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Show LOCAL LINES. Now comes Jack Frost! Subscribe for the Leader, People are looking for snow. Brigham Young College! "It never rains but it pours." Priesthood meeting next Saturday. The season for celery is fast approaching. Almost everybody went to conference. King, William has an heir; see birth notice. Now comes the winter of our great content. Wanted -- a few cords of good wood on subscription at this office. The mountains have resumed their beautiful, pure winter dress. ??? a pouring rain! Every brook became a river, every rivulet a torrent. This week's number of the Idaho Banner is to be published at Salt Lake City. Fire! Fire!! Fire!!! Is the universal cry now. People are freezing with the cold. Everybody would be delighted to have a coal mine discovered within ten miles of Logan. Logan needs a fire brigade. There are plenty of boys here who would work to save property. The workshop whistles now blow at 12:30 and 5:30 o'clock p.m. instead of 1 and 6, as heretofore. Overcoats, mufflers, skates and sleds have regained their market value in this locality. We have not yet offered our great annual premium for the best poem on "Beautiful Snow." A burst of sunshine now is as grateful to the shivering populace as a large fortune to a spendthrift. People can't be satisfied. Those who cried loudest for rain were first to petition for a cessation. Call at Z. C. M. I. for the most tasteful and unique lamps in the country. Prices remarkably low. In this issue we close the list of awards made at the Cache County D. A. & M. Society's recent fair. A literary society should be organized to entertain and instruct the young people during the coming winter. ???? the Brigham Young College will open in Logan, on Monday next, with Miss Ida Ione Cook as principal. We live in a musical neighborhood. All instruments are represented in our locality, from a piano up to a bell accordion. [Unreadable line]fell from the high wall of the Temple about ten days since, was able to be at meeting on Sunday last. [Unreadable line] There is a footbridge at the intersections of Second and Washington Streets, which is in a dangerous condition. It should be repaired at once. On Friday last we had a pleasant call from ??????? Pratt, proprietor of the Idaho Banner. He was on his way to attend Conference at Salt Lake. The Street Supervisor is entitled to the thanks of the community for having removed so many of the cobblestones, which made the principal streets disagreeable to travelers. The Deseret News chronicles, as something remarkable, the fact that the Fourteenth Infantry Band, after playing selections from Pinafore at the Territorial Fair, escaped unharmed. A report was in circulation this morning to the effect that Ernest Young, a son of the late President Brigham Young, and one of the plaintiffs in the recent suit against the Church and the executors, dropped dead in Salt Lake yesterday. The rumor is well authenticated, and there is every reason for believing that the account of his death is correct. In some localities property owners have not complied with the provisions of the ordinance in relation to water ditches and bridges; and because of their neglect pedestrians suffer considerable annoyance. While the city officials are making so many public improvements, private enterprise should not lag. Let Logan become a model city with regard to streets and sidewalks, as she has with regard to more important things. On Saturday last an accident occurred near Hampton's station, on the U. and N. R. R. of a very painful character. Brother Elias Davis, head man on that section, was proceeding with an assignment to do a certain piece of work, he was thrown from the hand car, on which they had been riding down an embankment. He alighted on a sharp stone and by the force of the fall, one of his ribs was broken in two places. Doctor Ormsby was called in, and under his care the patient is progressing very favorably. |