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Show TOQUEi;VlI ILE, Miss Lottie Dodge is very ill. The health of Mrs. Fannie Spilohury is slowly improving. Election passed off quietly, a count showing 45 for King and 32 for Hammond. Ham-mond. Tho Y. M. M. I. A. gave a party in the Social hall on the evening of the 2nd inst. Weather cold and windy with indications in-dications of frost; light shower today, the 4th inst, Ashdown Bros, of . Cedar City have been south gathering their cattle. They left for home with a bunch on the 3rd inst, A banquet was given the Hypcrian Club, on the 31st ult., by Mrs. Louise S. Higbee and Miss Georgiana Spils-bury Spils-bury at the home of Mrs. Higbee. Mrs. Ella Granger has returned from Arizona, where she went with her husband last fall. Her husband remained re-mained at Deer Lodge enroute home. Hezekiah Duffln and wife have just arrived from Salt Lake City, where they have resided since Bro. Duflin's return from his mission about a year ago. William Lunt of Cedar City spent Sunday here, leaving for home Monday Mon-day accompanied by his wife, who has been visiting her mother here, Mrs. Roseanna Naegle. W. D. Jackson, W. H. Slack, and Hyrum Jackson started for Salt Lake City on the 3rd inst, to attend conference. con-ference. The two latter expect to remain re-main the summer to work. Mrs. Mary Duffln has returned from Cedar City with her two-year-old son. The latter, after an operation for removal re-moval of a portion of the jawbone and several teeth, is doing well. Mrs. Mary Lamb in- company with Mrs. Delia Dulfm and daughter, Josie, have returned from St. George. The operation performed upon the latter's foot by Dr. Affleck was a most successful success-ful one, and the young lady is doing nicely. Miss Dora Terry of Logan, who has spent the past fourteen months here with relatives, left for home on the 2nd inst. She sought in "Dixie" that which she could not find in the north health. She returns much improved to advertise the land of sand and rocks as the greatest physician of the State. The farmers on the La Verkin creek have been mourning over the rapid decrease in their water lately, and finally to find it ail dissapcar. Upon following up the creek for several miles they found a large hole in the bed of the creek where the water had sunk. They made a ditch of about fifty yards around the place, and now the only regrets they have are that the ditches to their farms arc not larger. |