Show The Richmond Roundup ONLY 100 in the shade HOT sultry and very disagreeable FAHMIRS are busily engaged in hauling haul-ing hay cutting grain etc The grau crop is somewhat less than last years owing to lack of water Still we have a little and the whole valley will soon ba dotted with wheat stacks MEs > R3 HENDRICKS CHEISTENSJ > have purchased a steam engine iron Aultman Taylor Co Spring fie d Ohio the only one of the kind in th S6 parts It is quite a novelty to see the monster pulling a threshing maohine around the streets We also have other steam engines and horsepowers here but H C will get away with the threshing business this year ALL we have had the past week in the line of amusement has been a I glas show that is we have been shown a few of the mysteries of glassblowing EdO person buying a ticket received a prize As an extra inducement a prize of a beautiful glass pipe wa to be given away to the hard domest man There were a number of young bloods who were sure of the prize When the evenin came for the oallot these young men worked well bat it was all to no use But one of them could secure it and when the votes were counted Mr R T Petty Jr came off with flying colors and the pipe Hence he Is now our pretty man This was a great disappointment dis-appointment to the other candidates out they have suffered enough We will not mention names Tom got there His girl is delighted and the ooys will be glad when he goes to chool again THE Richmond Co op is doing a rushing business Another largo room will soon be built on the west to lIEu lIE-u ed as a produce department This will be a good move as the present building entirely too small for their increasing business The Coop handles most of the produce in this vicinity shipping largely to eastern and northern points A N HOBSON Co are also doing a good retail business A large granary 13 going up in the rear of the store Mr Roueohe of Kaysville who has joined Mr Hobson is a rustler MEN are now at work putting in the machinery for the roller mill process in the Cache Valley mills here Mr Merrill will now be able to compete with other mills in the Territory and will be prepared to fill orders for No 1 fluur b the carload or otherwise WORK is being pushed ahead en our new Presbyterian Chapel Mr A S Schow has the contract for the building which is to be finished about the middle of September WE sadly miss our friend Will Horn After spending some time with us winning win-ning the girls hparts with his engaging smiles and delighting all with his excellent ex-cellent music he has fled to Bear Lake where it is said he has a pretty eastern east-ern girl Good luck Will Bring your family to Richmond when you settle down As theseoond city in the country we often wonder why we cannot get our Salt Lake papers the same day that Logan and Brigham do We have been promised them but they fail to arrive As it is we are a day and a half behind our neighbors with our news MR JUSTIN SHEPARD a young man of this place has been very ill for several days with a form of typhoid fever Dr Snow of Logan is attending him and it is to be hoped he will soon be around among us again MB WILLIAM LAMONT left Preston las Saturday on horsebacK for Smithfield Sunday afternoon word was received at Preston that he had been found dead in the street at Smithfield early that morning morn-ing but giving no particulars Hi friends started for Smithfield at once to look up the matter He had left them but a few hours beforeapparently in good health and spirits expecting to return at once and they were now called to come and take charge of the body Later in the evening it was reported re-ported that he had lain down at a creek to drink and must have had a tainting spell fell into the creek and was drowned He was a young man and leaves a wife and two children mourning mourn-ing his untimely death RICHMOND UTAH August 13 |