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Show of the year, considering t!ie cold weather we have been having. Fruit trees arein bloom and many apricots are the size of good sized "peas. A I small Krtioa of the early fruit aed ' utsfcs have been daiag;ed by friC but later fruits axe all right, ' Lcern is growing faftarxl wiii in: ready fr cut sometime in May. Grain k looking fine aud bk fair to yield aa excellent cro-ji . Samuel L. Adam, sf ihli City has been developing the teasel ity of solid rock reservoirs. He lias tunneled tun-neled into theskfldhill, aear Inis resi-deice, resi-deice, 45 feet, making an toeaiug 5 by 6 feet, into which he runs the j water from fak -spffi-ng. Tfce (abater I vi&i gather in the reservoir to the j depth of t feet, and could be deeper by building up the front of the reservoir higher. There is j cfcrnparatively n evaporation in j this class of reservoir, ami fw small j streaams k far superior to tanks, as it will last foe ages- i Local Brevities. Weather warmer-Miss warmer-Miss Edith Ivius returned Jaoeae from Logan, this week. Bloomington folks have got their farms all watered over. Price falks have ot the water ia their cana4 this week. ' Work has been commenced onihe Cotton wod Canal ag&in. ' Stock are becoming a nuisace in the streets iu the vicinity ur onsce. Highest Cash price paid lor all kinds of hides, to fee used at the home tannery, by Joshua A.' Crosby. Miss Sus'ie Fawcett, rf Price, returned home this week, from Mexico, where she has been on a lengthy visit. Mrs. John H. Pearce presented her husband with a fine son yesterday. yester-day. All are doiag well and the father happy. Sarah Bell, infant daughter f John F. and .Sarcah Ddiah McNeil, died April irth 1897. She was born February 12th 1897. ' ; We have -a nce line Dry Goods in stack now. L L Factory at 6 cents por yard, 6 cets per yard by the boit. I A. R. Whitehead -& Son, this city-. Oar old Veteran Israel Ivins, ofj this city, who has been feeble for . some time, passed away yesterday. We will give a foil acconnt erf the j funeral services, &c, in -our next. i There will be a meeting, Monday evening, at the Courthouse, for the, purpose of discussing the advisability advisa-bility of voting 1 levy a school tax , on all taxable property, as adertised! in another column- . J About April 0, 1597, "the Wash-ington Wash-ington Mill C. will IhaAie a fewtfine IFull "Blood BERKSHIRE, and a ew half-breed "BERESEISE .HQS for ale. BST'Pi'tHn your orders now. S5 Prices ;reaanable.Jg3 In going throngh the streets of our City, we see maay 'nice garden patches, booking line and vigorotw Onions, peas, radishes, asparagus." &cv are far advanced for this season |