| Show In The Good Old Days 20 YEARS AGO April 1959 The nine residents of in Draw had their long slumbers disturbed last week when a Salt Lake firm began Uie two-day task of moving them to a quieter location in Vernal City Cemetery to make way for the part of the Vernal It was not the first time that one of the residents of the hill had gone to a more permanent James the first man on the was moved to Salt Lake at his mother's Gibson operated the first store in Uintah The annual election of American Legion Witbeck Post 11 was held Monday evening in the Legion Hall in and Arden Stewart was elected commander for the second V. Mott of Maeser has been appointed deputy sheriff to replace Carl Staley who recently The annual Ute Bear Dance will be held in Randlett May This traditional welcome to spring is one of the original dances of the Ute tribe and no other tribe has With two new the Utah Fish and Game Commission met Friday for an organizational electing Paul G. of chairman for the next two-year Miss Sally daughter of and Duff a freshman at the University of Utah was selected one of six students to attend the annual conference held at the University of Missouri on April Allen Gentry of Vernal was recuperating this week from a broken ankle suffered last weekend while working on his ranch near Baxter Drilling was resumed this on a wildcat one mile east of the Maeser store on the north side of Maeser Vital Lon A. president of the Utah Federation of Women's has been named Uintah Basin's outstanding woman of the year by the Current Topics Club of Fourteen units of tribal Indian comprising nearly acres have been opened for the sale of oil and gas mining One of oldest located on the south side of Main Street midway between Vernal Avenue and 1st disappeared this week to make room for a new The building housed the offices of R. Bruce who owns the and Utah Gas Glade local oil associated with and was chosen president of the Vernal Lions Club at the regular The official opening of the Vernal Golf Course is set for 9 a.m. Vibrations from a jet plane buzzing Vernal Saturday at p.m. ripped cinder blocks off the Ted Hatch residence on east U.S. Hatch said she didn't know any damage had been done until she went out on the front lawn and saw the although she thought it was an Princess a home knitting is affiliated with similar businesses from Detroit to the West It was established in Vernal A mail carrier does not have to be a male In other words you can have a female mail What we are trying to say is that Deloris Corbin of a recent addition to the staff of Vernal Post is the only woman carrier in the State of at least according to inspectors visiting 30 YEARS AGO April 1919 Funeral services for Frank P. Spanish-American war veteran and former writer for the Vernal were conducted today at 2 p.m. in Jensen Ward Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day by Moroni At a meeting of the Vernal businessmen April 20 at the American Legion well-known coal was elected president of the Vernal Baseball He will be assisted by Donald vice Orlan L. Harry and Stanley other members of the board of Al Vernal electrician and sports was appointed team manager by this newly elected board of Plans of the Idaho-Colorado Petroleum to drill at Elk and possibly the Vernal area this summer were released here this Fire Tuesday at midnight at the Calder Creamery was limited to a boiler room located behind the main creamery Walls of the concrete building were left intact but the three electric motors and wiring were The new Continental bus terminal in Salt Lake facing famed Temple will be officially opened on April Beginning July 1 a special weather forecast for the Uintah Basin will be formulated at the Salt Lake Municipal airport and transmitted to Vernal via facilities of Challenger Air Lines Construction of the new Uintah County Hospital is moving ahead satisfactorily despite the winter tie-up and should be ready for use July Utah school teachers were paid an average salary of for the school with more than one-third of the teaching and supervisory personnel annual salaries exceeding Teachers 25 years of age averaged for the nine months school term while teachers in the old age group were paid an average of The average age of Utah school teachers is Regulations prohibiting of high school letter sweaters will be enforced in Uintah and Duchesne high school principals decided at meeting last week in Principals pointed out that no student shall wear school letters at anytime nor will graduates be allowed to wear such letters to school Some years ago high schools gave letters for unusual The practice became so expensive it was In recent students who could afford the luxury bought sweaters and wore them as an official insignia of Most students who deserved the recognition could not afford the making the practice unfair and not representative of the Fish are stocked so heavily in the Whiterocks hatchery that feeding has become a critical J.D. purchaser of reported here Cook formerly a resident of has moved to He was in this city buying dead or useless cows and horses for the 70 YEARS AGO I i April 1909 The Vernal schools had their closing exercises today in the Vernal ward 1 The program was an interesting i The little ones carried off their parts The house was not i half large enough for the The parents could scarcely into the I The eighth grade will continue for one more month and endeavor to complete the the Vernal has been ill this week and Miss assistant has been In Out of twenty-seven counties in the Uintah is one of eight which reported no contagious diseases for the month of i George Adams and made a trip to Whiterocks last week and returned the fore part of this week after a delightful j Willis Johnson doesn't care much whether it was a good winter or not for i he is the happy father of twins a boy to help Willis and a girl to help her The Vernal baseball team is just knocking the balls too high for any of the nines thus far They have put the USA boys and the Union nine to rout and are looking for more teams to Six months feeding on dry hay is given as the cause of a large mortality among stock cattle in this Indigestion results and cattle in apparently good condition have many in feed The Myton people are preparing for high They have put in a cable across the river about a mile below town in case the high water cuts across northeast of where it started to two years It all depends on the There would be unusually high water this spring if the weather would stay warm for two weeks at a We understand from a neighbor of Miss Mary that she has been living on her homestead all winter and that she intends to appeal the decision of the general land commissioner to the secretary of the It will be remembered that she was contested by Fred Hoeft and the local land office decided in favor of Miss but it was reversed favor of Hoeft by the general land Ed Samuels has a picture of the new shearing It shows the interior of the building and the men all at It certainly looks more comfortable than the old and it gives one the impression that the mean business and they are not afraid to spend a little money to improve All improvements help the Johnson and family and Orin Jarvis and family will leave Jensen in a few days for their Jarvis will go to work for the Logan Knitting Jensen is almost deserted these days as so many of the farmers are interested in cattle or homesteads and are away so much of the Enoch Lybbert bought sorrel horses and a set of heavy work harnesses for |
