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Show OUR CORRESPONDENTS. LONG VALLEY. The new road between Orderville tnd the North Fork country is nearing completion. Orderville people are busy on the Town Hall and preparing: for the big celebration to take place on the Fourth of July. Dry land farming will be almost a failure unless more moisture comes soon. Fruit was mostly killed by the late frosts and will be scarce this year. The first crop of lucern is nearly all harvested, Cattle and sheep are doing well. The weather is dry and hot. Irrigated crops look well BUNKEHV1LLE, Ed. Christian of St. George Is here plastering. Harry Gentry of Saint Thomas is here on business. Bishop Bunker's new store has been plastered and will soon be ready for use. Henry Leavitt starts in the morning with a load of chickens for DeLamar. Mrs. Mary Bunker who has been ill for some time is now on the improve. Heber Hardy and Mrs. M. E. Leavitt have gone to St. George with a load of grain. The committee for the Primary Fair, to be held August 3rd, are now in good working order and we wish them success. S. Coleman is buying some stock. C. H. Barnum and John Hunt have returned from Modena; they expected to return with loads of coke for the Dixie smelter, but did not. Most of the people here have their first crop of hay in the stack, the crop is about an average of the last few years crops; unless we have rain the second crop will be light. Our little stream of water holds out well; we have not let the water out of the reservoirs yet, believe they will give sufficient for one or two waterings. The water in the Enterprise reservoir is sinking fast. SPRING DA I.E. This is our busy season, fruit drying and haryesting keeping all going. Mr. Graf of Santa Clara was up this way this week on chicken business. Our old folks party, held at Grafton on the 26th inst,, was a grand success. Newell Palmer of Orderville was there and favored the old folks with a slack wire performance. MESQUITE. Very hot, thermometer up to 108 in the shade. Robert Chadburn has gone to Gun-lock Gun-lock on business. Edwin Jones has gone to the mines on a trading tour. Hyrum Burgess has gone to the Washington mill. Solon Huntsman has moved to this OVERTON. M. A. Bunker of St. Thomas has been appointed one of the Fair committee for this valley. George Perkins had an arm badly cut by a horse jerking while he was trimming its hoof. Harvesting finished; second crop of lucern stacked.' Weather very warm the past week, up to 108 degrees in the shade. BllANCII NORMAL SUM. SCHOOL. . The Summer School students number num-ber in all forty-eight, over two-thirds being teachers When the afternoons are pleasant, the ladies enjoy themselves in a good game of basket ball. About thirty of the students are tak ing the course in vocal music offered by Mr. Anderson; a number are taking tak-ing private lessons also. place from the Muddy. Nephi Johnson has completed his building for the postoffice. Men nearly all gone on the mountain to help at the Pulsipher sawmill. Mrs. Esther Pulsipher has gone to Hebron to spend the heated term. Bp. Edward Bunker of Bunkerville passed thru here on the 26th inst. en-route en-route to Modena on business. WASHINGTON. Some of the Tobler Bros, have gone to Delamar on business. Heber Barron and Richard Prince, Jr., have gone to the Savanac mine to work. G. M. Crawford and Son left for Cedar city on the 2(ith inst. with garden gar-den truck. Jacob Bastian and wife returned from Richfield on the 21st. They had The students of physiology, math-metics math-metics and history, under instructor H. C. Lewis, are progressing nicely; the classes are all large. The weather has been very agreeable for the outdoor work of the students of geology and nature study. Mr. Dicker is a "live" teacher, and the work will be of practical value to the teachers in their district school work the coming winter. On June 22nd, the Summer school proper will close, and on the following . Monday the joint Iron and Washington Co. Institute will be opened, to close 1 on the following Friday. Prof. Roy-lance, Roy-lance, Deputy State Supt. of Schools, will give a course of ten lectures, two each day. During the course he proposes pro-poses to treat the following topics: "Life and the School," "First principles of the Method Suggestions," "Nature r nr;f " "TTow to study History," been there with dried fruit. Mrs. Peter Neilson is having part of her house repapered, Alex. Milne of St. George is doing the work. W. D. Chidester has gone to Milford to take Mrs. Olive Vanhorne. The latter will take the train there for Idaho to visit her daughter. Three of our young men received letters from "Box B" the last week, they are Joseph Mills, Myron Chidester and'Amasa Ruby. We already have eight missionaries in the field. We regret to say that Andrew Sor-renson, Sor-renson, one of our old and most able citizens, is leaving us this week for St. George, where he will go into the general merchandise business. Charles Knell and family of Pinto have been here a few days visiting relatives. Mable, the oldest daughter, will stay a few weeks with her grand- parents, Charles Westover and wife. Brother Thomas of Leeds, aged 86 years, walked from his house to Washington, Wash-ington, a distance of twelve miles, on the 25th inst. before breakfast. On arriving arriv-ing here he called at the store and said he guessed he would have something to eat before going further. The old folks party, held Friday, June 22nd, was much enjoyed. A program pro-gram was rendered at the school house, beginning at 12 o'clock, and then tables were spread with the very best that our "Dixie" land can yield. The evening was spent in dancing in the Xew Hall, where all had plenty of room, the young joined the old in the recreation. , "How to teach History," "The value ' of Literature," "Literature for the Teacher," and "Literature for the School." On Monday, Wednesday and " Friday evenings, Prof. Roylauce will speak" to the general puplic on the fol- lowing subjects: "The practical value of Education," "Education and Politics" Poli-tics" and "The United States in the Far' East." When joint county institutes in-stitutes are held, the State Supt. of Schools takes them in charge: therefore there-fore Prof. Roylance will conduct the Institute J. B Morris and family have just re- ' turned from a trip to Modena. ' The people of Pine Valley Pinto. Enterprise, Panaca and Clover Valley, ' are to meet at Hebron tomorrow, the 24tU inst., to hold conference. s. Svreen Fackrcll, James Canfield and i p Winsor have returned from the I mountain. They say that the 1 mines have shut down and work is I stopped. , . g The stock men have been driving k stock in this vicinity for the last two I we Us: they are now located at Holt s i Ld the north of Pinto. The cattle are " fairly good condition, but prices are nr.i'.itoN. ,-it : lei-i t ,v stock. George OI K C OKHK-1'ON UEXTS. Continued from 1st page. are visiting friends and relatives in Leeds. Born--A daughter to the wife of August U.-.ihu on tin- loth u.t.; ail concerned con-cerned doi.. ". Housewives are busy bottling and drying fruit: the men are taking care of the nay crop. Weather verv hot. Citizens of Leeds are preparing to celebrate the 4th of July in grand style. The supposed reason of this move is to keep the people from attending the Paris Exposition. LITTLEFIELB. Alma Keller of Mesquite was doing business here on the ISth inst. Samuel Reber. Sr.. of Santa Clara was here on business on the 17th inst. The second crop of lucern is stacked; we expect three more cuttings this season. Sisters Earl, Johnson, Hughes and Hancock were here on the 18th inst. in the interests of the Primary Fair at Bunkerville. TOyUEUVlLI.K. Mrs. Myrza Miles of St.. George is here on business. Grandma Forsyth of St. George is here visiting relatives. Mrs. Fanny Spilsbury, who has been ill, is slowly improving. The fruit drying season has commenced. com-menced. Weather very hot. Dr. Lines passed thru this town en-route en-route for Kanab on the 19th inst. Joseph Naegle and brother, James, have returned from the Buckskin Mountains Mrs. Nancy Stansworth is visiting here; she expects to leave for Pan-guitch Pan-guitch soon as her health is somewhat impaired. Agustus E. Dodge died on the 18th inst. after an illness of nine days. The funeral services were held at the residence resid-ence on Tuesday morning. Bro. Dodge has spent a life of usefulness in the Church, and has passed to that eternal rest which awaits only the faithful. O. B. Adams and daughter, Mrs. Susan Harris, were in attendance at the funeral. |