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Show OUR COKRESEOXDENTS. Item of News Gathered by Our Alert Correspondent, s. I'm: i "j ; i !jaj. kvkxts ok ti i k YVEKK. jYoiii Nearly Every. Town iu Washington Wash-ington County and Adjacent Portions of Arizona, and Nevada. OVJiJJTOV, r EVAM-V. The glorious Fourt h paired off line. I At daybreak till were aroused by the iring of cauiion: at sunrise Old Glory .vas flung to the breeze, on a pole put ip through a cotionwood tree. At 10:30 the people met at the school tent when the following program was carried car-ried out: Singing by Jos. Cooper and choir: irayer by the Chaplin Thos. Johnson: singing; reading the Declaration oi Independence by J. 15. Whitney, speeches spe-eches by Frank Bonnell, Bert Mills and John M. Thomas; songs and recitations recit-ations tilled ui the remainder of the time. In the afternoon the children had a dance and a good game of base ball occupied a couple of hours- A dance for all hands was had in the evening. eve-ning. This ended the Fourth with us. A good time was had by all. nothing happening to mar the general happiness-, not even a cross word or sour look. Weather very hot the past week. Melons ripening: wops are good and we will be 'well supplied with these things as well as all kinds of garden truck-. Our fellow townsman Thos. Johnson has the contract to run the mail from St. Thomas to Panaea, 128 miles, and S. A. Angel has contracted to run the mail from St. Thomas to White Hill, Arizona tri-weekly. William A. Perkins Perk-ins has the contract from Moapa, on the upper Muddy, to Sandy, southwest over a hundred miles weekly. W, M. Perkins and Whitmore's teams have gone to Wash ii tgtoh. Boiler Mills, and several others will start soon. Cobb & WJii tii'ore.- goods have not yet arrived but are south of Bunker-ville. Bunker-ville. Mmv. O', oHon, Nevada; July ". 1808. |