Show our franklin rr anklin letter FRANKLIN idaho june KI 1891 4 EDITOR JOURNAL I 1 once more write you a few items from franklin on monday afternoon may the democrats of franklin held a mass meeting for the purpose of organizing a democratic club sir mr jos scarborough borough was appointed chairman and fir sir win L webster V ebster secretary there not ganv many present hence not much busine s was done primaries were appointed et etc cand and they then will have another n meeting I 1 e sting soon oon another mass meeting was held at the meeting house bouse on oil friday frida Y night by the citizens citizen 8 of school district is no 7 for the purpose of I 1 laying y before the citizens the necessity of lc levying y ing a tax for hercing teachers tte for this year mr air james iferd was appointed appoint cd chairman and carlsmith carl smith secretary there was a great deul deal of talking for and agai against list tax the trustees had considered si mared tile the matter of 0 f having good schools 1 and good effice ent teachers they b stated t abed that we needed three schools in franklin but could not support them with the little indans ine inn that came from the county which k about seven li undrel doil fi it will take fifteen bundled collais to carry on our churls hence the HP fie cessley of having a tax lax of eight mills on the dollar dolli ir some were very much opposed to having such a heavy tax levied as the count county and territorial was war hedvy thin thi year hence those against we were re not willin willing willinar gr forthe for the levy of ei eight lit mills mill some were willing for five mills mill and some for none today monday the ath in an electa election on was held at the school house and a tax of eight eielt mills was carried the ilie vote was 33 for and 13 again ht there was also an election for one school trustee and mr wm M webster was elected tile the majority of the franklin people e are in for good schools anil and good school teachers and now we me are arc in a fair way to have such this morning 0 between 9 and 10 a little boy of brother and orson orgon and mary neeley was drowned in the cub river middle ditch tile 1 d I t tell 1 I was close to Nee leys house tile the little boy with others of laro Nee leyB leys children was playing a near the alie ditch there is only a narrow board across the stream close to ahn house sister was silting in t the e door and in about three minutes after she saw the little one playing near the water she missed him she looked around for him but could not find him his older brother went flown down the ditch and found him in the ditch about three quarters of a mile from the house the child wis was quite dead when found he had bad been in the water over half an hour brother neeley went away the night before to the sheep shearing camp little thinking when ho he went abray that the next day his little boy would loose his ILIC in such a sudden way when brother neeley came home tho scene at the mee meeting tint 0 of husband and wife was heart r rending ending to witness funeral services will bo be held wednesday morning morning at the nashville school house at 10 there is some sickness here especially ally among the children president geore G corse C parkinson harkinson has a little girl very low with pneumonia they are doing all al that they can for her we hope and pray that the lord will answer the prayers that is offered in her behalf so go she may recover I 1 will write a again ain soon every thi ig quiet and dull although the tra tr adeis eis livening up a little with merchants the thel next saturday y and sunday sunda y is our sunday school conference we anticipate a good go od time some of the sunday school officers will be up from salt lake city after conference they will visit gome come of the schools in other settlements then on sunday irth will be at malad holding conference confer enco there the franklin star mills wollen factory are doing first rate this season they turn out blankets lin lanoys li noys cys and yarn that cannot be had in any factory the yarn and have been inspected by competent judges 0 and they pronounce tho the goods the best they have seen on the market so much for homo home industry may the spirit of home industry increase until franklin Fran kliu will have hav other eother kinds of factories will turn out goods as fine as the star wollen mills does docs farmers are beginning a to look up a little as the prospects are now that vo will have good crops lucerne will be heavy we have hado had of flate late heavy ands up this WRY way we would like to control 1 l the weather and have a little cli change cliance anae for instance some soine rain and less wind but it seems we cannot have the privilege of controlling the weather hence we have to take what comes like you 11 have ave to do it at logan and feel thankful that we bao have ve not been blown out of existence OB OBSERVER bERVER |