Show local and personal our first heavy spring showers of ram rain fell last friday night and saturday morning A wee boy took up his abode at the homo home of mr and mrs ralph racking hacking early sunday morning the first plowing attempted in the ashley valley this spring was done in naples last friday afternoon green river is reported to be unusually il y high already neatly neaily filling its banks at the uintah railway ferry warren colton returned saturday night from dempsey idaho where he has been working in the mine the past winter the march term of the district cobit has again been continued this time it is ia set to convene next monday april 2nd and 1906 joab Collir colliver er reports that the cold snap which struck vernal on march 17 and 18 sent the down to four degrees above zero joseph merrill was in town saturday he says saya he came down from dry fork to refresh his demor memory yr upon the appearance pe arance of bare ground mrs frank M young delivered a very interesting address upon samoa i and missionary experiences at the stake house last sunday afternoon E D R thompson hasteen has been appointed receiver of the U S land office B at salt lake city he is well known in vernal frank D hobbs has been re appointed register we axe are told that green river raised 18 inches monday and is beann jeanng 9 the high water mark of last year this is 13 very unusual this early in the spring as high water usually comes in the river in may and ju june ne frank M young has just received a diploma from the state board of education which entitles entities him to teach in any of the grammar grade schools of the state of utah the diploma is in force during his entire lifetime mrs mra harriet M holmes has received her appointment as post poet nu mistress stress of roosevelt As soon boon as her commission is ia received the new post office will be established if no un forseen delay occurs this should be accomplished within three weeks ell 11 i lee and george young tire are each taking shearing contracts this year the uintah railway people are building shearing corrals at green river and it is expected that if weather conditions are favorable tho tha shearing will commence about april it is not yet settled which gang of she arera will occupy the shearing corral at green river A very serious and critical operation upon mrs art rich was performed wednesday by dr garrett odonnell assisted by dr lloyd druggist don V forrest administered the le ic this is ia the third operation which it has been necessary for mrs rich to undergo the trouble in this instance was appendicitis in a very advanced stage the patient was und under erthe the influence of chloroform over two hours but she rallied nicely and up to the time of loinz to press has been making very satisfactory progress F A brinton has been employed by the trustees of the dry folk foik school district to their school about two mont months J R downey of pueblo and lt S fishback of colorado springs aro are in vernal on business connected with the independence townsite bishop colton piled up a hundred and fifty dead lambs a few days ago and cremated them the severe march weather this thia year has been a hard har one on the early lambs D M king an electrical engineer of murcur has been in vernal during the week looking over the situation with a view to establishing an electric light plant in vernal the dewey oil eil spring is located 0 on n government ground the company now has a party out making a survey of the property mr is the engineer in charge of the survey there was a large number of people in town thursday for the purpose of attending the district court the postponement of the date for opening the march term was a louice of disappointment to them 4 waw 1 1 W B ferris ferna who has for sometime been in the employ of E W davis company has left their employ and returned to his home in boulder colo while among us ho he has been a very popular salesman |