Show the democratic senatorial convention of the third senatorial dist brict convened in the court house on 01 wednesday and nominated Ac acquilla quills of rich for the democratic nominee for senator from tills this district delegates william rex rem and morgan grant were down from rich county and samuel francis and joshua williams william represented morgan county representatives from the several brass bands met here in farming ton wednesday evening to consider the advisability of getting up a reunion of the bands of the county iu in the near future the committees ol of the respective bands will meet next wednesday evening to formulate the program the following students from here bore have started to school to the utah university lillie haight minerva louie and Clara Clar Clark william wilcox J S clark J R kennard and L W all pupils from L E abbotts school there were present at the sunday school conference held here last sunday from salt lake city general sunday school superintendent Superintend eni goddard L W richards and J A M whitaker it was said that the sabbath schools should not be adjourned when the quarterly conference is held in the stake slake unless it is at that thai identical ward thos thies rodgers whose death occurred on the was not only one of the early settlers of farmington but bul one of the old timers who was intimately acquainted with the prophet joseph smith having eaten and slept with him his death resulted from a sort of paralytic which be was afflicted with a week previous to ills his death while in the farmington coop co op store was very unexpected as he was in good health never spoke much after lie he received the stroke and at times was semi bucon scions deceased was born in october 1827 at falkirk Fal kirk scotland and while yet very young moved with liis ills parents to canada and subsequently to nauvoo with his bis mother and a stepfather his bis father having died and his mother having married again he followed the sa saints ints in all their moves until arriving in salt lake city in the fall of 1848 in tile alie spring of 1851 lie he married aurelia spencer moving to farmington cannington Fann ington immediately afterwards winch which his has ever since been their home in 1869 he be filled a mission to En england cland ile he took part in the salmon river indian troubles and was one of the spies in tile alie echo canyon war funeral services were wen held at abe family residence on friday afternoon afler noon and the remains interred in the salt lake cemetery the sumi some evening apostle brigham young pres hess and bishop spoke the funeral sermon all of liis his seven children abw living except his hia son andrew L who was called to settle in arizona many years acro ago a were present at the funeral ills his brother or rather halt half br olier william lamoreaux spencer clawson B S young and his three sons orson george and curtis curlis were the pallbearers pall bearers A car on the dummy WAS chartered for the remains and the mourners to go to salt lake in |