Show Rana randolph olph s the holidays passed off ery quietly and pleasantly on christmas afternoon the children had bad a dance and candy nuts and apples were ivere distributed to the children 74 paper sacks well filled with the above named good things was given them and dancing was in indulged in in till to towards lt ards evening at night the a adults had a good time until after midnight 0 when all went home satisfied with the evenings entertainment and feeling ing well paid for the time and money spent pent s new years evenin evening there was a theatrical performance performance in the meeting house and it was well attended the financial part was for the benefit of our home troupe and I 1 i can say they are on the ini improve prove they had considerable expense in in getting some lice scenery painted which is second to none in the f county 0 on n new years ni night we enjoyed ourselves immensely in a dance d ance presided over by the bishopric of the ward under the now new mana management e of thing things where waltzing og was curtailed to pome extent aad it is to be hoped that those in in c charge large will use good judgment so as not to drive our young folk folla away to a place where we have no control over them there is to be a theatre on next monday evening in in the ine meeting eting house for the benefit of brother edwin bendley Ee nley vilio i ho is to depart on 9 a mission to the southern states on an the alth of this month this is our missionary in the held field on monday last our ex county clerk turned over all ty and district court records to ills his successor sir mr win rp res everything was in an apple pi pip order as also the treasurers treasur ers accounts which were turned over to mr archibald mckinnon McKi onon treasurer fr for the next two years the new board of county commissioners I 1 hell a session today and or organized anizel I 1 with W V 11 lee of woodruff as chairman ail members of county I 1 court were present and they th in 1 specter the records so as to act intelligently in the future the there e is is considerable indebtedness found in the county records theio is still a balance due on the building of the county court house also a larff lar e bill for expense in the cou coughlin ailin case amounting to between four to u r and R 1 d six hundred dollars still u unpaid n p a il d the extra expense in in changing of our court house suitable for district conn purposes vas i as a great expense also aho our county records of which have been bought new and cost a large cum but if all is well and no heavy criminal cases come up we will pull through in the nex two years the tha health of the people is good and there is but very lilile sickness at present no ko snow to speak of and cattle is mostly on the range one marriage was by bishop mckinnon that of jos harris to miss annie corless both of this place the town people wish them much joy in their voyage over the sea of matrimony the event took place at the residence of frank snowball on the tha evening of january 6 in the presence of a num number oer of friends there is one death to record that of a two days old baby boy of bri barq robert tilford and wife chic which 11 died on the 2nd and of this month yours truly S J 0 RANDOLPH utah jan 7 1807 |