Show BRIGHAM OITY BITS The Bustling Capital of Box Elder County THE MATRIMONIAL FEVER A Long List or New Benedicts Double Funeral on Monday BEIGHAM is infested with the third circus of the season Miss HATTIE NICHOLS has gone to Groute Creek to teach school THERE is a movement on foot to build a new Opera House in Brigham W H BOOTHE filed his bond as postmaster post-master of Brigham City yesterday Miss RINTA SNOW started to Bntte Montana yesterday on twenty minutes notice DUCK shooting claims the attention of spons since the 15th hunting is good and game plentiful WILLIAM HOBSLEY SONS shipped 450 boxes of apples and 2550 melons to Bntte on Wednesdaya straight carload car-load of each C H DAVIS proprietor of the City Hotel is still very low Dr L W Snow of Logan was telegraphed for in his behalf on Tuesday CHARLES HARDING JR of the Wil lards broke his arm while playing ball at the Hot Springs on Saturday The Willards defeated the Ogden athletics H E BOWBINQ the pioneer harness maker recently returned from Europe has opened up again on Depot Street and is running full blast with extra help MONDAY witnessed the first rainstorm rain-storm for several months Summer is now smitten with a premonitory chill and autumn is at hand with her prolusion pro-lusion of falling leaves HEBE is the latest campaign clincher token from Texas Sittings Allan G Thurman was born November 13th 1813 there are 13 letters in his name 13 in The red bandana and therefore there-fore he will 131y be elected if figures dont lie WAGERS on national politics have given way to local issues for the time being and bets are now offered two to one without takers that Brigham will be without a United States Commissioner Commis-sioner inside of a month with the present pres-ent let out for cause B M YOUNG was doing the masquerading masquer-ading act yesterday nair eyebrows mustache and heavy goatee dyed a coal black completed a metamorphosis in Morris that even his own family could not penetrate and his motherinlaw spread him out a cold lunch on the tramps table luckily for Morris there was no wood to chop If only a fraction frac-tion of those he got the laugh on had set em up the man in disguise would have been as full as the drunken cowboy cow-boy he personated MARRIAGES W H Craghead city and Elizabeth Sandaford of Willard were united in the bonds of matrimony the 14th Judge Peters tied the knot Lee Wright and Miss Mary Hawkins cf Marsh Valley Idaho were married at Logan on Wednesday and are spending spend-ing a portion of their honeymoon here at the aforetime home of the groom E W Dunn agent at Mendon visited town in company with Miss Mamie Whitney of Kaysville the boys all had them married and the girls too as a matter of course but we think the report re-port was a little premature however appearances pointed strongly to a consummation con-summation in the near future J R Smurthwaite and Amelia Christensen Chris-tensen and Lee Harris and Alice Jen en went to Logan last week to be present at the temple on Hymens day On the evening of their return they were serenaded ser-enaded by the brass baud and an enjoyable en-joyable time was had Thus does Ogden add to her own strength by do populating Brigham This is not the first of the kind nor is it likely to be the last from present appearances Have Ogden girls lost the art to charm or the power to captivate DEATHS Still another victim to the terror I TyphusMrs Andre Larson nee Miss I Carrie Hanson died Monday night and was buried Wednesday her husband and four small children remain in that desolate and cheerless home Deceased formerly lived at Mantua and many people from there attended the sad rites which were conducted in the tabernacle tab-ernacle Today we have a double funeral Hober Hontz died at Ogden whither he had baen taken for m > dcal aid and his remains were brought here in a handsome hand-some hearse last night for interment in the family burial grounds Services were held at the tabernacle this morning morn-ing The speakers were N Sladsonjr Prest Charles Kelly and Bishop A Nichols All were acquainted with the deceased and their remarks were eulogistic eulo-gistic of his life character temperate habits and youthful integrity On the way to the cemetery a livery team took fright at the hearse jumped sideways and threw the occupants out of the mourners carriage Miss Vinnie Houtz had a hard fall but was not seriously hurt One of the horses threw himselt flat on his bacK and succeeded in working work-ing up a sensation at kicking After delaying the procession about half an hour the fractious team was finally replaced re-placed with Bishop Niouols creams This afternoon Mrs H R Peterson was laid quietly to rest in the silent city of the dead Services were held in First Ward Schoolhouseand conducted r y Bishop Tingey The bereaved husband hus-band has the heartfelt sympathy of the entire community in this his two fold sorrow His is indeed a experience A little more theu a twelve months ago I he led to the altar a bright happy bride Contract his condition then and now wife and babe both gone held from his gaze 1 > 0 long as life shall last Truly is this a world of sorrow and mourning IT will be highly necessary for some society or order to go into active train irg on funeral musio if this kind of thing is going to keep up long BRIGHAM CITY September 231888 |