Show T J T rJ o uro Jl In The Good Old Days WN 1 20 YEARS AGO October 1 19 1949 Representatives of Dupont manufacturers manufacturers of I explosives among thousands of other Items are going to esta establish a 8 warehouse near the Wardle mine for explosives for oil exploration Tile The Leo Staples Construction Company Company Com Com- pany of has been awarded n a contract for excavation and filling of trenches for the Naples water waler project t and will start early next week Elects Caldwell instructor at Uintah II High High- h- h School was elected president of the Distributive Education Coordinators v of Utah Friday in Salt Lake City Mr and Mrs Ray E. E Dillman Vernal Vernal Ver Ver- nal ital n natives tives who were recently appointed appointed appoint appoint- ed BI as president and missionary of oC the Western States Mission for the Church were honored at a farewell Oc October 26 U 1949 Departing soon for missions will win wille pc e Dan an Workman Jack Haws and Wen Wendell dell Collier Comer Births Mrs Karl Kari Collett CoUett girl October 5 Mrs Allan Bennion girl October 7 MRS Mr Mrs Rowen girl girl October 7 Mrs Eldon White girl October 9 Mrs Gene Farnsworth arnsworth boy October 11 Mrs Benjamin Benjamin Ben Ben- jamin K Manor Manor twin girls October 11 Mr Don Collier girl October 14 Mrs Theral Caldwell girl Irl October 15 Mrs Rulon Anderson boy October 15 IS Mrs Morris Vernon boy October 17 Mrs Frank Johnson boy October 20 Mrs SillY Workman girl October 19 Mrs Raymond taymond York girl October 20 Mrs girl October 20 0 Mrs Robert Robert Robert Rob Rob- ert Hatch girl October 20 Mrs Robert Preas Press girl October 2 20 Mrs Owen Hardy Jardy girl October 24 Mrs James Wilon Wilson Wil Wil- Ion son on girl October 26 i j Members in Uintah County of the State Farmers Cooperative took over the Peterson flour mill in Vernal five weeks ago i r. r Colonies of bees in Utah numbered only July 1 I as compared with at the same time last year I 25 YEARS AGO October October- 19 1944 Ernest Caldwell this week purchased from Erie Eric Nelson his interests of the Nelson and Caldwell Timber Company becoming sole owner A A. carrier pigeon with an identification band of the U. U S. S biological sur sur- yer stopped over at the Ray Lee farm at Lapoint Wednesday of last week On f the identification band was inscribed the theo words swords o ds Notify 38 1 t Fr Fred d c C. C DeBernard of Kremmling ng Colorado internationally known Hereford Here Here- ford breeder sold a old nine bull bullcalf calf for The TIle Rainbow Atchee road now being graveled by the Duchesne Grazing district dis dis- i reduces by miles the distance from Vernal to Grand Junction The old Uintah railroad route to Colorado Colorado Colorado Colo Colo- rado will have an added attraction now that t rainbow trout planted this spring In McAndrews Lake have become become be be- come legal size October 26 U 1944 Work on a landing field located Just south of the town of Tridell was completed Sunday by minded air-minded residents residents re reo of that locality Construction of the landing strip approximately feet in length and 50 feet in width was directed by Junior Morrill Births Mrs John T. T Hannegan boy October 19 Mrs Lynn Hall girl October 17 Mrs LaDell boy October 14 U. The Gipson Hotel operated by Mrs Willis L. L Johnson is being redecorated both on the interior and exterior by W W. H. H Mann of Roosevelt 35 YEARS AGO October 18 1934 Monday evening in the Maeser Ward Chapel a farewell testimonial was given In honor of Charles P. P Maughn who was recently called to fill a mission in inthe inthe inthe the Northwestern States The work on the two and one half miles of road on the extension of the Twists road Is progressing rapidly Births Mrs Earl Hunting boy October October Oc Oc- tober 9 An airmail order was sent to Denver from Vernal on a Tuesday and a reply was received on on Friday of the same week The The airmail sent from Vernal arrives arrives ar are rives in Denver the same day and Is delivered next morning according to Jesse Haws of the local post office O October tober 25 1934 93 Reginald M M. Cook and Alice Caldwell Fox have been en engaged aged to conduct a are recreational recreational re re- center for Vernal and vicinity to be located in the Woodard Hall The pro program ram being worked out includes activities activities ac ac- in drama music speech dance gym classes archery and harmonica band Uintah Future Farmers won first place in the Kansas City Livestock show according to a telephone message received received re reo from H. H M. M Lundell Besides winning winning win win- ning the first prize in livestock the Uintah Uintah Uin Uin- tah team won first in beef cattle and first in swine Cornelia Comella Peterson will be honored at ata a farewell testimonial Sunday night before before be be- fore her departure to the Eastern States Mission Mr and Mrs Stephen M. M Ross of Tridell Tridell Tri Trl dell are building a new home near the church and plan to move Into it soon 40 YEARS AGO October 17 1929 A farewell party was given in the Leota Ward house for Robert Cooper who will leave shortly for the Mexican Mission Birth Mrs Lawrence Carter girl October October October Oc Oc- tober 14 City Council appropriated to buy way right-of-way for H. H S. S Street to be opened opened open open- ed south side of Uintah High School to provide greater safety for cars and ve ve- October 24 1920 Vogue Theatre will Install talking pic pic- tures Plan to be ready in 10 days Guyletta Stewart one of the clerks at atthe atthe atthe the Woodard Furniture Company left Sunday for California where she will remain remain re reo main an Indefinite time J. J K Bullock is sporting a new coupe BIRTHS Mrs Edward Kidd girl October October Oc Oc- tober 17 Mrs Dewey Donahoe girl October October Oc Oc- tober 16 Mrs Archie Lewis is the new bookkeeper bookkeeper bookkeeper book keeper at the Ford garage Special Sunday Dinner 7 75 cents cream of celery soup potatoes and gravy pineapple and carrots bread and butter butter but but- ter choice of drink maple nut mousse and wafers at Fowlers Fowler's Grill Construction of highway north of menu menu- ment starts starts' Monday j It will remedy one of the most treacherous roads in Ashley Valley and provide a splendid link in the Vernal-Manila Vernal Highway 50 YEARS AGO October 17 1919 Births Bell Zinn boy Mrs Henry Loranger boy Mrs Guy Long boy October 5 Mrs Nathan Chivers girl October 11 Sam Snyder is building a three room addition to his residence Elmer Snow is erecting a fine little frame bungalow just north of his fathers fathers father's fathers father's fa fa- ther's residence The Cooks of Vernal are doing the building Russell Harrison has received a II call to go on a mission He will leave about the middle of next month for the Northwestern Northwestern Northwestern North North- western States As a result no doubt of the bright prospects of the Bamberger railroad being being be be- ing soon built into the Uintah Basin from Salt Lake City the Uintah Railroad Railroad Rail Rail- road from Mack Colorado to Watson Utah is being extended 15 miles further further fur fur- ther toward Vernal to the Bonanza gilsonite gilsonite gil gil- mine Bob Witmer has purchased the old academy building and is tearing it down preparatory to moving the lumber to his lot east of the Central School where he will erect a modern home this winter The newly opened store of Bingham and Walker south of the Bank of Vernal Vernal Ver Ver- nal is certainly doing a lively trade and has been from the days its doors opened to the public Both of the proprietors proprietors proprietors pro pro- are well known all over the valley and Intend to treat their customers custom custom- ers right C. C J. J Neal of ot the Neal and Allan Uan left leet this morning for Salt Lake City to bring in a a Cleveland tractor which he will demonstrate at Duchesne Myton and Roosevelt October 24 1919 Victor King was honored at a farewell party before before- he goes into the mission field B B. H II and J. J II Bodily sold their lambs for cents a pound James Eskelson has bought his home back from W W. Maddox which he sold to him last June It soon got old for Jim paying sixty cents per pound for butter and cents for eggs He lie says he heis heis heis is glad to get the farm back again even if he did have to pay more than he received for it it F F. F L. L Noel hurt his hand seriously cranking his car War department halts delivery of hand bombs Grenades were to be given away as souvenirs to stamp buyers 55 YEARS AGO Two hundred and fifty bushels of potatoes potatoes pot pot- on less than one one half half acre is the record made this year by Lynn Ashton Mrs Arthur Rich has decided to name her new hotel the St St. Elmo The building formerly the Taylor rooming house has undergone a complete change Calder will install a heating plant in the new Calder building in the near future 75 YEARS AGO J. J H. H Murray tells the Express that he has been at farms with his threshing machine and has threshed bushels of grain this season There are five other machines that have been at work this season and if they all averaged averaged aver aver- aged with Mr Murray the grain crop will be bigger than any other year Jacob Slonaker called at our office last week and left leet two mammoth radIshes radishes radishes rad rad- that he raised on his ranch at the mouth of the Dry Fork of of Ashley One of the radishes is nineteen inches in length and three inches in diameter Frank Roselle of Provo is in Vernal looking after the drug business with a aview aview aview view of permanently locating here |