OCR Text |
Show LEHI NEWS NOTES 1 Special to The Tribune. LEHI, Feb. U. The Mount Pickle company com-pany has appointed John Russon as Its local agent and Is preparing to greatly extend its business here. The comapny pays ?25 a ton for small cucumbers and 510 a ton for largo ones. Marshal East this week caught four boys playing cards with a ten-cent ante on a truck at Lehl Junction ,and Judge Kendall gave the lads a fine of ?10 each. Peter Chrlstoffcrson, one of Lchi's first settlers, wns burled here today. Pie died of dlabeles at the Provo hospital last Thursday. Mr. Chrlstofferson was G7 years of age. He was a Black Hawk Indian In-dian war veteran and ln the early days responded to a call from Brlghuni Young to help settle Arizona. Tho funeral services servi-ces today were held in the tabcrnaclo and were well attended. Clarence Tott, a young electrician, passed away this morning, having been a sufferer from diabetes for tho past two years. He was about DO years of age and leaves a widow and ono child. John E. Ross left today for Vernal, where his brother. Stephen W.. Is ill. The sugar factory will finish the season's sea-son's run about February 15. The run lias been a most successful ono. the mill consuming upwards of 1000 tons of beets a day. The policy of siloing twenty-fivo per cent of the crop adopted last fall has not proved a success and will not be adopted to the same extent the coming year. The trouble has been that some farmers kept their siloed beets too warm, while others pursued the other extreme and when the different beets were delivered de-livered together they worked up unsatisfactorily. unsat-isfactorily. Local musicians are at work on an opera op-era to be given In the near future. |