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Show 20 Years Ago Last June John O. Waters left Monday on a trip to Salt Lake. Mis Margaret Moffltt, deputy tkisi-mlstress tkisi-mlstress is visiting at her parents home in Bonueta. W L. Johnston of Salt Lake who h been staying quietly at the Hotel Arlington the last week on legal business, busi-ness, left for Vernal Tuesday. C. W. Brown brought the first load of stringers for the new Duchesne river bridge Saturday. The lurolier came from the Anderson mill on the Lake Fork. Oierator FiUwater has Installed a new swItchlKinrd in the telephone office and can now answer cults at any timo of the day or night. I'rice Is now called cal-led directly from Theodore. Dr. M. J. Quirk, U. S. shcp inspector has been in town several days assisting assist-ing In the building of a dipping vat at TToltonwood Springs, five miles south of Theodore, where the 3-100 sheep In the Pridy flock vlll be dipped Thursday. The Strawberry river has ('"eon falling fall-ing the past four days, until Tuesday it Is nearly withhTlts banks again. The Duchesne, however, has fallen lnwl very little; it Is hardly likely It will be within Its banks again until after July 4th. The first mall from Colton was brought in through Indian canyon Saturday Sat-urday afternoon,' three mail sucks full arriving at the jwstoffice at five o'clock. o'-clock. The mall will continue to ar-tive ar-tive over the Colton route until high water is over, at least. J. J. Atkinson received a telegram from his Washington attorney. Samuel Sam-uel Her rick, stating that the contest over his Blue Bench homestead had been decided in bis favor by the secretary secre-tary of the Interior. The case Is the mo!- prominent lu the history of the 1'intah Reservation, and Its termination termina-tion In favor of the contestee is very jiopulur. as Ir Atkinson was the first to establish residence on the Blue Bench and has always been one of the hardest workers to get the plateau irrigated. ir-rigated. Dr. Albert BJornson, who left Theodore Theo-dore a year ago because of dull times, has been so busy since his retanrn that he has scarcely oiiortunily to do the gardening on his homestead ndjoinlug town. Miss Lulu Odeklrk of Vernal is visiting visit-ing her mother, Mrs. J. W. Odeklrk, who Is conducting the Arlington hotel during the absence of Mrs. Workman, now Mra! Thomas -Firth, on her wedding wed-ding trip to her husband's former home In Emporia, Kansas. At a meeting Saturday evening the Commercial club decided to give a dance in the town hall the evening of the Fourth of July celebration, turning turn-ing the proceeds over to the committee having charge of the celebration, In order that the program In the morning morn-ing and afternoon may be rendered as attractive as iKssi;le. Register DeMoIsy of the Vernal land office states that the government has withdrawn from entry considerable land 'along the Duchesne river above Theodore, until the U. S. Geological Survey has examined it to ascertain whether It is valuable for water iow-cr iow-cr purposes. Miny people consider that: the government has withdrawn the land to prevent a private corporation corpor-ation acquiring it and thereby gelling control of all the water power in this vicinity. A large jorlion of the immensely im-mensely valuable water power in the Duchesne river above Theodore is already al-ready In the hands of a water power corioration. T'he elections on the Blue Bench resulted re-sulted as follows: Upper Blue Bench Irrigation District "Yes," 5,0X1 votes. "No." none; BUM Bench Irrigation District No. 1 "Yes." 4,821 votes. "No." none. The upper district elected as directors J. IL Benson, Jacob Michael Mich-ael and Clyde Stephens, and the lower low-er district chose K V. Barlow, J. S. Birch and George Hemphill. Road Supervisor Cluff states that fcimlers are teing collected to build u second bridge for temporary tust should the Duchesne river make a cut cose under the Blue Bench at the eastern edge of town. There would then be two bridges n'q"arter of i mile apart to he crossed on the roai to Myton, with probability that th high waters next summmer will enlarg. the new channel and take the en tin liver through It. The new Duchesn bridge, which Is beinrj d list.'.ucle more than a quarter of a mile nortl of the center of town, will span i point where the old and new than nels coincide, und will be finished n .soon us the present high waters si fa-side. |