Show correspondence littlefield littlefield march 19 tho rio virgin irrigated fruit lands com banys working force aro now comfortably fort ably located with their camp about two and one lulf miles from the dam site at alie narrows and have one and one fourth miles of canal almost completed it surely looks to your correspondent who his just made a trip up to the works and was told that the water would bo out on the land by the first of february 1914 kecko otto and demil alio hive charge of the work are men of experience and their good work w ill bring about acres of the very best land in the country under cultivation the rich land semitropical semi tropical climate and assurance of a railroad in the near future will bring this part rapidly to the front now is the time for ancone who wants a good home to take a chance washington washington mar 25 an election tor the of increasing the special district was held in the old monday by the trustees all the vote cast in favor of increasing the tax mr and mrs arthue Pama nr returned saturday fro n w biere the former had been teaching school the state health inspector was here saturday inspecting the sanitary condition of the town misses misha and ina neilon entertained their friends monday night at an oyster supper mrs mattic Ci awford has gone to st george to visit her daughter mrs bert hardy andrew sproul jr and henry went to hurricane friday on business the primary officers took alie children for an saturday afternoon avrum prince arrived home friday from pioche nev B Y mcmullin of leeds was in own sunday SANTA CLARA banta clara march 23 tho mason work 13 completed on our new school house ind the work is i credit to santa chin the contractors aco syphus aco riding and chris ammon arc to be congratulated for their untiring efforts in putting up a building that will meet the approval of all that ejze at it charles cottam also canies conies in for ins share of craibe for the beautiful plan he diew for alie magnificent structure presidents edw H inov and thomas P cottam paid us a visit sunday afternoon arcs blows were along spiritual lines while cottam spoke about temporal aftanas their visit nas much appreciated they commended us on our magnificent school structure the peoples telephone line is is now into town and wo can sa hello 0 o mesquite and other places this line will be a great benefit to the citizens of the settlements doivo the river elvie hunt of is visiting with her father hunt also geo hunt and family crops are being retarded by the cold weather we long for those warm spring days A number of men will reme work this week on the santa clara ench canal two automobiles passed til rough town a surprise to the folks martin gubler is recovering from a siege of inflammatory the spring cleaning of our ng ditches will commence this week casper gubler has had ence built around ins residence ernest tobler has gone down to he muddy alley on business thoe that attended the opera at george pronounced it fine PINE VALLEY pine valley mar 21 reuben gardner has taken his wife to cedar 0 o visit their daughters a choit time ie will return leaving mrs gardner there mrs henry jacobson accompanied them to cedar to see ler son alma miss maggie gardner entert lined some of her loung friends alie other evening and all reported a good time william gardner attended our sabbath meeting yesterday and gave interesting and timely instructions aunt cyntha gardner is in very poor health at the time from stomach trouble and bad cold rodney snow entertained the eighth grade the other evening a lolly good time was had II 11 0 gardner 13 home again af er a short stay at delta OVERTON 18 little cottage recently built by marq rachel king on main street to the ground last evening sirs king and alie children were at lier fathers homo nearby when the hie was first noticed it was impossible by alie time help arrived to save anything as the flames biad gained such head way fanned by the wind from alio south all houses in the path of the wind for to blocks had to be watched from the burning brinds that hew in the wind A small millinery shop nearby also belonging to mrs king was burned it was a six room frame building with bith and porches one of the most modern home in the valley mrs king carried insurance to the amount of 1600 on the building which will not cover the entire loss ruban the little son of W L batty was cut on the wrist by a piece of glass last saturday making a gash that bled quite badly mr and mrs batty were at cane springs ranch at the time A doctor was called who put in five stitches in closing up tho wound the parents returned home saturday the panaca backet ball team arrived here friday evening to play a matched game with the overton team they played saturday evening the fadore being 39 to 9 in favor of overton the g fmc was followed by a dance dr john T miller editor of the character builder w here last week and delivered a number of lectures he alo spent a couple of days at st thomas bp wm whitehead cad is out to copper mountain on business connected with the has been leased to the whitehead cad bros bp jos I 1 earl and son marion are over from bunkerville Bun kerville doing work on their lot here and looking after their bees the ladies of the relief society gave a surprise party on the to mrs susan johnn miss thirza leavitt is here from bunkerville Bun kerville GUNLOCK gunlock mar 24 born wednesday mar 12 a son to mr and mrs F J bowler all concerned doing nicely mrs mary housten of mesquite nov M here visiting her parents mr and mrs E W leavitt miss ethel leavitt has returned home from salt lake city where she has been for doroe time J L bunker john R hunt and S A bunker are all busy putting up fence at gunlock the almond and apricot trees are in bloom and it begins to look like spring eugene leavitt has returned home from ophir where he has been working SP springdale RINGDALE mir 21 school closed iff friday with an for the echo in the forenoon ore noon a basket bill damein the and a d ince at tight the eacher arthur r and his eife ic turned home to washington apricot ire in bloom but alie is very cold ins been snow ng on the mount airis for the past en das ind his been snowing liere his evening the boung people had an easter supper at sirs icse list light after mutual elder didul of the S 5 board wis at our sunday school our townsmen devoted das to cleaning and grading our streets and repairing the place generally The lidies provided a lunch and dance ind a pleasant time was spent throughout conference prec edings were re darted at our ward services last sun ili by annie and kodilla bur and eliza anderson who acio it the conference at st george state sanitary inspector jordon vaa a visitor hero yesterday and bained us up fo the question of working harder along lines the baseball gimo here last saturday between hurricane and resulted in a score of 10 to 13 in hurricanes favor A keen buzzard is from the north our fruit trees ere white ith blossoms ind eiith frosted ecott today thos cottam of st george is doing some improvement work on the bomea of G M nd bishop A ia anguil society lall is a most decided as aro most all things undertaken by the |