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Show LOCAL LINES. No cases in the police court. Slush, slush, beautiful slush. Coal $10.50 per ton in Logan. A good season for bear hunting. Thanksgiving day on the 27th. Winter has come with a vengeance. Two or three snow storms within a week past. December the poor peer now that winter is approaching. Phil. Margetts is coming to the city very soon. Logan is not seriously afflicted with serenading parties. Last Saturday was one of the busiest days of the season. There is some talk of organizing a skating club in Logan. People are now getting their supplies of winter clothing. Everybody look out for Margetts, and be sure to get your ???. The prices of wheat and all kinds of grain and produce are rapidly rising. Burial and death notices will be inserted free of charge in the Leader. Honest price paid in cash for wheat at Union Mills. oct.30-5l. Goodwin Brothers advertise their mercantile business in this issue of the Leader. The card of Mr. Charles Frank, Notary public, appears on the first page of the Leader. Grand Panorama in Logan Hall this evening by Kirkham and Kinnersley. Don't forget it. Cold weather ought to be very much astonished at the warmth of the welcome accorded to it. The U.O.M. & R. Co. of Logan have recently one or two car loads of furniture. Call and inspect goods and prices. The funeral services over the remains of the late Elder Frederick Phister were held in the Tabernacle on Tuesday afternoon. Students attending schools in Logan can get a good quality of blank printing paper suitable for exercise books, at the Leader office. There is a ditch on the county road north of the town which is in a bad condition for vehicles to cross. Let the proper officer see to it. A runaway of a very mild character took place on Washington street last Saturday. No one was hurt, and but little damage was done. Don't read this. Just arrived, a choice lot of Drugs, Paints?, Oils, &c., at Ormsby's Drug Store. Call and examine goods. oct12d-1m. We have received from a correspondent a poetical effusion entitled "Dutiful Crow." As it is the old, old story in disguise we cannot consciously print it. Kirkham will appear in some of his great character speeches in Logan Hall this evening. To hear him and view the magnificent panorama, everybody should go. Residents of Wellsville don't need to go far to find a first class store. Their co-operative institute is just the establishment needed for such a large enterprising town. On Friday afternoon, some sneak thieves stole a wagon cover from the vehicle of Mr. Isaac Quinney, a citizen of Logan who resides on the Island. This is getting monotonous. The U.O Foundry have contracted to build a shingle ??? for Samuel Roll Bolt??? & Co., within four weeks time. They have just delivered eighty school desks to Wellsville, of the Gus Lundberg patent. Fat tender turkeys will gladly be received between this time and Thanksgiving Day, at the Leader Office for subscription to this paper. We make this offer out of friendship to the turkeys. The many friends of Fred. Parker? Partner, Esq., of Hyde Park, will regret to learn that he has been quite ill during the past week, they will be pleased, however to hear that he is now in a fair way to speedily recover. On Saturday evening last two boys who were both attempting to ride one horse were thrown from his back, landing near the bank of the big ditch, where at it crosses Second street. They were both bruised but not seriously hurt. Like Westminster Abbey, Logan has its poets' corner. The level of the ground has not yet been broken by a grave, but we live in hope that very soon we will secure the young man who slips three foolscap pages of rhymes under our office door each night. Read the notice of the business of the Mendon Co-operative Institution. The house is dealing largely in general merchandise, and is also handling an enormous amount of produce. They offer sixty-five cents per bushel for wheat. H.J. Faust, Esq., of Corinne, is in Logan. He came here a few days since with some fine young horses, raised by himself, of which he desires to dispose among the admirers of "blooded stock." Citizens of Logan school embrace the opportunity of securing first class steeds. Hon. M.D. Hammond has taken the contract for digging the long canal -- 25 miles in length, for a mining company up in the Snake River country. On Tuesday he sent the first train of heavy wagons, laden with supplies, accompanied by a large number of men and teams, to the scene of the work. People should take care of their stock. At the present time, cows, calves and colts are allowed to wander as they please about the streets of Logan -- breaking down slender shade trees, finding their way through open gates, and doing serious injury to orchards. If they cannot be kept at home, they should be taken to the estray pound. A traveler from the east was in Logan a few days since. He evidently was not accustomed to the clearness of the atmosphere or to judging distances in this part of the country; for, standing down on the Main Street, he pointed to the forests of pines in the east mountains and remarked: "How wonderful! green grass, at this season of the year, all the way from the foot to the summit of those hills" |