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Show "News Bits About Yesler-Years" The following items were taken tak-en from an issue of The Vernal Express, printed October 4, 1918: Fourth Liberty Loan Campaign Opened Saturday The campaign for the Fourth Liberty Loan in Uintah county opened last Saturday with several sev-eral sales reported. Announce-; ment was received by County -Chairman L. L. Curry, that the ' quota would be $160,000. While this sum equals all the previous previ-ous issues put together, both Mr. Curry and Mrs. John N. Davis, chairman of the ladies, I feel that this amount can be realized. re-alized. Big Irrigation Project Planned Uintah To Benefit Four million acres of land in the great Colorado river drainage, drain-age, of which by far the largest single project will be located in the Uintah Basin, known on the government records as the Castle Peak project, will be redeemed re-deemed and made productive of sustenance for soldiers to return re-turn to' the pursuits of peace after the war in Europe. This mighty reclamation project was set in motion in a conference held recently in Salt Lake, and which was presided over by Gov. Bamberger. 5 Years Ago Plans for the development of a recreational area at Roosevelt Roose-velt took definite shape Monday night with a meeting of representatives repre-sentatives of local civic clubs. Eleven committeemen and women wo-men from the Lions club, the Junior Chamber of Commerce, the Commercial club, the Junior Social Culture club, the Ladies Fish and Game club and the American Legion Auxiliary laid the groundwork for a recreation park. Announcement is made of the marriage of Loa Nyberg, daughter daugh-ter of Mr. and Mrs. George Nyberg, Ny-berg, of Lapoint, and Stanley Hoopes, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Hoopes, of Whiterocks. 10 Years Ago Following diagnosis of a mild case of scarlet fever at the Whiterocks Indian school Wednesday, Wed-nesday, all students at the school were examined and sent to their homes to prevent any further outbreak of the disease, W. B. Showalter, principal of the school, announced today. In an effort to keep Roosevelt's Roos-evelt's main street clean, the city council in session Tuesday evening authorized the purchase of 12 large trash cans, which I will be placed on Main and Lagoon La-goon streets. I Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Barney, 'of Leota, who celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary Monday Mon-day were honored guests at a family dinner given at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Rowena Rogers, in Mt. Emmons. Monday evening. Mrs. Lydia Funk was elected president of the Myton Parent-Teachers' Parent-Teachers' association at a meeting meet-ing held Saturday evening. Miss Helen Fletcher was reelected secretary-treasurer. 20 Years Ago Walter E. Atwood, instructor of vocational agriculture at the Duchesne county high school, has just received $25 in cash from the Humphreys Founda-tio Founda-tio of Denver, Colorado, which is to be distributed to boys in vocational agriculture who have done outstanding work during the past year. In a letter recently received by Senator Dillman from Horace Hor-ace M. Albright, director of the national park service, Washington, Washing-ton, D. C, the director states thai plans for developing the dinosaur national monument located lo-cated near Jensen, are going forward. The birthdays of Mrs. A. C. Emert and Mrs. John Glenn, of Randlett, were celebrated Wednesday at the home of Mrs. Roy Knight, of Randlett. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hill and son and Mrs. Wm. Gagon, of Roosevelt, Roos-evelt, attended. The three-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Moore is recovering recover-ing from a fractured collarbone suffered last Thursday. |