Show HOW MATTERS MAKE BAKE DOWN SOUTH ST ft GEORGE utah sept 26 1886 editor deseret news the weather in dixie Dixi ell at the present time is very agreeable in k trifina tri kina contrast with the excessive heat of the past summer but little rain hasfal ibn during tile atie past summer aud and what v we e had came mostly in august anere has been considerable sickness among the iti juvenile venile portion of our population arid and some deaths have occurred we have been less afflicted in this regard however than have the people of washington six miles east of here many have been ta taken ken down with malarial fever and at times here have been hardly enough free from illness to take care of the sick the temple is open again and the work for the dead continues unabated notwithstanding the persecutions through which the people are compelled to pass they still remember kneir duty to their friends who have passed away it has been the desire of the people here to t 0 establish an academy at st george where our youth might secure the advantages of a higher education without going so far away from home though we have not as yet succeeded suc ceded in establishing an academy we have been enabled to secure cure the services of prof joseph M romney a graduate of cornell Corn rill university ver sity as principal of ours our central sch schools bols under his able managements management we hope to build up a sch school ol 01 that ma may S some ome day grow aiuto an aca academy emy the crops anis year are arc only moderately good the grain cro crop is light and the hay crop is much below ahe the average owing to the fact that the dame in the rio virgee are out and there has been no water for a large portion of the land the fruit crop is good but the price of dried ii liui ui is so low ow that the farmers look gloomy over the prospect of such small returns for their labor respects respectfully ully W from rexburg Rex burg walter pul esq of rexburg Rex burg made a pleasant call upon us if tac day ile he reports that ne weather there this fall has bas been fine and crops good at two th threshing re hing machines have heen been busy constantly ever since threshing beiran began the people of the town a are re greatly inconvenienced b the re removal inoval of the post postoffice office to a point about a mile from the buS business iDeSS centre the mormon settlers lers of snake river valley are di on account of political mal mai gaiters they busy themselves making improve improvements mente etc confluent that all will ome come out rightson right so tar far as political affairs are concerned there is plenty of room for more settlers sett lers and if of tb the right kind they will be welcomed the grist mill at rexburg is crowded and is turning out a go 0 d article of flour there is 8 as a saw a w m mill 11 in tile the town and ano another therin in a canon bafton s some orne IS miles distant |