Show correspondence littlefield oct 24 the T ric virgen fruit lands co have corn work at the narrows foi rood keeno and jacobs came in bringing the contractors with them they spent a few days looking over the and and dimita mr keene his taken them hick to lie railroad from there they are going to bait lake and expect to he hack in three weeks to begin work on the dam mr jacobs here the invent completed an 18 ft hy 36 ft gumbir room which intend using for an chico and store housse they gave a dance last week there was a largo crow d and a dainty lunch wis served an enjoyable time was had by all mrs matilda frehner and son harvey have just left for their home in st thomas mrs frehner has been putting up fruit and hiney looking after cattle georgo er from the same place was here looking after his cattle our school commenced about a month ago with fred reher of santa clara as he is an excellent teacher and we eject a fine school term farmers are busy biking mo lawes and gathering in their crops the cotton crop is deiv good even though jack fiobo his been here early george granger and family are going to me qute nov where they intend making their future home our bivs havo been over the mountain bringing in the cattle SHORT CREEK short creek oct 24 mr cardell an engineer from kugman arizona pissed through here on the going to the buckskin mt to survey some mining claims mr and mrs john wood of hur acine are here visiting their daugh ter m baw mrs augusta C wood our teacher lonn covington and mr calvin returned from the mt trumbull saturday each with a loid of lumber there are a lot of sheep in this vicinity watering it the lake which 13 nearly dry isiac carling went to hurricane today for a load of grain and sup plies the corn and potato harvest i in full blast here OVERTON 0 erton act 20 the detork visited overton during the past week and left newcomers to the follow me couples mr and mrs van bensell Ren sell ar a girl mr and mrs bryant whitmore a son mr and mra thomas a girl and mr and mrs alonzo huntsman a aon thomas anderon left hero monday to fill a mission in the northwestern states A farewell dance was given saturday in ins honor A purse wis raised as an offering from his friends to help him on his mission albert frehner is threshing grain here this week his threshing m hichme is run by a gasoline gi soline engine which he his recently purchased ed for that purpose onn jams has gone to to pur chibe sheep which he ejects to fitten for the market at alie experiment peri ment farm mr and mrs fred J went ocr to bunkerville Bun kerville for a mt last friday warren cox of st george is here on business john M is building a new house on his farm west of town MESQUITE me oct 23 joaeph lei itt and family hae returned from white river where they had been to visit geunes willis chomo from bull valley rehe has been working for some time mrs carmeda his been ill for the pit asek david abbott is back from pine valley rutih W W hughea la in las on business bishop ablett iw gone to moapa rockville ROCKVILLE oct 27 david dennett died oct at this place of feirt failure lie hid a cancer on the lower lip from v hichi he suf erad ery much he came down on the 22 from dolob where ho has ean the past summer with hia brother john and family he was born oct at salt lake city and 10 was the son of daniel Q and lucy ann dennett leu deinvill and family and mrs ata and lull denall went out on he mountain friday to rather pine nuts A adv from wheeler with 0 o of her children went out on and came home on saturday and gathered ibs in that aime the Y L M I 1 A started meet ings the inot with alice russell president and mary C hirschi ast 1st loun clor our are not et complete another counselor and secretary are needed nathan petty camp in with the mumps from alie bar Z cattle herd which started a few davs ago fram Kane beds for lund brigham dalton and daughter clara returned from dolob on the with a load of potatoes oscar stephens of cedar city is a visitor of mr and mrs dennett NEW HARMONY ne harmony oct 26 some busybody lias started a falsehood about our bishop killing deer the rumor lias it eliat he killed five deer fhe truth of the matter ia he killed one largo fat one and sent his neigh bior a nice mess to taste he wants t plainly understood that lie killed one and one only john bennett and thomas brown lave taken their traps and guns and gone into the pine valley mountains 0 o try their luck in catching cougars cars and other animals that kill so many of our calves and colts every ear we wish them success joseph N prince returned today rom carowan parowan where he lias been to get a bunch of full blood bo says he got a good bunch and will increase the value of his flock bp geniv A pace started to lund this week with aft fat hogs ie will ship them to los angeles tom lund sam L pollock of will ship with him rufus lamb and his brother m ow of are here clearing ground for G they will clear and plow seventy acres or more the threshing machine is through flork for chii season some of the farmers were disappointed in the yield of their lucerne seed the boys that went hunting deer nero successful that is of them were toquerville toquerville Oct 28 gov wm spry and party parsed through town list thursday morning for salt lake city on their return from the grand canyon of the colorado their enthusiasm for the cip or dionn canyon scenery was as great as for the grand cannon leon black lias gone to attend school at the dixie academy st george this brings the total attendance from this place to tho academy to ten the school has an ever increasing alic recent visit of elders W G miles and john T woodbur of st georgo as home missionaries was very much appi edited by those in attendance at our ward services presidents R C savage and eva G higbee of the mutual associations with their aides hive arranged for a social party tomorrow night the cattle sale is on and stock dav ing 13 the order of the day W P barton of iron county is buying the cattle at a good figure our teach cis in the district schools went to st george saturday to attend the school teachers convention mr and mrs divid rogers of aimi arizona old time residents of dixie are here on a visit born to mr and mrs R H lamb a girl on tho 25 mst mother and babe doing well mrs david bury has gone to richfield to visit her daughter mrs genevieve hayes geo R lund atty of st george was a visitor here for a few das B II 11 forsyth is in from the sheep herd on a brief visit CENTRAL central oct 27 we were disappointed and felt slighted to think our appointed missionaries would actually come right into our town then leave without to hold meeting with us on account that the were afraid there would be no one to sing or no one to speak to wo will not make any boast but will leave them to consult bro edwards of salt lake city who wa through on his way home aid that rather than to have the people so disappointed he would speak to them for a while everyone enjoyed his interesting remarks and felt well paid for coming out after the meeting tho crowd wa invited to the home of mr and mrs robert chadburn where the re of the evening was spent in musical numbers and singing bro edwards congratulated our young people upon their musical talents everyone enjoyed themselves H D holt and fred chad burn left last week for the southern country to look for a place to range their cattle this winter last night their horses returned home without them word has been received that chev ire all right and will get home alie best way they can mias grace knell who lias spent some time here left focher home at pinto lost monday our district school fal arted last wednesday mr height from paro wan is the teacher mrs benjamin chadburn is quite ill at this writing we hope she will soon get better last friday night a very nice time being had mrs avard cannon of st geoage is in town visiting her mother and friends henry bowler and clifton I 1 bavitt are visitors liere from 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