Show PAYSON POINTS Reducing Works Proposed Maple Syrnp Relations of tho Wightmans Tho suicide of Mrs Elite Wightman in your city the wife of William Wight man who has parents and many relatives here Cast a sudden and gloomy surprise over the town The Wightmans are all well known and related here with the imuns and Dixon fam lies hence the widespread sympathy PHILIP ItA yin y-in his oiginal creation of A Surprise Party ned a very slim attendance last evening at the opera house for some unaccountable reason for his meritorious performance was worthy of a good patronage SUGAR BEET CUIjriVATION Our farmers here are maldngpreparations for the cultivation of sugar beets more extensively I than last season The company agent Mr Lant informs vs that about one hundred acres are being sue Fcribed and will be din d-in Pnyson this year Last eason the beet seed and seeder dulls were late coming here hence there was a late beginning but this year all similar delays will be avoided and If work is not spared on the beet lands a fair profit of about 44450 per acre can be made dear of all expenses but there must be no shirking in the weeding season Payson soil and the neighboring neigh-boring fields are adapted to this production and rate a good percentage of saccharine substances sub-stances Ihere is some talk concerning the construction of OUR RFDUCING WORKS soon to be erected near Payson on tho southwest south-west which will make employment for a great many men but the time for the commencement is not definitely known yet However as thc land has been purchased by the company and transfer titles made we hope soon to know more about this valuable enterprise and the company to be located soon so near us Mr G W Hancock was carrying around a sample of MAPLE SYRUP in a tumbler the other day a sample taste of his own production he having tapped bout eighteen small manic and box elder trees producing pro-ducing about four pails of sap each morning and boiled down to maple syrup of the old style He says we can make this syrup from our wild mapls trees in tHe cauon groves if wen will only take the trouble to haul in the sap and boil ftn down A PETITION S is being circulated for a pardon of the governor gov-ernor in favor of John Dean the barber who shot Reed who is now entirely recovered and says he ie willing and will sign the petition also as Dean has a wile and two children who have to depend entirely upon relatives for support in his absence and Dean is a very good young man and no doubt has sincerely repented of his momentarily rash action KRATS I PArSON March 4 |