Show LOCAL NEWS mr john easthope is canvassing our county for one of the finest bibles we have ever seen U P tax commissioner swingley of omaha spent a few hours with 1 county assessor and collector willey on tuesday the high priests should remember that the quarterly meeting will be held in the east bountiful tabernacle sunday fab at 7 p in pres fres 11 K X warren of the salt lake college will lecture at the bliss hall next sunday evening subject E education du cation the public are cordially invited from the appearance of things A L burnham is contemplating the erection of a fine brick mansion this coming summer and from the fact that he be has purchased a whole kiln of brick we judge that it will be of no mean proportions at a water meeting be held id the first of the week by the water claimants on stone and barton creeks joseph J holbrook was named as the peoples choice for ginneral and branch on those creeks find and he will no doubt be appointed to that office by th the e council mary day wife of joseph day ST sr lied died of dropsy last monday morning the funeral services took place at the tabernacle on wednesday at I 1 p in it is only a few months since father day buried his first wife bishop calls suit against the U P ry co for railroad props alleged to have been ordered but not accepted by that company came up for a heuring bearing in the third district court on wednesday feb it is reported that a few days ago a few water claimants ons on a certain creek in this city meet and elected or were going to elect a who was to act independent of the ity city but when lie he learned that he was only to get five cents an acre and collect it himself he be begged to be ex aused the bountiful debating literary society held its weekly meeting rig as usual in the basement of the tab made last monday evening where rhe lie advantages and disadvantages of i i lie he metric system were earnestly dis dig cussed by able debaters the next meeting will be held at the same place next monday evening at 7 at a recent meeting of the directors of the union stock yards it was decided that this coming year some valuable improvements should be made at the yards the company expects to brake up considerable land and sow lucern lacern and other kinds of grasses and vegetables to be used for or feeding cattle mr and mrs nephi cuerden D aerden were bereaved of their little sixteen months old son their only child last monday monda y morning pneumonia was the cause of his big death the funeral services took place in the new school house near their place on thesda tuesday y at 2 p in the clipper feels to sympathize with the young couple in their great loss on account of some of the members of the troupe taking suddenly ill the farmington home dramatic association was obliged to postpone to some future date the play piry they intended to render at the opera house last saturday night it is to be hoped that when they do appear that they shall be greeted by a full house james erickson the ibe woods wooda cross blacksmith moved to ogden the first of the week where he will continue to shoe horses repair carriages and to carry on a general blacksmith business he appeared to he be doing well here but it seems that lie thought he could get hold bold of more of the root of all evil at the junction city than he be did here and for that reason made the change last week the clipper received one of D al ferry co s 88 page seed annuals also a package containing a number of choice flower and vegetable seeds as EL a compliment from the company the annual is a beauty in appearance and contains much useful information for gardeners and farmers and can be had bad we understand by simply sending a postal card to the company at detroit michigan one might surmise that bishop call and J J holbrook have but little faith in the people of bountiful uniting to flume the canyon streams and in order to have well watered orchards when other peoples trees are drying out they have gone to work on the mark cook farm digging for water with much success and are now putting pulling the boxes together which are to carry the water down the mile of hill bill to their homes W we e will prophesy that their reward will be great benjamin kirkham and frederick zahler brought a rather unwelcome visitor to our office last saturday it was a large wild cat which they hod had caught in a steel trap near the mouth of dry hollow it being the second one that the they y had bad captured there the trap was set beside the carcass of a horse where they expected to trap some c ci the first cat broke its leg oft off in the trap as the trappers were approaching the spot where it was set so they had to shoot the escaping flesh eater but this last one they lassoed and brought it down alive and since have put it into a S cape some seventeen of 0 our davis county young men are working with their teams on the new bicycle race track now under construction st at decks becks hot springs and have been at work for some time past but for that number of teams to remove yards of dirt the amount required to build the track takes considerable time it is said that when finished it will be one of the finest bicycle tracks in the united states this ibis being the case and the tract being so handy for the people of davis county we may well look for some expert riders to spring up in our midst it is original in design in some particulars wi ani was planned by harr harry josephs the well known surveyor it contains three laps to the mile |