Show I In r the iu Good j Old pi Days YEARS AGO October 1958 Keep Uintah County on Sun- days urged local citizens appearing before Uintah County commissioners Friday to ask for a continuance of the ordinance forbidding Sunday beer County beer retailers in September had appeared at a commission meeting and asked for the to be chang- ed so that they could sell beer on Sun- day as the State of Colorado on one side and Duchesne County on the other both permit Sunday sales of After spending Tuesday night lost in the rugged Book Cliff mountains 90 miles southeast of Vernal while deer Harvey farmer and stockman was at home The fact that Christensen makes a habit of carrying matches when nun- ting saved him from further exposure as he was able to light two fires and spent the night between When he was lost he didn't even have Charles O. of formerly of celebrated his bir- October 13 at his home in Construction of five and three-tenths of road from Neola to Whiterocks is to be suspended until The pro- now 70 percent complete was started May 14 by the general Construction of Billy of Myton was reported in condition Wednesday at Roosevelt The youth was shot Sunday at a.m. while deer hunting on Blue Bench north of The biggest buck weighed in at Ashley Valley Sport Shop in the contest so far is a dressed deer killed by Cecil Holmes of She was hunting in the switchbacks area on the face of Diamond Mountain when the kill was The Utah State Department of Fish and Game recently noted that final tabulation from Utah's first moose hunt showed a 70 percent hunter Unless we have a general storm deer hunters are going into forested areas should be very fire conscious as the woods are now very dry because of the prolonged dry David son of and Willard of returned Sunday from a tour of the U.S. Army football team Florida and is sta- at Camp County agents report that feeder lambs are selling for 20 to 21 cents and light feeder calves at 33 with steers and heifers at 31 Nearly all lambs are placed now from range herds at about 21 Vi yearl- ing steers at 27 and holstein steers at 21 and Frank are announcing the arrival of their second son and born 30 YEARS AGO The upper Colorado River compact signed recently in Santa N. M. was a and equitable agreement for all states Ed Utah state declared in Vernal He pointed out that Utah has much to gain the water agreement since development will bring sources of elec- and other advantages to the Uin- tah Basin and all of Utah far out of pro- to advantages of other Ada Allen ardent church and temple worker died at the home of a Leslie P. in Vernal She was born November 1878 in to Isaac M. and Harriet Squire Program for official opening of the Utah Field House of Natural History October 29 at p.m. was announced this Marva Batty will become the bride of Alfred Hacking in rites to be performed in late and George Wardle celebrated their Golden Wedding an- They were married October 1893 in They traveled by team and wagon to go through the Salt Lake Because of the housing shortage in Vernal caused by the oil discovery the state Lions convention next year will not be held here as previously Milbern Hatch with a pound four- point is leading in the biggest deer taken in the hunt contest at Ashley Valley Appliance and Sport Ap- proximately deer have been weigh- ed in the According to Utah weather and crops report issued last outlook for fall and winter range feed is generally poor throughout the Twenty-eight measles cases were reported in Uintah County during the There has been a total of cases in Lowest net return to Utah truck farmers since 1941 has resulted because of poor market conditions and ed freight Complete loss of hundreds of tons of vegetables has been reported because farmers could not meet the high ship- ment and Grant Holfeltz an- the birth of a baby born Oc- tober 9 in the Salt Lake City Engineers of the U.S. Forest products built the first all-plywood prefabricated house in This house was the spark that started engineers and builders of the road to shop-build houses of fir 75 YEARS AGO A Death and panic by yellow fever after a reign of two months have reduced the population of Mexico from to and the dreaded is now vanishing because the remainder of the population has been People of Vernal are urged to hold on to your real estate for a few Land is going to be worth something in this valley next We wonder is the average resident of the town ever noticed how many old signs reminders of by gone days there that confront one almost wherever you up town Elk still stands out boldly a grim reminder of the days when Vernal could furnish a wayfarer a place to lay The lower part of town the Congregational school children daily pass the door which has the inspired inscription East End The old signs are an incongruous ar- ray of relics that should be hustled out of They are absurd and Remove Work on the White River dam and canal will be resumed next Bullock went to Provo Thursday morning where she will visit friends for a short time and until Bullock closes out his business here in Vernal and joins her They may go to the coast on a visit this Sylvanus Collett gave us an Arizona this A sister living in Arizona sent a lot of was quite a to most people of this The inside resembles a handful of green grapes pressed together and it tastes something like A pretty home wedding was ed last Saturday afternoon Ellen J. Shepherd became the Cride of John William Gibson shot a coyote a few days ago that had a strap around its He says since a good bounty is of- for coyote scalps it looks as though someone is keeping tied up and raising scalps for the W. J. the Jensen was in town He says that the Green River is considerably higher than it was at this time last Hiram Mantle has sold his farm in Glines Ward consisting of 46 acres to W. |