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Show PERSONALS AND LITTLE LOCALS Vernal will spend $1,500 on her Fourth of July celebration this year. Roosevelt Bent a big delegation to the ball game Sunday. Dr. Enochs haa moved into the Habn house, on West E. street. T. W. O'Donncll" was among the visiting attorneys at Duchesne this week. The Relief 6ociety conference brought many peoplo to Myton Tues-y- i t, Attorney Burgess of Roosevelt Bpent a day or so in Duchesne attending at-tending court. Harry Veatch, who has beon in Oklahoma Ok-lahoma for several months, is soon expected home. L. N. Shanks has returned from Green river where he has been looking look-ing after his reservoir. Boody Hicken has moved his family fam-ily into the Bjornson house recently recent-ly vacated by Dr. Enochs. A large number of the purchasers of the dead Indian land are subscribers sub-scribers of the Myton Free Press. Aury Draper of Idaho, an uncle of A. O. Smith, is expected to arrive In Myton soon to look over the country. W. J. Carr, chief clerk, railway mail service, was in the basin for a few days interviewing the pastmas-ters. pastmas-ters. The Myton postoffice handles 1,200 pounds of parcel post every day. That would be 433,000 pounds per year. Mr. Barnes has made three or four . good runs to Salt Lake. The fastest run was when ho left Vernal at i 6:20 a. m. and arrived in Salt Lake at 9:15 p. m. the same day. Jimmio Hatch, son of Joe Hatch, Vernal, passed through from Duchesne Du-chesne Saturday enroute home. He expected, when left here, to have an operation for appendicitis. j L. W. Curry, cashier of the Uintah State Bank, Vernal, was operated on last Sunday for appendicitis. At last accounts he was getting along as well as could be expected. John J. Sellers of Midview was in Myton on business Tueeday. Mr. Sellers says work will soon begin on the now Midview school house, which Is to bo located Just east of hia placo. J. II. Coltharp and wife, and son James and daughter, Mrs. Miller of Rangley, spent a short time visiting at the J. B. Whlttemore home. Mrs. Miller, who was recently operated on for appendicitis, Is slowly Improving George Searle, Jr., and family and Curtis Blake and wife have moved to Myton and are occupying the Ew-Ing Ew-Ing house on West "D" street, recently re-cently vacated by F. S. LovenBkiold and family. L. E. Hume ana wife, Floyd Hume and wife and Claud Hume left last Friday for Arizona, where they expect ex-pect to locate. The Humes have many friends here who Tegretted to see them go. They were pioneers on the reservation. A. O. Smith has returned from the railroad, where he took Mrs. Smith, who will visit friends and relatives in Wellington, Price, Orangevllle. The appointment of the Rev. Dr, G. E. Davies of tho First Presbyterian Presbyte-rian church in Salt Lake to membership member-ship on the new Presbyterian board of education by the general assembly, assem-bly, has raised a query as to whether wheth-er this will necessitate the resigning resign-ing his pastorate in that city. This matter will be settled on the doctor'3 return. Bishop Paul Jones of the Episcopal Epis-copal church has gone to Glenwood Springs, Colo., to take temporary Chargo of the western Colorado dio-Iceee dio-Iceee whose bishopric became vacant J June 1, by the transfer of Bishop Benjamin Brewster to the diocese of Maine. Bishop Brewster was formerly dean of St. Mark's cathedral cathe-dral in Salt Lake and Is a Yale classmate class-mate of Dr. E. V. Silver. Albert B. Rockhill, of Salt Lake, who was recently killed in an automobile auto-mobile accident, was well known on the reservation. He owned considerable consider-able land between Myton and Roosevelt. Roose-velt. He was 48 yeasr old. Milton, the 11-year-old son, was killed at the same time. Mr. Rockhill was a near relative of the owner of the Rockhill Rock-hill ranch, near the Strawberry tunnel. tun-nel. L. H. Woodard and daughter, Miss Sybil Woodard, and Miss Avlce Johnson, passed through Myton Monday Mon-day enroute for Vernal. The young ladies have been attendng school at the University of Utah. Mr. Wood-ard's Wood-ard's car broke down and It was necessary to send for help. Charlie Johnson met the party west of Myton. My-ton. Rrank Davis has resigned his position po-sition with the Castle Peak people to accept work with the Price-Uintah Basin Auto Line. He is driving the uig six liuictt oetween juyton ana Vernal. Tho present starting and stopping places are, Vernal at the Vernal Drug, Fort Duchesne, Caldwell's Cald-well's hotel; Roosevelt, Isham Drug. The auto leaves Vernal every morning morn-ing at seven. W. E. Broome, the Page Wire man, this week received a contract from the Sunshine ranch for 6,000 rods of Page woven wire fence. The Sunshine Sun-shine ranch comprizes about 1200 acres near Jensen on the Green river and is owned by Vernal men. Johnson Bros., cattle men from Lone Tree, Wyoming, with ther families spent Wednesday in Myton enroute to Vernal where they will visit friends and relatives. The anouncement of the marriage of Florence Hoffman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus Hoffman rormerly of Myton, now of Myersdale, Penn., and Robert Mull has been received. Mr. Mull and Miss Hoffman have known each other from childhood. The best wishes of the many Myton friends of the bride are extended to the young couple. . . Miss May Smith has returned from Duchesne where she has been as a witness in the District court. William Zowe went to Duchesne today to make proof on his North Myton bench homestead. He was accompanied ac-companied by Mrs. Zowe and by his witnesses, F. E. Drlscoll and L. E. Potter. Mr. and Mrs. John R. Naylor of Altonah desire to thank the people of Altonah and vicinity who bo kindly kind-ly assisted them in their time of sickness. sick-ness. Mrs. M. R. Jessup, mother of Ed Jessup, and Mrs. E. A. Baxter, moth-, er of Mrs. Jessup, of Ogden, are expected ex-pected tonight to visit the Jessup family. Reservation real estate is more in demand. Two advertisements in this issue by people who want to purchase. pur-chase. The Myton Lumber company is building a three room addition on the residence of D. Barry near the bridge. Fred Ferron, manager for the Raven Ra-ven Mining company spent a few days in these parts looking after the property. Mrs. Frank McCarrell and son, Lin, left Monday for Salt Lake City where she will spend 6ome weeks vlsitng relatves and friends. Walter Anderson, of Garfield, is vsiting his father at Fort Duchesne. Mr. Anderson Is a son-in-law of Joseph Herring of Vernal. The Altonah Mercantle company, C. J. Preece manager, will conduct a popularity contest. A fifty dollar Victrola is to be the prize. Miss Lucy Herring of Vernal has returned home from Garfield, where she attended school the past year. Mrs. Herring met her at Myton. E. E. Calvin, who was recently elected president of the Union Pacific Pa-cific Railway company, made a, tour of the Uintah basin last 6ummer. Morgan Calvert and his sister-in-law, Mrs. George Calvert, went over to Vernal Monday and filed on valuable val-uable desert claims on Green river. D. & R. G. railroad surveyors are at the Thornburg ranch, in Avlnta quln canyon, taking altitudes. Seventeen Sev-enteen men are in tho party. Charles Shurtleff and wife and friends were over from Roosevelt j Sunday in the new Dodge car recent- e . ly purchased from the Rocsevelt Auto Au-to company. Miss Edna Smart of Roosevelt wap recently operated on in Provo. ner mother was with her at the time. The report is that Miss Smart la getting get-ting along nicely. Uintah basin wool men anticipate higher prices for wool than ever, now that a new embargo on wool shipments from the colonies has been declared by Great Britain. Will Preece was down from Altonah Alto-nah Sunday. He was accompanied by Ross Bartlett, who has been in that community in the interest of the Henderson-Bartlett Music ompany. L. H. Reader, assistant cashier of the Bank of Vernal, and Dr. E. W. Tolhurst, a well known dentist, of that city, came over Monday night to take the third degree in Masonry. W. G. Barnes, who recently established es-tablished an auto route from Vernal to 8alt Lake, was in Myton Monday. Mrs. simin s neaitn is mucn improved. im-proved. . . . Sheepmen are building houses in various parts of the reservation and are filling them with corn with which to feed next winter. They claim that corn at three cents per pound is much cheaper than hay at $20 per ton. District Relief society conference, Mormon church, met In Myton Tues-j day and was presided over by Mrs. Hanson of Roosevelt. This district comprises Myton, Ioka (Mural), Midview and North Midview wards. George Stewart was over from the Castle Peak mines for a day. He says he now has 275 tons of gll-8onite gll-8onite on the dump. Freighters have begun to haul it to Price. The gilsonlte market is brisk. Here ia the kind of a letter that makes a newspaper man feel good: "Enclosed please find check for $3.12 payment for ad list, Lakefork Irrigation Irri-gation company, also $2 subscription for another year to your splendid paper. Respectfully, Oscar Nelson." . W. S. Peatross and wife went over to Vernal Sunday, returning Monday. While there Mr. Peatross put up the new $2660 model "K" linotype machine ma-chine Just purchased by the Vernal Express. F. A. Burlingame, of Los Angeles, California, last week purchased 133 acres just north of Vernal, for $4,000. He thinks it one of the best bargains bar-gains he ever heard of. The name of the party from whom he bought the land has not been learned. Robert Snyder won the prize offered of-fered by the Myton Free Press to the Myton Academy student who furnished the best academy Items for publication during tho school term. Professor N. F. Morgan acted act-ed as Judge. . Frank Taylor with a crew has bjgn doing some good work on Price-Myton Price-Myton road between here and county line, mostly in Gate canyon. Autos can now negotiate Gate on high. Lee, Alger," Harmon, Nutter and Thompson have been doing come good work In Nine Mile. . . A beautiful display of fancy decorated dec-orated dishes is in evidence at the Dauwalder & Jones store. Sid Harrell returned from Altonah where he has completed the finishing finish-ing work on the A. F. Maxwell store building. He left Wednesday for Tablona where he has a contract for building a number of Indian houses. H. H. Barrett with his two sons, R. II. and J. II., recent anivals from Salt Lake county, reached Myton af ter an extensive trip through the west and northwest section. They were agreeably surprised at the progress pro-gress made here in the past few years. They will no doubt locate some where in the basin. |