Show CARDSTON m CANADA CA NA D As A feusi fessy from tb colony PLENTY TO EAT AID AD WEAR WEAK the journal correspondent thinks the tao Fro prospects speas very encouraging there EDITOR JOURNAL having received an in quirey from one of your your fair valley regarding the weather etc in this place I 1 think I 1 cannot do better than answer the same through pur P y ur valuable paper in the first place I 1 would say wo we have had some very cold snaps the glass going down to 26 below zero on the letb but there is one thing I 1 think the weather we have had up to the present is ia better than that experienced in lo logan loan an last winter ter the cold spells above referred to last about three weeks at a A t retch and then we ire get 8 or 9 days of fl fine I 1 I 1 e we weather ather the warm winds clearing off he snow in my previous letter I 1 have spoken af the prospects lr of this country as for any of those hose that caine came here from cache valley being beina ID dissatisfied all I 1 can an say I 1 have not heard anything to af the kind on the contrary I 1 have heard nothing but praises of the land and future prospects of the people residing here and of the good goad feeling among this people and tho way wo we are pressing C onward arid and upward the follo following wing will show how on oil the first of this w month anth our rintels of the relief society invited all who had worked on grist mills and bridges brides 12 to a picnic dinner and I 1 can tell you it was a bi big ig affair talk about hard times why to loo look k at the tables spread with every even thin thing z that the heart could desire made mad e one think that hard times had forever gone I 1 have sat down to 0 o many dinners in the old country mofid lie er ina ng 0 a free ball was given and every one me was wa I 1 s as merry as could be and when time rolled round to depart wished such good times to come avain again 6 on the alth apostle Apost leJ J 11 V taylor president C 0 card bishop J A Wool woolland and fand seme of the br ethern also the choir drove over to east to organize a new ward which is to lie be know as the aetna ward and elder R pilling pilli 1139 was unanimously appointed bishop the t town 0 wn site was visited and dedicated and at fish creek another ward is partly organized in the spring aprin n it is contemplated t to construct telephone comman communication cao between cardston bardston Card ston and lith bridge the government bavin having 9 granted a liberal sum for that purpose this week president C 0 card in in company with 0 L robinson and R brown have been laying out a ditch irom from the milk river to the lethbridge district for the purpose of irrigation there being 3 acres of land in said district that cannot be cultivated till wates is procured for the same nor is this all it is proposed to start making brick and open a lime kiln plans are also to be got out for a tabernacle to seat 2000 on ground floor the same to tie heated with hot air and lighted a with electricity eleca and fitted up with every convenience convenience including laboratories labra tories far ladies ond nd 0 gentleman also waiting rooms A archibald being appointed supt bupt of quary and J 1 Waldburg ber to work lime kiln expenses for working same raised by a subscription of 25 cents centa per month each family and unmarried young men there has also been ended a large tithing barn also a new grainery II if S allen the esteemed president of the Y M al 1 I A is leaving in b this week to a mission to U utah tah in behalf of our sunday schools and al I 1 A on wednesday last a sociable was given in honors of min him and a very pleasant time was spent lie ile leave with tile the I 1 leasing beesing of all young Cupid hag lias been throw throwing ing his dart and the smitten ones were J archibald aud eliga anderson this was quite a big affair so BO 11 I 1 understand and I 1 a am m not quite sure that now the b ball is ie started some others will rill bo be affected by it in conclusion I 1 must say a word upon our homo home dramatic company pal y which have been showing 0 what they can do and I 1 must say eay that I 1 was much pleased ceased and surprised at their performance with study and arrangement aaran gement of some of Ithe the actors they bid fair to come wao the front anabe a credit to th teacher abing sir mr editor yourself and hm very cay llady new year yours truly F 11 V A |