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Show Rexburg. The crops In this locality are looking look-ing splendid. Farmers are cutting their alfalfa now, Tho beets aio nearly all thinned out and they aro looking better here than those that hae been planted near the factory at Iona. Nearly all of tho thinning has been done by girls and boys. Sixteen-year-old girls have put on overalls and earned us much or more than the boys. Only eighteen Japs have been brought hereto help with the beet 'R. labor. Work began last week on an eight rnllo canal to take tho Moody Creek out to the hill southeast of town. Some fine farms will bo developed on tho hill, as tho soil up there Is excellent. excel-lent. They have between llfty and sixty men working on the academy. Tho roof Is nearly finished and the lower rooms aro being plasteied. It will bo completed by tho 12th of October. The Itexburg Drug Co. Is putting up a line building on tho corner west of Mr. Flamln's building. Itcxburgvvlll not celebrate on tho ,,,. 4th, but we shall have a big celebra- Offr tlonontho24. |