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Show toqi i:itvn.l.. Weather clear, but quite cold. Born to the wife of Martin Slack, a gi rl . A merry Christmas to the editor and all those who take an interest in the Washington County News. Naegle Bros, have returned from the Buckskin mountains, where they have beea looking after their horses and cattle. cat-tle. George I. Batty has gone to Beaver to bring his sister Ella, who has been attending the B. Y. A., home for vacation. vaca-tion. The M. I. Associations are going to give an entertainment on Friday evening, even-ing, Dee. 23d, for the purpose of raising rais-ing funds to purchase bound volumes of the Young Woman's Journal. Our Holiday Committees, consisting of the officers of the M. I. A. have arranged ar-ranged a very nice program for Christmas Christ-mas and New Year's. We expect to have a Christmas tree, and they have made arrangements with Santa Clause to visit the children. Apostle Cowley and Bro. J. G. Kimball Kim-ball paid us a pleasant visit and held a meeting here last Friday evening. They said the rich were those who keep the commandments of God, and were ever willing to give a helping hand for God's cause. We all wish they would visit us offcener. We expect to have the privilege of reading letters from some of our missionaries, mis-sionaries, who ought to write occasionally occasion-ally to our worthy editor, who I believe will take pleasure in publishing them for ihe benefit of all those who subscribe sub-scribe for our home paper, which is a . blessing to the St. George Stake of Zion. All should be interested in it. Just as 1 am about to seal up my letter let-ter I got word that a stranger had arrived ar-rived at the home of Bishop Bring-hurst Bring-hurst this inorning. The M. I. A. missionaries mis-sionaries arrived late last night: whether they had anything to do with the matter I am not prepared to say; they left again this morning for the river settlements. The stranger was a male; parties most interested are doing do-ing well. J. B. Toquerville, Utah, Dec. 22, 1898. |