Show lake town locals tur THE JOURNAL is the happy possessor E of much apology from the writer hereof for his sin bin of omission in failing to write urite for so long a time and lest we go into ec c staches stacie over a florid en or re ruic m by some editor or orator over lake towns or its corre pon dents corpse we take up our faber and inform all whom it concerns that we arent dead well to go no further into ancient history than our recent holidays da s we ive say that we nye had bad quite a number of our young people come over the mountain from the logan colleges and they and their friends had bad a good time tim e during their vacation visiting friends frienda at home and joining in the public festivities the latter consisted of a cantata at the hall on christmas eve under the supervision of the ary association and was well attended as wao also an entertainment given by the Y L AM I 1 A on christmas morning the whole affair officered and manned man by the 0 gentler sex we suppose just to 61 chow biow us male people that the women could get along alone in concerts at least and they made a first rate showing the fair damsels decorated decorate d our meeting house in fine shape and the W V S A put in a pe pair lir of nice chandeliers as a free will eilering allering oil oll ering and therefore would cause the crusty heart of an old bachelor if an old bachelor can be said to in include a heair in his anatomy to sa god bless the women young 0 and old of lake town then we had bad an public oyster supper and dance at the hall on new years eve and ar an i old folks sociable at the meeting houe and and both gangs watched 1895 out and 1890 in and enjoyed the frolic thereof hu hugely huely ely and of course lake town rele ele baited admission day in giedt s tyle style had a before dinner program of three hours duration rendered and not nor tedious either of songs on as m music recitations readings readi ngSi and speeches by judge joseph robinson father james kearl lawyer Satter thwaite and pedagogue and we got statehood in all its phases beep fix up considering we had but 6 hours for preparation the folks did remarkably mar kably well had a settlement reunion dance at the meeting house and everybody kicked in up p becomingly to full fledged american citizens t weather we have had in several shades regardless of the hard times we are going to borrow j a name from the north and call our city iceland ice land for well nig nigh b every street in town is covered with glare ice and the small boys rejoice in their skating possibilities and whereas no limbs have been broken as ye yet t and weve just got into the union we must not complain i among the rest of the good food things during the holidays holiday postmaster johnson got a bran new daughter another democratic voter of course after a while A farewell party was held at fearls hall on monday night in honor of missionaries to southern states hyrum arid and alfred kearl both bath of whom departed yesterday to salt lake city to their field of labor dp bp and bro aquila returned recently lecent ly from their eastern business trip where they sold a trainload train load of steers satisfactorily more news in the oven but well hold over for far our next lest it may require you to publish a supplement pl ement how much are you going to subscribe towards the public biond purchase we mind a 00 if carlisle would take jawbone remarkably yourn IRWIN LAKE TOWN jan 15 that is if the fog clears away 1896 |