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Show TWO DEATHS IN A SMITHFIELD HOME Two Children Die but Two Hours Apart. SONS PARMINUS JONES New Church in Prospect. Post-office Post-office May Be Moved. & Entertainments. En-tertainments. - Items. v One of the saddest ocunenecs In the I histor) of Sirltlilield was the double jr' death In the family of Parmcnus i Jones on Tutsdaj. Fern, a son live icars of age, died at 1 p.m ,and at 0:.'iO Edgar aged l." jeais, passed away. Fern had been Indisposed forsceal months, and a month ago had a spell of pneumonia. His death was due to pneumonia, contracted after a socll of typhoid of two weeks' duration. Edgar Ed-gar was sick but nine dajs, thcdltll-culty thcdltll-culty being typhoid. Ills death as Immediately due to perfoiation of the bowel. These deaths make the third from typhoid and complications within with-in the weeks. It will be remembered that Archie .lones, the A. C student who died reccntl),was from this family. fami-ly. It seems that some fatality Is pursuing pur-suing the Joneses The moved quite recently and weie In hopes that they had left their woes behind, but their hopes have been in vain. The entire community sjmpathlcs deeply with those bereft. Of fourteen children, but six arc left. In writing of the death of Aichle Jones, "Student Life", the A. C. paper, pa-per, says: "Jones was held In high esteem es-teem b the faculty: he was Ioed by the students. He was honest and upright up-right In all his dealings, true to hlm-self hlm-self and his fellows. He was affable, . i kind and geneiousj a genuine student ( and pci feet gentleman." The Prcsb)teilans are asking for funds to build a chapel and school-house school-house on theh city lot In a central location. lo-cation. Revs. Clemenson, of Logan, and Hamilton, of this city, called on friends Tuesday and raised WOO toward the pioject. It is their hope to laisc at least G00 InSmlthtield and secure from the New Voik Hoard of Home Missions $1,200 with which to ciect something fairly creditable. The old building ami lot will be sold. The citiens of Smithtleld have become be-come vetv indignant at the close prox-Imlti prox-Imlti of saloons to theh post-oillce and on Tuesdaj evening held a meeting meet-ing to consider the propriety of moving mov-ing Fnclc Sam's business to other quailors. Nothin.; definite was decided de-cided upon. Smithtleld has obtained ftom the State Engineer a decision favotablc to the appropriation of a number of springs f i oin which to secure a water supply for the city. Work will be commenced immediatelj. jf. The Keinpton Kotned) Co. held (SW forth In JIMjaid's hall two nights f this week and did a good business. The next atti action is "the great and only" Mack Swain Opera Co., for two nights commencing Dec. 23. Alficd Uuxton, son of John Buxton, of Hates, Idaho, was killed In one of the canjons near thcie last Thursday. The Huxtons weic foimerly lesldents ofSmithficld. C. W. Mack Is obtaining the patronage patron-age of the travelling public at his new vcntuie. Chaileylsa tine fellow and desetves success. The Kwlng, Toolson & Co. saloon Is open for the holiday trade and Is dishing dish-ing out the same brand of 'tanglefoot' and "tamaiack" that can he found clsewheie. Ewlng's shooting gallery Is amusing the ciowd. The markmanshlp display Is nothing short of wonderful In the number of misses. The merchants report the best business busi-ness for years at this season. |
