Show ich i fh SANTA CLARA santa clara dec dee 27 in spite of a rain which came again sun day evening ard continued until monday night most of the plans for christmas celebration were carried out an interesting and appropriate program was given sunday evening monday matched basket ball games were played a dance was given tor for the children and a largely attended dance for all at night the teachers and pupils of our school deserve much credit tor for the excellent christmas program which they gave friday evening every number was well chosen and rendered the work which professor earl J bleak did in teaching the chorus Is also much to be appreciated A laige number of our town people who have been away teaching and attending school are home to spend the holidays mrs laura knight la Is in quite poor health toquerville toquerville dec 26 the Tho plaster ing will soon be completed on oui our new school house the people are anxious to see the plumbing done so it may be completed soon some of the home talent Is going to present the play lady audley a secret in a few days it promises to be good from start to finish the long continued rain Is stopping a good deal of our sport but the different committees are having d dances anc and parties every evening A fine time was had by the children xmas eve eye santa claus came and gave each child a present mr air and mrs H A jackson have returned from cedar city where they spent several weeks mi ali and mrs thurber of provo are here visiting the latter s praest mrs mary baghurst born a daughter dec 24 to mr air and mrs heed reed batty mother and babe doing fine mrs airs fran frank Brinch bringhurst who has been quite III for some time is improving mr air and mrs R B have gone to cedar city tc te spend the holidays bloomington bloomington dec 26 2 our school teacher mr ur sandberg was as compelled to stay down two nights last week on account ot of the floods in the santa clara creek mr air and mrs birs ernest larson were yere visiting in st george wednesday and thursday the recent floods in the virgil riv er have done considerable damage to farm lands W 3 graybill and henry atkin passed through town thursday bunkerville BUN KERVILLE bunkerville Bun bunker kerville ville nev ney dec IS 18 friday and saturday a carnival was held here valley high school met with the virgin in athletics and an brator lear contest virgin came out winners in everything but pole pule vaulting and book ook second and third places in thoth both valleys had very good oratorical subjects miss bliss alice barlow and herman alo ackler ot of virgin high bud daid amy earl and bob rob ert wells ol 01 moapa valley high did fine friday night there was a carni val dance saturday morning some races and a base ball game between moapa valley and virgin high school girls virgin winning everybody seemed to have a good time moaga moapa valley students are good sports and know how to take defeat yesterday at sacrament meeting the home missionaries gave a report of their missionary work in this dist brict bore their testimonies and gave some very interesting talks we are having stormy weather it is snowing on the mountains the weather has been cold the last week eek born a son to mr and mrs lem uel leavitt dec 12 NEWCASTLE newcastle dec 19 the many friends of lizzie lizzle harrison badger will be pleased to learn that she is home and well the causa cause of her illness was a clot of blood on the brain mrs 1 14 D forsyth has gone to to spend part of the holidays with her parents mr bir and mrs hoag ian la A E tullis has moved to tie ile to spend the remainder of the win ter mr air and mrs willam beacham the holidays atrio d ol 01 in have gone to st giorga to stay a S few HURRICANE hurricane dec dee 2 6 saturday four little boys about 9 to 11 years wandered about all day looking for christmas trees two of them came home in a very exhausted condition about dark da 4 rk iffie ane others did not get home until about eleven when some travelis trav travale elir r picked them up and brought them home their parents were much worried C B petty and ex bishop david dirschl have returned retta ned from a good roads convention at salt lake city held by railroad men for the purpose e of pramot promoting 4 a better road from here to fredonia most 91 f dur students ts that were away atterling att erding school at st george and cedar have come COMO home tor for holland those from other places that were attending here have gone to their homes we have ben rather short of wat er for culinary purposes on account of the floods in la verkin creek tak ing out the water system pipes the salt lake west high and a mixed basket ball team played here thurmay Thur daylight day night the score being 52 to 16 in favor of our team several of the men worked on oil the grade up the hill saturday and nd expect eaon to do consid considerable erab more soon as the weather permits rex went to iolob last week tor for horses tor for trappers there was too much get on the up per mountain some of our men went to mount trumbull for or lumber but had to A ume home without loads on ao muddy roads 1 I miss alice campbell who has been working at cedar tor for some time has returned and finds her mother on the improve john pollock has sold his holdings here and expects to leave in the spring christmas passed off oft very quietly here on account of the heavy rains the rainfall the past week Is 3 IS 78 inches and more still coming sam wilson S car went down north creek in 0 flood last week GUNLOCK gunlock dec dee 26 20 last weeks storm has done quite a lot of damage along the river has taken off several pieces of farming ground ditches fences and some arut trees and has done lots ot of damage to our roads the storm still continues it has rained all night and day and there thre Is no indications of a clear up at this writ nig our program for xmas was not all carried out on account of it raining all day there aas as a meeting in the afternoon which was well attended and a fine program rendered consist ing of speeches stories songs and recitations miss elzina la is home dom flom nev ney where she has been attending high school all mis s james hunt of veyo Is here visiting her parents mr air and mrs charles mrs john H bowler has returned from st georga george where she has lieen the past week most alost of the young voting people of veyo are down to spend holidays with us mr and mrs claud fret frei have gone to santa clara to spend holidays N J neilson has purchased wll wil ford wit holt s house aad and lot all of our 1 D X 0 students are home for holidays |