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Show Mr. and Mrs. Noan Kearnes of Gunnison were visitors in the city yesterday. President Bruback of the San Pete Yalley road was in th city yesterday. Misses Ida and Sophia Hougaard will leave shortly to spend the summer sum-mer in Colorado. 1 Eev. S. F. Wishard of Mt. Pleasant Pleas-ant occupied the pulpit at the Presbyterian Pres-byterian church last Sabbath. Mrs. J. W. Cherry of Mount Pleasant visited with family relatives rela-tives in the city the past week. A Relief Society conference will be held in the North Ward Relief Society Hall next Monday, June 15th. Ob Peacock and family are up from the south on a visit to Mrs. Peacock's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Luke. Now for the Fourth of July! Frank Fielding is now acting as station agent at Spring City. Consult Fikstad in Regard to Berries. Born In this city on Monday, June 8th, 1903, to Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Riddle, a daughter. If you had weather made to order or-der it could not suit better than the weather we are having at present, (barring such little squalls as we had last evening.) Joseph B. Richey of St. Johns, Arizona, a nephew of Wm. B. Richey, is in the city on a short visit. He will leave a week from to-day on a mission to the Southern States. Mr. Richey was born in Manti, but has not been here for more than thirty years. John Patten, Jr., came up from Marysvale last Saturday on a short visit to his father, and paid the Free Press office a pleasant visit. Mr. Patten will remain here a short time to look after some mining in-terests, in-terests, when he will return to his home in New York City. When the San Pete Valley buys up the San Pedro road' there will be something doing down in these parts in a railroad way. The closing exercises of the Mission Mis-sion school will be held in the Presbyterian church this evening. A splendid program has been prepared pre-pared for the occasion. The city teachers gave Prof. Os-mon Os-mon J ustesen a pleasant surprise at the Eagle House last Thursday evening, following the graduating exercises at the opera house. Report says that cattle in Twelve Mile canyon are dying in considerable consider-able numbers, as a result of some poisonous vegetation which exists there and which the stock eats. George Peacock has been awarded award-ed the government contract to carry the mails between the postoffice and the R. G. W. station. Jens F. Steck will continue to carry the mail for the present. Hon. Joseph Judd came up from Nevada on Monday to say hello and shake hands with old acquaintances, acquaint-ances, after an absence of several years. Mr. Judd is much pleased with his location and says the White Pine country has a bright future. Mr. Judd will remain only a few days. Mrs. John L. Bench, Sr., received re-ceived a letter Monday from England, Eng-land, announcing the death of her only sister, a married lady, which occurred on the 21th of May, of heart failure. Deceased was preparing pre-paring the tea for breakfast when she fell to the floor and died almost instantly. Thomas J. Patten and wife of Provo $nd Reuben DeWitt and wife of Marysvale, visited in the city a few days this week with the family of John Patten. T. J. Patten, Pat-ten, or Jeff Patten, as he is more familiarly known, was one of the very early pioneers of Manti, being with the first company of settlers. The first Utah strawberries will be received at the Scandinavian Store to-day, and regularly hereafter hereaf-ter during the season. Leave your orders with Jacob Fikstad, and be insured of good fruit and prompt delivery. On Saturday, June 20th,theSan Pete Valley Ry. will sell round trip excursion tickets to prominent points in Northern Utah, Idaho and Oregon. For detailed information infor-mation call on your nearest S. P. V. ao-ent. o Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets are j ust what you need when you have no appetite, feel dull after eating and wake up with a bad taste in your mouth. They will improve your appetite, cleanse and invigorate invigor-ate your stomach and give you a relish for your food. For sale by Crawford. Prof. Ezra Christiansen is down from Rexburg, Idaho, to spend the summer, and is filling a place in the faculty of the Summer School, of which institution he is also the president. Mr. Christiansen is the principal of the Ricks Academy at Rexburg, and has had a most SUC-tO SUC-tO ' cessfnl school year, his work being highly appreciated by the board of managers and patrons of the school. J. T. Pyles, late editor of the Nephi Record, was here last week consulting with the board of directs direc-ts tors of the Manti Messeno-er. Mr. Pyles is in a deep study as to whether or not to take the editorial management of the Messenger. He will be the eighth editor that paper has had in the past nine years, to say nothing of the score of assistants who have wielded the editorial pen. |