Show I DID NOT SCRATCH Huntington Voters Were Nonplussed at the Recent Town Election Huntington Nov town election here hero yesterday esterday was a very lively lIvel affair Although there was only one ticket t in the field there was a great deal of scratch scratchIng scratchIng scratching Ing But the trouble with the tile ors vors was that they did not know how to vote a scratched ticket They simply scratch scratched ed ad off oft names one especially and did not substitute another name for tor the one they the scratched off oft The result of the election was that John F Monson was chosen as town president with Miller S Black Robert A Howard M 11 E Johnson and William VillI am H Leonard as town trustees This town has been almost at a stand standstill standstill still for fora a number of ot years owing most mostly mostly mostly ly to the lack of building material but the last two years have been quite active as building material has been more plen plentiful plentiful and a number of or nice new houses have gone up A number more are In course of ot construction The most public Improvement has ha been the building of or one of the finest school houses there is in the state It cost a little littlemore littlemore littlemore more to finish it than calculated at the beginning like almost all public Improve Improvements Improvements improvements ments but the cost went into the build building building ing In to make it that much better Nearly learly of ot work was done on the Huntington reservoir this last season seMon thereby nearly doubling the amount of water it will hold old so that the farmers do not dread a dry season now as they did a f few w years jears ears ago n u By building reser reservoirs reservoirs reservoirs there Is enough water here h re to wa water water water ter thousands of ot acres more land than Is used at present and there are ae thou thousands thousands thousands sands of ot acres of good land yet to be betaken betaken betaken taken up The land Is mostly claimed and Is being farmed between this town and and it will only be a afew afew afew few years jears until the road between Hunt Huntington HuntIngton Huntington ington and Price will be lined with good farms arms About acres of land has been filed on this summer en the two towns There Is a new be being beIng being ing laid out about seven miles north of ot Cleveland Cleeland The water for tor this town and surrounding farms will be taken from Huntington creek There The are three e or four tour splendid reservoir sites on Hunt Huntington HuntIngton Huntington ington creek that before long will be utilized by men of ot capital and which will be a good paying Investment I Last week a large steam threshing out outfit outfit outfit fit was Vas started up here and they did I four tour jobs and started for Lawrence Lawren e a distance of ot three miles When about half halt way the outfit ran off a 1 bridge and fell Into a wash about ten feet flet deep The engine lays on Its back and the thresher stands on end with the front end In the mud There is considerable of ot the machinery broken UP and rendered useless The outfit cost about and the loss comes very heavy on the men who bought bou ht it |