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Show TWENTY YEARS AGO! LAST SEPTEMBER r. iCltlzens are circulating a petition to the county commissioners to complete the new bridge over the Duchesne river ri-ver the abutments of which were built List spring. If the comity will finish present bridge to a point on the Straw-this Straw-this bridge the citizens of Theodore will at their own expense remove, the ferry thus giving a road between Theodore The-odore and My ton on the south side of the Duchesne that will be passable the year nround. Postmaster Fll'water Is building himself a neat two story residence in the north end of town. The Commercial Club held an enthusiastic en-thusiastic meeting last night and started work uion several projects of value to Theodore. The club's membership mem-bership is now 72. George Cluff has returned from" a trip to Ileber where he filed the bonds and oaths of office of the directors direc-tors of the West Rench Irrigation district. dis-trict. As soon as the other two dlree-tortf, dlree-tortf, Henry Raird of Heler and Win. Fusset of Vernal can get to Theodore the board will organize nnd call an election and vote upon an issue of bonds to build the Irrigation system. W. W. Thompson and Edward Dame of 'Salt Lake are stopping at the Arlington Ar-lington and looking over the country for homestead locations. The petition of the settlers In Fruit-land Fruit-land valley for a postofflee has been grunted and a mall service to the new office, named Westerdahl, will soon be established." Roy Cook former owner of the restaurant, res-taurant, Is in from Indian canyon with a load of lumber for his new house. Emll lilunz and Andrew Clemnns have temporarily abandoned the Irrigator's Ir-rigator's shovel for the miner's pick. They are executing a contract to mine 15 tons of elaterlte from the Shear mine up the Strawberry. Mrs. Lucy (.'rites has opened u hotel In the ibuildlng midway between the postofflee and tlie town hall and next door to her millinery store. V Jacob E. Mitchell has growing on his homestead in the center of the Blue bench a five acre field of corn that would do credit to n farm In Kansas Kan-sas or anywhere else In the corn belt. The stalks are all five to six feet high nnd each supports large ears Of mature corn. Except the careful cultivation Mr. MIchoel gave the field early In the summer the corn has had no attention nnd , not a particle of moisture except rainfall. Had Mr. Michael, dry-farmed his entire 100 acres in corn this season he would have mnde a small fortune. The West Rench Irrigation district has called an election for Saturday, October 2, to vote on the question of Issuing $50,000 bonds to construct 'tbeir irrigation system. .. Every West bench homesteader should be at home to vote on that day. Neither the Upier nor the Lower Rlue Rench Irrigation district had n sealed bid offered for their bond issue is-sue but each district had several requests re-quests from Investors to notify them If the bonds were not sold as in that event they had a ' proposition to make. It Is rumored that Joseph Bnmden-lmrg. Bnmden-lmrg. a well known and popular Blue Rench homesteader, has negotiated worthless .checks at Col ton and Vernal. Ver-nal. The news conies as a great surprise sur-prise to Joe's many friends most of whom decline to believe the reports until more is known nbout the mutter. U. S. Weather observer iM. M. Smith reioits to dale over 12 inches of precipitation pre-cipitation this year more than enough to grow many varieties of crops without with-out irrigation. However, this abundant abun-dant moisture cannot be counted on every season. Misses Alberta RJornson, Mabel Ciites and Ella Norton have gone to Vernal to attend school this winter. It Is likely that Theodore will soon have a Wells Fargo Express office1, secured through our hustling jost-master, jost-master, W, II. Fltzwaler. |