Show I 1 POINTERS p 0 IN 1 11 ej IS t fire Destro destroys js the of luiei widow airall ess I 1 educational matters discussed at a mass I 1 i meeting or of taxpayers Ario another I 1 stecial tit tai kr for the benefit of the thai i taing levied Joni iNAL orf on friday laba roke broke on oui in the residence A of arah loris lexis an aged widow at the time the fire started mrs lewis was wad away from borne bome at a neighbors house bouse some of her 0 wa rs saw smoke issuing from different parts of the building and when they looked in through the window discovered the inside in flames an alarm was sounded and people rushed from di directions to the scene of I 1 fi in aster they get I 1 1 ting ling some of the furniture out and some pr preserved served fruit out of the i oel cellar lar but the fire had gotten such i i 1 headway that very very little could be sa aed ed the house being 0 mostly of if wood dvonc and rid a pretty stiff breeze bree blowin blowing at the time it burned like tinder and wag ivas soon boon reduced to a hes when it was found moos sible to save gave the building effort were made to keep the fire from i spreading nearly all the old lady except her city lot was con 1 turned the loss must have bae been lei eu no insurance on sunday bishop oldham started a subscription to to build mrs leiis leia a new house se if r all will lg i a little it i X 11 ow s heart saturday last the taxpayers of I 1 elji alii distri district ct met at al the call of the dool chool board to consider the propriety of levying another tax to build a school house last year one per per cent was voted for this purpose this i is about half enough to build a suitable house on account of the stringency of money it vi was as considered best to levy one half per cent this year and one half next the apropo ifton was wag I 1 submitted to the voters and the majority major iry voted for the tax now that the taxis tax e levied the trustees i intend oto to finish the house next I 1 ummer one of our school houses the old log ore one is rather dilapidated but it will have to do service one I 1 more year vear it takes considerable cobrae courage to build school houses in I 1 these times when money is is so i scarce carce i some opposed the tax but this is on account of the times others have manifested a very benevolent spirit for notwithstanding 1 the fact that they have I 1 i no children of their own to educate I 1 I 1 showed a willingness to be taxed I 1 we feet feel assured however that when the school house is finished that all will leel feel pleated eil for the efforts put forth under such birum I 1 1 stances t the district schools commenced monday the dinst two schools arr grammar immar and primary have an I 1 of about oue one hundred i and thirty robert pearce and jacob V N larsen are the teachers everybody lery body is very busy dt at present three threshing machines are running this with the harvesting of lucerne lacerne corn and vegetables a keeps every hand employed I 1 wheat lias has taken quite juile a rise risa ind projects for the farmer are brighter than they were a few weeks ag ago 0 yours truly trilly 1 P PAh ADisE sept 27 |