Show f Spanish Fork News Today is being appropriately celebrated I The business houses are closed tradesmen are having a holiday the farmer rests from toil and tho school boys satchel will not be opened until Thursday According to proclamation a meeting was held today Hon William Creer Prof J A Rees Bishop G D Snell and George W Wilkins Esq addressed the congregation Our leading mercantile institution the Coop store has lately taken stock and from what is learned it is in a flourishing condition In addition to completing one of the finest roller mills in the west it has lately purchased onehalf interest of Superintendent Super-intendent Hughes of the Y M Coop in the HughesLawrence flour mill The management of the entire concern is in the hands of men of excellent business abilitj which is a strong guarantee for its continuous con-tinuous success Farming prospects look very gloomy The snow is fast disappearing and the river is lower than it has been for upwards of twenty years The east bench extension of our city is deprived entirely of running streams and unless rain comes to its relief the beautiful orchards and shade trees that adorn its brow must necessarily perish together to-gether with all garden produce Conflicting Conflict-ing views concerning prior rights to water are rife and not many days will pass before be-fore the matter is again brought into a court of law for settlement Salem who draws water from Spanish Fork river appears ap-pears to conclude that by virtue of a sever years undisputed use to the waters of said rivers her rights cannot now be questioned ques-tioned as being of as much value in law and equity as other companies whose claims run back five times seven years If such a proposition becomes a precedent in law then all the companies using water from the river will have equal rights and ir times of scarcity of water the stream will bo divided into such small streams that none will be benefited and all suffer in common It was believed at one time thai the numerous artesian wells here would prove an auxilliary source of supply So far however bej ond its use for domestic purposes and in some rare instances the watering of a lawn or garden plot the belief be-lief has not materialized Indeed a number num-ber of wells which a year ago flowed copiously copi-ously are now dry or drying Several new stores have sprung into existence ex-istence this spring notable among which are Prof Rowes musical and variety store Mr Warners drug and notion establishment establish-ment and Mr Hills green grocery Liquor saloons are increasing here in number Prohibition is losing its grip it has made a sad failure it amounts almost to a protection Its failure to accomplish its purpose cannot be attributed to its enactors en-actors nor to the officers entrusted with its execution but to the systematic way by which detection is made almost impossible and the assistance of hired witnesses in an emergency Some four years ago OHO could see on the east side of Main street a few almost illegible letters on a shingle nailed to the front of a dingy lumber room They read Soldering and mending tinware The proprietor was one H J Mortcnsen At the same time his entire effects were worth Wtw Today the same man carries on a jig business in i two differenfparts of this city Never was grit grace and greenbacks so well balanced in one person Potatoes are given away by the wagon loads THE HEitup prizes are highly esteemed and appreciation for Tin Hcutiu columns is daily increasing HEU COlt SPANISH FOR April 30 |