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Show LOOKLNG BACKWARD 25 yeears airo July S. 1909, Independence day was celebrated. The day started with the firing of the cannon by Captain Gecrge Brooks and members of the home guards, strains of music by the Martial band, and Old Glory was flung to the breeze by Colonel Brigham Jarvis. The Martial band then serenaded the town. Bunkerville correspondence Leslie Abbott the 12 year old son of James Abbott, had his face badly burned while playing with powder last week. Eighty-three thousand dollars have been received in this county coun-ty from the June sale of cattle. Local talent produced the play "Won Back," last Saturday. The ladies in the cast were: Mrs. Mary Andrus, Misses Edith Judd, Nellie Stevens and Maida Faw-cett. Faw-cett. The men's parts were taken tak-en by Frank Higgins, Leo Hig-gins, Hig-gins, Lewis Bleak, Sam Bleak, Jr., Bert Snow and Francis E. Higgins. A party was held at the home of Mrs. Rosilla Lund last evening even-ing in honor of Elders A. B. Andrus, John A. Judd and Joshua Josh-ua A. Crosby, who recently returned re-turned from their missions in the following fields, Eastern States. California and Southern States. A good time is reported. R. J. Farnsworth, the mail carrier who runs the route from Modena to St. George, recently made a record breaking trip. He was at Modena when re received word of the death of a brother in Kanab, 140 miles distant. In twelve hours he drove to St. George with a team and spring wagon, a distance of sixty-five miles and changed teams at St. George and took a light buggy and arrived in Kanab, seventy-five seventy-five miles from St. George in sixteen hours. Thus he made 140 miles which is pretty good for one driver in a vehicle over the roughest kind of mountain roads. |