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Show —..._. Mr. lnnman and Mrs. were married last week. l. Publishdd Every Thursday at Myton, Utah. {plantain-the Welfare-and Best Interests of the People of Northeastern Utah. Fritz Scheilintz is Visiting in - town from his Leland Bench I V EDITOR W AND PUBLISHER. ranch. ‘ Miss Alberta ("Bjornson spent "if " If you receive a sample copy of this paper it is an invitation toiyiOu‘to‘subscribe. We want you to join our family of readers Maybe you'll not like all 'the editor prints. No editor {ever pleased everybody. When you sit down to dinner you don’t eat everything on the table. Some things you don’t like, and so you choose what suits you and leave the balance for the other fellow. That’s a good way to. treat a newspaper. The NEWS will visit you one year for $1.50; six months 75c. Office 3 blocks west of Postoffice. [f you haven’t time to come to the office leave your subscription atil'. \V. Odekirk’s store. A If They Had Been Your Boys-‘2 Nowland, O. C. Sheek-is,l_building an ad'- DO flT? You believe in Fair Play don’t yes? It you get stuck in the mud and somc‘lellcrw helps you out you feel grateful to him don’t you? And you’ll return the kindness if you can. Well, I have helped a good many fellows out of the mud in this country. l was glad l'could do it. But one dition to his house in the west end of town. . ' Miss Martha Lewis was. the guest of‘ Miss Hazel Hemphill over Sunday. ' good act deserves another, and so I am asking my friends to remember my store when they come to Myron. ' Children’s dance at the old hall Saturbay afternoon. Admission 10 cents. A FEW weeks ago two country boys, one 17, the other 19, arrived in the little city of Price, Utah. They had been several brated her birthday days on the road from their home near Vernal. The weather with a dinner party. Sunday was bitter cold and they were chilled and fatigued from their Mrs. Nellie Hissong and Lee long journey. ‘ They sought warmth and cheerr—and someone Davis, of Hotchkiss, Colo. are * in Price sold them liquor. It is a criminal offense-to sell whis- visitors at Nowland’s ditch key to minors, and these boys were minors. So the “someone” camp. who sold the boys liquor committed A CRIME. A little later in The Calvert Comedy 00., will j the evening the town Marshal arrested the boys for .drunkengive a play in the near future. ness and lodged them in a cold, filthy jail for the night. The The name and date will be an- , _ Marshal didn’t hunt for the “someone” who had committed the nounced later. ' first crime of selling liquor to minors. N0, he went home and Harold and Edgar Carter went snugly to bed. At daylight a fire alarm was sounded; the were down from their Midview Marshal was called to the jail where the two country boys were . ranches transacting. business in Now, suit has been brought by Martin Allred, father of the t6Wn"Tuesday. boys, against the city of Price for the death of his sons. It " Alvin Birch and Ed F. Harmwill be interesting to learn what defense Price will make. ston, two of Roosevelt’s most What defense is there for a city that permits liquor to be progressive citizens were My- I am doing a Strictly _ Cash Business. Credit is bad for both ' Giver and Receiver l have cut the prices on all DryCoocls and Notions 25 per cent. l have a large stock of Queensware, Glassware, and Hardware at Right Prices. I handle Flour, Hay and Grain. and “I treat you Square. 1 {I ask you to remember me when you come to town. 1, w. . ODEKIRK. sold tominors in violatim of law'ohd Makes no efi‘ori to ptmishi ton visitors Twsday. the criminal who does it, but instead, arrests the innocent sic- J. M. Bryant, wife, and two tims of the crime, lodges them in a fire-trap jail and permits littledaughtersammdMonda y . .. . I rthemtc—burn to death? from an ex‘teniffi' fill) 3935?: ,_Adam s and isn’t that about as deep in criminality as any city could is”) mom 2 I well sihk itself? Virginia, and other: sections. Price is a thriving little city. They have schools and- Alvin Hurt will leave in a 5“" 19¢ l ‘L-. “My l i 1 .l _ Bluebell Continued from page 3. ing, Wm. bishop. P. Merrill atmosphere and men are making money out of the degradation to visit his parehts and two litinnocent boys who are cold and away. from the protection of home and to the reservation in the spring. friends. The damage suit which now hangs over the heads of Mr. and Mrsl'l Rrowland H. the taxpayers may cause the people of Price to awaken from Burdick retarded early last their indifference; for it is difficult to see how any court that week from a h,‘ ‘ ' etends to administer. justice, could decide against the father of these two boys who sleep in the little cemetery at Vernal. the past four months. At Altonah is J. M. Millard Mercantile Co. and postoffice, the Altonah school with A. E. Berkman and Miss Hazel Snow blacksmith as teachers. . A shop and a new school house The are under constructiOn. school has been closed the past three weeks on of account measles. Read This to Your Son. ' Ioka. Mr and Mrs TE Smith died It’s worse than the measles, the mumps or the smallpox. It very suddenlyl tSunday. The The ground hog will doubtwill put you on the toboggan slide of failure and give you a child had been sick but a few less retreat to his winter quart' through ticketto Nowhere. days and its dea‘ h was an unex- ers. His shadow will be clear- Don’t get in the habit of loafing on store counters and pected shock to‘Eéhe parents who! hanging around the streets in idleness. ‘ That wasn't what you have the sinCe ,. sympathy of were made for. You were made for work and usefulness, You the entire community. Funeral were made to do things in this world—to help yourself and occured on Tuesday and was others. If you haven’t any work to do, read a. good book, study, largely attendeflf-I’” ' y think; anything but being idle, for idleness leads-to discontent, misery, crime and everything you. don’t want. Elg‘ht‘y per cent of the convicts in prisons got there through idleness. dangerous road to travel. _ The Myton tunic Library It’s a held its annual election of of- . Boys, take our advice and don’t do 1t. Get busy. A Word of Caution. The time is not far distant when the various towns, on the these improvements, but they should be extremely cautious in granting frachises to private investors and no'francinse should be grantedto any corporation for a public utility , enrich does not fully safegard and protect the nght of the people to estab— lish municipal ownership whenever they may see fit to do so. All public franchises belong totbepeOple and should only be granted after their terms and conditions have been fully and freely discussed and understood by the people to be affected by ”That the best interest of the reservation demands the division of the . county." Committee on debate appointed bv the president, J. A. Palmer and Joseph Reither. Speakers chosen as follows: Aff. J. A. Palmer, Wm. Gent~ 1y seen here today,’ Feb. 2, ry, Chas. Killian. J. H. Lemon, The writer has been informed S, H. Mecham, J. B. Harris. Neg. Joseph Rei ther, J. W, that the son-in—law of Joseph Mex da, P, C, Johnson, D, C. Williams will this season come P Geo. Meranda, D. _:D. from Kamas to occupy the Wil- Car ' ' ' ‘ 0 send hear thadis'cussion, liams place of Ioka. you re always welcome in our We have in our midst two h‘ofie. ficers Jan. 7. 'flifiicers elected: Mecham families, President, Mrs. {5. 'M. Calvert, rivals from Canada- recent ar- They 53%, R rC. 8. Rice delivered an ‘ ting sermon ’ at Ioka vice president, {Mrs John X. the weather here is several" de- m"; house Sunday. He will spea O the e here once Palmer, secret I. 7, Mrs. _ Albert grees warmer han Canard;\. in two weeks.peopl A good attend- Bjornson, tress ,er, Mrs. J. 0, weather. No won ance is desired. Hahn. Treasureris report show- Leave your orders with Jos. ' Reither for lime. Reservation will be seeking improvements such as water-works, ed $6.21 on , f . lighting systems and other public utilities. 'The people. may The library Emu on Wednot be prepared at the start to assume municipal ownership of stead of shad scale, ant hills and prairie dogs. _ Wm. Milligan is expected home‘ in time to run his farm this year. John Davis has been occupying. the place for the past two years but he will concentrate his efforts on the W. R. Martin farm this year. George Meranda has been making the brush fly on his Sunnyside ranch of late. Geo. says there is no place like home. Ioka Literary will hold its weekly meeting Saturday eve— ing Feb. 8th. Question for debate, Resolved, Ephraim, tht infant son of Boys, don’t catch the loafing habit. ._.7‘-__._ ““63“?" A_ _._...V .,,. orchards and herds of cattle in— churches and many good people, but the city is cursed with The town is growing rapidly, few days for Tribune, Kansas, six houses having been built in rotten politics. Graft, greed and corruption have polluted the tle daughters {He will return g! if .r visiting relativesand friends in . of the city—~making money out; of selling liquor to Fl ‘ '7 . Mrs. George Hemphill cele- found burned to death. ' a the week end with, Miss . Ethel |-—-—fi IE—I E W] YOU ARE INVITED. li“L 3 ll jl — Module}. ALEX AN int-in. .. . Pitts Mr. and Mrs Leonard Jones visited Ft. Duchesne this week. 6 MO. 75C. ' L...‘______.lll , lElL SUB$CRJPT§ON RATE: '$1.50 PER YEAR: 7 Advertising Rates on Application, LOCAL BREVlTlES basin—~11 1 L THE RESERVATION NEWS. r Ioka country has homes avai famili able for several m nesday and Saturday afternoon as there are several from 2 to 4:30. i es here that are owned by non-residents that would make Frank Till and. Gideon Baril splendid homes for bonified who have been'f‘doing assess- home seekers. Let us all in— ment work this winter for the vestigate the single tax and get 7 Utah 'Hydrocarllon 00., near it in operation, then these Ouray. have retlrmed to their vacant homes will cease to be work after stew-1.65% visit at but actual home-builders will home. ’ be here instead with houses, them. l /‘ p ‘ [<15 (”\f} \ CHURCH DIRE‘C T0 R Y. ' "“PRESBYTERIAN cannon. Sunday School.-- -_ _--- _ 4.110 a. m. Preaching service .......... 11 a. a Christian Endeavor........ 7° 30 p.131}; Services held in Bank Rafi. Sabbath. CLATON s; 331%}? Mim'ster. ' -—-+———,- ' L. D. s. cannon. . Sunday School --. ............Ea, m. Preachingfservicm - - - ---- ----2 p. m. Y. M. M. l. A..---..__.--.v:30 p. m, |