Show THE BIG sociability RUN I 1 the business men of vernal and roosevelt visit some of the cities in colorado Oni Monday august 16 the vernal commercial club and the roosevelt commercial club made a sociability run to points in colorado those representing the roosevelt commercial club ere 0 0 11 II brack tell ien paul S hanson wm win onell oneil james sabey and R S collett the crowd left vernal about monday morning and consisted or of 14 cars containing 66 56 people they made the run to craig the first night and early tuesday morning they went to hayden where they had their breakfast the mayor of ra hayden received them very cordially t fh 1 and invited them to stop again on their return trip tuesday afternoon they arrived at steamboat springs the steamboat authorities looked them over and made the whole outfit go down and a hot bath at their famous hot springs then they were invited to a lunch and after dinner the vernal and steamboat springs baseball teams crossed bats of course steamboat won vernal was unable to acore in the evening they met with the club ot of steamboat after the address of welcome by county treasurer frank walker ot of steamboat and a few selections by the vernal quartette wm win oneil land R S collett made some excellent talks then a fine lunch was served our folks liked the baths bo be well that early the next morning aney all went in and took another plunge at about 11 Wed wednesday nesda they left tor for hayden and arri arr ed there about noon the mayor lf cf hayden met them with a hearty wel anie come which lust just seemed like roose I 1 00 it was v as a real banquet there was peaking speaking by the mayor and varl enother ev other oil ou prominent hayden folks the lady county superintendent made especially fine talk in the afternoon ter noon they had a ball game be 1 tween hayden and vernal and verbal was again badly beaten on wednesday evening they returned to craig and a big banquet was served in the grove here the vernal quartette played a very prominent part ot of course they had many fine speeches and there was much laughter and gaiety itt in the evening they met at the hall with the business men of craig and the talk was vas mostly on social conditions between colorado and utah thursday they made the run to meeker by way ot of mt alt streeter they stopped off at mt streeter and inspected the largest coal mine or its kind hind in the world here quite a lot of development work Is being done A branch railroad is being built to this place and eventually this will be tile the main line running from denver through the uintah ba sin to salt lake it is a wonderful mine and it contains the quality of coal the salt laker wants they had dinner at this place and then left tor for meeker at meeker reservations had been I 1 provided tor for at the hotel in the afternoon a ball game was scheduled between vernal and meeker but here the day was saved caved on account of 0 rain in the evening they met with the members of the meeker commercial club there was quite a lot of interesting talks both by the visitors and local people the famous vernal quartette came in aorl for quite a lot ot of glory dej friday morning the roosevelt delegation 1 left tor for home while the vernal people remained the unfinished I 1 game of baseball which commenced I 1 the night before they wre badly beaten the roosevelt people encountered a lot ot of grief on the way home about 7 miles from the box elder ranch they stripped a gear and ana as a consequence they had their beauty sleep in the car and early the next moro mora ing 1119 the able bodied had a constitutional walk of 7 miles before breakfast saturday night they arrived in vernal and sunday a car was sent from here bringing them home aside from the mishap they claim it was one of the finest trips they oyer made |