Deseret Evening News | 1903-01-09 | Page 7 | Our Neighbors

L OUR ou v NEIGHBORS ARIZONA HOLIDAY Old Gui mill You MK 31 nil o Happy 11 n Slid Sud lIm heath Death ol nl ml Philemon Merrill Special Correspondence Thatcher Graham Co o Arizona Arlona Jan Jun 4 missionary lonar of over dyer 30 young utica men and some members of or the academy faculty went ent out to parts of ot our territory on missions dur during durIn lag ing In vacation i The afternoon before ChrIstmas Christina the I kindergarten had come Eme exercises eH anti and anda a u Christmas tree Santa Cinema clime came I In anti and distributed presents pres nt to the time hap hup happy hapP py N P little ones During the festivities old oh Santas beard caught Ire fire th thames flames to other combustibles and hart hall it n not lint been bee for the tte presents of ot mind of ot President who jumped jum ell forward and ami taking the burning hat hilt and other othel blazing articles In his lila hands anti and smothering them there might hll beta been a n conflagration of ot considerable con magnitude No damage sas done tione how however ho ever eer the th singeing of or Santas i eyebrows The Thc excitement was soon noon I subdued anti the time program completed I fhe he primary association gave a II did dill program In the time evening On Christ Christmas i mae mas night the Relict Hellet society gave an tin anold old fashioned party During the week I other auxiliary organizations had par itar parties ties tIcs Miss Clare Clore KImball director of ot tho he young ladles ladies choir surprised the members by hy Inviting them to her home where they had a general social time The Time old aid outs folks over 60 50 years of ot age wore werl looked after during the of or one of or the lie pleasant pheasant nn t days A social re rc tJ lon of ot the Saints who have hare emigrated migrated In iii the last few rew years ears from Cram and St John JoInt stakes was n a successful affair The weather line has been veiled rain and snow nol heavy heny frosts nt at night and even lOen fogy foggy weather DEATh Dl OF OJ PHILEMON ION MERRILL Late this thin evening Bishop nI hop Phil C Merrill of ot Pima received a telegram freni Arizona that Philemon unit had died and the body would arrive arrhe In Thatcher by b tomorrow evenings train Philemon was a n promising and hand hond young man of or about 21 years ear Only On last Thursday the parents re ye received A n letter from him In which he lie must have hidden his true condition for forthe forthe the time sad news came cume to the parents like a I thunderbolt No further Information has hils been received to date