Show large caravan will meet at jensen july ath to attend escalante ceremonies ladies farm ram bureau elects president outlines work at meeting held saturday A meeting of uintah county ladles ladies farm bureau was held at the county court case ouse saturday afternoon at 2 30 at w ilch tich representatives from nearly all parts of the county were miss vera calder was elected president of the organization but it was thought advisable to watt wait until the next meet ing to s fleet lect other officers the ladies ladles pre at nt went ent on decoi recoil d as strongly favoring the employment of a full time home demonstration agent for the two to counties uintah and du chrone the tie lecent action of c the last congress appropriating additional funds for extension work makes ats it possible for the extension service to expand its activities considerably three additional home agents and three more county agents will be employed in different counties of the state and it w vs ws s planned that one of the home 6 demonstration agents be ile placed in uintah and duchesne Duc besne counties undoubtedly this will be cue one of the greatest movements to aid the rural women that has ever been inaugurated augu rated in the uintah basin it Is planned to have a il committee of women om representing each community of the he count meet with county commas loners saturday june at 1101 10 00 a m to discuss this nutter matter an and a it possible pon ible make definite to get a full time home demonstration agent plans and preparations have hae been la U the making lor for some ume tor for the doal cation of the escalante monuments ct pt jansen july am the program prop am has been planned and the bases for the two thefts have been prepared much credit is due the vernal people tor for their untiring work to get this part of the ceremonies in readiness jan automobile caravan under the auspices of the utah society sons of american revolution with fred A boyd as captain win leave the hotel utah at salt lake city at 8 30 a rn tuesday july 3 ta attend the unveil ing in ceremonies at 10 a R m on independence pen dence day members of the society their faw ules and friends will journey to vernal tuesday and spend the night here following the anve hg ceremonies they will be guests of the vernal lions cb on a visit to the historic crossing and the of first camp pitched by white men in utah A visit will aim also be madd made to the dinosaur national monument close by the monument Is to be set near the jensen bridge over the green river on the main highway A smaller marker will be placed at the exact spot where father silvestre Sll SlI vestre velez de escalante and father At enazio domin alez with their eight companions first crossed the river in their historic march to find a short route from santa fe N M to monterey calif lh the e 1 party 3 arty camped on the bank of the e r river h e r sept 13 1776 the expedition was continued as far as mitford milford utah when the fathers gave up their quest erd returned by direct route to san senta ta fe having haing mode made the first historic trek by white men into utah then mexican territory I 1 captain stephen abbot chairman of the monument committee will ill be the master of ceremonies the program will be carried out as follows battle hymn of the republic vernal quartet the tablet and monument proposed captain stephen abbot significance of the escalante expedition rev T F butler address congressman Cong don B colton onward onard christian soldiers vernal quartet presentation of the monument franklin riter president of utah society Soc ety sons of american revolution ing of tablet miss janice M overfield acceptance james H wallis president lions club of vernal benediction rev Wil william liall 11 II ensign national anthem quartet and audience mr and mrs james IL coltharp and daughter neva of rangely langely were visitors at the home of mr and mrs W W lew lea is last week |