Show n V n ny V W V V N in The Good d Old Bd Days Pays It i rr II III U IT It flAt nT J 1 Ir JIm It JIM JIm JIm Ul lm r. r I s 20 YEARS AGO October 23 1952 A bus load of hunters most of ot them with the Shaffer Tool Co of Los Angeles Angeles Ange les left Vernal Thursday morning at The hunters came off the moun moun- mountain tain late last night most of ot them were successful in their hunt The party took 14 rooms in the Hotel Vernal The Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company will give a lift to oil exploration and development in the Uintah Basin by establishing mobile service at Vernal 30 YEARS AGO October 29 1942 George Ramsey Jr the year old son of ot Air Mr Mr and Mrs George Ramsey had his ear completely bitten off oft Sunday evening by a dog belonging to Frank Pope The intensive scrap metal drive being conducted in Uintah County began to attract wide state attention this week when Uintah moved into second place among the counties in Utah in the sal sal- vage drive 54 YEARS AGO October 25 1918 Vernal has certainly been In n the grip of ot the dreaded Influenza Scourge the past week There have been six funerals funerals fune fune- rals in one week Every fatal case as asfar asfar asfar far as our investigations have led were contracted away from Vernal The business district has been very quiet the last four days and very few tew people are on the streets all on account of the flu contagion 76 YEARS AGO October 22 1896 Our neighboring town of Meeker is celebrating her first bank robbery and aside from the amount required for holding a coroners inquest the county escaped without a dollar of expense The most daring up hold-up we have heard of was that near Ogden last Tuesday Tues Tues- day The highwayman alone and unaided unald ed held up the train and packed all the registered letters |