Show to In the Good Old Days 75 75 YEARS AGO 30 YEA YEARS S AGO 20 YEARS AGO Tune June 27 n An Indianapolis dispatch says Up at Kokomo yesterday a judge is deciding a Unique case held that a wife may kiss whoever she pleases and as often as she likes lik's without violating her marriage vows Kisses the judge held are a wiles personal property and may be distributed to her friends regardless of r race ce color sex or previous condition of servitude It is said that if the people of Chester do not turn out on masse and wage war on the grasshoppers all the grain willbe will willbe willbe be destroyed The pests are so numerous in the meadows that there is scar scarcely ely room on the surface of the ground for them The coke oven men at Castle Gate went on a strike one day last week demanding the removal of the forman Severe county now has an experimental experimental experimental ex ex- farm The land is being cleared and crops will witt be planted in August In 1894 an all attempt was made to get artesian water in Vernal and went down in the center of the city over a thousand feet but got the sand pump fast in the hole and abandoned the project The drillers found nothing but blue clay to that depth and it was thought that artesian water could not be found However it is the belief of the writer that there is water under this Valley and could be gotten if given a proper trial Some years ago James Glines sunk a well on his place in Glines ward sixty feet before water was reached At this depth a hardpan was encountered that could not be dented with a crowbar On this stratum was laid the rock lining of the well and sixty feet of rock is a tremendous weight Three years after this rock work suddenly sunk ten feet Mr Glines decided to fill fill the well up which he did It soon sunk ten feet more and now is three feet lower than the level of the ground In this well is the finest water in the country and proof that it came from streams is that if it could not be pumped dry nor even lowered a par par- tica Where did the sinking rock to to There must be bt a cave below with a stream of water in it and if tapped with an artesian shaft a flow of water could be gotten Little Joe died over on the ther r reservation Thursday 1 night eight Joe was a good i iMatt Matt Ford a brother of Parley left for his home at Wallsburg Sunday last He lie spent a month here learning cheese making from Parley He has been working in the creamery at Wallsburg two years but thought he would learn his brothers method of making cheese The rock and cement foundation of of the new bank building is now completed I and is a good job if we may be permitted permitted permitted per per- to Judge David Manwaring assisted by Issac Kimball did the work according to the directions of contractor contractor contractor con con- tractor Cook Out on the badlands toward Ouray countless numbers of yellow worms about two inches long are to be seen They are traveling south and eating lillies as they go in fact leave no lillies behind them which is rather a broad statement as the bad lands this year are fairly covered with lillies Bye and bye they will go to sleep and hatch out into some sort of butterfly cricket locust or cayuse pony June 30 1948 Mrs Sarah Ann Gibboney Duchesne was honored guest last week when nearly over 70 years of age met in Salt Sail Lake City to attend the annual old folks outing at Liberty park Mrs Gibboney was born at Athens 0 the day that Brigham Young and his party entered Salt Lake valley That was nearly years ago She came to the Uintah Basin in 1906 1908 and hom horn a plot with her son J J. J Watson Gibboney Nona Caldwell of Lapoint was named Queen of the Vernal Rodeo Other winners were Nadine Vernal Miss Uintah County Florence Sprouse Hayden Miss Vernal Jerry and Sylvia Nielsen Bridgeland sisters Miss America and Miss Utah respectively In formal dedi dedication atlon service Sunday at 4 pm p.m. the Uintah County Memorial Rose Garden with its COO roses in full bloom was presented to the people of the county by the Garden Club in memory of the World War dead Laren Ross of Tridell has been appointed appointed appointed ap ap- ap- ap pointed a Uintah County school board member for district No 5 Nyals Anderson principal of high school and Mrs Madge Tuckett teacher at Central school tendered their resignation this week with the Uintah School board Despite a hard winter and a 1947 hunt which netted head deer on the range number only 20 less than last year Jack Turner chairman of the big game committee Vernal Gun and Rifle club stated The committee is recommending that 1400 doe permits be sold for Cor the hunting season Many personal destruction of buildings and other property and fires in Utah's canyons and on watersheds have been caused by fireworks fire fireworks fireworks works Prof J. J Floyd Logan chief forester for Utah reminded this week Purchase of Barkers Barker's Jewelry from Don R. R Barker Heber was announced this week by A. A Rex Gardner Vernal Jewler and William E. E Reese seaman apprentice apprentice apprentice ap ap- ap- ap prentice l 18 brother of Mrs Gc George rge Vernal l was as OI one e of f t the eight ight 4 side boys rendering full naval honors to their commander in chief President Harry S. S Truman upon his arrival at atthe atthe atthe the Naval Station Seattle June 10 Miss Joyce Bingham an high school student is one of the 29 Utah girls to represent the state at the National Convention of Future Homemakers of America to be held at Kansas City Mo Joyce is the daughter of Mrs Wilma B Bingham Utah's second fish season opening- opening the High Uintah Lakes and streams and the entire north slope of the Uintah range will take spotlight Thursday July 1 Happy grandparents Mr and Mrs Asher Merkley received word from Mr and Mrs Arnold Ahrnsbrak of Wison Creek Colorado that they are parents of a son born Tuesday in the Hayden hospital July 3 1958 Robert Hinman unman game ame warden from Cedar City arrived in Vernal Tuesday with his wife wile and month eight-month old son lie He will work with Udell Gardiner local warden Rondo S S. S Harmon assistant principal of Uintah High School has been appointed appointed appointed ap ap- pointed the new principal of Ashley Valley Jr High School Preliminary reports indicate that the assessed valuation of Uintah County for 1958 will be a record an increase of about 20 percent over last years Bids for the construction of a transmission transmission transmission tran tran- line from Moon Lake facilities in th the Vernal area to the Flaming laming Gorge Dam site and Dutch John Townsite will be received by Moon Lake Electric Association Thursday July 10 at the Associations Association's headquarters in Vernal Sen Wallace F. F Bennett Dennett disclosed early this week that 94 percent of the students graduating from Uintah ugh High School this year plan to attend college This compares to a state average of 78 percent Neale 39 Whiterocks Indian pleaded not guilty of first degree murder in his arraignment Tuesday June 24 before Fourth District i. i Judge Jospeh E E. E Nelson Mr Mr is charged with the death of Edgar Greenstick 52 Bennett body was found May 14 1428 28 miles southwest of Vernal During the State American Legion and Auxiliary convention held in Ogden June 21 20 21 and 22 Mrs Junius Hacking was installed as president of District No 9 Marie Cooper daughter of Mr and Mrs H H. Arvene Cooper was chosen as Uintah County Dairy Princess during June Dairy Days Chosen as her attendants attendants attendants attendants' at at- were Mary Ellen Jones daughter of Mr and Mrs Stanley N N. N Jones and Kaye Morrill daughter of Mrs J J. J R. R McKee Tridell Ly Lynn nn King formerly employed by Western Living Inc began working as manager of Ashton Brothers hardware department Tuesday The National Park Service will spend in Din Dinosaur National Monument during th the fiscal fical year beginning July 1 I 1958 Dale Haws son of Mr and Mrs Jesse Haws laws recently received his PHD degree from Cornell University Dale in now Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky where he is doing research in medical and veterinary entomology Presently visiting for two weeks in Uintah County at the home of Dee Jenkins in Maeser is Hedi International Foreign Youth from Switzerland A farewell testimonial was held for Daniel R. R Gardner Sunday prior to his departure for an mission to the Northern States Otis Weeks Jr who has been in Germany for two years where Mr Weeks was employed as a teacher returned last week to Salt Lake Mrs Weeks is the former Velma Wilkins Paul Winterton son of Mr and Mrs Keith Winterton of Roosevelt escaped injury Saturday at pm p.m. when he fell from the family car and the front wheel passed over his neck and chest He will be three years old in August Mr and Mrs Clark Jones are rejoicing over the arrival of a new baby boy born June 22 |