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Show HURRICANE i MRS. KATHARINE LARSON Reporter The mail came through tor the first time in several days and we received our first paper since Tuesday of last week. The mail was brought to us by way" of Panguitch over highway 8 9 and down through Ziou Park. News from the outside world was cut off completely on Wedesday and Thursday while the town was without power or light and therefore there-fore deprived of its radio service. The current events given in Mutual Mu-tual Sunday evening were by necessity nec-essity taken from the Era and Reader's Digest of December. Friday morning at 8:50 a. m. the thermometer registered zero degrees. The school children faced this temperature and a high north wind on their way to school. The temperature dropped to six degrees de-grees below on Friday night. Frank Johnson came in Monday Mon-day from his ranch at Canaan. He reported two feet of snow on the level and that the goat 'herds were suffering heavy losses from the cold. The goats to protect themselves from the cold go into a huddle that smoothers the underneath un-derneath animals. Earl Roundy returned Monday from Gould's wash where he and five other men had succeeded in moving nineteen hundred and fifty goats. Two days before they were at Rattlesnake where they labored through snow up to their hips in an attempt to move this same herd. Breaking a trail for goats and pushing them in took from dawn to dark to make one mile. One of the rescuers worked without rubber overshoes and when camp was made for the night, he found that he couldn't take off his shoes, neither could his friends pull them off, so badly frozen to his feet they were. Mr. Roundy, as ' a last resort cut the shoes from his friend's feet. Alice Louise Reynolds Club "Clothes Make the Man", by Booth Tarkington was given by Mrs. Donna R. Sandberg on Friday Fri-day at the Alice Louise Reynolds club which was held at the home of Mrs. Josephine C. Inglestead. Mrs. Owen Bergener assisted with the entertaining. Lunch was served serv-ed to fourteen members. Mrs. Lena I. Gates entertained the Wednesday night card club on January 6. Mrs. Edith C. Bennett won high score. Lunch was served to twelve members. Sorenson and Sorenson of Koo-shram Koo-shram and Pugh and Chamberlain Chamber-lain of Kanab were in town on M'onday to place bids on the project proj-ect for laying the new culinary pipe line. Because of the cold weather, work on the North ward chapel has stopped for a n indefinite time. Plumbers and brick layers from Salt Lake City have returned re-turned to their homes until the weather warms up. George W. Hail of St. George has purchased a lot from Clinton Hall facing the new highway 'being made. Rodney Webb and George Naegle of Cedar City have bought property from J. N. Stansworth facing the new highway upon which they will build a garage. The Cooperative Merchantile has moved from the Nephi Workman Work-man residence to the residence of Jesse Roundy. It listed its stock as worth $1,600 when its license was recently granted. Rex Adams, twelve-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Adams fell on the ice Monday while at recess and broke his left arm. Mrs. Bessie A. Cutler was taken to the McGregor hospital at St. George on Monday where a major operation was performed. Hebert Isom has nearly completed com-pleted the remodeling of his home. Irving Isom is finishing the unfinished un-finished part of his home. Ivan Stansworth, Torvald Stansworth Stans-worth and Cleo Wood spent Sunday Sun-day at Las Vegas. George Gibson, proprietor of the Hurricane Barber shop, had the IVINS MRS. EDWARD TOBLER Reporter We are having one of the most severe cold spells that we have had here in years. We had nearly a foot of snow on the level during dur-ing the last snowstorm and it has not seemed to thaw hardly at all. The water in the pipes has frozen and we are now without water in town. Mr. Austin of the Church Security Se-curity Finance committee visited our little community to investigate investi-gate conditions in regards to the advisability of granting us a loan to finish our water system. He seemed quite enthusiastic over the possibilities of this place. We had with us as home missionaries mis-sionaries last Sunday Israel Neil-son Neil-son of Washington and James Judd of St. George. misfortune to suffer a severe fall on the ice last Saturday. He has not been able to barber since. |