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Show BEAVER CANYON ITEMS. Editor Leader:-Hoping these few lines will find room in your welcome paper, I will give you a few items about this well night forgotten part of the world. Messrs VanNoy & Co., will start up one of their saw mills in the course of this week with Bishop Bigby at the head of the business. The people of this small community have been to great pains for some kind of amusement, during this dullest of winters. They have succeeded in organizing a debating club, calling it the "Lyceum," half past seven o'clock Friday evening's being the hour appointed for the meetings which are held in VanNoy's Hall. I will give you the names of its officers and those of a few of its most prominent members: President, C. J. Bassett; Vice president, George Duncan; Secretary and Treasurer, W. J. Goodwin. Members: Mr. and Mrs. F. Bassett, Mr. and Mrs. Burnside, Mr. and Mrs. W. Tout, Mr. and Mrs. F. T. Kelly, Mr. and Mrs. O. R. Goodale, Miss L. ?? Miss A. Grow, W. B. Bassett, J. Henderson, J. Miller, A. Gibson, J. Clark and J. Johnson. The debating is varied with the singing of duets and solos, recitations, comic and serious, reading of select pieces and compositions of all kinds. Tuesday evening's are devoted to dancing, on which occasions all enjoy themselves to their heart's content. We are sorrow to say that Mr. W. Tout was lately taken sick and had to go to Ogden for medical treatment. The weather has been very severe of late, the thermometer ranging from 25 to 30 degrees below zero every night. Mrs. J. Brown has returned in the best of health from a visit to her parents at Arimo. Beaver Canon (canyon) has the promise of being the liveliest little camp in the Territory next summer, there being arrangements made for 7 saw mills and one shingle-mill to run to their fullest extent. Messrs. Van Noy & Co. and W. N. Thomas are taking the lead in the business. Trains have run through here very irregularly on account of the great amount of snow between here and Logan. Pay-car passed through here on the 28th which made the boys feel happy. We are happy to state they are sinking it in grandmother's safe, instead of spending it foolishly. Wishing your paper prolonged success I shall bid you goodby with the promise of another some future day. Beaver Canon (canyon), Jan. 31., 1882. James Henderson. |