Show 1 SHORT STORIES STORI S OF THE WEEK W. W L. L Dean was an outgoing pas passenger passenger passenger pas pas- I on the s stage age Monday 1 on a a- business trip to Helper Helver School closes next Friday An t in interesting iii program ill ill Including an an will be given given by hy the little folks t 1 v The Standard Bearers met wi with tIt Mrs Airs C. C I I. I Dickerson V edn I Favors were won by Mrs 1 R It R. R M Mi Pope Mrs Irs Ed Hart and Mrs F Fred John Fred Jelin- Jelin f Sv f S son soil 71 M MA A V J 1 t H H. H P P. P Ottosen was here from Crom I Tal Talmage l mage Saturday with a a. a big grist o. o of 01 7 wheat Mr 1 Ottosen a announces m in thc their Rec Record r- r rd pure o oatS t for Cor sal salat sale bale at 3 cents a pound Up to this time the Salt Luke Lake league team has met with very poor success under its new name the Utes Salt Lake is in the cellar cellar both joth Portland and Los Angeles h liar j hav-j V 4 j lug ing won the series in Zion Thi week the Utes pia play in Portland J year Ten Johnnie Jones Joncs son sou of of 3 John Jones was shot slid and instantly instant 1 killed by the year twelve year twelve old oil son 9 of I J j Bert White Sunday at Tabby The White boy was attempting to kill kilt I ia j ja a hawk with a shotgun which went 1 9 off prematurely the entire charge striking the Jones boy in the shoulder should should- er and neck Death was I ous Otis Wood Alex Alexander and Frank Davis left eft Sunday Sunda for a trip tp to o N Needles edies It Calif in the 7 Stage 1 t Transportation company's CO i peanut roaster the roaster the olde oldest t car car now in serice ser- ser I vice vice-an ice an old style Buick runabout The he ge gentlemen plan vIall to be gone about i ja j t ta a month The round trip p means a L I distance of about nine hundred hundred miles r IJ I 1 A Republican lount county convention 1 is called to meet in Du Duchesne on the 26 day of April at 3 o'clock p. p m. m for forthe the p purpose e of electing t n 1 i. i i deli q 1 i ig L g gates f sto to he to state convention convention conven- conven conven tion Uon at Provo May l 1 1 The Provo convention will elect four delegate delegate I I and four alternates and two delegates at large to the national Republican lican convention at Chicago on June 7 I I G G. G N. N Brooks the Fruitland mer pier merchant merchant I chant was transacting business Inthe in inthe inthe the county sc seat scat t the latter part of oC last In wee week It returning home on the stage Monday l Mr Brooks carries one of I. I the largest stocks on the reservation Last winter he had more tha than 20 20 J i of on hand He and six sons l lia haVe ave some of the most valuable valuable val val- ranch holdings in the basin I IThe The F. F F. F Ds met with Mrs Medaris Medaris Me- Me I daris Friday afternoon of last week Five Hundred was played Mrs 1 i Steele being the winner of oC a Battenburg Battenburg Battenburg Batten- Batten burg center piece In a contest for reading a verse in ten different langu languages lan Ian gu Mrs 1 was the winner guessing nine The prize was a bottle bottle bot bot- tle tIe of perfume Delicious refreshments refreshments refresh refresh- men ments ts were served 1 Yesterday marked the first trip of the season for a truck to enter Ver Ver- nal One of oC the Uintah's made the trip from Watson Vatson with pounds of parcel post in eight hours and forty minutes a distance of two fifty-two miles arriving here at 5 10 p p. p m. m m.- m. Vernal Express Reservation Socialists SoCialist claim that their one great policy is education yet we are ashamed to tell our readers readers readers read read- ers what these same Socialists are going to do to the proposed five mill levy upon which the people are voting voting voting vot vot- ing on today It is the gentlemen gentlemen gentlemen gen gen- that claim lalm your attention at today's polls polls not not the county board 1 of education against which your our fight I is directed The assessed valuation of Uintah county for 1916 is according according according ac ac- cording to the figures of Harmon S. S This does not include the I disputed strip and Mr willbe will willbe be in Duchesne by next week to get the assessment roll for the territory in doubt Assessment notices will again be bo sent property owners o in the j doubtful territory by hy the treasurer I of Uintah county John T. T Pope returned from Salt Lake Friday of last week and loft left Monday for Vernal In a talk taUt with the Record representative Mr Pope 4 said bald that he had no reason whatever to change his iris views on the building I of the Salt Lake Route into the basin 1 Surveyors Surveyors' will wil will soon Boon 1 be e in the fieldon field fieldon I Ion on the side of oC the range Three I routes will be examined examined Diamond Diamond I Fork Hobble creek and Soldier Summit Summit Sum Sum- 4 mit J I The high price of oC old rags wilnot will wil not win any customers at this shop shor The individual holdings of your Uncle uncle uncle un un- cle consists of oC a pair of breeches tw two pairs of overalls for underwear a change of ot shirts shirts' and three pairs o ot of socks Any time timo a Ii j junk dealer can buy our raiment for Cor five cents a pound he lie cant Wed We'd a heap rather rathe sell some of oC our bur delinquent subscription tion accounts accounts' at ten cents on the dol dol- lar Vernal Vernal Express As to the mail mall route being diverted divert divert- od ed 1 from Heln r Heln r 10 w P l' IVe e c. c th ro l' l s 's n nevert even evert a remote possibility of such a state of affairs coming to pass The rite contractors favor the present route the entire reservation almost with i ithe the ex exception eption of or Myton lyton feels the same same way and the mail will viii oot continue con con- Oll- Oll to depart daily for the th reservation reservation reservation reser reser- from this point until th the railroad railroad railroad rail rail- road road Is built huilt And that will be about abou he same time probably that the theIo Rio Io Grande builds from Price over oveT ant nt y Eirp county Helper Helper Times f In the Strawberry country gray wolves I are again becoming unusually bold and Sunday killed ten tens head o of young oung stuff for A. A A. A M. M Murdock l They headed beaded off a bunch of that were being put up Ull on the h high gh range dragging down the thc lead animals Pho rho were not very hungry and ind ate very little of oC the carcasses Judging fudging from front the tracks there were live five in the pack Trappers and hunters hunt hunt- ers rs have been sent to the high country country coun coun- try ry with the hope that the wolves willbe will willbe wille be e Id killed Mrs George Hislop narrowly es escaped escaped es- es aped death from poisoning at Vernal ernal the he latter p part rt of last week She was as suffering from an all ulcerated tooth and ind thought she site was using some sonic I 1 I I t toothache medicine but instead got gothold gothold gothold hold of a bottle ottle containing poison polson Serious H consequences were at t first firs feared but hut later reports stated that 11 sli ha had 1 cO re vere fr from m any llY bad effects of the poison Several clips cUps of oC wool have been sold soldat soldat at at Vernal at prices tom rom 25 to 26 cents Hart Di Tuesday received ed a consignment of ot Navajo blankets blankI blank blank- ets from front Bluff Utah where the In Indians Indians Indians In- In io Jo a great deal of ot their trad trad- Ing They hey are very pretty prett in design I Philip Walston succeeded in gotting getting gotting got got- ting his name In to the the Herald lican lican lical almost immediately Herald I upon striking striking ing big Salt Lake City Sunday morning morning morning morn morn- ing acting on information furnished by him a waitress named Dottie Royal was arrested and charged with larceny on the ground that she sie had robbed th the Duchesne esne man mall of I Senate am amendments to the Indian appropriation bill have met opposition opposition opposition tion in the House the committee on public lands having returned the bill to the senate with the recommendation tion that th the tha mineral lands fo the reservation be not thrown open to entry and that the 1000 appropriation for th the Myton 1 bridge be he not allowed A conference has been heen arranged for lor between en the house and senate committees and it itis itis itis is possible the amendments may still be favorably considered by the con con- County Attorney Dillman is back ack after an extended prospecting trip in inthe inthe inthe the reservation At this time it does not look favorable for the opening to entry of oC the mineral mineral mineral min min- eral there although a letter received by the Record from Crom Congressman Howell states that he has not given up hope that this will be Mr Howell states that our conservation friends imagine that the government ought to retain all such lauds lands and adopt a policy polley of l leasing asing them Mr 11 Howell has succeeded in having the matter put up to a joint committee of at the public lands committees of the two branches of congress I I 1 I I I In their handsome new bungalow Mr 11 and l Mrs rs A. A J. J Feller entertained entertain entertain- ed the members of the Auction Bridge club and their husbands last Saturday Saturday Satur Satur- da day night The entertainment was particularly elaborate owing to the fact that it t completed the series of games ames for the winter and spring and the sweep stake prizes as well wen as the each session prizes were a awarded warded To Mrs T. T W W. Sweatman fell the honor honorof i I of the entire session prizes and also the evening prize Mr P. P W W. Billings carried away avay the gentleman's sweepstakes sweepstakes sweepstakes sweep sweep- stakes prize and Fred Ired Watrous L. L the evening ening prize The spread for Cor the occasion was not only extensive but I very verr Another session win will begin at once in which the husbands of the members will participate Gene Levy and wife will leave Salt Lake either tomorrow or or Monday having haying hav hay ing decided to tomake make their residence in Duchesne They will return with Jack in in his car Thursday night of of last w week ek Mr and Mrs W. W H H. H Cammerer entertained in informally informally informally in- in formally at cards and a luncheon Favors Favors Favors Fa Fa- vors were won by both Mr and Mrs P. P W. W Billings The Strawberry postoffice is to be discontinued This is due to the fact that some startling irregular irregularities ties have been found there and from the further fact that there is no one at that place other than the present postmaster wi who o wishes to take it over Mr who is n now o w i n charge of this district with headquarters at Salt Lake is swamped with work and has recommended to the department department de de- that W. W H. H Fitzwater postmaster postmaster postmaster post post- master at Duchesne be a appointed p p poi o i n t e d special inspector tor to take care care are of postoffice postoffice postoffice post- post office affairs in the Uintah basin The Duchesne public school children will face new instructors next term Not one of the present teachers with the exception exceptions of the principal F. F M. M Shelton has r will sign the contract for the so it is said by them Alfred E. E Anderson who came to Duchesne last summer to work on the bank and other new v new buildings was ar arrested are rested Tuesday by Postoffice Inspector on a charge of having forged the name of C. C L L. L Glenn a former former former for for- mer room mate to a money order for The transaction it i is alleged occurred in Los Angeles Andersons Anderson's f former residence Arbor day the eight dead trees in the Episcopal lot were replaced by eight healthy Carolina poplars Seven of the I trees were named after seven babies who have ha e been baptized during the past f few w months and the eighth after Roy the first young person to be confirmed in the church The names of the b babies bies tire are c Elizabeth b t 1 f Hanson n Hazel Perry Vivian Perry Lola Work Work- Hian ian Edwin Zimmerman Ralph Crisman Crisman Crisman Cris- Cris man and Barbara Billings The assessment roll loll Is being rapidly completed and only the delay in one or two deputies in not sending in their returns returns returns re re- turns promptly is holding it back Following Following Fol Fol- ol- ol lowing are the the towns completed u up P to the present time Neola Tabiona fabiona 10 Talmage 1113 Mountain Home Horne 1710 18 Boneta 2415 Blue Bell Hell Mt Alt Emmons Duch Duchesne 14 Myton My ton Fruitland 35 Blue- Blue mesa Roosevelt according to Assessor Smith will lead inthe in inthe inthe the amount of assessment I and Co is making an attractive attractive tive offer in a full page display advertisement advertisement adver adver- nt in the Record This firm handles nothing but goods of ot quality Prices are no higher for staple goods than are paid the world over In order to convince the public of the advisability advisability advisability of buying d dependable dry diy goods until May Alay lath this firm is is offering offering offering of of- fering to give ten percent discount payable in any kind of dry goods in the house Read their offer J James ames and Aleck Crystal are in the county seat today They did not feed their sheep last winter wintel and state that their loss was only normal The Crystal Crystal Crystal Crys Crys- tal brothers will shear at their ranch on Yellowstone In speaking of the report that the mail was never late on the old Price Price-My ton road load Mr Air James Crystal said I have been on that old stage when it was four days late between Price and My Myton ton j Through money donations and personal personal per- per onal service service splendid work is being done lone this week on the summit of the Helper Duchesne-Helper road by Duchesne citizens Freighters are also helping helpin the he movement along Among those from rom here are Ed Hart M M. B. B Pope M. M L. L j. j Marsing Chris Merkley Jr Gene Gibs Gibson m T. T I 1 A A. Ring Witt Everett Sid Chapman Hebe James and Verne Price Pric Paul Will Barton and A. A West This force together with several freight outfits and outfits belonging to the Duchesne Sta Stage e Transportation company is having a marked effect in the improvement of the lie road The rhe Denver Rio Gran Grande e has announced an- an flOunced that beginning next Tuesday It t will sollon Tuesday of every week I tickets to the Uintah basin basin basin ba ba- sin from Salt Lake and all local stations stations sta sta- in Utah Tickets will be good goodover goodover goodover over the Denver Rio Gra Grande de the Uintah railway from Mack to Watson and by stage from Watson Vatson to Fort FortI I Duchesne The return limit will 1 be e fifteen d days y and and the fare for the thet t round trip from front Salt Lake will be 2 2550 50 The large number of inquiries inqui inqui- i ries rles received by the Denver Rio Grande Graude and Chamber of ot Commerce and other civic organizations concerning concerning concerning con con- land and opportunities in the Uintah basin lasin caused the rates to be placed in effect Arrangements have been made to take more than thirty i lute into the t. t r to n |