Show Richfield Kumbliugrs THE SevIer Stake Conference will beheld be-held at Kicafield next Si urday and Sunday THE Sevier Stake is now starting ont on-t e new tabernacle which will seat 2500 or 3 tOO people report says it will be finished this winter and one year more It is intended to be a magnificent magnifi-cent building when completed I I JosEPii TAYLOR and Mr Barton of Manti have lately discovered a good vein of coal six miles this side of Manti Toe gentlemen intend to operate the mine and furnish coal to the Sanpete and levier people this winter Success to the enterprise IF all these roads will stretch their necKs up through the Sevier valley this fall and winter it is hard to tell what point prices will reach Good luck to somebody who will push an actual road and not disappoint us eternally with promises resulting in bluffs and scratches to hold the road THE weather for some time past has been very dry and hot and crops depending de-pending on extra water have Suffered out taken all in all there will be a good average crop this season and the farmer is on tiptoe to hear what will be the price of grain Beef and mutton are in very fair condition for this time of the year but they will improve considerably between now and December Decem-ber The fruit crop appears to be very good butno outside market is looked for and fruit peddlers will soon be swinging around from the north and I south giving a bushel of apples for a I bushel of wheat THERE is a deal of talk in relation to railroads we are to have a branch o f the Utah Central starting from Juab Station running along the Sevier river and to go south toBeaver and Parowan we are to have a branch of the D R G also run through Sanpete and on through the Sevier and on to some other place and report says thecitizens of Sanpete at a mass meeting at Eph raimprofered to help all in their I power Then the Sanpete Valley railroad rail-road when lawsuit is settled and if there is a rail of it left will be sent I on to Manti this fall and continued southward during the winter and it is said that Mr Kerr the superintendent reports lots of capital at its back and they will go south to Mexico Southern California or somewhere else presently A LITTLE bit of sensation has started up lately in our immediate neighborhood neighbor-hood on account of the serving of papers for the purpose of procuring a divorce on Mrs Orson Cuddleback the wife of the deputy registrar of Vermillion Vermil-lion Precinct The facts are Mrs Cud dleback married a man by the name of Louis Oldham about ten years ago but taking a scunner against the young man then living in Sanpete she time south to her parents at Vermillion She got acquainted with Mr Z whom she married soon after without a divorce and the matter has laid dormant till Mr Zabriskie was secured by Mr Old ham to procure him a divorce from the above lady whom he considers to be his lawfully wedded wife though the lady has a family of four children by her present husband whom she regards as the only lawful one she has in this vorld of sorrow Sheriff Clark served the t 23 on the 15th and everybody is hold Ms breath to hear whether the court v bring a case of bigamy against the lady and one for perjury against the deputy registrar GLENWOOD and Annabella are kicking over the fact that the daily mail comes I within four or five miles of the towns but they have to be satisfied lor dissatisfied dissat-isfied with a semiweekly weakly mail as the case may be The citizens want to know whether the mails are run by the government for the benefit and accommodation of the people peo-ple or for the convenience and profit of the contractors mail drivers and agents If for the latter they say they will take a nap and wait the rising of a more benign star It is reported that two mail agents traveling travel-ing south after spending half a day on the SY Ky and the afternoon on the stage line when the fact was given them that the stage went on to Richfield Rich-field during the night came to the conclusion con-clusion it was too much for poor suffering suf-fering humanity to do so and they at once wrote to Washington and had the night service stopped notwithstanding many citizens were hungering for the news and the newspaper Between the Sunday and the night stoppages we get an occasional mail through the sunny Sevier How can the people do else than grumble Diphtheria is prevalent in Sanpete and measles in the Sevier Few or no deaths are reported Mi Henry Butterfield a sheep man lately shot and killed a grizzly bear a pantner and a black bear which were making on occasional least of his best mutton Henry is death on the varmints var-mints It is reported that three cases of I diphtheria at Salina lately had proved fatal The parties are not reported VACARS RICHFIELD Sevier Co Aug 24 1888 |