Show farmington court notes of june and new bridge accepted historical facts COURT NOTES june 1893 full board present lion ilon II 11 W pe perc siding residing minutes of june jun alth session read and approved the report of the court as a committee il of the hie whole in regard in to inspecting spec ting the weber canyon cilYO 11 bridge was accepted arid and the amount appropriated to pay the cour country itys balf of the cost of same they also reported that weber county court will pay half the expense of repairing the old bridge after deducting our charges for committee work they claiming arid and offset of committee work done by them the timber limber and material of the old bridge had bad been taken care of by the respective road supervisors in that locality selectman lea reported that there were two cu lverts in east bountiful that need repairing lie ile was instructed ted to make more positive inquiries as to whether they belonged m to the public or the county geoa aco A lincoln was appointed justice of the pence peace of bountiful precinct in place of W V C call resigned 1 D K H davis was mas real pointed road supervisor of district no 1 on account of liis his failing to qualify as provided by law J F miller was appointed a member of the board of examination to fill the vacancy caused by the absence of N T porter jr 7 daniel B harris and sixty seven others petitioned that a road be laid out and permanently located commencing at a point on oil highway no 1 where the quarter section line running west through section twenty intersects ter sects the said highway thence north two miles thence east one fourth of a mile then north two arid and one half miles to intersect the county road at south weber referred to selectmen nalder and lee to report at next session john W bleess that the main road leading 0 to salt lake CIL city y within the limits limit s of salt lake county where the sewer work is being done was in an all almost impassable condition referred to selectman lee ii A bill presented by C school superintendent t D 0 willey jr was referred back for correction or explanations claims cl AIMS ALLOWED andrews bros for half of cost of weber canyon bridge D C lee road acct acca 1408 david cook on roan acca acct I 1 WN nalder road hect acct 1400 jus jas D wilcox T 11 II phillips court house lot 1 00 expense aeck acct total 1 0 0 adjourned to july 17 1893 PROBATE BUSIN LbS hs I 1 estate bbate of ether coltrin order allowing 75 per month from december cember ast 1st 1892 for support of widow arid and minor children also authorizing administrator to sell certain personal proper properly ty of the estate ti 4 t estate of james fackrell petition of administrators for allowance of lial bilal account arid and petition for final distribution continued to july 3rd ard 1893 at 10 a 1 in estate ant and guardianship of franklin R steed et ct al minors vouchers f filed and order of u dis charge arce of guaadian gu aidian aldian made the following letter by accident did not reach us lis last week in time lime for publication on oil the dinst our calil county ity court with nic member of tile the weeber county counte cobit accepted the now bridge lately built by tile the two tivo counties across 91 cr oss t the weber river near devils gate in weber canyon the contract price was wag 1315 1345 tile the contractors contractor also claimed a small mount amount a for extra work but the latter bill arid and the odd 15 45 dollars was held back on account of expenses incurred repairing the old bridge after the hie date dale tile contractors had agreed to have tile the new bridge completed compacted it was not thought best 0 to ask them to forfeit more than the above the convention of the school teachers trustees tru sees and others proved the necessity of having such in meetings r occasionally occasion aliv As both secretaries are arc teachers the lie following a incident may not appear in their report A motion was mads made that teachers be allowed one olle lay day each month to visit other schools A slip of paper con coll taing the following was handed to the chairman what will the idle children be doing another gentleman suggested that if the holiday become tridio tri uniform iio in there would be no schools to visit the motion was changed to ore one day each cich term aud and a condition inserted requiring the teachers to do tile the visiting some old timer who used to appreciate every other saturday for a holiday think that four days per week when visiting week come swill be a sho short rt school week w eek and that one saturday each term could be utilized to good advantage to make up the lost time but old timers are arc now back numbers and old things are done away lo 10 assistant church church historian an jenson was highly pleased and also kept very busy all last frid friday ly writing the verbal and written statements of the bis history toty of our town it is astonishing to find filid that so few people are keeping diaries dearie s and that so little pains has bas been taken to note important events one of the mast masl interesting incidents of the lay day was the account of the commencement of the second sunday school in the territory by ira arid and ruth oviatt in a log school house that stood under tinder the hill a few rods west of jessee W smiths premises they came to utah in ill 1851 wintered in centreville Cen treville arid and moved here in the s spring p diug of 1852 they taught the school until fall when the old log house was torn down clown with tile the intention of using the new adobe school house which is our present cast school building but law hao been partly torn down clown and rebuilt As the new building was not finished until the following year n neither either day nor sunday school was taught that winter and the sunday school was riot not revived until 1855 sister oviatt will lie be 85 years old next september her husband las has been dead a number of years 1 I should add that mrs jenso accompanies her husband and renders render valuable assistance in writing up ill statistics of relief societies S primary arid and other associations landlady Mrs Ble mccraig Craig entertain fitly fifty members of the sal lake bicycle club at dinner and supper sunday A few dozen spring chickens ano and several dozen dozell qua quarts arts of berries h helped f furnish the motive power for dicing 0 their bicycles back bacic to the metropolis in the evening grasshoppers are arc latching hatching out by tile millions in different localities lie near r our town two important blessings to us has resulted from the cold arid and backward spring first preventing tile the snow from causing 0 great floods and thus keeping 0 up a good water supply arid and also in keeping the hoppers eggs cogs 0 from hatching 23 while the crops were young an and tender the second crop of lucern and grain and fruit crops in general it is feared w will ill bo be thinned out by the 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