given later I I desire to extend congratulations to to Chas R. R Atkinson fo for his recent able ahle article in iii the tile I Record ecord on the mineralogy of the Uintah basin This Tills article will ill compare favorably fa to thea the a a er ge produced by Prof Talmage Tal- Tal mage hinge of Salt SnIt Lake fame arid and shows shows' HInt YU young 1 Atkinson has been applying himself diligent diligent- 13 Iy to that interesting study since coming to the basin S SOnIC some six six years ago o We Ye would whisper whisper- pcr- pcr to that talented writer of loka school district district that that he or she is not utilizing the adva advantageous ta situation sit sit- ution his spot is now occupying occupy occupy- P- P jug ing on the local political checkerboard check check- loka Ioka school house is within a stones stone's throw of the tile center of population Now what's the matter with the high school for Io loka n as qs a compromise compromise com corn com promise John Kittridge field engineer eng of the tile National Hydrocarbon company has hns taken takemi office inthe in inthe inthe the com commercial club rooms Gus aus Lambert superintendent of development de' is also on the roun g-roun ground This company has very extensive properties thru out mt the bafS basin rI and is now naw engaged en en- caged in developing the same The Tile commercial club has petitioned petitioned pe pe- pe- pe the commissioners commission commission- ers to appoint a II deputy bounty hide inspector for Duchesne thus saving a trip to Heher FIeber for p persons entitled to bounties on hides and pelts I Mrs l William Sweatman died Monday Nonday January 1 of chronic tumor Her body was shipped to Heh Heber r where it was vas em embalmed em anti and forwarded to Den Denver ver r f for r burial William Villiam Sweatman Sweat Sweat- man her husband a accompanied ed the remains r W The The we weather veather for the first t se seven seven sev sev- en days in was was was' r rather remarkable in the tie matter temperature Here it is in order order order or or- der 17 deg 18 18 1818 18 18 1818 18 IS 1 21 3 3 12 No snow Only Onh f I a tra trace e on the tue ground At this writing a thaw is IS threatened The chinook wind Sunda Sunday was followed by a afew few min minutes utes f blinding ding ding- snow and and ind then the f thaw was all off An iceberg form formed d above e the Duchesne bridge causing the Water yater to flow flow over er the tile bat bank k and arId into the tile road south of the he I J. J j bridge It presented quite a i discouraging aging aspect to to tb the contractor con con- tractor This overflow could have been pr prevented ven ed had the first ri river ver off cut-off been ni In de deto to J approach the bridge on a straight line instead of f an an an- gle This will probably be remedied by building a high cement ce ce- ij nie meat ment t wall along the river bank extending ab above abe e the tile brid bridge |