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Show OUR CORRESPONDENTS. Bl'XKEKVlLLE. The second crop of hay is now beino-cut. beino-cut. We had a light shower yesterday afternoon, the 9th. John Kierraan of Meadow Vallev wash was here last week on mining business. Uncle Sam's census enumerator, Mr. McGuire of Kingman, Arizona, passed thru on the 8th inst. enroute for Little-held, Little-held, Arizona. George W. Lee, Jr., returned from Cedar on the 5th inst. bringing with him another one of our Normal students, stud-ents, Miss Lucina Lee. SrUIXGDAI-E. Riley C. Savage of Toquerville, census cen-sus enumerator for this district arrived here last Saturday and completed the census of this place Tuesday. He attended at-tended Sunday school and afternoon meeting on Sunday and discoursed on the principles of the Gospel. J.ITTLEFIELD. The cotton and fruit crops are looking look-ing very nice, hay and grain nearly all stacked. Miss Adams of Washington was a pleasant visitor here on the 10th. She was enroute to Chloride. We have been successful in obtaining obtain-ing a voting precinct here. The Justice Jus-tice is Abe Bundy, and Joseph Reber is the Constable. C. E. Finly and family of Chloride passed thru here on the inst. enroute home from St. George, where they have been staying the past winter. OVERTON. Thomas Johnson is ill. Miss Pearl Perkins has returned from a visit to Rioville. Brigham Whitmore has gone to De Lamar with beef cattle. Mrs. Johnson, who has been ill for some time, is somewhat better. John W. Faubion is here on business, as is also Edward Cox of Bunkerville. John F. Perkins has gone to Bunkerville Bunker-ville to work in the Copper mine there. M. W. Gibson and son Robert, of St. Thomas, have returned from Provo and Milford. Very warm weather the past week with hot winds on some days, the highest high-est temperature was 99 degrees in the shade. W. W. Perkins has returned from Provo, where he has been taking a missionary mis-sionary course of Studies at the B. Y. A. He prefers to take another year's course before proceeding on a mission. EXTEIiPlilSE. J. B. Morris has gone to Clover on business. Lige Adair has rented Charles Knell's farm at Pinto for this season. A. P. Winsor and Syron Fackrell have gone to Iron Mountain to work. James Canfield and family are expected ex-pected to return from Modena today, the 9th inst. Rain fell yesterday and and it is raining rain-ing today. This will be a great benefit bene-fit to our dry land crops. Thomas and Luther Terry and Frank Laub, of , passed thru here on the 8th inst. enroute to St. George to attend conference. President Young's birthday was celebrated cele-brated by the Primary children. The forenoon was taken up with songs, recitations, speeches, etc.; and the afternoon was given over to games and outdoor amusements, during which lemonade and picnic were served. IIEJ3KOX. Several of our citizens have new wagons. Aaron Huntsman and C. H. Barnum are hauling bricks from Pinto to Deer Lodge. Warren Cox of Uvada was here recently re-cently in the interest of the Studebaker Manufacturing. Co. Elias Hunt and others have returned from Deer Lodge, where they have been hauling wood: they say there is not sutticent money in the business. George Coleman has returned from TeasdaTe, where he intends to make his future homo. He is now gathering his stock to take with him: his family are here and expect it will be their last visit for some time. waiiinc;ton. Bvron Averett left for Modena on the 12th inst. Mrs. Alice. Woodbury of St. Genrire is staving with her mother here, Mrs. Robert Parker. Mrs. Lenard Conger of St. George is visiting her parents here. Charles Y estover and wife. ndrow Surrciison lias :irc!ia-! Mrs Elizabeth Snow's rosid. -nee at St. George and is preparing to move. William We. lover and Mrs. Minne Paxil. ail have gone to Pinto to a'tmi tin: lunerui of their siMcf. h. -W! 1 Kue'h John Woodbury of V.;;ir c:;.v -'--'"-on hi- gr o'li-ai'oiu- her.'. 1 ioiie'-t I '..r,--or and wife, uhiie on l.ts way to ri. Gi or-.' on the V.i:h ins-i. Lawrenco. the von-yerr-oi.i -. m of ,),. ,rlos Wotov.-r. .Ir.. ami w.?,-. v.a-ki v.a-ki -.,e.: by a pet coil on i -gnte:.,-.. . (iitVViIv.U-;i the womi.i :( t--" !..:; , is -iong nicely. doing nicely. The oid 1 1. -Hi lie's warty which he!-! on J i",e 7th. the anniversary of i'l-.,-. i Irij 'nam V.xm birthday, was a success: the old people were royally em eiauined eud ne.: to enjoy and appreciate ail that was dune f. enjoyment: a dance was held in the evening. Mrs. Mary Dutlin and Mrs. Annie Spilsbury left for Sail Lal;e City on the 0th inst. The funnel" expects to spend the summer with her daughter, the latter, after visiting relatives, expects to accompany her husband home, as he is looking fur release from his labors in the mission field soon. J.KKlis. W. II. Angell has returned home from Silver city. Early -apples, pears, peaches, apricots apri-cots and currants are ripe. M. E. Paris, S. A. Higbee and W. D. Newton were in St. Georg-e the fore part of the week on business. Mrs. Sarah Forsha and daughter, June, former residents of Silver Reef, are visiting Mrs. R. S. Harris of that place. The Misses Julia Ford and Lizzie McMullin have gone to Cedar city, the former for her health and the latter to attend the Summer school. Elders Richard Morris and A. R. Whitehead of St. George, and George Spilsbury of Toquerville, were here last Sunday in the interest of the Sunday Sun-day school. William Stirling, Jr., was made Supt. of our Sunday school. Bishop McMullin returned from Cedar city Monday, bringing with him his daughter, Ada, Miss Minnie Hanson, Han-son, Clare McMullin and Charles Hanson. Han-son. All with the exception of Bp. McMullin and Charles Hanson have been attending the branch Normal school. 1 1 i: k u ii-o ( ;:. ('otj-inued from lt l:iir-;. G. M. Crawford and daughter Matt!.-, j tl-u Mi,., Marjie Crawford, ) -f t for! Cedar city toe.iy, the Oth. Mrs. Elizabeth i verson, who has been visiting at Santa Clara for a few days, returned home on the 4th inst. Taylor Steers goes to l'intu today fur his father, who has been doing the carpenter work on Bishop Knell's new-house. new-house. Mrs. Mary G. Whitehead and daughter. Mrs. Miles Lund, of St. George, were visiting Mrs. McReavy on the -4 til inst. SIMM N ( D A M-:. Alpheus Gilford has gone to Leeds with a load of home-made chairs. William Ruesch fell from a load of hay on the 1st inst. and his right shoulder was badly hurt. Crops are badly infested with worms, a raid was made on the birds last year and thousands were killed: this, probably, prob-ably, is the cause of the worm pest. GUAt'TOX. The present month brought with it some very warm and dry weather. Peter Anderson, of Anderson's ranch near Bellevue, is here on business. Elder Wralter Slack and Enoch Nae-gle Nae-gle were here as home missionaries on the 27th nit. Moses Gibson and Miss Andrus, of , have been here the past week visiting relatives and friends. JjITTJjKFIKLJ). Second crop of lucern being stacked: harvest nearly finished. Edwin Jones of Mesquite passed thru here recently enroute to Stateline on business. While Joseph Reber was riding after cattle on the 30th tilt, the cinch of his saddle broke, causing the rider to fall and sprain his right w?rist severely. Bp. Edward Bunker and wife of Bun-kerville Bun-kerville were here on the 3rd inst. to visit our Sunday school and afternoon meeting, and also to get names of prospective pros-pective missionaries. nOCKYII.J.E. Hay is coming in from all directions. Mr. and Mrs. Webb are visiting relatives and friends at Shonesburg. A surprise party was given at the schoolhouse on the evening of the 1st inst. in honor of Christian Larson. A committee has been appointed to make arrangements for an old folks c.elebrflf.irm nnf. Inter ttnn Tnno otl- Miss Jennie Petty returned home on the 3rd inst. from Cedar City, where she has been attending the branch Normal school. MESQUITE. Park Ohidester's new house is near-ing near-ing completion. Carlos Knight has gone to Santa Clara on business. Edwin Jones has gone to Deer Lodge on a trading tour. Harvesting nearly finished, wheat and barley crops are extra heavy. Stock on the range are doing well, grass is better than for some years past. Hughes Brothers have bought a new self-binder and a new mower and are laying the grain and lucern low, VIRGIN'. William Palmer of Cedar city is spending a few days with friends here. Mrs. S. A. Bringhurst has gone to Rockville with a stock of millinery goods. George Isom has gone to Milford to lake his mother, who is enroute to Salt Lake city. County Commissioner Jepson return- 1 f - L." 1 eu 110m an ouictat trip 10 at. George on the 5th inst. A citizens' primary meeting will be held tonight, the 7th. to elect delegates to the County convention. The Misses Hinton and Miss Maggie Sanders returned last Sunday from Cedar city, where they have been attending at-tending the branch Normal school: they seem well pleased with their work and are determined to spend another winter there, The grandest social event of the season sea-son was the party given by Thomas Reeves and wife Tuesday evening: a large number of. friends were present and all responded freely: lemonade and j luncheon were served at intervals, and I songs, recitations, games, etc., took up the time till nearly 1 o'clock. TOIJI F.HVILEE. William Batty is on the sick list. Apples, cherries, currants, etc., ripe. James Xaegle has gone to the Buckskin Buck-skin mountains. A. E. Dodge and wife have gone to , St. George to attend their daughter-in- ' law, Mrs. Samuel Dodge, who is seriously ill. The two-year-old daughter of Ilyruiu Hudiu and wi'c was aeeideiuly shot thru the arm: fortunately it wa- only a i!e-h wound and the little one is now |