Show REXBURG 11 MADING in disastrous az fire ani and explosion rieks nicks family reunion JOURNAL at rexburg the old year lies a flying dying her days up this thid way as they have fouls come and gone have taken along with them some incidents that to roay ay bo be worthy of notice and 01 of r in to the readers of THE JOURNAL ore one cold frota tv morning in Nov november emler is s we ere coining to to town n h imiri lin the fa farm rm we saw ly ing in the roid road the lifeless body of a man in ili ills his face was a ghastly cut from which had poured his lil life es blood which covered the ground for it ii around around his head and body upon inquiring we found that the man was a former former resident of digan find and that the 1 he pause cause of his death was too much lii ich strung 0 drink ile he left quite a large family in in poor circumstances circumstance the coin nion exclamation was this should be a warning to all who have allowed themselves to tamper er with that dangerous drug the to our town will notice now that our principal sidewalks sare are either nicely graded or blanked planked which is a pleasure tip ti all pedestrian the sidi on the south fride of main strict i is planked blanked for three blocks crossings and all with a uniform walk made of plank school ha hap an enrollment of students and the bannock stake academy has an enrolls enrollment tent of on the dinst the grm firm of durans and winters lost their fine store by fire not a single thing saved except two picks an explosion of coal oil and powder at the beginning of the fire shook the town and broke the plate glass in front frant of the store and several were injured by bv the pieces of glass t that hilt flew in all directions three viz george ricks had a small artery cut in the back of his bandman hand band dan walters had his skull fractured and riley harris ilardi his neck badly cut these all required the im mediate attention of a doctor and are now rapidly recovering all other injuries were but slight blight it had been just three years that night since this firm had their store blore broken into and robbed of about 2000 worth of goods they carried of insurance while the their ir entire loss is estimated at we remember when we used to climb the temple hill in logan 0 when we were bo boys digging degoes that we look over the towns within our baze and what pride we felt when we could see hero here and there a pretty decent residence with a new shingle roof well rexburg has done well in the way of home building 0 this thia season for upon climbing the hill bill above our town we can count at least ten pretty fielty respectable homes with shingle roofs that have sprung up during the past season this shows that we are arc growing and p prospering r os pe r n g on thanksgiving lay day the ricks picks family held their family reunion with of the family present all residents dents of rexburg and vicinity the weather is very cold now with but little snow not enough I 1 for 0 good sleighing the health of thu the people is generally good but as febi deaths having occurred fur for month tul THE JOURNAL is a nelcome elcome visitor especially so since politics is not all the rage more by me mc bv idaho idah OD dec ec 3 il 1 1 iff |