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Show PERSONALS AND LITTLE LOCALS W. E. Broome is agent for the United States tires. Webb Lurapkiu says hay will be $40 per ton next spring. Joe Neilson, of Antelope, is one of the late purchasers of a Ford. a Cattle and sheep will be cheap this fall if this drought keeps up. Friends of Colonel H. Cooper are glad to see him back from the war. Present price of honey is around 15 cents. The best price last year was 25 cents. . T. W. O'Donnell, of Vernal, was the Fourth of July orator at the Al-tonah Al-tonah celebration. The six-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Stringham was operated on for hernia this week. M. Knudsen and family will move from the ranch to their town house this fall. Dr. Enochs and family who occupy this house have not yet decided as to a residence. There are very few suitable houses in Myton. ; Honey extracting has begun ten days earlier than last year. However How-ever the crop will not be as good as last year unless there is more moisture. mois-ture. The value of the crop In the Iwo counties should be around '$500,000. The postage on newspapers increased in-creased considerably beginning July 1. The rate runs from 1 Vz cents per pound in the first zone to cents in the eighth zone. The Free Press has many subscribers in each zone. The subscription price will remain the same $2 per year. Now is the time to subscribe. P. L. Morrill has sold his residence, Mrs. S. J. Morrs, of Denver, is visiting with her sons Lee and Pete Morris. Warfield Munce has returned from a week's visit in Salt Lake. He enjoyed the Fourth celebration while there. George A. Pettey, of Ferron, who I was here this week, says he never saw so little snow on the mountains surrounding the basin since 1879. Mrs. W. E. Wheeler, Miss Lois Wheeler, Miss Lavern Wheeler, Floyd Wheeler and wife are on the Yellowstone Yellow-stone fishing. They are expected home in a day or two. C. C. Newton has received word about Stark fruit trees for which he is agent In the basin. See his letter in this issue. It is in his regular space on the last page. An operation was performed on George Brundage for appendicitis at Uintah Basin hospital this week. Rube Morris and family are residing resid-ing in Grand Junction, where Mr. Morris has a position in a garage. The Duchesne river has not been so low since about the year the reservation res-ervation was thrown open to entry. ' Hugh O'Neil has returned from Delta county, Colorado, where he went to spend the Fourth with relatives. rela-tives. Sheriff Timothy has called off his deputies who were stationed at the Myton steel bridge to intercept bootleggers. boot-leggers. ft 9 Among soldiers who have recentiy landed in New York are Sergeant Miles J. Philipps, son of R. F. Philipps, Whiterocks. Mrs. A. F. Maxwell, with her new baby will return to Altonah, from the home of her sister, Mrs. John Miles, Ioka, in a few days. Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Young were down from their ranch, known for a long time as the Veatch ranch. Their crops and garden are fine. George Goodrich, stateroad agent the former J. O. Hahn house, West 'E" street, to Enoch Winstrom for $2,150. Mr. and Mrs. Morrill will go from here to the northwest. They have not just decide where they will locate. The Morrills have been here for several years and we are all sorry sor-ry to see them go. J. B. Bryner, of Antelope canyon, vas here the first of the week. He was much interested and pleased to learn that Jack Dempsey defeated Jess Willard in Toledo, July 4. He knows Dempsey well and has seen him fight many a hard battle when there was nothing more than a meal ticket in sight. Mrs. N. C. Wilson, president of the Ioka branch, American Red Cross, came in Monday to attend the meeting meet-ing of the Myton branch. There seems to be some kind of a lack of proper communication between these branches and the Dcuhesne chapter. Denver headquarters will be appealed appeal-ed to for aid in -untangling the difficulty. dif-ficulty. R. E. Hale will go to Salt Lake to meet his sons Howard and Jack The former, not yet 20, is chief electrician elec-trician on the North Carolina. The latter has just been discharged from the army. The electrician has a thirty-day leave of absence. He has crossed the ocean perhaps twenty times since the United States enter- , J. M. Millard, the founder of the town of Altonah, is said to be very ill in New Mexico. His life has been depaired of. Millard was an early settler and well known. The Dawson show was well attended attend-ed last night. Mr. Dawson, in addition addi-tion to being an all-around showman is a scene painter and has been engaged en-gaged to paint the Upalco ward house drop curtain. Hylas Smith, government farmer and Charlie Read, one of the managers man-agers of the Ute fair to be held this fall, were here this week on business. The fair will be held the last part of September at Fort Duchesne. J. D. Bunce and sons, Irvin and Melvin, of Mt. Home, have purchased the Pettey sawmill, nineteen miles 'northwest of Altonah and expect to be ready in a very short time to sell thousands of feet of Engelman Spruce and Lodgepole. Fred J. Oates and wife, of Love-land, Love-land, Colorado, have been the guests of Fred Palmer and wife. Mr. Palmer Palm-er is an uncle of Mr. Oates. The visitors were much pleased with this community and may possibly decide to locate with us. State Bee Inspector Terriberry and President Hennager, of Hennager's Business colleee. Salt Lake, are on a tour of the Uintah basin. They came down from Duchesne this morning and expect to go tomorrow to Roosevelt Roose-velt and then to Vernal. Mrs. Morton Alexander, who with her husband for a numoer of years published the Reservation News, was a visitor in Myton for a short time recently. They now reside In Santa Cruz, California. Mrs. Alexander was accompanied home by her daughter, daugh-ter, Mrs. Lee Morris, and little daughter. Word comes from Ferron, Emery county, that Harold Dubendorff, formerly of Myton, now editor of the Castle Valley Press, has sued his wife for divorce, on the grounds of desertion. They have one child. The wife Is a daughter of Mrs. Edwin Pike, also formerly of Myton. She is now living with her mother In Salt Lake. Copies of the proclamation of Governor Gov-ernor Bamberger, barring from the state all shipments of sheep from Idaho or all sheep driven to the state's borders that have not been inspected in-spected by government inspectors for scabies and properly dipped, have been printed by the livestock board. They will be sent to all persons interested, inter-ested, including the agents of the railway companies over which such sheep would travel. The proclamation proclama-tion does not apply to sheep shipped in or through the state on the way to market. for Uintah county has returned from a trip to Salt Lake where he Interviewed Inter-viewed the state road engineer. Hallie Sturgeon, formerly of Vernal, Ver-nal, was a visitor in Myton this week. Mr. Sturgeon has been located in Nevada Ne-vada and California for some time. Twenty years ago there was talk of a Denver and Rio Grande branch line from Castle Gate up Willow creek to the Uintah reservation country. coun-try. Fred C. Ferron and wife and Mrs. George Philipps have returned from the Ferron ranch above Duchesne where they spent a few days pleasantly. pleas-antly. ' Roosevelt will give a three days' celebration In honor of Pioneer day. The dates are July 24, 25 and 26. D. E. Lybbert Is chairman of the general gen-eral committee. Mrs. Lizzie Knight, of Lakefork, was here this week. Her son, Earl Knight, who was with the A. E. F. in France, is now in Homestead, Oregon, in the mining business. W. E. Cqx, of Antelope, is cutting a ton and a half of alfalfa to. the acre from land which has not been watered for eight years. He expects to get more than four tons to acre during the season. Mrs. John Mease, of Sunnyside, has been visiting relatives in Vernal and Myton. She formerly resided In Vernal and Is a sister of Mrs. Sarah Mease, Vernal; Dick Smith, Deep . creek; Tom Smith, Myton. ,0. Eight years ago Wm. Zowe began his arguments in favor of a reservoir for the Drygulch Irrigation com- pany, but he was vigorously opposed. Twice he was defeated for director because of his attitude. Ward C Ireland of Myton and J. E. L. Carey, of Fruitland, contributed contribu-ted articles on the Uintah basin for the booster number of the "Pikes Peak Ocean-to-Ocean Highway" official offi-cial organ of the association. Among the recent marriage license issued in Salt Lake were: George H. Bunnell, Midway,, and Elizabeth Eliz-abeth Cameron, Salt Lake; Alanson Williams, Upalco. and May Young, Duchesne; Charles E. Peterson, Kamas, and Jennie McDonald, Heber. ed the war, April 6, 1917. Only one accident In Myton on the Fourth. Lawrence Odeklrk allowed 'his hand to get in the way of a bomb as it shot from the ground into the sky. In Its flight It also brushed his breast and cut a tiny gash on his throat. Lawrence perhaps never had a more narrow escape during his three yers in the navy. He came out of it with a broken middle finger on the right hand. One of the largest bears that has been killed in Utah for a long time was rounded up near Heber recently by A. R. Cluff, a hunter and trapper or the state. The animal was a grizzly. grizz-ly. The fact that Cluff has made an offer of $25 to the state for the pelt leads the live stock commission, to Hvhom he submitted his report of its capture, to believe that the bear was an unusually large one. Corporal A. L. Strankman and Corporal Cor-poral H. H. Lock have been in the Uintah basin several days canvassing for recruits for the U. S. army. A former soldier may enlist for one or three years In any branch of the service. ser-vice. Others may enlist for one or three years in the medical corps or quartermaster's department. For other branches they must enlist for three years. Recruiting offices in Price. There is some talk of a mutual building and loan association for Myton. My-ton. Before such an organization jbould do much in the way of building build-ing there must be suitable building material. Lumber at present prices seems out of the question. Brick would be much better and perhaps just as cheap. There is said to be ideal brick clay near Myton. R. E. Hale, who thought for awhile) of manufacturing half million or so of brick hs given up the Idea for the present. July 7 was the last day on which concerns which have been delinquent in the payment of corporation taxes fn Utah may be reinstated. After that date their charters were automatically auto-matically forfeited, so far as this state is concerned. About six hundred hun-dred and fifty corporations are affected. af-fected. There are now about twenty-five twenty-five hundred corporations In the tetate of the fourteen thousand or so 'that have filed their articles since statehood. About twelve hundred file the articles annually. |