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Show I X I News of Hurricane I - HIGH SCHOOL TRACK MEET The Hurricane high school track and field meet was held on the school campus Monday April 9th. An unusual un-usual amount of athletic ability was displayed in the different events. High Jump S. Thompson, first; C. Stratton, second. Broad Jump S. Thompson, first. 220-yd Race Beatty, first; F. Imlay, second; S. Thompson, third. 100-yd. dash Beatty, first. Javelin Throw Reed Wilson, first; S. Thompson, second; Jack Spendlove, third. One-half mile race M. Sanders, first; Jack Spendlove, second; G. Wright, third. Pole Vault C. Stratton, first; Jack Spendlove, second; Reed Wilson, third. Discus Throw R. Wilson, first; G. Langston, second. Shot Put R. Wilson, first. One-mile Race M. Sanders, first. Miss Nina Nisson of Washington spent the week end here visiting. Homer EspUn of Cedar City was here Monday. Quite a number of the young people attended the junior prom at St. George Friday night. Mr. and Mrs. John Thompson who spent the winter here two years ago are here again. Walter Eagar has .purchased his father's, home here. His father, Joel S. Eagar is going to Snowflake, Arizona. Mrs. Mary F. Reber of Santa Clara is here visiting her daughter Mrs. Rhoda R. Prince. Our congenial postmaster, J. Harvey Hall is sporting a new Whippet car purchased from David Hirschi some time ago. Harry Stonehill spent several days here last week en route to Virgin from California where he had been on business. busi-ness. James Jepson has moved his family here from Lyndell and has purchased the farm of Ora Williams. He is building a home on it now. Mrs. Belle Wilson is home again from Cedar City where she has been for some time for medical treatment. She is not able to get about much. The fruit growers are looking rather discouraged now as it is feared that most of this season's fruit crop has been frozen. It is estimated by some of the fruit growers that between twenty and twenty-five thousand dollars' dol-lars' worth of fruit has been destroyed. Children and matches caused quite an excitment one day last week when they started a fire in the barnyard of Oliver DeMill with a fierce wind blowing blow-ing at the time. Fortunately no serious ser-ious damage was done. The pig pen was burned but the pig escaped injury. Fire broke out in the home of Edgar Gibson Monday morning damaging most of the kitchen furiniture, walls and ceiling. Mrs. Gibson had gone to the corral to attend to some chores when the alarm was given by a neighbor neigh-bor boy on his way to school. Mr. Gibson is away from home at the sheep herd. Clarence Lamoreaux of Cedar City was a business visitor here Thursday. A junior dance was held Friday night April 6th which was very well attended by the younger bunch. The proceeds were given to the boy scouts. Elders Woodbury and Bentley were with us Sunday as home missionaries and gave us some splendid talks. We hope they will come again. The lower grades of Primary met at Jed Campbell's place Saturday for an easter lunch and had a splendid time. The Sea Gull girls and trail builders ' went for hikes in the hills. It is estimated that thousands of dollars worth of damage was done to the fruit crop Monday morning when the temperature went down to about 20 degrees above zero. The third year class have all blossomed out with heavy wool sweaters. sweat-ers. The sweaters are red with a large white "H" with "28" below it, on the left side the two colors representing their class colors which are red and white. The seventh and eighth grade operetta oper-etta is progressing very nicely and promises to be the best ever given by these grades. This operetta will be played in the school auditorium next Friday night under the direction of E. B. Terry. Thos. Isom returned home Sunday night from Salt Lake City where he had taken his daughter Miss Grace to consult a foot specialist. She has been troubled practically all winter with a growth on the sole of her foot. She was in the city a week taking treatments treat-ments but has returned to Cedar City where she is attending the B. A. C. where she will remain until school is out after which she will go to Salt Lake to continue the treatments. The Misses Delma Wood and Mae Jolley met with a very painful accident acci-dent while horse back riding last Sunday. Sun-day. The girls were both on the same horse when for some reason the saddle cinch became unfastened and the saddle sad-dle turned throwing both of the girls to the ground which was very rocky in that locality. Both girls were stunned and were unconscious for some time. It was feared that Miss Jolley was quite severely hurt so she was taken to St. George where it was found that there was no bones broken so she was removed to her home in Washington. Both girls were quite badly bruised and shaken up but are now recovering. |