Show I PERSONALS S AND LITTLE LOCALS LOCALS I vernal will build this year a 60 hotel I V Uintah county school terms wilnot will wil not be cut short Now is the time to buy cattle Next prIng prices will be higher Thousands of bushels of at cloves clover and alfalfa seed yet et to thresh Anton and wife of oC Vernal were Myton visitors during the week John Timothy of at Ioka loka traded acres to Ab Price for Vernal property property prop prop- erty I Wallace Calder Carder attorney of Vernal Vernal Vernal Ver Ver- nal was here hereon on regal legal business last Saturday F F. A A. Strain of the Uintah Basin Construction company spent a rew few days dars in Salt Lake Merle Benson and wife wite of Magna formerly former I of loka Ioki are rejoicing over the arrival of a son 55 Petitions went out of My Myton ton protesting protesting protesting pro pro- testing against the Southwick anti- anti tobacco bill now before the senate Harry Veatch formerly formerly- of Antelope Antelope Antelope Ante Ante- lope is said to be making money Inthe in inthe inthe the oil fields near Ponca City Okla Okla- homa L u r f Governor Bamberger Is said to be beIn In Jn the tho east raising mane money for his railroad railroad rail rail- rail railroad road work on which will begin next summer summer l J J. J H. H Coltharp manager of the Uintah Pow Power r Light company has been in Denver for a short time on business The Indian population on this reservation reservation reservation res res- is between 1100 and 1200 Their annual payments will run close V t to fo 1000 n each There will be another Indian land sale saie about the middle of oC the sum sum- mer mer There are some fine tracts of J land fand d yet et unsold r s 's V V In last weeks week's s Country Gentleman t lr V appe appeared red an ana anable a able le editorial on Proa Progress Progress Pro a gress gress In Utah It is reproduced in inthis f. f this issue of the Free Press V There is a ten pound baby boy atthe atthe at atthe the home of Mr Ir and Mrs Marvin Br Broome me born last Saturday January 22 This Is the second boy I Sir Mr and Mrs A. A J. J Charles and sons of the Uintah Indian Project left Sunday morning for Denver where they will spend several weeks a I Considerable money has been beens s dropped into the box on Philipps Mercantile company counter This money goes to the starving children t of Europe S 5 S i Income tax blanks are coming in r The reports must be made out and andret V ret returned ned to Salt SaIl Lake on or before March 15 The income tax may be paid In four installments Augusta Curtis five years old V daughter of Mr and Mrs Rastus 6 Curtis died last Sunday of whooping cough and complications The burial was in the Myton cemetery reported that Standard Oil I It It-Is It t Is 7 company experts have found a structure structure structure ture 15 miles south and east of My My- ton It is also reported that a test well will be bored next summer W. W S. S Peatross and family spent a couple of days in Duchesne guests of H. H H. H Holdaway and family While up there Mr Peatross overhauled the thea H Duchesne Record linotype machine a Many Myton friends of Mrs Kate Kale Kingsland will sympathize with her herIn herIn herin In the loss of her son Harry Kingsland Kingsland Kings Kings- land Jr The little fellow died at V the home In Salt Lake last Thursday V e r 4 returned from Mrs Airs Will Koehler V Vernal where she spent some time 1 with her parents Mr and Mrs John Blankenship Her father was recently recent recent- ly injured by a fall He Ho Is 85 years old Ed Hart and wife and daughter i of Duchesne Mrs James Dalgleish were v visitors in n Myton 1 for a short resided In Int time Ume The Harts formerly ton where they have many t 1 Myton f friends lends r t wife of Mid Mid- A V V. Watkins and here this week They took were vl view w home with them a r bronze turkey lurker cockerel just shipped from Minnesota This Is perhaps the most valuable bird of the kind in the Uintah basin At the age of eight r It mOI months It weighs thirty pounds 45 ir cost coat laid down in Myton l y ry I nt Over Oyer four hundred people of Uintah Uintah Uin Uin- tah county in convention at Vernal Verna Sunday voted unanimously to endorse endorse endorse en en- dorse the proposed Southwick anti anti- cigarette law The Palisades high school ha has wl wired ed for a game with the Uintah Academy basket champs Arrangements Arrange Arrange- m ments a aFe e being made to send the te team m to Colorado Ed P P. P Balfour was down this week from the tho sawmill He says the price of lumber at the mill has been redu reduced ed to 21 per th thousand usand The former price was 25 R. R R. R A. A Lundy an an oil export Is here hors from California He has been allover allover all allover over Utah and he declares s there are are better Indications from Parlette to to Duchesne than anywhere else in the state The ground hog came out last Tuesday February 2 and failing to see his shadow he remained out Winter h he says says Is over Statistics show that he misses his guess about ha half the time elect Congressman-elect Don B. B Colton is receiving many applications for Federal appointments Mrs Hazel Frizzell and Ross Ross Bartlett are both being put forward for the post office at it Roosevelt Mrs A. A E. E McAfee of Duchesne has Lias been this w week ek among her ier old friends who include Mrs Fritz l ritz Schleinitz Mrs W. W E E. E Evans Mrs Sirs Floyd Wheeler and Miss 1 Lillan LillIan Lillian Lill Lill- ian an Babcock Miss Ethel L. L Allen has been appointed appointed ap ap- pointed postmistress at Whiterocks vice rice Mrs M Mary ry M. M Blake resign resign- ed d. d Miss Allen is a clerk in inthe the he R. R L. L Marimon store and is anost a most capable young oung woman Nelson Dickerson of Berkley California alifornia law in of Fred C. C Ferron erron of Myton 1 has gone to Korea for or the Hammond syndicate to examine examine ex ex- amine and pass on placer ground His family famil will remain In Berkley Mrs F. F A A. Strain librarian re requests requests re- re quests that all books book be returned She the declares that there are scores of hooks Looks books that have been out for months If f they are not returned the delinquents delinquents delin delin- are likely to be heavily fined fine Miss Kate Heiser Helser well wen known In Inthe the he Uintah basin will have an artle article article arti art cle le In the March Sunset magazine on ou pioneering have ordered ordered many sany copies caples of Df the magazine containIng containing contain contain- ing ng the article Miss Heiser Helser resides in n Iowa City Iowa J J. J A. A Palmer and family have decided decided derided de de- to locate in La Jolla near San Diego sego They have purchased a home there here Mr Palmer expects to work at t his carpenter trade He writes writes that hat his health Is much better than when Then he left here Orrin Curry son of Mrs Matilda Atwood of Hanna is heir to about bequeathed to him by his grandmother Curry Having reached reach reach- ed d the age of 21 years he will be given riven possession of the money at the March larch term of district court The law requires the county clerk to o publish In July of each year a financial statement but there is no o penalty provided for non compliance No such statement has been heen published publish publish- ed d since this county was created Wonder Vonder what the new clerk will do I IThe The stockholders of the First National Na Na- lonal Bank of My Myton ton at their annual annual an an- nual Lual meet meeting ng elected the following board of directors E. E R. R Win Win- strom C. C D D. D Kicher Abe Sorensen Wm Vm J. J Stewart H. H C. C Ward The directorate was reduced from seven seveno to o five W. W J. J Sloane a former new newspaper paper I man of Salt Lake has been in the FruItland country for several days Inspecting ranch land with a view to buying several hundred acres He lIe represents money men who want to get hold of land before work starts on the railroad Dr J. J H Ho H. H Brown dentist will soon move his building from the lot on onE onE onE E street between and to his lot on E street between and The lot was purchased from A. A A F. F Maxwell who took It fora for a debt due him from the old My Myton ton Commercial club Work will begin In a few weeks on the dam and reservoir of the Great Basin Power company on the Duchesne Duchesne Duchesne Du Du- chesne river near Hundreds Hundreds Hundreds Hun Hun- of at thousands of dollars will be expended this year year Many of those dollars will be spent In varioUs various parts Darts of Duchesne county The Uintah basin high school championship basket ball game wi will willbe willbe be played at Vernal Friday night nigh The winner will next meet th the champion team of Grand San Juan Juat Carbon and Emery Coach Calder Calde of the academy is confident his team tear will be victors Miss Lillian BabcocK gave a car card party Tuesday night Paul Hammock Hammoc won first prize and Mrs A. A E. E McAfee McAfee Mc Mc- Afee won the guest prize Those Thos present were Mr lr and Mrs C. C t D. D K Kicher cher Mrs A. A E. E McAfee Enoch Enoc Glen Lambert Warfield Munce Paul Hammock S Mr and Mrs Fritz Schleinitz en entertained en entertained en- en at cards last night Those Thos present were Mr and Mrs W. W E. E E Evans Mr and Mrs Morgan Calvert Miss Alice Todd Mrs l A. A E E. McAfee Miss Lillian Babcock Enoch Win Win- strom Fred Todd E E. M M. Jones There has been filed with county clerk Charles Hatch the following following following fol fol- lowing deputy registrars of vital vita statistics Byron Goodrich Naples Lawrence Young Moffat Gall Pail Hall HalI Dry Fork Eda Reid South Ashley Hattie Hattle Jones Maeser Ruby Billings Jensen Mary B. B Henry Vernal Monday evening Mr and Mrs VE W W. E. E Evans entertained a f few w friends Those chose present were Mr and Mrs 1 Fritz Schleinitz Miss 1 Alice Allee Todd Fred T Todd dd Enoch Mrs Al McAfee of Duchesne Altiere All Al were members of the Myton 1 younger set Let of 1912 Five hundred was en en- joyed oyed f R f fAn An oil on well ls drilling at Carbonero Carbonero Car Car- on the Uintah railway just jus' over the Utah-Colorado Utah line The site rte Vi Is is s only a mile and nd a half traIn iron the he station The project belongs to tt toa toa a L subsidiary of the Standard Oil company company com com- pany sany whose geologists have been on or the he ground and that the oi oil sands sands' sands ands are not to exceed exceed 1000 feet feel below the surface of the crest of an at elongated dome closed in on al all sides ides The Du Dutch Shell Oil on company which leased tho thousands sa ds of acres s of 01 land and around Duchesne will probably begin the sinking of a well about the middle addle of next summer The chief chiel man nan who was in here during the falls fall fallIs Is s said to have stated that operations for or the next year not be very extensive ex ex- for the the reason reason eason the company has Las so many proven fiel fields s to work In n. n V iI S Frank A A. A Brewer of Dragon applied applied ap ap- plied died to the state engineer for rights t to o water from two tw unnamed springs In n Uintah county which he wants fortock for forstock forstock stock tock watering during the spring and summer ummer months One of the springs has as a flow low of of a according to the application and the theother theother other ther has a flow of oC of or a second secona- foot oot Diverting works named are a alog alog log og crib and troughs for the smaller spring pring and wooden wood wooden en troughs for th the larger arger one Arthur Wis-combe Wis of Roosevelt writes rites as follows My attention has as been called to to your Item Hem of last week reek In which you state Heber Jolly came amo to me for work or to get meat meat to o eat and I turned him down I never ever saw Mr Jolly until the sheriff took ook him I would gladly have given him Vim assistance If he had called rath rath- rather er r than have him kill a cow of mine and nd say nothing about It Mr Jolly had ad six weeks to find me and make male matters natters right but he waited too long ong Members of the Price chamber or commerce met and elected the following following fol fol- lowing owing to act as a board of directors for or the ensuing year L. L E. E Whitmore Whitmore Whit- Whit more rore Edwin Butterworth Carl R R. Marcusen J J. J Rex Miller W. W W. W Jones ones A. A A. A E. E Gibson L. L R. R L Ammerman and J. J W W. Loofbourow row ow The directors met and organIzed organized organ organ- red by electing J J. J W. W Loofbourow as s president Edwin Butterworth as first rat vice president Carl R R. R Marcusen Marcu Marcu- sen en as second vice president and L L. E. E 1 Whitmore as treasurer and George M. M Miller as executive sec sec- Granville Cooper of My Myton ton and Miss Liss Lillian Anna Herman of New Rochelle N. N Y were united In marriage marriage mar mar- lago at the home of the brides bride's parents parents par par- on January 22 The wedding was rag followed by a reception which was ras largely attended The bride who rho was given away by her father Frederick rederick Herman lierman was attired In inn white voile with a veil ven held in pla place e eby by y orange blossoms She carried a bouquet of white roses She was attended attended at at- tended ended by her sister Emily May William Villiam Henry Herman a a cousin acted as best man The The newlyweds will arrive In MY Myton ton some U time e durIng during dur dur- ing ng March and will and w l m make ke keth their th lr home h e here cre |