Show saias lo stiff ol 01 the academy cemetery correspondence may lt 1895 the closing exercises at the stake academy last april exhibited verr status of that and it deserves to be more iena rally known that such a temple of learning does exist ly our community durins the last semester ther have bean 96 students enrolled oled of whom 60 were males and 36 females eighteen received certificates of graant ion in various branches and thus well along on the highroad of intellectual advancement of the students one was rom colorado one from emery county one from millard county one from sevier county and the rest from san pete county utah and of these latter ephraem furnished 52 on the occasion mentioned fix mem bers of the board were present who all expressed highly satisfied I 1 with the progress made under the in fau gable labora of professor F E noyes tha principal john Pete raon and others who have been his assist ants in the various departments be ides the two gentlemen named prof A 0 lund has been teaching music and the german language miss kristine Kris hine hygiene and mias sophia jensen badiea fancy work and painting one drawback to A still more flour bisbing condition of this institution is the poor accommodations A build iop is needed evitable editable edi table to its high aud enoel ing purpose on the aad 28 last the annual conference confer enca was held in manti and we were layered with the presence and valuable instructions 01 elders geo goddard and richard of sunday school board from the statistic report it appeared there are 24 urbanized zed in sandae stake pupils the teachers what a host I 1 and what a future is in stora for them 1 alra they all goine to live by farming or will other homo industries provide employment for them the farming land is pretty well taken up already in anis and adjourning county the ephraim enterprise to the contrary and many of the settlements n sevier and emoery counties are thera I 1 for mainly by the bone of tian pete farberg far lately wa have had to coni ider the of out a new comet Kry in a moa convenient locality than the old one occupies for many tears the present cj baa been n object of unfavorably comment by but of extreme and anno vanco to mournie mour nim relatives of the departed who have found last renting place in that un tightly inconvenient piece of groaned nearly thirty acara ago when president 0 Pe tereon waa sent here to be bishop of ephraim one of the first of hi attention was that ce detary he the selection of a more suit able piece of ground which could then be had without but he met with guch ridiculous redi culous against thai move that be gave up the attempt in dia pair hoping that time with its advancements would educate the good caora proper consideration of the respect we owe to our departed friends and ivaa when ephraim waa incorporated as a city the came proposition waa brought the city council but acain it failed because of the same stupid ceni cen i cervi tivo held by ane majority in the council thia was some twenty years aso another attempt was mida cabout two years ago to have five acres oi water right granted to the unfortunate so that a faw traba be planted there and be deot alive but even this was denied by the majority shareholders share holders of over acres of water right they deemed to think that tha water could be more profitably applied for raising grain or potatoes and thus our is this day in ame unsightly habiliment of native vegetation aa the first settlers found it in namely greasewood yet we have an academy here and many other marks of au advanced civil we would naturally now the were ripe for that long delaven measure of improvement but alas the two meetings already held have not conquered tha old traditions of conservative farmers any place is ffoyd enough for the dead and there are yet to bo meetings held to consider whether or not it will pay to buy a piece of land for that purpose now when so many already are buried in the old grave yard what has been bood enough for them ought to be bood enough for the rest of us ia the harden of arguments bet forth by these prudent farm ars more anon |