| Show TERRITORIAL TOPICS An Interesting Budget of Home Items PLSASAN r PROVO PARAGRAPHS Richfield Racket Noplil News Notes The Stock Raising Industry Entertainments Provo Paragraphs To vary monotony we have some snow today THE boys are fitting up their sleighs and the girls are happy THE City Council is still wrestling with the ordinance to create a board of healh i So far as adizzing show of holiday I goods is concerned our tin shops take the shine oil of all the others THE trustees of Provo School District have invitEd the taxpayers to meat in the Central bchoolLouse on Monday evening to vote for the rate oftaxa tionTHE THE people generally desire to enjoy the holidays and as many have saved but little money they do not liKe to be annoyed with taxcol lectors or bill collectors of any king just at present IT is calculated that more work has been accomplished on the streets in invo this season than in any two previous pre-vious 3 tars and yet Superintendent laws is looking after delinquent poll taxMBS MRS SIMONS late of tho Deseret Telegraph Tel-egraph Office in Salt Lake City is now iii the Provo office She has to keep her office open till 8 pm and being situated in a lawyers office she thinks the attorney should furnish her with lamp light end reading matter as it gives to his office a business appearance THE woolen mills will close next weik till after the to the I holidays give operatives oper-atives a vacation and the secretary opportunity to balance his book accounts and sum up the years doings The factory being provided with an engine en-gine to help out the water power did not have to close down during the low water season as has been customary in previous years consequently the factory fac-tory hands did not have the usual midsummer mid-summer vacation IT may be generally known and yet not so well understood as it should be that the Provo Free Reading Room upstairs in the Bank Building is open every evening and all who call in there will be made to feel they are welcome by the gentlemanly librarian who is always on hand Young men and older cues too for that matlercan them find a largo collection of books to select from and most of the newspapers published pub-lished in the Territory on file Everybody Every-body is made welcome free of charge though anyone feeling disposed to help the institution along will notice a contribution con-tribution box near the door PSOVJ December 15 B FROM ANOTHER WRITER SANTA CLAUS will have a full eharo at work to do this year in Provo if he fills all the bright anticipations that are being formed nowadays What with the theaters and balls in preparation and the bazzar and radiant show windows win-dows about town one would think he must almost dispair Miss LYDIA THOMPSONS Opera Troupe is booked at the Provo Ocera House for the evening of the 27th inst JohnS John-S Lindsay and his troupe will favor us again during holiday week a grand party will be givenbut there is no use to name them all you couldt remember remem-ber half of them anyway MR HAFEN the well known artist of Springville was arrested this morning by the deputies on the usual charge but the young lady who was brought along as the chief witness closed the examination examin-ation quite summarily by saying that though she is not married now she expects I ex-pects to be soon but not to Mr Hafen L A W PBOVO December 1518S8 Richfield Writings I THIS metropolitan city of southern Utah is situated about 180 miles south of Salt Lake on one of the beat paths to the southern country and is one of the principal stopping places She furnishes fur-nishes the best hotel and hostelry accommodations ac-commodations south of Nenhi there being three hotels here Richfield is the capital of Sevier County and has every prospect of becoming one of the principal cities of Utah Many of the resources of which our fair Territory can boast are found in this portion of the world The grazing or pasturelands pasture-lands in connection with tho fine range ill around Richfield make the sheep and cattle interests quite an item Messrs J M Peterson ds Co Buller Bros and the Cooperated Herd Company are the chief interested people in this respect re-spect Mr W H Seegmiller the president pre-sident of the Beyier County Stake is one of those genuine energetic Americans Ameri-cans and everything he touches seems endowed with enterprise and under his skilful manipulations the interests of woich he is president are among the first The people of Richfield have shown their good judgment by making Mr Seegmiller the mayor This is another reason of their permanent advancement advance-ment The western hills of Richfield furnish an excellent quality of dark red colored sandstone in plentiful quantities quan-tities and forms the chief budding material ma-terial The brick we saw in RIchfield was of an inferior quality the clay so far found being of such a sandy nature as to render them almost worthless THE people of Sevier County are building a large stake tabernacle at Richfield of red sandstone which when finished will be a magnificent structure with a seating capacity of 3000 It will be 120x70 feet facing the east with a tower 22 feet square on the front and a vestry on the west measuring 31x22 I feet The height of the main building I Will be 30 feet to the square It is being erected just soutn of the old I meeting house on the principal block of Main Street and will add largely to the appearance of the block and in fact the entire street I almost forgot to refer to the many grain fields we passed both on entering and leaving BichfMd we hear Sacpjte County referred to as the Granary of Utah but Ijthink if the statistics were known of this veritable granery that at least it would come in for a large share of credit for raising grain I have some notes and statistics for an article on the inducements offered the Utah Central for running their roaR down this rich valley of resources ta the vast coal and timber lands of Garfield Gar-field CountyTBAVELIKO TRAVELING INDUSTRIALIST NEpfli December 151888 A Night in Neplri The Nephi Primary Association under the management of Mrs J A Booth gave a very creditable entertainment entertain-ment last night for the beneficient purpose pur-pose of ass ping a amily to immigrate 10 Utah TL je given was entitled Under the Laurels The characters were represented by girls or young ladies entirely and none of them over 16 years of age Of those who deserve special mention Mi = ses Bryan Sparks Neff Hague and Linton were the most noticeable Wo would advise Miss Edna Sparks to suggest to her lov r in the play that he have a more durable moustache inasmuch in-asmuch as the brand he leaves after each kissing act causes such a ripple of merriment to prevade ihe audience that considerable of the play is lost The distinctiveness of speaking and general make up with the beautiful and tasteful arrangement of the details in the parlor scene show the excellent handiwork of Mrs Booth and her aids The entertainment will be repeated tonight when another large audience will no doubt go away happy TRAVELING INDUSTRIALIST NEPHI December 15th 1888 |
