Show BKIGHAM CITY BITS Elders Bywater and Marsh spoke in the tabernacle on Sunday Ice hauling is the order of the day The boys complain that all the ice is being be-ing hauled out of the pond leaving no sport for them Just wait a day or two it is not summer yet The tabernacle vestry and other parts of the building are filled with lumber and other material ready for the opening of spring when the building will be completed com-pleted The Box Elder Flouring Mill company expect to put in rollers in the near future and fit up their new mill so that it will compete com-pete with any mill in the west The stockholders and directors of the B C M M association met on Monday last and declared a dividend of G per cent for the past year Nothing definite was done in regard to building the proposed new coop co-op building on the corner of Main and Forest For-est street They will perhaps continue in the Social hall for another year The Wright building erected west of JdcGees is being painted in bright colors so instead of it being a white house it is turned into a red one Peter Benson has purchased the Tom Palmer place in the Fourth ward Wh said Pete didnt mean business If you want sheep cheap now is the time to buy them The sheepmen look rather discouraged The general report coming from the winter range is Send feed immediately im-mediately or they will die The amount of snow out in the western part of the country is something unusuaL The sheep men who provided feed for their sheep did well Hay is very scarce already bringing from S12 to 15 per ton Everything in the shape of a sleigh be it i bobs or cutter is brought into service To ride in a light buggy the wheels taken off and replaced by runners is quite pleasant C H Davis the manager of the telephone tele-phone reports that business is quite brisk For several days that was about the only source of comuiunical to be had It is almost doing away with telegraphing afar a-far as this place is concerned as it is very much easier to go to the hotel and say lair and I hello than it is to go west half a mile to the depot It is a hard job to keep track of tho trains nowadays and when you inquire at the depot when the train will be here you may expect to hear the words Sometime during dur-ing the night Lot 1 block 2 plat A corner of High andS and-S Wall streets known as the Sprague property was sold at auction on Saturday A party from St Joseph Mo who was in town bid on this piece of real estate A gentleman from Collinst on reports business bus-iness a little dull at present He said he had no cause for complaint during the late blockade on the U N railway at that place as he keeps a small store and sold bread and cheeseto about seventyfive passengers sengers who were snowed in along with the train and that was about the only articles of food near at hand The U P rightofwaymen are negotiating negotiat-ing with our old townsman Chester Hansen Han-sen for his land at Collins ton It app ears that they propose to build a large station there for the Utah Northern and want the land for a townsite and will make Col linston a great town They offer to give Mr Hansen every other block in this new plat Of course he would be expected to donate the whole piece to the railroad com pany in the first place L H Jones having just recovered from the effect of a sprained ankle is now suffering suffer-ing with a dislocated wrist Monday noon as the clock in the tower struck twelve R H Jones was the happy recipient of another member to his family The smiles on Ricys face would pronounce him the happiest man in town A few evenings ago a number of boys who had overloaded themselves with old Tom and appeared on mischief bent as they came to the bank building and noticed the large pane of glass they were about to see how big a hole they could make in it when the man of the night with the heye of a hcagle espied them and told them to move on or he would furnish them shelter for the night The youngsters took the gentle hint and skipped for home BUIOHAM CITY Jan 14 |