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Show Seen and Heard 'Round the Town By EDGAR It's pay-off time and Jack Phoenix is on the receiving end. You've guessed it it's a boy! There are proud papas and there are proud papas, but I take my hat off to Jack, he certainly heads the list. Pheasant Hunting A group of 12 hunters were out pheasant hunting Sunday. Among the group was one of Washington county's game wardens. As they were hunting along, a hen flew up and one of the members got a little excited and let go a blast, with the result that he brought down a lecture on his head from the warden and plenty of razzing from the rest of the hunters. All was quiet for awhile, when suddenly sud-denly up went a bird. Someone yelled, "It's a cock!" with the result that a regular barrage was let loose the sure-shot warden also shooting. No one seemed to hit it until Lee Weibel took a shot and down plummeted the bird. Lee walked over quite proudly to get the pheasant only to find to his consternation that it was a hen. What to do? He fussed around as if he couldn't find it, but when the whole gang started over to help him, he had to pick it up. Result? A lecture by the warden? Nope, it was just decided de-cided that the warden would take the hen and give it to some widow Twenty-five Years Ago The city electric plant was sold October 25 to A. L. Woodhouse of Richfield, the purchase price being be-ing $13,500, $2,500 of which was paid into the city treasury this morning. A. L. Woodhouse, the Richfield gentleman who has purchased the city electric plant, and his attorney, at-torney, E. E. Hoffman of Richfield, Rich-field, left today for Hurricane to see about a franchise there. Mr. Woodhouse intends to move his wife and family to this city at an early date to make residence here. Initial steps in the reclamation of more than 40,000 acres of semi-tropical semi-tropical arid land lying.-west of Hurricane in Washington county were taken yesterday when Attorney At-torney C. B. Stewart, representing the Dixie Irrigation Co., filed with W. D. Beers, State Engineer, application ap-plication for 300 second-feet of water to be diverted from the Rio Virgin. WASHINGTON. Lloyd Jennings Jenn-ings and Anna Blazzard were married mar-ried October 20. The Burg mine shipped another car of ore, 35 tons, Tuesday, to the smelter. Supt. A. B. Harris says the character of the ore is improving in value and he has increased his working force. Many Thanks I hereby express my thanks to the voters who wrote my name in the ballot for 2-year councilman council-man all four of them. On the other hand perhaps it wasn't so much a vote for me as a vote against the other guys. Attention "A Reader" If the person who sent me the letter signed "A Reader" will check the October 16 issue of the News he will find the story covering cov-ering information referred to on page four. For the information of those who address communications to the News: Please sign your letter if you want it given full consideration consid-eration or published in anyway. "Those eggs are very small," said the bride. "Let me see some the hens have sat on a little longer." Los Amigos Club The Los Amigos club held their first dinner-card party of the season sea-son at the Arrowhead hotel banquet ban-quet room Monday evening. Mrs. E: W. Simmons, general chairwoman chair-woman for the year, was in charge of the program. She was assisted by Mrs. Jos. J. Milne, Mrs. Morton Morris and Mrs. Jetta A. Snow. Prizes were ' won by Mrs. Walter Pace and Laron Andrus. |