Show I FL111Il IIU JMitor IIPHI Dir hir L htttt just returned front a ery pleasant visit i to the little railroad town of Tucker and the I Towel ranch at Tie ForA where 1 harem dnughterfour grand children living The people of Tucker haye shown n 1 very progressive spirit in educational matter having just completed an uptodate school house costing about frviUU and have engaged the services an accomplished ac-complished lady teacher in the person per-son of Miss Baker of Ogden under whoso tuition the children are unking excellent progress 1 am sorry to say the Tucker people have made a grave mistake and have hid their light under a bushel having built their beautiful beauti-ful school house in a ravine with 10 school grounds entirely out of sight of the traveling public who will think Tucker is one of those illiterate Mormon towns they rend about in the newspapers and a place to be avoided An excel cut sight could have been used it nil view of the trains that are daily passing cast and west with ample school grounds and which would have been much more con cnient for tho ranchers living at a distance from the town making it npossible now for their childicn to attend school in the winttr season 1 presume the trustees were obliged to comply with the wishes of the majority I had the pleasure of partaking of the hospitality of the Tuckoriteti for which they Ire noted on the 2nd of No ember I joined a select company who sprang a surprise on Mrs Laura Jones widow of the ate Frank A Jones it being her birthday A very pleasant evening was spent interspersed with music md singing Light refreshments were served with coffee but no intoxicants taI ta-I brought home with me an interesting in-teresting relic of tho Stone Age being a perfect ilint arrow hca undo by tho Indians before copper or iron was known to Ihoin It was found about two foot below tho surface in a railroad cut Your correspondent Michael Barclay called at the Powel ranch on his way to winter quarters with his sheep herd Some time ago 1 saw a notice in The Press that Michael was making homemade soap with a view to matrimony The soap business must have been n failure for 1 noticed he has just bought a brand now guitur to whiie away the lonely winter bourn I and probably sing love songs to Ins distant lady love SVMUUL COKXAHY |