| Show BASIN BRIEFS news from here is somewhat scarce at this writing 0 tile the majority of the people liere here have given their orders for fruit trees in the spring to the salt lake nursery thus improving their places considerable hay bay goes to market all the time which sells for about per ton ion the market lor for pork vegetables etc is very dull and it appears as though times will be still dull in the spring the people in our locality are at besent enjoying good health and no nc one is particularly suffering for foi wealth as at least for the necessities of life as all seem to have what they need to pal cut and wear and fire are passable comfortable occasionally we have a change in the monotony of our every day life as 19 quite recently a double wedding 1 0 was celebrated that of mr joseph mitchell and miss bliss edith S Bur burnet nelt and joseph burnett and sarah E baker all of this place we all join in in wishing wis liing long and happy lives to the high contracting parties par lies sleighing is very ly anear pleasant remembrance of tile the past for the want ot of snow tile the wind that we had bad last sunday cleared the ground of snow in one place and piled it as deep as four feet in others ot liers the winter lias has been very mild thus far it looks as though we have had the hardest of it although there seems to be plenty of snow in inthe the moua bains making tile the heart of the farmer glad as prospects are favorable for plenty of water another year our school is again 0 to in run running ning order after a weeks weela s vacation As ft a sister sis ter of our teacher miss hawks a young lady of twenty three died at tier her h home ome in west weber our children are learning very well and it is a pity that all do not avail themselves of the privilege of attending school while they have the opportunity and their health our school does not continue the whole school year clience we should make the best of time while school is in session session we have been treated to a feast or rather to several of them in the way of lectures given by bro palmer traveling missionary who has been fisting tile the different wards last wednesday we attend the one given at kaysville Kays ville our neighboring settlement bro palmers halmers Pal mers subject was infidelity which lie he very ably handled find and proved plainly both historically and scientifically that religion tends to elevate mankind as the christians naturally tile hie most religious people are the highest in in civilization all who attended tile the lectures were greatly bene fitted thereby two weeks ago bros woolley and parrish visited us as home missionaries and spoke at the meeting we although few are pleased to receive missionaries and hear bear the word of god from them our place is like all others in that there are some who do not seem to be interested in going to meetings but I 1 find the more we attend the greater our desire to do so we receive our alii pen regularity and are pleased with the paper we should hear from our neighbors oftener ot tener E W C STEED jan 1894 |
