Show LOCAL ITEMS john monse returned from salt lake laho city last saturday dance tonight to night at stake house for tho benefit of worlds fair committee jensen city was in vernal by several Jense Jonson ites last saturday dont forget the holiday dances at social hall on the 2 auh ath and jan 2nd and best music in the valley dillman and kompton the champion rabbit huntzis hun tois brought in twenty alivo cotton tails the other day frank sheridan from meeker Afe oker was in town for a few days taking in the the sights and seeing the elephant geo perkins and andy taylor from the lower white river country are sorio with us for a short time vernal citizens can now congratulate tho the mevos on having a nol post office once more with E F harmston as postmaster post master 0 mr and mrs joseph anderson of ashley who were on their way to salt lake stopped in our city last sunday night spanish fork sun robt huse in coming from meeker to his ranch last thursday with a couple of friends was wag thrown from his buggy and very badly hurt across the back sy arnold who was badly hurt by a log fal lingon falling on him while hauling timber on diamond moun tian is improve ing rapidly under the care caro of dr murray from rock bock springs VOL ino 1 of the tooele times is is on our table and is a bright and newsy sheet published in county by H D newman H mix editor not but a short time ago a little stranger who looks just like his pa made his appearance in the houseold ho of eph Easm assen mother and child doing well mr wilson from spanish fork has brought in to the valley several fine jacks which lie he is selling to the farmers so go that tb they ey can go into the mule raising industry through an tho the assessor and collector arthur E gardi ner ners 9 name in the dolin delinquent quent tax list mr Gar gardinere gardiners Gardi diners nors had paid his xesto ta the deputy at ashley before becoming delinquent the blythe mercantile co have just received a load of goods tb that at was just two weeks on the road from chicago to vernal henderson leo lee brought tho the goods from price in three days and a half this is the quickest timo time for freight from chicago on record the Ifil milliners liners license is instead of 2600 2500 as printed in the report of the county court proceedings also in the amount of lumber do delivered by K R S collet it being 10 ft instead of ft the copy coming in late and sot up by lamp light and in a rush to got it in the cho last is issue titio was the cause of those errors the vernal schools are crowded so as to make inako it almost impossible for the teacher to do their p pupils justice justic 0 and owing to the demand for more room the taxpayers tax payers of dist no 2 net mot last saturday and voted a special school tax for the purpose of building another building some time ago a house in as rented of J R workman and E E winters was employed as teacher with fifty two pupils under his care vernal should have a good two or throe three story building for a school house as it will soon need it if the population increases much the leap year ball at the social hall was a very pleasant affair the ladies turned out in fine style and were strictly in it no wall flowers wore were tolerated tol orated everybody had to dance there seemed to boa hitch in the music somewhere that was not very pleasant or as good as the music that is regularly employed by the managers of the hall A marmor of applause was heard when mrs E F harmstone Harms Harnis tons partner mr E E winters a y young oung lawor from salt lake city entered the hall carrying the baby supper was served at mrs whites whites restaurant for those that cared to indulge A few of the ladies got up an elegant supper at E F harmstone Harms tons and the editor of the eap exp EXPRESS aass was roped in to carve the turkey which looked as if a kansas cyclone had struck it whon when ho he got through with his work being a better hand to stick type than to stick turkey mr joseph black and conrad franks have again sent to price for their well outfit it had not showed up when they mado made their first trip there seems to be a misunderstanding as to the capacity of the machine they have purchased in regard to the size of hole it will drill it is a star portable machine and is guaranteed to drill any size from two to ton ten inches in 11 di amater and those machines are used to drill wells well over feat deep with artesian water for drinking and culinary culi nery purposes ashley valley will bo be one of tho the most healthy places in the mountains ind and those gentleman should have the patronage 0 and hearty support of the people of the valley for their enterprise in boing being the first ones that had confidence and pluck enough to bring a machine in to make the test Ny whether hother artesian water could bo be obtain obtained od in ashley valley or L not it would bo be no to some if coal oil was found in drilling for water and probably gas the finding of either coal oil or gas would do a groat deal toward developing the country and adding to the prosperity of the people sunday night some fiend tried to smoke the prisoner al workman who lies in our country jail to death but bilt as tho the fi fireway fir ewas too low failed in the attempt sheriff pope when ho the fire ako monday coming found it would not burn ond and started out to find the cause and discovered a piece of board laid across tho the top of the pipe shutting off the draft placed there evidently for the purpose of smoking the prisoner to death some provision should bo be mado made by the county for to have a jailor stay and protect prisoners when confined in the jail and not leave them thein in this heartless manner to the tender mercies of any hoodlum that takes the notion to torment them tho the twenty five dollars a quarter allowed by the county is not sufficient to pay any one to furnish lights and fuel and stay and guard a prisoner night and day and the jail is isolated isol atod so that in case of fire the prisoners would be burned to death before they could bo be released A movement is on foot to send workman to the keely if ho he can bo be released it would be money in the Trea treasury gury to lot let him go and a humane act beside |