Show Payson Pickings CHARLES W HEMMER WAY formerly of Ogden late of Waukon Iowa has removed to Payson where he will reside for a season THE Payson merchants are all well pleased with their trade for the past year the large surrounding agricultural district providing a constantly increasing increas-ing patronage THE Huish Brothers photographers have pitched their tent for the winter months in the Tithing Office yard where they are ready to do all work in their line in a manner to sustain their growing reputation as firstclass artists MBS SULLIVAN the popular and highly educated teacher of the Payson Presbyterian School assisted by her daughter has over eighty pupils in her charge all that the chapel which is used as a school roomcan accommodate accom-modate IN our Opera House the SnowHoutz DramatIc Company played Ernest Mal I travers night before last to a fair sized attendance the playing throughout through-out being excellent and highly appreciated appre-ciated Last night The Riyal Merchants was presented the acting for a home company being exceptionally good each part being rendered with power and feeling while the large audience showed its pleasure by close attention and frequent applause UNDER the high license adopted about two years ago by our city Messrs Taylor Tay-lor Maxwell have been running an orderly billiard hall ana saloon with so much success that another as to be started soon by Mr Edward Collet in the building just vacated by the Chicago Store With two places of resort our young men will not be as crowded about the pool tables as they have been in the popular place of Taylor Maxwells and can give more attention to skillful billiard playing MR SOLOMON HANCOCK the rustling butcher of our city has just moved his shop to the lot immediately back of Hancocks Hall He has enlarged his shop to three times its former size and has ordered a complete outfit of sausage machinery to be run by steam power It is his intention to build a large improved im-proved smokehouse and when when fully prepared to manufacture a first class line of smoked meats and sausages for the adjacent towns and the Tintic mines LAST November a number of our young men organized a political club for the purpose of studying civil government gov-ernment parliamentary laws and the political customs of our country About twenty members are now enrolled At the last meeting debate was held on the subject of tariff versus free trade PAYSON January 11 l88 |