| Show correspondence GOOSE REEK VALLEY ITEMS oaxley jan 4 1886 editor Deseret News the holiday season supposedly the one ne of peace on earth good will to man has glided past mst us very rapidly and quietly notwithstanding the r reinforcement in made to disorder by the establishment of another whisky mill or dead fall I 1 have not heard of any disturbance having taken place but have een evidences all around 0 1 I enjoyment and satisfaction on chrismas day the sunday school children had ha da a tree in the hall I 1 from acm which santa claus clans distributed a lot of resents presents for good attendance and behavior cavior during the past year the week previous the relief belief coclet society had a fair in the same building and though the exhibits were not so numerous as they might and should have been those made were highly creditable new buildings atel are being erected in different parts of oakley and I 1 may here observe that the practical working of the accepted theory for the formation of our solar system is beautifully f e exemplified cei in this settlement oakley fills all the space it takes in the whole country but bat there is a little nook or corner in which quite a few families congregate and ere long the center 0 of 1 g gravity r a vity is moved and there i is 8 danger 1 of f a tip over to avert which oakley contracts and marion goes spinning off on its own ear then there are so many births in another corner that it is simply impossible to bring all the children to the bull ball for school or recreation nor can the par ants leave them at home so with another revolution or evolution or something else oakley must again contract and off will wili go scant ol 01 0 grease poverty flat and two or three other corners and all the time oakley is grol growing ng the contracting process however does not lessen the area over which the cold blasts may blow nor the inclination of said zephyrs to come As aka Supreme Court of the united states has commenced the revision bof of the dictionary of the english language it will be somewhat dangerous for men to I 1 use words upon which more than one construction can be placed until the members of the court can pass upon its legal meaning A roan man has been writing from here to the salt lake type tripe tub COMPla complaining of being very badly used by the break people eople here whom he describes as law break ers traitors etc and offering the tub his encouragement in its stand against the mormon people of this section of country etc all on account of some one cro crossing an imaginary line which he appears to consider a fence the matter is ridiculous aud and reminds me of the backwoods orator that dickens makes to inquire how queen victoria felt since she read his speech our grist mill Is nearly ready lor for business and there is plenty of business waiting for it the general health of toe the people is good and all sorts of good rood resolves rave have teen been taken to commence with the new year the mans cousin lives here who on his wedding day resolved to quit tobacco according to the cousins story the man suffered fearfully that day but buit the anekt was all rubt again because he resolved to commence commence again the same experience is passing oer the minds of numbers of the geese of goose creek but the second resolve is likely to be put ut off for a longer time than the di day ay at after er the wedding s the deputy marshal is be here on a visit and another visitor is snooks NOOKS |
