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Show LOOKING BACKWARD 25 Years a?o August 26, 1909 The St. George municipal power plant turned its power into St. George last Sunday. A number of residences resi-dences have been connected up. The first business houses to be connected up were A. R. Whitehead and son and the Washington County News. An arc light was placed at the intersection in-tersection of Main and Tabernacle Taberna-cle streets. Frank Petty, Jr., was struck by lightning while tending the cable at Zion Canyon. He is the third person to be struck at that place in the past two years. Mukuntuweap Canyon of the Virgin River has been set aside as a National Monument by President Taft. (This is now part of Zion National Park Ed.) September 2, 1909 The highest high-est flood in the history of the Virgin River caused considerable damage Wednesday morning. The new steel bridge south of the city showed that it had been placed none too high. The crest of the current lapping the stunger. The stungers are placed plac-ed fifteen feet above the low water mark of the river. The flood carried away the Hurricane dam, the masonry of which cost $10,000; also the Virgin City dam. September 9, 1909 The Dixie Fruit Festival which has been widely advertised will start to day at 10:00 a.m. A marriage license was issued to James F. Cottam of this city and M'iss Caroline Bunker of Bunkerville, Nevada this week. J. S. Huntsman of Mesquite, reports a narrow escape of Bishop Bis-hop William E. Abbott and Charles Hardy both of Mesquite. They tried to cross the Virgin river during the recent flood to warn the Bunkerville people of the danger of having their threshing machine washed away by the raging river. The attempt was made on horse back and the men had to swim for their lives. September 16, 1909 The Dixie Fruit Festival was successful. Nearly every town in the county having a display of several varieties var-ieties of fruit. Sports consisted of roping, broncho busting, bull-dogging bull-dogging and baseball, as well as several minor competitive sports. On the evening of the second day a fruit festival was held. At the quarterly conference apostles F. M. Lyman and A. W. Ivins were present. Leeds correspondence reports that Brig-ham Brig-ham Jarvis, Jr. has started a cannery and is putting up tomatoes. District school started today with Miss Maud iSnow principal. An inquest was held at the Indian farm over Clara Foster, squaw who was killed at the Five Mile place by falling out of the spring wagon in which she was riding. This week marriage licenses were issued by the county clerk as follows: Parley Leavitt and Miss Lovena Hafen, both of Bunkerville. Bun-kerville. John F. Jarvis of St. George and Miss Rose E, Lee of Hinckley. Ernest Tobler and Miss Cecila Ence, both of Santa Clara. Frank Barber of Hurricane Hurri-cane and Miss Ida Webb of St. George, Raymond Stewart of Alamo, Ala-mo, Nevada and Miss Emma C. Gardner of Pine Valley. Calvin Bamum of Mesquite, Nevada and Miss Lucy Jepson of Virgin. |