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Show PERSONALS AND LITTLE LOCALS , - i George Pitts lias gone to Price to be married to Mlsa Allrcd. n h John A. Sulser is visiting his brother-in-law Ed. Bergener. The Milne Millinery parlor put up an attractive sign this week. Lee Grande Young of Antelope spent Monday in town shopping. John Harris has moved into P. L. Morrill's residence near the bridge. Mr. and Mrs. L. L Hume are spending the week with Mrs. Moodie. Miss Hazel Dickerson is the guest of Mrs. Kingsland during the week. Mrs. Rosetta Higelu and family of Midway ore the guests of Roht. Krehtis. Houses in Myton are hard to get. It is said there are none at this time for rent. Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Huple passed through on Monday en route for Salt. Lake City. v Mrs. John McAndrews and daughter. daugh-ter. Helen, are the guests of Mrs. H. (J. C larke. Mrs. Taylor McClellan of Vernal, arrived yesterday to spend a week with her hushand. Wheeler &. Son will run a jitney bns to and from the fair grounds during the week. m Frank M (.-Carrol is in Vernal to attend the funeral of his mother v ho died Friday. Miss Delia Murray, of Vernal, will be a pupil in St. Marys Academy, Salt Lake this year. ... II. n. Fuhrman and lannly have moved into the Mohlman house west of the Knudsen residence. Fred Peterson foreman of the Smith Brothers sheep outfits is in Myton on business this week. Mr. and Mrs. C. ". Cooper are rpec-iln their daughter, Pelva. foil fo-il visit. She leaves Arkansas on the' ISth. Mrn. C. P. McCary returned to C.rand Junction on Saturday after making n visit with Miss Bessie Sands. - A F. Ogren of Salt Lake. City is in town securing a list of the various business houses for completing a ftate directory. Col. Timms is in town for the j big doings and repot ts rapid pro-mess pro-mess at Utcland preparatory to beginning be-ginning work in earnest. j ) George Searle, of the Ashley valley, val-ley, has sold his ranch to Fred Ask- j hurst, of Steamboat Springs. The j tonsidcration was $11,000 Edgar Williams and wife have ! moved into the new Maxwell house j north of the residence occupied by i A. F. Maxwell and family. Master Francis Dauwalder, who j has been so familiar on the streets dispensing' news of all kinds ha9 trans ferred his occupation to Arthur Morning. Mr. and Mrs. Alva Leavitt. of Iloose veil, have moved to Grant's station, on the Helper road, to take charge for the Duche.-mo Stage & Transportation Transpor-tation company, George Holfelts. of Red Cap. ho w.-.s kicked in the head last June by a horse, is getting along nicely. He is the son of John Holfeltz postmaster postmas-ter at Red Cap. Preston Odekirk is the new clerk j at Well's Moat market. Preston ( vnav beteen driving around in the j delivery wagon which s t' first, on the reservation. Fritz Sehlcinilz has placed a Saxon i car on display in the window of the I Schlitz Buffctt. Mr. SchleiniU has taken the agency for this popular! car and will raffle one during the fair, t M. (L Pickup and C. P. Uingham, of Roosevelt, have gone to Eric. Pa, to witness beforo the Federal grand Jury. It is claimed Uncle Sam is after af-ter certain loan sharks. All persons who do not attend church on Sunday night are missing a rare treat in the music. Mrs. Thurlow delighted the audience laet Sunday night with her beautiful Voice. ! "Cap" Whitlock, of Roosevelt, has taken his running mare, "Flying Dance" to Colorado to enter In the races at the Routt county fair this ;week. Heber Timothy has struck artesian water on his ranch two miles north of Roosevelt. The well Is 129 feet jdeep. The water is clear and cold .and soft. ! Robert Krebbs and Roy Tuft carry off the banner for large grain crops on North Myton bench. Mr. Krebbs threshed 1,000 bushels and Roy Tuft, 1.100 bushels. The Castle Peak mine resumed work last Saturday with Jay Birchell as superintendent. About ten men are employed. H. W. Diet, of Salt Lake City. Y. V. Reed of Washington, D. C, and John F. Trudell of Denver, all members mem-bers of the Reclamation service were Myton visitors this week. Miss Mildred Miles, of Roosevelt, and Mrs. J. A. Washburn, of Duchesne, Du-chesne, are two new Free Press correspondents. cor-respondents. Our staff of correspondents corres-pondents can not be equaled by any weekly paper in the entire west. & j The public schools of Duchesne county will begin October 4. It is j believed the enrollment will be much I larger than last year. The board of i education has employed the best teachers that could be secured. Cap McGulre, My ton's famous broncho buster has returned to town a'ter winning laurels in several places. Ho has been in Butte City, Denver. Logan, Frovo, Fruita and Grand Junction. C. P. Dauwalder has bought a half-interest half-interest in the store of E, M. Jones. The stock will be increased and Mr. Dauwalder will lwive his undertaking office and supplies in connection with the store. j I X. C. Wilson has been to Price! for a load of household goods to take jto the ranch. Mrs. Wilson has been 'visiting friends in 'Myton since her i recent return from Pueblo : s- 1 J. C. Ward, of Neola. came in 'I'ues-iday 'I'ues-iday with his racing horse, Mr. Ward says lie is going to get the money. Wade Harness will move his family I to Xine Mile for the winter from hla I farm near Bluebell. ! Students from Myton attending the Roosevelt high school are Verle, Cylista and Eva Maxwell From Ioka are Elbe and Grace Miles, Fva and Maurice Benson, Frona and Wade Krebbs and Van Killlan. M Miss Ellen Mary Bender, who was the guest, of Miss Lillian Babcock, returned Sunday to her home in Vernal, Ver-nal, and on Monday morning began her work in the school room. Miss Bender is a sister of Mrs. Dr. Martin of Vernal. S. C. Anendell and wife, of Payette, Pay-ette, Idaho, arrived Friday. Since that time he lias been to Ft. Duchesne, Du-chesne, Randlett and other points getting acquainted. Mr. Anendell is pleased with this section and will ! no doubt locate with us. - The funeral of Fred Wood, of Yer- nal, whose death was mentioned in these columns last Thursday, was 'held in First ward house in that city. i President Don Ii. Colton, Orson Cald- er, T. W. O'Donnell and George A. Davis were the speakers. j ' ' W. E. Broome is making some fine I improvements in his salo.s room. New up-to-date hardware shelving and furniture are being built by W. E. Chaffln, and the front of the , building is receiving a coat of paint and a new sign. 1 Miss Lillian Babcock last Saturday night after the dance entertained i a lew friends. Those present includ-i ed Mr. and Mrs. Leavitt Thurlow, Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Kemper, Miss Alice Todd, Miss Ellen Mary Bender, ! War field Munce, Fred Praefke. ' j I I ! Miss Dorothy Begga last Friday j 'night gave a 500 party which proved, very enjoyable indeed. Those pies-lent: pies-lent: Miss Lillian Babcock, Miss El-jlen El-jlen Mary Bender, Miss Eva Maxwell, i Lionel Babcock. Fred Praefke. War-Held War-Held Munce. Earnest Waugh. Frank Davis. James Egun and IWood Alexander have returned to work for the Duchesne Stage & Transportation company. They are three of, the best drivers in the basin ba-sin and they are courteous and accommodating ac-commodating at nil times. Rav Waestaff. head assayer ai ; the Tooele smelter returned to j that place Sunday. Mr. Wagstaff , purchased an Indian allotment near , Altonah and after taking the fair vill : j locate there. j j No more sealed bid Indian lands Lies this fall or winter. There are; jnow about 50 tracts of land which. I have been appraised and which will, be sold this winter at the appraised value. First come first served. , George Mulvey is entering into ai new enterprise at the little mill for j merly run on Bridge street. He will j establish headquarters for wood, coal j and hay. Posts are being set for aj large corral around the mill The j engine will be used to cut wood j brought in. J The "Caterpillar" is still plowing in the Altonah country. Recent rains have made the land much better for plowing. Several contracts have been made for work on South Myton My-ton bench. Mr. Blair will have his land plowed as soon as the engine arrives. During the winter months a saw mill will be put in near Ouray to which the engine will be attached. attach-ed. j The Duchesne High School, Roosevelt, Roose-velt, opened this week with a most flattering outlook. The number of pupils enrolled is 100 and they come from various parts of the county. The faculty is the best that could be secured and is as follows: J. F. Hoyt, principal; Lcroy lleagley, agriculture; agri-culture; ('has. Schwenke, science; Florence Cirkle, English; Mildred Miles, domestic science and art; Jack Kimball, manual trainina. T " - Will Murdoch of Ioka, has returned return-ed from Lehi, where he was operat- i ed on for appendicitis. The operation opera-tion was said to have been the most difficult ever performed. The appendix ap-pendix had grown to the backbone. The operation 'was performed by Dr. . Wolrton, w ho has performed 500 operations op-erations without ever having lost a case. Mr. Murdoch was in the hospital live weeks. c c j The Grmul Junction papers and pc'- J pie seem to be very much peeved fgjj cauSC-"flaiy Thaw aiol pan stepped the Midland Trail and took; the Pike's Teak route. The Junc-tionltes Junc-tionltes shouldn't get "sore ' over a small thing like this. Harry, who has had troubles of his own for several sev-eral years, evidently didn't want any more if he eould help it. so got off the famous deep sand route as soon as he could, and selec ted the best road through western Colorado and eastern Utah. Meeker Herald. I Waller Sands and Tessa Hamilton J iweve married last Friday. The mar-i j riage was to have taken place on j 'Thursday but owing to court being j jin session the- license could not be 'secured. They will be at home to j their friends this winter on the i ranch of O. P. McCary. Rev. Geo. : Sloan was the officiating minister, j I I |