Show LAYTON LINES next sunday july at 2 1 p in in east layton ward house there will be a revival meeting of the al I 1 A of east and west layton and south weber all the stake officers together with tile the officers and members of these three wards Y L al L I 1 A also are invited to attend this meeting quite a number of our people spent the day in kaysville Kays ville on the some went to lagoon C others to the lake and a few to syracuse edwin dibble and wife left for Ale menassa nassa colorado on wednesday educe I 1 mrs s silas smith mrs dibbles mother accompanied them she has been out here a month or two mr air and mrs jesse al smith returned from millard county on A party of layton boers started up weber canyon recently to spend a day or two in some shady nook catching speckled beauties and having 0 a general good time at a place they called jaricia Jari coa four miles this side of the mouth of weber canyon one of the party deliberately committed a horrible murder by picking za up his 22 winchester and popping over a turkey he was astonished at his marksmanship but nevertheless it was lie he who did it the party was overtaken at the sandhill by a representative from the turkey farm who informed the gunner that the lady of the poultry farm demanded his presence at her home upon his arrival there the lady taxed him 42 2 for for her bird this liv hy intended to pay but after turning 0 all of his pockets he could only find a dollar and a half so he made some terrible good promises for tile the balance of the debt when the lady finally allowed him to go and join the rest of his party the water was out of the canal five days so that measurements could be made but was turned in again so that it readied reached here on wednesday some water claimants who live farther down the weber river thought that the davis weber counties canal po company were taking more water out oui of the river than they w were e re curnin turning in n from the reservoir so it was decided to shut the reservoir off completely for a few days and see how much water they would have then the bed of the river is perfectly dry at morgan city but there was eighty cubic feet of water at the mouth of the canyon where the water is turned into the canal this water springs up from tile the river bed the experiment showed that the company had not been taking any more water than they were justly entitled to the water was turned out of tile the reservoir on oil monday at 1 p in and it took it till about noon wednesday to reach layton mr air ellison president of the canal company says that tho the water in the reservoir will last at least thirty days longor longer and that a little larger 0 stream will bo be turned out of the reservoir than heretofore the reservoir was tapped on juno and a month later the water in it had lowered twelve feet thus leaving forty six more mr air ellison says that the companies that are trying to make the trouble were invited to be present while tile the measurements were bein being g made and that most of them had bad representatives thoro there the contempt of court case in which our canal company was defendant was set for hearin hearing on monday but it was postponed indefinite ly lv elizabeth Elizibet il pilling of canada is expected to arrive here in about a week one or two box B letters were received here last week but they may only have been of the enquiry type the farmers are beginning to haul their grain to the mill and stores this will make things lively for a month or two IV N nalder was reelected elected re a school trustee in the sixteenth district at the recent school election early saturday morning 0 H burton started for knight co s farm james eldredge place and as lie ho was driving pa past st adams sons blacks blacksmith mi th shop his horse became frightened at a pile of sagebrush C and lot let in to kicking and running it landed in the fence demolished the rig and hurt the driver so that ile he was not able to work the first of the week |