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Show LEEBS. Wine making now on, but owing to the dry season the yield will be light, Our old-time friend, Mrs. Elizabeth JIcKnight is in town, and will remain here a couple of weeks. Water very scarce, the streams have to be united to irrigate the land before plowing for wheat, and it is very tedious work. Our children who are students at the Normal school are, according to their reports, well pleased with the school a nd speak very highly of their teachers. Mrs. Jaue Chidester, of this place expects ex-pects to start for Arizona in a few days to visit her children who are living there. She inay spend the winter with them. Our school is expected to begin on the 17th inst. We are in need of a Primary teacher to teach the Primary department, Our schools will both be small this season owing to so many attending at-tending the branch Normal at Cedar City; all the most advanced pupils will be there. Unless there is a change our town will have rather a slim appearance this winter. Eleven from Leeds and several from Harrisburg will be away at school. Six have now gone and more going to Arizona to work this winter. It looks to us here that unless a railroad makes its way in this direction, Dixie will be smaller, or the people less in the future than they now are, or have been in the past Bide a wee; we will have the railroad in time. Ed. . Wc are greatly in need of a shoemaker shoe-maker here, one who is capable of both making and mending. A man of this kind could find plenty of work with good pay as there is no one here that pretends pre-tends to do this kind of labor. There is some property situated on Main street particularly adapted to a business of this kind. It is for sale and can be bought at a very low figure The property prop-erty consists of a house with four rooms; small lot, fenced, with orchard and outbuildings. Further information can be obtained from Bishop McMullin. B. M, Leeds, Utah, Oct, 1-1, 1898. |