Vernal Main Street, Peace Day Parade, 1918

Vernal Main Street intersection within Vernal Avenue. Several cars are draped in flags driving west; people standing around the Uintah Stake Bank building watching a parade to celebrate the end of World War I. The Newton Brothers Building is in background. The Vernal Express said: "A life sized dummy of Kaiser Wilhelm...was secured and drug through the streets. It was hung to the flag pole and no sooner had been put into position than a volley of shots dropped it to the ground. The dummy was again placed on the pole, where it peacefully reposed the rest of the day, the half torn head hanging to the rope." The lump lying in the center of the road next to the pole may be that dummy.