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Show fall of .1862. Those earley settlers found hard times in Dixie, living on bread and molasses and sometimes some-times not much of that, but the majority stayed with it and are now receiving the blessings for so doing. We say may God bless sister Crosby and her family and may they live as long life shall be sweet to them. After our warm weather of last of February, March was ushered ush-ered in with a cold wave and windy weather making everybody think it desirable to don their coats again, look inside the fence at the Northwest North-west corner and take a glance at another piece of work that brother Bennett has done, as we have often heard the question asked "which is the most pleasing, the work of nature or the works of art?" Now in the more northern climes we have the beautiful overreen boxwood box-wood tree which is easily grown and of itself is lovely to look upon but in this southern clime it will not grow to do ud I any good; so, to fill its place ho has taken our ugly, illshaped bush, which, by the bye grows delicious fruit, tl refer to the Pomegranate bush and he has volumes of various kinds of Books, and we are adding to it as our circumstances cir-cumstances will, permit All last winter Mr. Geo. A. Mills, of Lebanon, Conn, was badly afflicted afflict-ed with rheumatism. At times it was so severe that he could not stand up straight, but was drawn over on one side.. "I tried different remedies without receiving relief," . ha sayp, "until about six months ago I bought a bottle of Chamberlain's Chamber-lain's Pain Balm. After using it for three days my rheumatism was gone and has net returned since. For sale by J. R. Michels. To accomodate the Pine Valley and Southern mails we will hereafter here-after issue on Thursday instead of Saturday. Beautiful Flowers. For one price mark from flower seed packet on seeds for sale at R. Morris' Store, and six cents in ' postage stamps, you can get a picture, or book. He'll tell you how. and on Tuesday afternoon, the 3rd, it began to sprinkle and when we arose on the morning of the 4th we found mother earth covered with a white mantle of snow while the heavy wind had considerably abated. On the night of the 4th the wind arose again and it was very cold on the 5th, the air taking change on the 6th and becoming some warmer, which lasted until the 9th then a cold breeze arose in the afternoon which continued into the night, but was pleasant on the tenth and is fine as we go to it shaped and trimmed so "that, although he is unable to transfer it to an evergreen, he certainly has it all through the summer, a thing of be duty. And then he has what is known here as the perfection of ugliness for shape I now allude to that outlandish, straggling Tamarack, also made into a thing of beauty. , ire will introduce you still further into tHe beauties of the lovely grounds at some future time. Tanik. As previously announced a complimentary com-plimentary sociable was given in both Si George halls by the Presidency Pres-idency of the St. George Temple on the eveing of March 2nd, 1$96, to all the Temple workers and all received invitation, and dancing commenced in the New Hall in good season, while in the old Hall brother J. G. Bleak with a number of his family and others were busy preparing supper, of which the round number of 340 persons per-took per-took in the following order: at the press. You should not he in a hurry to purchase your spring and summer dress goods as Booth's Store has a large j&hipmet suit you-better, and at prices that cannot be beat. Fred James, a practical printer of Salt Lake City, paid St. George a flying visit, arriving on Monday evening and returning on Wednesday. Wednes-day. He gave us a friendly call and took a view of our Burrondings. The work on the Cottonwood water ditch is progressing nicely. The whole ditch to be made to carry the water to where it can be plowed and brought to tit George in a' very short time, is a little les than 1200 rods 50 rods of which has been made in about two weeks, andanother 25 rods only needs a few hours work on it to complete it. The hands were driven home last week by the snow storm but returned again on the 0th inst and are ready to let jobs to all who wish to work for water scrip. Now is the times to go to work and secure water for your dry lots, and we hope to see no more loafers on the streets. f The Iliggins Brothers Theatrical Company Com-pany will present, next Saturday evening, even-ing, that interesting Drama, in 3 acts, entitled. Enlisted for the War or the Home Guard. They have a fine cast of characters and ought to have a full house. Be sure and attend and you will be well paid. A short thme ago in descrdbing the Osage Orange for fencing, we recommended you to take a look at the north fence on the Temple Block for a pattern. Now while you are there, we want you to just Simon S, Hartman, of Tunnelton, West Va., has been subject to attacks of colic about once a year, and would have to call a doctor andthen suffer for about Jtwelye hours '"as" much" "as son? e do when they die. He was taken recently just the same as other times, and concluded to try Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. He says: "I took one dose of it and it gave me relief in five minutes. That is more than any thing else has ever done for me." For sale by J. B. Michels. Richard Morris has the largest assortment of shoes, hats, and clothing, of any store south of Salt Lake City, and at reasonable prices. ' We acknowledge with pleasure the receipt of a speech, delivered by Hon. Clarence E. Alien, of Utah, in the House of Representatives, Represen-tatives, February 6, 1896, the House considering the "Coin Redemption Re-demption Fund." We consider it an able article and can see that Mr. Allen understands the needs of the people to a nicety. We have also recived from Hon. Clarence E. Allen, by request, a copy of the report of the Secretary Secre-tary of Agricultuie,for our Library, for , the year 1892, and he will please accept our thanks for both Document. We now havo a complete com-plete set of the Agricultural Reports Re-ports from 1862 to J893, except the year 1874, which we have not yet been able to obtain, and if any of our readers have a spare copy of the report for that year, wo will be pleased to obtain it. Our Library has over a hundred first table, the oldest people who had been among the first workers in the Temple, as also the present workers, with the President of the stake, as also - the widows ;of.v our " ;u: honored veterans whohave passed away. At the second table were the next in age and so continued until all invited guests were served. The whole affair at the supper was a grand success and certainly deserves a great deal of credit to those who worked so long and hard to make it such. In the New Hall where the dancing was, there certainly was not that respect shown that the affair deserved. It was gotten up for a good cause, for the especial benefit of those who work in that Holy place, both ordinance workers and those who voluntarily spend their time at any and all times to go there and clean and prepare the place to receive the workers, where they might havo a few hours of recreation and pleasure and enjoy en-joy themselves in peace and quiet and those who were wanted there were kindly invited and were welcome wel-come guests and were all that the Hall could agreeably accomadate, but quite a number of young people intruded and some of them showed no respect for either age or station. A little home training in this matter, it is hoped, would be beneficial. The President of the Temple, David H. Cannon, was unavoidably away on business and could not be thore which was much regretted, f For all kinds of Garden Seeds, go to A. R. Whitehead & Son. Just receiyed. ' J ' l Yesterday we had a pleasant call from - our old townsman Walter Granger, who now lives at or near Enoch, Iron Co., Utah, he is looking hale and hearty, hut complains that some one In this city, . .instead pi helping theloeal.. paper with """" ' "now,' sends 'it all to the Iron County Record. That is the way nearly all encourage en-courage the Union. U. S. Official Postal Guide, 1896-1 1896-1 Just Issued. . Very few of our business men know that the Tost Office Department at Washington issues in January of each ykar a complete POSTAL GUIDE containing con-taining 1000 Page and complete lists of Post Offices in the U. S, arranged alphabetically, alpha-betically, all rules and regulan'ons, money order offices and rulings of the department on Postal matters, time of arrival and departure of foreign mails, and much valuable information for the public on postal matters. The book is exceedingly valuable to those using the mail. It U the Guide for every Postmaster in the country and Is sold to business men by the publisher, Geo. P. Lasher, 147 X. 10th St., Philadelphia, Phil-adelphia, Pa., in cloth cover, $2.50 or paper cover, $2.00. Can bk ordered through our rusTMASTKR and every business man should secure a copy. Sister Hannah Elida Crosby was 76 years of age on the 4th of March and for one of her age, is quite spry and enjoying good health. They had a birthday family fam-ily sociable in honor of sister Crosby Cros-by and it was an enjoyable time. Sister Crosby was one of Pioneers Pio-neers to Salt Lake City in 1847, her husband settling in the old Fort and built a small adobie house on a lot a short distance west of the Temple block, and tha little house is still in good preservation, preserva-tion, so wo are told. Sister Crosby was in the first company of 50 and also one of the first 10, in coming across the plains. Sister Crosby was also one of the Pioneers to the Dixie mission, arriving here in the |