Show LAYTON LINES david simmons had a narrow escape last sunday night I 1 from being seriously hurt lie ho was coining home after d dark when a young man inan from syracuse camo came along like an express train and collided with him thoy they were both in III one horse top buggies A bugy buggy shaft scraped daves side for some distance and it was a miracle that it did not penetrate his body james D ellison expects to leave for his home in illin illinois as this ills week ile he will stop a while in omaha mr air E P ellison president of the D W canal co was notified by the hooper and wilson irrigation ir rio aaion companies on wednesday of last week to sh shut ut the water out of the davis weber counties canal every year when water has become scarce this demand has been made and complied with but this time mr air ellison invited the directors of both companies to accompany him to the reservoir and see for thein themselves selves that the D IV 0 co has an abundance of water stored away tile the trip was made on friday tho the water had been turned out of the ilia reservoir on thursday and they found that after running thirty hours that the ilia surface of the water was only four inches below the bi high 0 awater water mark mr air ellison estimates that it would require sixty five days at that rate to empty the pond tile the water was never out of the cana canal lany any year more than from one to two weeks As stated the water was turned out of the reservoir on thursday and on saturday the 1 hooper people to telephoned a mr air ellison tile the water was breaking over their dams and tor for him to have some of it shut off AU ali who visited the reservoir were well pleased and nothing 0 more has been said about turning 0 the water out of the canal francis H 21 nalder alder lectured on the history of mormonism and the ilia succession in tile the presidency in conjoint meeting in last sunday evening 0 in the layton ward and E al whitesides lectured on true reli religion ion |