Show correspondence bleir county ITEMS LAKE TOWN rich co utah JJ march 1885 IM aj editor deseret news alews U pee perhaps rr bb aa p ss a aa if few lew cc ww 11 items tt ee mm ss ff from rr oo 00 mm oo 00 our rr 11 little it t t I 1 e village at the southern end of bear lake valley will not be utterly uninteresting te to your numerous readers there are in this settlement about persons 85 of these are under eight years of age sixty six persons hold the priesthood and hence we are suffering from that horrible malady our oar so called liberal citizens delight to adver advertise tse as the domination OF THE priesthood I 1 for the eighteen months 1 past no j I 1 deaths have occurred in our town ex capt one in november last the thi result 1 of an accident the winter now just over has been exceptionally mild the thermometer has rarely gone lower than zero our stock have fared well and now nov are fat and frisky business has beed been rather dull in consequence of the little or no demand for grain rain etc our young berils mens association hw bant held their meetings on sabbath abib and wednesday evenings and conjointly with the tho f ac L M 1 I A who hold meetings weekly once a month T through the winter h we also have a very creditable sab bath school in operation with josephly joseph lk gibbons superintendent 11 A very h GOOD SPIRIT PREVAILS with our people generally and an in creased desire to attend meetings and i other duties incumbent on them Is isri apparent among the saints of lake town our roads are more favorable to the thi oes aesthetic observer than to our sturdy farmers they are a sublime mixture of snow water mud and dust there are quite a number of drifts drifus to be disi solved before plowing can be fully accomplished complis hed our farmers have not begun un that exercise yet but probably will do so vithina week or two twenty eight copies of your excellent journal are taken by our citizens and seventeen bevente cn copies each of the juvenile instructor and contributor add to 0 this the fact th that at our young mens lil ili conta contains ns about seye scye seventy it choice ic e works valued at as many dilarso dollars a aud and U d our sabbath school library comprises se one hundred books and aud you may well see to what extent our people are PATRONS OF LITE literature our new meeting house is now completed and very little remains unpaid of the which the building cost twenty births occurred in our burg last ya year ear all in the marriage relation sheriff call was through here a few days ago lie ile and several of the prominent members of the county stock association are engaged in getting gettin evidence in relation to some home I 1 CATTLE STEALING that was transacted in the county and over the line in wyoming g Territory 1 during last year ile he has a good clue as to who are the sinners winners and is get ett e t i i tin ting to work in earnest as a result hc be will doubtless have several cases fort for F 4 1 1 the utah and wyoming courts respectfully yours clodhopper CLOD HOPPER secretary lamar has issued an ail order orde e closing 3 the treasury department tomorrow 0 morrow w out of respect to the memo memory of the late jacob Thomp thompson soni sont Sec secretary r ol 01 the tho interior under the tha administration adminta tra of |