Show PERSONALS d AND LITTLE LOCALS E. E ED D D. MacDougall has been i ia In Salt Sal SaltE t 4 Lake this this E week yeek on legal busin business s. s Harold Eldredge is clerking at Calvert Calv t Waugh company store r. r Miss Lola Barker Darker student at Myton Myton My- My ton Academy emy has been ean at home this thia week 4 0 44 14 4 Burt Dart was a member of ot th the East ast Salt Lake high school minstrel t t show recently y I n ra w Mit n April 16 it will wUl bo be Arbor day Plans are arc being boing perfected for setting out II man many trees in Myton Cliff was was up UD from Ouray tor a few tow days on business He lie la is t r Jog ing well in that part of or the country y There Thero will be Easter s services cs at Pr Presbyterian rr n church chuich next Sun- Sun F f da day A. A A 11 spec special t has been prepared i f I f 1 j Oliver of Harper Cara Carboa Car- Car Oil a- bon boil county asks asks leavo leave ea o to to develop 1 iS O 1 times es ra amount 1 0 t. ot of water from rom seeps epS and springs in Carbon county I Charles lorg Iorg and Joe Joe Cooper left leU lefta I a few da days s 's ago Igo for Nevada where they expect to lo locate atc for the tho present Mr Iorg's lorg's family h have ye returned to Ioka loka I Sites Miss Kenna Cragan the Uintah basin basin ba- ba f sin candidate for the tho Herald 1 can big auto who was due here last 1 Sunday Sunda was detained but will arrive I Shortly a J I A I. I s. s u i Harry Harri C C. C Gray was d down VIl from fountain Mountain Home this week week eek Mr Gray has an adver advertisement In this Issue offering his ranch for sale He expects to to locate in California i ft The big Indian land sale Is b being advertised In lIt the Free Press It will appear each issue until May 29 when the ho sale comes off oU This will wUl be the tho largest sale le in the history ory of the ther r sales Bales I l f Ed has given up up his Job as driver for the Price Price-Myton Auto company and will vim again run the Beggs Begga tractor Mr Beggs has contracts con con- tracts for plowing large this spring According to the tho Pacific Manufacturer Manufacturer i Utah taxes w will ll amount to f 6 61 6 i 1 a t this ls year but during the years ears of 1915 and 1916 the state cold collected col- col d for all purposes approximately approximate approximate- ly George Searle has brought suit Bull for divorce from Fritz Searle Mrs Searle with their dau daughter went wont to I California during the tie winter where f t she expected to secure a position with witha a movie company t Dr J. J E. E Morton of or Roosevelt has purchased from B. B L. L Dart of My Myton ton eighty acres in Hancock cove one one mile west of Roosevelt Dr v Morton is planning to plant half haIr of this this his land landl to beans tames iames Nowland has returned from Salt Lake ako ko where he went to see his hla father John I. I Nowland whom the physician say can not live but a afew afew afew few weeks w weeks s. s An operation brought no hopes of recovery The annual catalogue of or Willcox t io Academy is out It is a splendid piece of of work and was done by the Vernal Vernal Verna Express The Willcox Is having havIng having hav hav- successful year under the ing a very leadership of Rev George Downey He has a One fine staff starr of ot teachers society will meet k The Ladies Ladles Aid J i at the home of Mrs W. W E. E Wheeler next W Wednesday afternoon at sharp To o matters of importance will be decided All AU the ladles ladies are invited to be present Orders will willbe be he taken for plain sewing done at reasonable prices A A. M. M Myrup of Salt Lake City has f of the signed final papers In purchase Taylor Land and J Livestock compan company's s 's ranch in Grand county for tor a consideration consideration consid consid- oration of The ranch is IB highly Improved and tho the deal Includes in includes In- In eludes acres of or patented land equipment and livestock I r In order to facilitate the d delivery of coal oal from Carbon county the Rio Grande Grande inde will make the new now yards at Soldier Summit classification yards where the trains from the coal mines throughout the state stale will be switch switch- switched ed and made Into solid trains for delivery delivery de de- livery to the tho smelters to the Western Western West West- ern ern r Pacific and to the Oregon Sh Short rt i Line Announcement of or this pl plan n nas was made yesterday About will wm be c expended ended in building the yards at Soldier Summit A quartette composed of or Mrs O O. A. A Dart Mrs N N. C. C Wilson Ralph Ralph Ralp Walker and B. B P. P Blair will furnish the music at the Easter services Presbyterian church next Sunday No wonder Orson Ryan accepted Ul the of the Carbon j count county school His salary is to b be 2500 per year That beats beata running I a farm tarm along the Duchesne river until until until un un- I til It is Improved J. J T. T Carne Came contractor and builder build build- cr er er of Roosevelt was In My Myton ton this week looking after some me of the bus business busi- busi ness that is coming up this summer I He lie has been doing a 3 great groat deal of work in Roosevelt The U Utah Uh h wool clip cUp will approximate approximate mate mato 1 pounds this year At forty cents per pound It will be worth The Uintah basin clip cUp of or will be wor worth h Tho Now Hope Irrigation district directors met at Independence this week week and transacted routine buein buei- buei n ness The Now New NewHope Ho Hope company will I i soon meet to discuss s the question of taking water out of or the Ule river 1 There are are still to too many newspapers pers Pors in Duchesne county if U making mone money is their main main object Too Too much competition There are not too many if IC the main object is to advert advertise adver adver- tise t s the resources of the tho country They ar are doing that all aU right Mrs rs Anna Anria Parker of Rexburg i Idaho will be In Myton week forthe for forthe the he purpose purpose of buying la land d. d She expects expects expects ex ex- to locate here in iii the near future She is a reader of the My Myton ton Free Press and its boosting news each week has has has' br brought her here t t rank prank Alger of ot the Nine Mile country was in Price Wednesday coming to take out some young calves recently purchased of Elmer Adley of this his city Conditions in his part art of the he country are good he says Bays while stock stock lock on the the range Is dol doing g well Price Sun f 5 Rev George S. S Sloan of My Myton ton and R. R S. S Collett of R Roosevelt are In Salt Lake attending the Irrigation Congress Congress Congress Con Con- gress and arid the Pikes Peak Highway meeting Mr lr Sloan will m also attend the he meeting of f tl the ilia e Presbytery He He will be back In inC C My Myton ton t tomorrow morrow or Saturday J. J H. H Coltharp and wife who have been jeen guests of J J. J B. B Whittemore and wife wire left Tuesday for Vernal where Mrs Coltharp will stop for awhile Mr Coltharp will go on to Rangely Ho He has decided definitely to build a brick hrick hotel in Myton l this summer Bummer The Resen Reservation News has suspended suspended suspended sus sus- publication Some Seine time ago Morton orton Alexander sold his plant to F. F E. E Grant who came camo here from Colorado Grant moved it to Altonah and for awhile he issued a first class newspaper Soon he got sick and almost suddenly he left the tho country The Fruitland people held a Pikes Peak Highway meeting last Saturday Saturday Saturday Satur Satur- day night It is said they have raised towards paying expenses which must be met by people through whose territory the Highway p passes Other localities In Duchesne county ar aro ari r raising their portion of or the assess assess- n ments Mr Mr and Mrs H. H C. C Means last Frida Friday FridaS night gave a party In celebration of or the first anniversary of their heir wedding About twenty guests were present Mrs Mra J J. J Mi Mb Bryant won the ladys lady's prize and Mr J J. M. M Bryant won the gentleman's 8 prize An el elaborate supper was s served ed A feature of the table decorations was American Beauty roses All persons In Utah who have served sere ed the United States State In foreign countries countries countries coun coun- tries are ore asked to get In touch at once with A. A J. J M Salt Lake ke Mr is organizing i a Utah post post of vet veterans of foreign wars and abd will apply soon Boon for tor a charter from the national council at Pittsburg Pa Where There are more than foreign war veterans in Utah It is thought J. J H. H Burns Durns and David L. L have a acre acro lease in the Redcap flats fiats They expect to farm on on a large scale One of the first moves made was the purchase of a Moline tractor tractor from the Uintah Builders Supply for tor which they paid This tractor will pull pun an anything from a plow to a threshing machine It will do the work of five fire horses and requires less caro care than one horse borse It is 18 th the first machine of or the tho kind brought into this country S It has been reported to the livest livestock live livestock st stock k departments of the leading railroads that the sheep and the cattie cattle cattle cat cat- tle tie of or Idaho and nd Utah which have been fed on the ground alfalfa are in much better condition than those which were wee fed red on alfalfa as hay 1 There Thero Is every indication of or exceedingly exceedingly exceed exceed- heavy fruit crops this year Inthe in inthe inthe the of J J. J Edward Taylor secretary secretary sec sec- or of the state com com- mission The belated spring weather er h has had a tendency to retard the growth of or the buds and the elimination elimination elimina eUmina- tion of the danger of f frost which killed much of tho fruit in Utah last year 4 George T. T Smith of or Redcap is coming coming coming com com- ing with registered Cotswold sheep which ho purchased at low figures in Wyoming owing to scarcity of feed teed He has contracted the wool for tor 45 cents per pound Mr Smith writes writes' in in that the tho sheep loss In Wyoming will willbo be fifty per cent ow- ow ng to severe weather and the he scarcity ty y of ot feed teed Shorty Ward ard was waS' over oyer from his ranch in In Inthe the north country this week At least he was over OYer from what hat Is left lert of his ranch He recently recently re re- sold 80 acres to J. J H H. H Hardy anI and took tho pa pay all an in flour r. r Ho o received pounds and in no notime notime time ime at all he had bad it sold at higher figures than thaI he he paid In fact tact the flour in that case was better than money One Ono of oC the smallest amounts of water yet et applied for tor at the office of the he state engineer was that mentioned mention mention- ed in tho the application of or George M M. M Baker of or CedarvIew Mr Baker Is asking for one-fourteenth one or of f a a. second foot toot of water to be developed de- de eloped from an unnamed spring for Irrigation purposes It will be used to o irrigate five acres of land and alo also alto al- al to so o for lor Culinary purposes The rho big Bear dance closed Sunday with th a feast All night Saturday night the dance went on in spite of the he chilly weather which drove the tho bear ear back to winter quarters The TheMy My Myton ton Business Mens Men's League committees committees committees com com- are to be congratulated upon the he success of or the affair The Trades day ay committee and the Publicity committee worked together on this The The local busl business ess men h helped pay for the feast Sina Parsons was operated on for tor appendicitis at the D. D Dee hospital in Ogden on Monday March 26 and andIs andIs andis Is getting along nicely She will wUl remain remain remain re re- main In Ogden for a month and willbe willbe will willi willibe be accompanied home by her father tather who has spent the winter In Ogden I with his sister He Is taking adjustments adjust adjust- I ments meats from Dr McKeel the tho chiropractic chiropractic chiropractic chiro chiro- but his condition has improved ed a very little up to the present time The Oregon Short Line has offered a prize of to the boy in the State of Utah who raises hogs at the lowest cost per head In addition the company otters offers a second second prize prize of 50 and a third prize of 25 26 Hog clubs have been organized in several parts of the state and tho boys are given special Instruction in the business business busi bust ness of ot hog raising through the Utah Agricultural college which Instructs amateur farmers 0 More than ten thousand thousand first second second sec sec- sea ond and and third class postmaster were placed under civil service by br executive executive executive tive order of President Wilson Present incumbents of office are not affected but in the future when vacancies vacancies va va- va- va occur occur r as the resu result t of or death resignation or removal the civil service commission ice ice will hold open com- com petti e examinations The name of the highest eligible candidate will then be submitted tc to the president No person person more than 65 years old shall be examined Although the he order Is framed framed to remove postmasters from politics the Se Senate te however however however how how- ever has the right to reject the presidents president's appointees Senator Reed Smoot desires to advise advise advise ad ad- vise Indian war veterans and their widows that that It Is IB not necessary for tor them to employ attorneys In order to secure the pensions recently by the federal government Senator Son Sen- ator Smoot says that tho the attorneys of Washington D D. D C c. and perhaps other places are sending out letters to the veterans asking the power of or attorney attorney attorney ney to secure the pensions Such action Is wholly unnecessary said Senator Smoot and will only mean that the attorneys will get part of tho the money All the veterans or widows have to do 10 is fa to to fill fin out the application blanks for blanks for which s specific Instructions are given |