Show l rf l Duchesne 20 Years A Ago c cOur Our Our seven en Inches of snow now on the ground in the low lands lands which means three to four feet in adjacent mountains are arc the best asset the th farmer furmer can possess this time of oC th the year ear February also broke the winters winter's record for temperature when it dropped dropped drop drop- ped ed to 12 below degrees zero on Wash ash Washington's ashIn ington's In tons ton's birthday Our commercial club posses possesses es the admirable trait of starting s something that hat no one dare attempt to stop Ii It has ms now decided that the people shall shah no 10 lon longer er be cheated out of their rightful rightful rightful right right- ful name to this town town Duchesne Duchesne noi not and Theodore Theodore and a petition to the postoffice postoffice post post- office department to have haye our Ice Tice name changed so as ns to harmonize with that of the town is now being subscribed to The people never recommended recommended mended offended Theodore Theodor and nul it was vas only adopted ad ad- temporary makeshift un lm opted as a n tempo temporary or 11 ii the they could conid get one Before the peeing opening of the U. U S. S land office christened christ christ- ned med the picturesque spot Duchesne townsite When the patents for the lots were vere Issued to the purchasers they allend allread all read end In the town of Duchesne Utah ml nul so still rend read The government wisey wise- wise l y decreed that some town of promise hound hould bear hear and perpetuate that beautiful beau beau- romantic cognomen of such wide hi significance Fort lort Duchesne never lever had any right to the name being beng beng be- be I. I ing ng located on the Uintah river rl The word cord I am un advised is not an all Indian word cord as many but is of French origin meaning beautiful land Thomas Rhoades Rhoades' of upper Duchesne Duches- Duches ne e has bas invented and m d patented an in in- enious machine for power purposes nd claims t to have solved the great question of perpetual motion The families of Dan Powell and and lart hart Marsing attended the funeral of f the son of Thomas Rhoades up the Duchesne river last week Jake Michaels i and Charles Brunyer were vere ere caught In the severest storm of the lie he- winter von their on their recent trip tripp to-Col to to Colon Col Col- tOll on after freight and they can now nowell nowell ell tell you on all about bucking snow and making inking camps a hundred yards ards apart R. R R. R Hansen a rancher in Indian H. H canyon who has bas been severely ill III the um past two weeks at the home of John Meadows has so recovered that he has in Grand gone one to his bis former home Junction Rollie Roseberry with his in fours-in- hand made the fly trip of the winter to o Colton last week bringing back John Fortie who had been courting at leber Reber and amI attending a club convention at t Salt alt Lake Joseph Thompson also a juror was an incoming passenger Miss Della Delia Spratt who has been our cur assistant postmistress for the last has so six Ix months which position she filled retired ably abl and satisfactorily to o her rural l home at Utahn last week Bishop Dishop Spalding of Salt Lake ered one of his interesting sermons here on Tuesday night to a large con con- Our dramatic club is now busily engaged engaged engaged en en- for the i rend rend-i i ilion in the tune preparations ion lion t of a n comic opera Charlie who has moved his hiss family from Vernal now has them temporarily in a dwelling near the Arlington |