Show american fork EIGHTEEN AND EIGHTY KIKE dawns upon us strong and greatly improved in most every respect standing on the of that great indicator of civilization improvement one year ao one would have beheld a great many blanks and barren spots on which 1888 has firmly planted improvements to which we look for employment and nourishment for both mind and body of tlc alc good people of our happy burg perhaps no improvement has been more general in its nature than that wrought by the presidential election and the great tariff debate of many having merely a hazy knowledge of such affairs have been educated in that society demands every citizen to be posted in from that could have been seen many young people who are now bound in matrimony and adorning the same happy home many homes that wore childless ure now blessed with the meek like whom wo must all become before entering bea en true many dear ones have been laid away hut all progress must be made against that difficulty on morality our community or most of them havo struggled hand in hand with great success ix general improvements perhaps no city of the size of american fork in the territory has witnessed maro than this place we have had erected two beautiful roller mills many neat dwell ing sone millinery establishment streets opened etc in fact the improvements have been numerous but have hardly composed com the foundation of the great mansion of progress to be erected by the slumbering enterprise power and financial aid to be awakened in the near future to the pleasant duty awaiting them a duty that will revolutionize american fork FOR about three days prior to arnas brother grants music emporium was crowded with parents representing santa claus perhaps in no store south of salt lake city can a better variety for such purchases be found not that brother grants store abounds alone in notions for his shelves are attractively tr crowded with the most useful articles used in the home SINCE the marriage of dr isaacson to our lady clerk sadie bowley and the leaving of bishop bromley from our co op fred cassity has placed his dera beneath the burden of dealand dea tand JaaH Clarke and preston are nicely performing the duties of clerks A has provided for the wants of many this winter with stylish wraps while his daughter has likewise treated those wishing hata in the latter line mrs OId field has dona s neat christmas business also law WEIGHT who left american fork about fifteen years ago after traveling that time in the united states has returned home to those who knew him he cooka natural THAT long haired mexican who haa been performing tricks around the country caught several suckers on his line in a party here last night OE of rev thomas days little boys while playing around the yard was kicked in the to by a horsa this morning and seriously injured IN spite of the rain snow and firewater casting their vapor and influence on the holidays they are going off rather dryly WE are going to bo favored by john S lindsay as damon tonight to night indications hint an overflowing house J HOLDAWAY and wife aro spending a few of the holidays with us YOUNG ladies are going to take advantage of their last opportunity by giving a select leap year parly next monday night FORK dec eureka ox the alt a miner by the name of nicholas gilbert an englishman but recently from spain died suddenly he had been ailing for some two or three weeks on the day of his demise his friends concluded to send him to the hospital he however said it would be of no for he was about to die and he was near his end As his friends were leading n town to take the stage on arming opposite the postoffice post office ho died of apoplexy at least so said the physicians who examined the body and BO said the coroners jury he was 29 years of age and was buried on sunday the the funeral services were conducted by mormon elders the catholic priests never officiate at the funeral who do not belong to the catholic church the cormons mormons therefore are occasionally called upon to conduct the funeral services over the remains of those who are neither catholics ncr cormons mormons Mor mons and the elders always respond cheerfully to these requests WORK on our mines was suspended christmas day and every body seemed happy especially the juveniles on receiving the presents from the annual visit of santa claus there were BO public demonstrations all spent the day as best suited them making friend iv calls having social gatherings in the family circle etc in their rejoicing some partook too freely of abe cup that not only cheers but inebriates but thov did not disturb the peace of the town the day passed off quietly ending with a ball in the evening OF necessity the growth of the town has been central and eastward because no water could be obtained westward but this difficulty is now overcome mr M L powers by at a great expense lias tapped a stream of water more than sufficient to supply the people westward willi all the water they will need it will bo conveyed through the town in pipes and now the end of the town will grow as well as the cast end jooa over a year past tha B B C mining co have beon tunneling into a mountain about a mile and a half away from works prospecting for water their efforts have been crowned with a they have found water and have conducted it in pipes t their hoisting works this enterprise cost the company nearly four thousand dollars the year just closed has done remarkable many now residences have been erector erect od and the population has increased about thirty per cent it lias a population now of about one thousand it is estimated one half of the people here hail from the emerald isle all the people are very sociable the natal day of the messiah tho worlds redeemer was observed here as a holiday a day of rejoices it may bo that some of our citizens jubilate on christmas day anoro from custom as a acner aj national nati oral holiday than from a realization of the importance of the saviors birth THE mines sred well the of oni is on the increase and of good quality AB a general thing the here are yell ventilated but 7 men get sick from powder smoke and bad air before a connection can be made with another opening drift or to croato a draft to carry off the smoke and bad air MR who runs tha beck and bullion boardinghouse boarding house always sets a good bable but on christinas day his table would hava doue credit to a first class hotel THE new hoisting works of the keystone mine are completed and work in the mine is resumed THERE is a great future before eureka which is now only in its infancy attended sc hooli and churches are fairly BUSINESS generally is good CITIZEN jan lehi THE past week in lehi has been un equalled equal led in any pat year in the line of amusements garfes ballnow Hall now called the lehi opera house having been occupied every night in some way on monday tuesday and friday there were balls when there was a very large average attendance for the three evenings conj RO crowded as to he uncomfortable for table wednesday the negro minstrels were greeted with a good bouse thursday and saturday john S lindsay and troupe was very well patronized mr lindsay cn always depend on a good greeting in lehi the whole week there was an amount of means spent on entertainments as was never before seen verifying one fact in improvement pro viz that the day is past for lehi when the whole population was needed to make a respectable patronage for entertainment one add to this the fact that the stores have all done a rushing business and also that our wives and daughters were gorgeously clad and all go to prove that means with the people were never more plenty anc poor of lehi have been made to rejoice by the news of a carload of coal i for distribution to them a veritable boon at this season of the year this gift was brought about by the solicitation of evans our enterprising ter and gentlemanly merchants alio asked the boon of both the pleasant vaclev coal company and the denver rio grande company one donating the coal the other the freight we are glad to bo able to add that the distribution has been made without regard to churell chu relf or creed if anything those not cormons mormons Mor mons have had the advantage as to quantity to each one AT present this ward is left without regular leaders substitutes being in position brother dark remarked a short time ago that he hoped there would be no difficulties to settle for if thero were he would have to call on our neighbors 10 them oae remarked what neighbors As all im mediate neighbors seem to be in a i similar position wilh ourselves and having had BO much in this line of business the past year let us hope that 1889 will witness our town enjoying peace from that source As 1838 is so soon to leave us forever the mind naturally looks back and memory carries us to this same season a year ago then and often since tho brumb lers who by the way have seemed quite numerous were frequent in their prognostications of dire trouble and disaster that would be conr lot from various causes during 1888 especially the light fall of snow in the mountains last winter causing scarcity of water and in many instances short crops that these disasters have not been realized the evidences are before us in plenty WHEN the fact is known that some of our crops were short notably wool and yam the question may be asked from whence did the can only answer that in addition to outside revenues two crops have been abundant the past year that have been notably absent for many years previous viz fruit and these have added much in filling the gaps and some leave realized more from a few acres of seed than they would have done from guitie a farm of grain WHILE we have not been free from virulent diseases yet we have been favored over many but i the two sudden deaths of edward south wick and edwin happening so near together is without a precedent i in our past history and leaves a mark of regret for 1888 that will long be remembered THE past year must long be noted in our history with regard to S ions A clean sweep has now been made in leliand Lehi and all persons in anyway liable on the usual charge are either absent from the count yare under arrest and bonds or have already served their terms in prison WHILE the ardent has not been entirely absent it is pleasing to note that no trouble has been experienced and no arrests made although our officers have been on hand all the time As to improvements the past season haa witnessed quite a number of nice dwelling houses erected most of them being built by our well to do young people TUB old credit system to pay after harvest is almost obsolete and pay as you go is the present motto QUITE a number of couples have joined their fate and by madriago mar riago the past year retrospect I 1 EBI dec 30 1888 mount pleasant THERE was a sound of revelry by night and mount pleasants elite had gathered at the coop co op hall and bright lamps shone oer fair maidens and youna men A hundred hearts beat happily and when music arose with its voluptuous swell all were happy as a marriage bell it seems that nothing but byron slightly paraphrased a little could adequately describe the gay and happy throng who assembled at the coop hall on xmas eye to enjoy tripping alie light fantastic toe on the same evening the distribution of ama a presents took place at the presbyterian chapel to those who attend on their way home little 6 year old boy of mr J J wallis got lost from his older brother who ran home without him the father inquired where little joseph was and was answered by those who had got home that he was coming with some of the neighbors children waiting some time he began to think that the child was lost and at once began to institute a hunt for him the alarm was given and the tow nand surrounding country was scoured by the majority of those who were at the party and by many others the search continued the whole of the night and until 10 on christmas day when the little fellow was found about half a mile south of town near the residence of brother 0 H wheelock when discovered the littile fellow was baat asleep in a small ditch ho had pulled off his coat and used it for a pillow how ho survived agthe night is a mystery as it was bitter cold he was conveyed by brother wheelock to the home of his parents where he was tenderly cared for by parent and friends and we hope he will soon recover from the cold which benumbed the little fellow through DEPUTY MARSHAL of ephraim paid us a visit last wednesday night and succeeded in arresting chas hampshire on the going charge mr hampshire was attending his father in law who was prostrated with rheulia cism mrs alien had just begun to got aronld from the effects of lung disease but the budden alio marshal gave her a being very weak from the effects of her sickness and it was feared that she could not recover she was at last accounts convalescing vales cing slowly the deputy allowed mr hampshire to g on his own lecog nuisance to appear at spring city on the before commissioner johnson foca of our citizens most prominent liberals e tho city aers caught gamb ling ast sunday night hy marshal burns at J B hunters saloon yesterday they appeared before justice larson where chev deposited aa a result of attle game mr hunter waa fined for keeping a gambling house ay accident happened at the house of brother edward fowles last week whereby his oldest son about 12 years of age ft as severely burned by an explosion of gun powder NEST friday night the young ladies give a grand calico leap year ball this is their last week DANCE xmas eve and araas nights A merry xmas to all dec OUE christmas holidays passed off in a very pleasant manner the schoolhouse being decorated for the occasion the children were out in full force both morning and afternoon and with bright happy faces cast many a wistful look at the christmas trees that were loaded to their utmost capacity with presents from parents and friends which with buckets full of candy etc donated by the storekeepers nere distributed to them at the close or the proceedings in the afternoon the older portion of the people met in the evening and enjoyed themselves nothing oc curing to seriously interfere with the pleasure of the assembly on both occasions the house was full to overflowing having demonstrated that a good quality of brick can be made here our people voted a tax of 1 per cent one year ago for a now brick addition to our schoolhouse which has been finished the past season and is now in use they also voted a father tax of one half of one per cent for school purposes during ahe present year which speaks well or their appreciation of the good that follows the education of our children the laet mentioned tax was for repairs etc which when completed will give our schoolhouse of three rooms a very neat and respectable appearance the year just closed the efio ale of San taquia have very good crogg ef huy and fruit considering the dryness of alio season and have done considerably consider abla in the lumber and mining timber business with the tin tic mines which has resulted inconsiderable improvement being made here t THERE have been quite a number of brick houses built the past season and preparations are being made for the erection of others of the samo material in the near future altogether our town is putting on quite an air of improvement and prosperity attends the labors of the people Vs all wish the a happy new year and the success it so richly deserves T B H jan 1 |