| Show M TM be talks wasatch county THE YOUNG PEOPLE are ettine gettine G married the grim scythe manis also on hand correspondence I 1 have been an enquirer too and this a very persistent one in every competent post office in wasatch conaty but have failed for over a week to get a copy of your esteemed daily which is BO vast an improvement over the primitive weekly of its childhood hours that its non arrival leaves an aching void with me at least but as yours is not the only journal of value that is conspicuous bv absence 1 try to heave my grievance in job lots i e patience and soothe my dissatisfied soul with the solace of all miserable people to have companions in distress kiy be when the john W road as we call it up here on the youthful hanks of the tim pa strikes our fertile fields and valuable mineral deposits we will get a daily mail not bonfy in heber but in every post office and in reality at present we are languishing under a tri weekly melancholy malan choly being an enquirer by birth and election I 1 am curione to know what is going on in the world especially in the neighboring valley which winds the stream in whose springs the wasatch mountains have mirrored their chaste snow wreathed foreheads asto ourselves and our sisters and our cousins and our aunt swe have nothing of importance to report save a merrily spent christmas season and a new yar entered upon with hopes of renewed plenty continued prosperity and undisturbed peace the latter would be a sure thing except for the deputy marshals who cluade a sudden although not quite unexpected raid here a couple of months ago still there was more crying and blinking of tears done than th ere will be woof for the court officials our health is good the season up to new year having been of that universally recorded mild post andian character that left the canyons bare fields and dusty roads to be covered by the first real snow of the winter on or about new years nowadays no the mercury is a little lower on the thermos atrial tube and the morning ice in the wash tub require the anti breakfast exertion of the little georges hatchet ere he boes to the school with his arm full of books and his pockets full of snowballs people are getting married now and then especially the young men and the young ladies are holding conjoint meetings occasionally and with some who exchanged hymen with his fruition for cupid with his ambition a year or more ago there is a stout lunged witness in the snowy cradle but the prim scythe man also is on hand to levy his toll off humanity and the little amounda in the south of our village are receiving additions every now and then as was the case on christmas day when sister elizabeth krebs a good old laday and a of the bernese alps was escorted to her last mundane abode by one of the largest mourning cortexes corteges corte ever formed in midway this demise by which an old man is left a widower and three grown children orphans was the fourth with in a year occurring more or less near snake creed canyon and its mouth which fact is more remarkable as tho natural features of the west side of our realm seem to indicate or predicate a more than average favorable state of health bat it must also le taken into consideration that all the persons mentioned as deceased within the last twelvemonth in that naturally salubrious lub rious region were of ripe old age and hid passed the rough decades of those and hardships which only the living witnesses of the early days in these valleys of the mountains can fully or intelligently realize they were all of swiss origin at that elders john moore and john buehler as well as sister elizabeth mother of our esteemed fellow citizen john huber esq and the just departed mrs krebs well they have gone to reap the rewards of their labors and the fruits of their love and faith it is the hying generation that are bestirring themselves to avoid aud prevent intellectual burial at least the young will be provided for with hitherto unknown privileges and opportunities for a good english education as the public schools of midway under atte wall wootton Woot tan br as principal are now better equipped with material mental and mechanical than ever before and all this burden for a school with an enrollment roll ment of about pupils from 6 to 22 years of age under three teachers in that many well appointed though inevitably crowded rooms has been and is continued to be borne by the public spirited citizens who have just voted to raise a tax of one fourth of a per cent for the further prosecution odthe good and grand work of education fortu bately the trustee 0 0 J branson and john huber are wide awake officials who do not allow grass to grow under their feet but are obtaining every possible private and public effort to place midway in the very foremost rank of rural schools with urban ambition and let me emphasize in conclusion all this without as yet a farthing of the public territorial funds should flow more freely and more fully to sustain life in alie work necessitated by the recent school legislation thus far the law has bee n a one sided affair entirely the people haye had laid upon them all the duties responsibilities and burdens with no assistance si stance relief nr encouragement all the more credit is therefore due to the public spirited people cf midway and the wise counselors of their own free choice I 1 see the tri weekly mail horse trotting up towards the bachop take just time to bid you and oar friends your readers and a hearty good bye MIDWAY wasatch county UT jan |
