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Show seen for years. Can it be possible , that we are just beginning t receive the "former and the latter rains, that the plowman may ova-take the reaper" On Wednesday. Feb. 17, Sarah Downing Foster depa'r.e ! ti: is life. The funeral services wre held in the St. George tabernacle today, when consoling words were offered )the family of the deceased, who has been a consistent Latter-day Saint all her life. Sister Foster was born in Chester, Pa., Oct. 11, 1S19, and joined the Church of Jesus Christ of I Latter-day Saints in the year 1839. She went to Nauvoo in 1841 and to Salt Lake valley about 1850, coming to St. George among the early settlers. set-tlers. Her husband, Solon Foster, was one of the few known in history as Zion's Camp. It is a well-known fact that masquerade mas-querade balls are not sanctioned by the authorities of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and also that no true Latter-day Saint is in favor of such balls. Masquerade Mas-querade balls are not in unison with I the tenets of our faith and only be-! be-! long to and are indulged in by the 1 lower classes, and we sincerely hope j that all respectable people will . frown down anything bordering on j masquerades. Wc do not say this to hurt the feelings of any one in the least, but all know that the worst villains there are gather at the masquerades and strive.to do all the deviltry , they can, and we are always in favor of averting all the evil possible. Local Brevities. Garden Seeds of all kinds at Whitehead's. Miles W.Lund started for State Line district, on Monday, the 15th inst. Died, Feb. 13, 1897, Josephine, daughter of . Brigham and May Jarvis, aged about six months. j Died, Feb. 9, 1S97, Wesley, son ! of Joseph W. and Mary A. Mac-Allister, Mac-Allister, aged about five months. Lost A watch with silver hunt-hunting hunt-hunting case, Wednesday, Feb. 17. Finder please return to this office. Dr. Holladay will leave for Leeds on Wednesday, Feb. 24. All those wishing his services will please call bv that time at his . office at C. R. Worthen's, this city. For Sale I have one and one-fourth one-fourth lots, without water right, ' which I desire to sell or mortgage. For particulars, inquire of David B, j Necdhara, St. George, Utah. The Sunday Schools are preparing prepar-ing to put on the boards a fine military mili-tary drama, which promises to be worth seeing. Our readers can prepare pre-pare for a feast, to be announced later. j The snow today is three feet deep j in Pine Valley, and it took James G. Rencherall day, this week, to go from his farm in Pine Valley with two good span of horses and an empty wagon, the distance being, only five miles. A letter passed through the St. George postoffice recently with the following address: "Temple Ear Placer Mining Company just below the Grand Canon" if any one knows' where it is; "Try Utah"; "then Arizona"; Ari-zona"; "then Colorado"; "should t rather guess Arizona"; "try Henry Mountains, via Price". Storms seem to be the order of the day, but they are mostly rain. Last Wednesday night about an inch of snow fell, but before dawn rain fell and the snow soon disap-peared. disap-peared. We have actually had more tain the present winter than we have |