Show W r-W jt J r hi r J. J In in The G Good o P Old e Days 1 r 0 76 YEARS AGOMa AGO Ma March IT 17 The Advocate says Now is the time to remove and burn rubbish Reckon we people in Uintah County better wait until the snow now is gone before starting starling the fire JOHN JOllN T Ll It and other will leave Monday next for Cor Browns Brown's Park lark to shear Davenports Davenport's sheep Judging from the disagreeable winds itis Ilis it Il itis is early to strip sheep of oC their winter coats With Wilh this issue of the Express J. J A. A Holdaway foldaway assumes the reins and hoists his name as ast t editor and proprietor I have sold the entire plant and subscription list to him LUCK arrived InVernal in inVernal inVernal Vernal on the mail Sunday last being summoned on account of oC his wife's illness Duke died March 5 of typhoid pneumonia at t his home in Fourth Ward Jeff Wilcox took an overdose of oC laudanum last Friday evening and it took the united efforts of oC about twenty men and andall andall andall all the available medical assistance to be had to lo keep poor J Jeff off from shuffling off from this mundane sphere and joining the angelic hosts in that tha t land where the whang-doodle whang and the wood-bine wood 30 YEARS AGO March IB 16 1911 I Clayton Findlay received a presidential citation In China This award is believed to be he the first US Presidential citation given for Cor non-combatant non force LI LL Findlay is a member of the India China wing of oC the air transport command SWIMMING IMING 1 POOL to be built buill by Vernal Jaycees It will be located on the Vernal City Park and will co cost l approximately William Jr a Uintah High freshman won the district FF A contest held here Mr and Mrs Elmo Hardy and family Camily of Lapoint moved to Vernal last week to lo make their home Mr and Mrs Floyd Schofield are parents of oC a baby boy born March 11 MONDAY Y EVENING at a meeting held at the Uintah State Bank the Witbeck Post of the lite American Legion appointed Henry Workman as liason officer officer officer of of- to assist returning servicemen cemen of oC World War II to secure various federal benefits Funeral services were held for Minnie Davis Recently Mrs Davis died at her daughters daughter's home in Salt Lake 20 YEARS AGO March 18 1951 Joe K Baker services held Sunday in the Kingsbury Congregational Church Mr Baker 25 was the victim of oC the gilsonite mine explosion where eight miners died Services for Cor Everett Goodrich were also held In Bluebell Ward Chapel Wednesday Dorine Barton will wed Melvin Mclvin J J. J Weeks son of oC Mr and Mrs 1 Alvin Weeks In the St. St George Temple March 20 City Councilman asks decrease in water rates Dale Jensen has proposed a 14 percent decrease in the rates for Cor Vernal water users Completion date is expected in four Cour months month of the new Indian Mission chapel in Randlett Vernal's new armory building will be completed In about days according to contractor Ralph Childs Springville Mr and Mrs Kenneth Snow were stranded by an early flood in Wash just off ore Highway 40 last week Sam Hatch wins first second at Rifle Matches Also competing were Jim Lube Jim Anderson and Joe LeBeau with 66 western Colorado shooters taking part in the trap shoot Susie Nelson funeral services were held at Jensen at 1 pm p.m. Thursday |