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Show May th3 Dv year be a prosperous and happy one fur everybody. Benjamin Harris of Leeds, and Misi Minnie Chattcrly of Cedar City, are visiting here. The masotmratle ball held in the New Hall last evening was a fcvand success and a very enjoyable aiTair. A very large attuadaaco made- hasaeees; financially. The Sunday School Kindergarten class held a very enjoyable clauee in the Social Hall Thursday afternoon, and the senior classes had a dance in the evening. Bishop James Andrus started five men to work this morning-on the Blackbird Black-bird mine, a copper and lead proposition propo-sition owned by him and situated vrest northwest of the Di;io group. A quarter-mile race for ?5 a side came oil' on the track yesterday, the contesting horses being Price's "gray, Pyrnm's horse, and Foster's black mare. It was won by the latter. A letter from Elder Albert Frehner, of Littlefield, now on a mission in Switzerland, will shortly appear in these columns. His address is: zun Rhinfall Veltheim, Winterthure, Switzerland, Switz-erland, Two foot races arc fixed for New Year's Day, one between Frank Bent-ley Bent-ley and Ezra Stevens for $15, the other between Erastus Milne and Hyrum Thompson for 10. Stevens is a Long Valley man. Frank Staheli and others of Washington Wash-ington are expecting their new instruments instru-ments to arrive daily. Thirteen instruments in-struments were ordered at a cost of $150.00. Washington intends having a good band. Well done. The intimate connection between water supply of streams and forest preservation pre-servation is becoming realized at home by even Eastern people where irrigation irriga-tion is not necessary. Governor Stone, of Pennsylvania, has determined to make forest protection one of the features feat-ures of his administration. A commission com-mission appointed by him will select and locate three state forest reservations reserva-tions aggregating 120,000 acres at the headwaters of rivers of the state. The state authorities are deeply interested in the subject and declare that cbtain-taining cbtain-taining these lands is Pennsylvania's one hope of preserving its agricultural and farming interests as well as its water supply. According to recent scientific revelations rev-elations it is getting unsafe to eat, drink or breathe. We are told that water is full of typhoid fever and disease dis-ease germs. Beer causes Bright's disease. "Wine and whiskey causes gastric and other stomach disorders. Coffee racks the nerves and tea attacks at-tacks the liver. Eggs cause biliousness. bilious-ness. Fish brings on leprosy. Pepper and condiments destroy the taste. Oatmeal causes boils and eruptions. Fresh bread is unwholesome. Stale bread causes colic. Grapes and berries ber-ries cause appendicitis. Tomatoes conduce to cancer. It is suicidal to eat cucumbers. Radishes and lettuce produce dispepsia. Potatoes are fallacious. fal-lacious. Brown bread is no better than sawdust. Butter creates acid in the stomach. Even the air we breathe is fairly alive with germs and microbes. Ex. Put the boy to work if he is not in school, says an exchange. If there is nothing else for him to do put him to whitewashing the back fence, keep the lawn mowed and even cut the winter's supply of wood. Anything is better than loafing about town at the rear end of a cigarette, learning all the evil habits and contracting all the vices that are afloat to catch idlers. No honest labor will hurt your boy, but the evil habits he may contract on the streets may kill his soul and poison his moral nature so as to make him a detriment to the community in which he lives and bow down his gray-haired parents with sorrow. If the fathers and mothers of to-day would only learn the importance of training their sons to be industrious indus-trious and keep them off the streets, the coming generation would be inestimably inesti-mably better for it, CHRISTMAS Sl'ORTS. There was plenty of sport here Xmas day. A baseball match was played between the married and single teams, the latter winning by 17 to L3. In the athletic sports, Erastus Milne won the fin yards sprint, Hyrum Thompson the 5t yards, and Albert Alberg the Wliel barrow race. The latter race causyd lots of fun, the contestants being be-ing (blindfolded and having to turn about before starting; the consequence was f-ome ran into the spectators, scattering scat-tering them, while one ran into a fence, partially demolishing it and receiving several bruises and scratches. There were several other races. The horse races took place in the afternoon-Price's afternoon-Price's gray winning two quarter-mile races, Foster's black mare winning a quarter-mile, and E. B. Snow's baldy winning the 2-jO yards race. Other races were also held. Music was furnished fur-nished in the morning by The Boys Baud and the Zoboe Band. Boxing was tiic principal sport Tuesday, a couple of Indians causing much fiui for about ten minutes with the ''mitts.'' A "0 yard sprint between Frank Bentlev and Ephriam Webb was won by the former. Other horse and foot 'races have taken place during the week, added ad-ded to which there has deen dances every night in the halls. |