Show v In The Good Old Days 4 gr ant int n Jl Dl 11 int 1 j r tt M 20 YEARS AGO FEBRUARY 3 S 1953 93 Typhoid immunization n clinics will wilt be conducted in the schools on the west westside westside westside side of Uintah County beginning Tuesday l February 10 They will wilt take place at Lapoint at am a.m. at 1 pm p.m. and at Avalon at pm p.m. The clinics will all aU be conducted at atthe atthe atthe the school houses of the communities and andare andare andare are available for school pre-school children school children and adults February Dollar Days bays a spring event being planned by the Retail Merchants Committee of the Vernal Chamber of Commerce will be held in Vernot Vernal Ver Vcr nal not Friday and Saturday February 27 and 28 23 according to Harold Duke Chairman Chair man of the affair All merchants of the city will participate par in the event Further plans will willbe willbe willbe be announced next week A new riding club chub for Vernal was organized organized or at a meeting in the Bank of Vernal building Tuesday evening About twenty persons met to set up 4 the club and choose officers Rex gel was selected president with Owen Wall as vice president and William Hurst as secretary and treasurer 76 YEARS AGO FEBRUARY 4 1897 Our neighbors across the state line line- The Vernal Express completed its fifth year last week It is a bright and newsy publication and reflects credit on its editors Barker and Hillman The people people people peo peo- of Vernal and Uintah County should give the Express a liberal support It has been the means of bringing that part of Utah to the notice of the world Meeker Herald Thomas Taylor manager of the gilsonite gilsonite gil- gil mines near Ft Duchesne was in town this week and said they were making making making mak mak- ing preparations to clear out the mines and search for the remains of the victim vic vie time tim e of the explosion j V 30 YEARS AGO FEBRUARY 4 1943 Saturday morning Edward Anderson Tom Luck Roy Oaks of oC Vernal and Hugh of Roosevelt who were at Green Lakes decided to make a II trip to Vernal Finding it was Im impossible to come through the deep snow by automobile automobile automobile auto auto- mobile they traveled as far as possible with a sleigh and distance of twenty twenty- four miles on skits to the face of Brush Drush Creek Mountain 1 Before leaving they contacted contacted con con- Sheriff H. H M. M Snyder by telephone requesting that he have a car to meet them as far up the mountain as he could go Mr Oakes was anxious to reach home as his youngest child was seriously ill The other three men who are logging on the mountain had to see Harry Woodard Woodard Wood Wood- ard soil conservation director before beCore continuing with their work They ended their forty five mile trip Saturday evening at 11 pm p.m. when they reached Vernal after fourteen hours tra tram vel vet Don lUll Hill local rancher and cattleman made livestock history at the Denver Stockyards Monday when he sold 66 GG steer calves for 1700 per cwt This price is exactly per hundred above the price paid during Stock Show Week and is the highest price paid on the Denver Market for the past ty eight years according to J J. J J J. J Drinkard Drink Drink- ard and of Drinkard and Emmert Mr Hills Hill's record breaking steers were sold through Drinkard and Emmert Their average weight was pounds bringing per head |