Show In the Good Dood Old Od Days 7 75 YEARS AGO December 13 1902 The reported coming of the Moffat Road Hoad Is causing considerable activity In Uintah County The price of sugar has advanced 60 cents per hundred within the past two weeks The rabbit hunt near Goshen resulted Inthe in inthe the slaughter of bunnies According to the statistical report compiled complied by State Slate Statistician Des Molay based upon reports by the landholders of the county for lor the year 1901 Uintah County will make a ver very poor showing which Is accounted for lor by the shortage of or w water ter and the unusual proportion of poor shiftless farmers Til RUE IS A new case of smallpox in the Atwood family Ben family have almost recovered from the dread disease Miss Pricilla Henry narrowly escaped serious Injury when her buggy horse became frightened and dashed toward home gaining speed as he went The young lady held to the reins and kept the animal clear of obstructions until the open gate at atthe atthe atthe the Henry place was reached which the horse wheeled into without checking his speed upset upsetting ling the buggy and dashing it against the post Pricilla was thrown 15 feet but when she regained consciousness I it t developed she had no material injury Erma the year 11 old daughter of Mr and Mrs Ward White died of scarlet fever at 6 o'clock Thursday morning after a weeks illness She was the oldest child and an attractive member of the family circle whose face will be sadly missed Owing to the character of the disease no public funeral was held are rejoicing over the snow snowstorm snowstorm snowstorm storm which makes it possible for lor them to move out on the winter range FRED NEILSON recently made a shipment of steers to the eastern market and realized only 3 cents per pound on foot after having reached there Fortunately he had only a small part of his bunch shipped owing to the lack of cars He will now hold the balance until better prices Just think 1 I cases of typhoid malarial fevers revers and water born disease annually every case directly caused by drinking impure water from hydrants wells cisterns and streams One tenth that number of small pox cases would create reate an epidemic causing wide alarm wholesale vaccina vaccination tion The county treasurer will commence on tax sales the third Monday which will add 2 to each piece of property sold This with wilh the original tax and 25 cents for lor advertising advertising ad ad- will bear 12 percent interest after date of sale The redemption certificate costs 50 cents more so it will be a paying proposition to anyone who can dig up before e the sale takes place w tw ORANGES LEMONS figs dates pears candy and nuts for Christmas at Beers Store Editor Hillman has purchased a city lot from Mrs Jane Rich for Thomas Mantle l Jr and Charles Fawcett came in from Blue Mt the the week where they have been working mil mining ng claims They report that never in inthe inthe inthe the history of that section has there been so little feed on the range Cattle are already poor and will have to be fed or a avery avery avery very few will be left alive when grass comes EK Belcher and Miss Myrtle Johnson two of or Vernal's most popular young people were married at the home of the 30 YEARS AGO December II H 1947 The Upper Colorado Compact Commission Commission Com Com- Commission mission will meet in Vernal in May said GE director of the Utah Natural History Fieldhouse While in Denver Mr invited the commission to hold their next convention near some of the sites where projects were to be constructed Nearly 2000 children braved snow and lowered temperatures Saturday afternoon to greet Santa in the town square All Uintah County was thrilled this week when Chairman Hugh W W. Colton Cotton announced announced announced an an- that the hospital fund drive had gone over the top The annual fund drive for the Uintah Chapter of the National Foundation for lor Infantile Paralysis is underway said Mrs Leroy Taylor chairman Mrs Edwin Massey is alive after ha having ving been shot through the abdomen by a 40 30 Krag rifle She Is listed as fair lair at the Uintah County Hospital The sale of the Basin Flying Service by Jack C. C Turner to a partnership including Erland Acel Hall and Charles Riddling was announced this week Lawrence Caldwell was elected president of the High School PTA Micky Schuster of ol Pittsburg Ps who has been fed from a tube inserted in his stomach for lor 26 of ol his 28 years ate a pork chop dinner and nibbled on a chocolate covered c cherry rry Mickey Is recovering from a series of operations that enabled him to swallow food lood normally since he swallowed a can of lye when two years oldOn oldOn oldOn old On the front doors of too many American homes this Christmas the gay holly wreath will be replaced by a somber funeral wreath This is a dark thought one we hesitate to put into words However the facts are there Year after year the ac accident toll hits a peak in December People do more driving hurrying to get their Christmas shopping done They dr drink more They put up the same old string of frayed lights every year To keep death from taking your holiday requires only a little effort refusal to take the drink you cant can't handle yielding the for lor the to way right-of-way waiting light change taking taking the time to get something solid to stand on discarding that string of Christmas lights with worn insulation Dea Deaths Abner Richens 86 WEDDINGS Donald Willard H Helen len Pack Opal May Gentry Clell Freeman You would be surprised said Asher Frank director of the Florida Safety Council to learn of the number of accidents accidents accidents ac ac- ac- ac due to bad cooking such as the breakfast eggs or toast being burned the coffee not good or the bacon not crisp Instead of having their minds on safe bride The Express extends congratulations and hopes that their lot may be cast in pleasant places At the dance Monday night Constable Joseph Timothy and Hy By Mantle were the star actors The constable concluded that Mantle would be better outside and tackled the job of putting him there There was something doing for awhile but Mantle was finally gotten out and taken to the county hotel and given lodging for the I night Next morning he pled guilty before Justice Wilson for lor disturbing the peace and was asked to contribute to the county treasury which was paid 20 YEARS AGO December 12 1957 Vernal City levy for lor 1958 will jump 35 mills to 2225 mills three mills of ol which are earmarked for lor the bond interest and sinking fund lund to provide for lor the redemption of ol sewage bonds Upon his arrival at the Vernal airport Saturday Santa Claus was met by Jaycees John Stone and Brent Feltch and escorted atop the local fire lire engine to the Vernal 2nd Ward Scout House Secretary of the Interior Fred A A. A Seaton has signed an order changing the formula for determining ng public land grazing development fees lees The new formula is based on average livestock prices at western markets for lor the preceding calendar year The fees affect nearly stockmen who graze almost 12 million head of ol cattle callie and sheep on approximately approximately approximately ap ap- ap- ap proximately million acres of ol range in Montana Idaho Wyoming Colorado New Mexico Utah Arizona Nevada Washington Oregon and California LAURA LAUHA LEAVITT Union High School sophomore was named winner of ol the American Legion I Speak for Democracy contest held Monday in the studio Second place was Diane Busch third went to Neita Weeks The Vernal Drug Store was burglarized netting the thieves They missed however nearly 2000 cached in the safe Deaths Jeremiah Hatch Harrison 63 Elmer Deutsch Huber 65 Charlotte Rich 15 Blaine Palmer will serve a mission for lor forthe forthe the Church in the Gulf Gull States Mission Reed McConkie was injured when the wind blew his car off the jack letting it fall fallon fallon fallon on him Mr and Mrs Lawrence Kay have purchased the Cliff Frisby home and are moving in VON SWAIN of or Lapoint is currently setting the pace for the top point maker of the stake with wilh a 22 point average Utah's only moose herd appeared to be doing well as 54 animals were sighted during an aerial survey Martha Tavia Lincoln has sufficiently to return to her home She wore a little black scarf when she was brought to the hospital and refused to part with wilh it even tho it looked a bit strange contrast to hospital white while Any attempts t to remove it were met with Cush no Famous artists and makeup artists artists- agree that the ideal face shape is oval i driving accident victims had them on the the poor breakfast that morning ff Vernal has the poorest traffic safety record for any city its size in the st state t of Utah Services for Joseph known as Old Man who according to Indian Service officials was over years of or age were held Wednesday Uintah Basin students at Brigham Young University have bonded together and formed the Uintah Basin Club Officers are Arthur Ballard president j Donna Rae Labrum vice president Rose Marie Brokaw My Myton ton secretary and Val Larie Lane Vernal social chairman |