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Show THE SPINSTERS PRAYER "Dear Lord," is the prayer of an At-hison At-hison spinster, "Make me to see verytime I come to thee with com-laints com-laints what my married brothers and isters have to put up with from their hildren, that I may cease my com-laining, com-laining, and be duly grateful that thou ast seen fit in thy wisdom to make a arefree spinster of me." Atchison Kan) Globe. "What is a grasshopper?" The latest omes from western lUstralia: Domestic servants are lmost unprocurable there, and wives ave to do nearly all their own ousework. The consequence is that ley are compelled to recuperate at the easide in summer. In their absence the usbands have to prepare their own leals and domestic duty generally, lusbands so engaged, have come to be cally known as "grasshoppers". No oubt the word is the husband of the lore familiar "grass widow". (London ironical ) It is to be hoped that some way will oon be devised for crossing the river ,'ith teams-as large sums of money are eing spent in Roosevelt and Indepen-ance Indepen-ance by people living on the north side f the Duchesne who ordinarilly do peir trading at Myton. (Myton Chief-n) Chief-n) j Shooting cannons, firing a salute or rhatever it may be termed all night jbng may be excellent sport for some jeople, but the average citizen of Ver- nal prefers to sleep, and there wTU be a united effort hereafter to put a stop to this all night shooting before the fourth and have the salute fired at sunrise when it is advertized to take place. The people are getting tired of a few rounders keeping the whole town awake and are going to assert their rights. Two of the soldiers from Fort Duchesne deserted the troop while here for the Fourth celebration. They seemed seem-ed to have made good their escape. Nampa, Idaho, had a $1,000,000 fire on July 3rd caused by an explosion of fireworks in a cigar store. Efforts have been made this week to turn a part of the river back into the old channel so the new channel would be fordable, but they have been unsuccessful unsuc-cessful so far. (Myton Chiefton) two decades, makers of planes and builders of airports need to study mulitple-wheel landing gear more closely in order to save untold thousands of dollars now lost thru premature obsolescence, of landing fields. At least three million travelers will pass thru Utah in 1949. Each one of these people is a potential vacationist within the boarders of the state next year or the year after. A major objective ob-jective of all residents who are interested in-terested in the economic progress of the state should be favorably determination deter-mination that the traveling public should be favorably impressed with the idea of coming to Utah instead of just thru Utah. |