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Show More rain to-day. There will be a grand ball in the opera house May 30th Decoration Deco-ration Day. Music by Ephraim orchestra. Henry R. Thomas, foreman of the mines at Morrison, was in town last evening viewing the attracts attrac-ts o tions. John L. Bench came down from Fairview yesterday on business connected with the Manti creamery, cream-ery, of which he is the proprietor. Prof. John Johnson, one of the county board of examiners, will be in Manti this week to conduct the final Eighth grade examination. Logan and return $4.50, via R. G. W. Ry., account Scandinavian excursion. Tickets on sale June 13th, good for return until June 16th. . 1 Local News. More rain, more crops. "Work on the Tabernacle is progressing pro-gressing nicely. Frank- Hall has purchased the Dr. Hosford residence on North Main street. A number of our people will go to the city to-morrow to see President Presi-dent Roosevelt. Mrs. Parley Nelson of Monroe, daughter of Mrs. Mary Ahlstrom, arrived in the city yesterday for a visit. tt There will be a Primary dance in the Assembly Hall next Monday evening at 8 o'clock. Admission ten cents. We sell the greatest of blood purifiers, Acker's Blood Elixir, under a positive guarantee. It will cure all chronic and other blood poisons. If you have eruptions erup-tions or sores on your body, or are pale, weak or run down, it is just what you need. We refund money if you are not satisfied. 50c and S1.00 at Crawford's. For President Roosevelt's reception, recep-tion, Y. M. and Y. L. M. I. A. conference and Brigham Young Family Reunion, the San Pete Valley Val-ley Ry. will sell from May 28th to June 1st, inclusive, round trip tickets to Salt Lake City at one fare, with final return limit of June 4th. Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Barton announce an-nounce the "marriage of their , daughter Grace, to Foster Funk, son of Wm. Funk, to take place next Wednesday, June 3rd, in the Temple. A reception and wedding dinner will be given at the home of the bride's parents at Sterling at four o'clock in the afternoon. The 48th Quorum of Seventies will hold a meeting in the Council House next Sunday evening at 8 p. m. All of the Seventies and their wives are specially invited to be present, and a general invitation to the Priesthood and their wives is cordially extended. A specially interesting program will be rendered. State Mine Inspector Gomer Thomas made an official inspection of the Sterling Coal & Coke company's com-pany's mines at Morrison yesterday. yester-day. The general public school exercises, exer-cises, in which all the grades will participate, will be held in the opera house next Wednesday evening. even-ing. A good program is being prepared for the occasion. Reports from the Hardy and Tennant grading camp in Blaine county, Idaho, state that the work is progressing very favorably. One of the boys, whose name we do not now recall, has been quite ill for a week or more. Nels Madsen, Fred Anderson and Dan Allen have taken a subcontract sub-contract from Roylance Brothers, on some railroad work in Southern California, and in company with several others from this city will leave to-morrow or next day for the vicinity of Los Angeles. The work will last several months. D. C. Brown returned home on Monday from Salt Lake City, where he has spent the past six months in a hospital. Last September Mr. Brown had his leg broken, and the limb not healing properly, it was necessary to re-break it. Later on erysipelas set in and he has had a serious time of it. At present the limb is doing nicely, and with the aid of a cane he is able to get around. Mrs. Dr. Bird of Manti is in Nephi visiting with her daughter, Mrs. J. E. Booth, who is busy packing her effects and making ready to move to Provo, where Mr. and Mrs. Booth will make their future home. They are now the owners of a beautiful fruit farm on the Provo bench, overlooking the city. Nephi Record. Says the La Grande Observer: "E. J. Conrad, proprietor of the Old Homestead Hereford Farm, was in the city yesterday to meet some friends from Utah. Mr. Conrad Con-rad bears the distinction of owning the largest and finest herd of Hereford Here-ford cattle in eastern Oregon. He finds a ready sale for his animals throughout the state and his stock has a reputation as far-reaching as it is genuinely high class." The crowds of people on the streets last evening, the Stellar Dramatic company playing at the opera house, the big Uncle Tom's Cabin company playing in a tent, brass bands playing and the streets illuminated by red lights, gave the city quite an metropolitan- appearance. appear-ance. Which attraction drew the crowd? Why, the moss-covered, bewhiskered Uncle Tom's Cabin, to be sure. There are still thousands thou-sands of people, old and young, who have never seen the 45-year-old little Eva, or the toothless hounds with no less than a gallon of pure blood coursing through their veins. |