Show Js 1 41 fl J 1 In The Good Old Days if a 1 1 m. 20 YEARS AGO January 1195 1 1953 53 License plates will go on sale at the Uintah County Court House beginning Wednesday January 7 and will wUl continue continue continue con con- on Wednesday Thursday Friday and Saturday until noon each week until until until un un- un- un til March 1 1 Glen Hatch who has been appointed by bythe bythe bythe the State Slate Tax to sell plates and give drivers driver's examinations in both bolh Uintah and Duchesne Counties will be in Roosevelt each Monday and in Duchesne each Tuesday Beginning January 2 tax clearance on vehicles may be obtained at the assessor office upstairs at the Cou Court t House The plates will also be sold upstairs from the driver examination room Mildred Petty West 2nd North Is the winner of one of the bicycles awarded awarded awarded a- a warded in the Skylark Bread Contest ending November 30 Miss Miss' Petty Pelly won the bicycle by telling why she likes Skylark Bread Twelve year Twelve Mildred Is the daughter daugh daugh- ter of Mr and Mrs Glen Petty She is a student at Uintah Junior High School and has been living in Vernal since June when her family moved here her from Casper Casper Casper Cas Cas- per Wyoming 30 YEARS AGO Game Warden Henry returned to 10 Vernal Monday with a big smile and pound cougar he had shot Sunday at the Walter Hayes ranch on Str Strawberry Straw w- w berry River Mr had gone there on business when he and Mr Hayes noticed the fresh lion tracks The men pursued the animal animal ani mal with hounds for three hours The digs treed the lion and Mr made the kill with a 30 rifle Warden stated the Carne Carne- CarnegIe Carnegie gie Museum was in search of such animals and that he planned to donate the lion to the institution The lion measured measured measured mea mea- seven feet in length and apparently apparently apparently was several years old Mrs 1 Sydney Ross Smith received word this week that her husband B B. Orsen Si Sith th h was now in French Morocco He stated the only complaint he could make would be that the hut but he shares with two other men leaks Smith stated they have running water and lights 76 16 YEARS AGO January 7 1897 With the advent of 1897 and the end of 1890 1896 the people of Ashley Creek have witnessed the most remarkable weather ever experienced by them since the valley has been settled No snow snow and the roads are dry and dusty The days are warm and pleasant There is an epidemic spreading over the valley and quite a number of young people of both sexes have been taken down with the disease already and several several several se se- se- se veral others are showing symptoms of the epidemic having taken a firm hold of them In the last stage of the epidemic the patient applies to the county clerk elerk for relief which Mr Hanson the clerk speedily speedily speed speed- ily gives them for the small sum of |