| Show RICH COUNTY ITEMS C condition ondi tion and prospect N of lake town mall mail etc LAKE TOWN rich county utah february 1888 1886 editor deseret news the people of this little burg are surrounded with propitious circumstances jut juit now the weather is altogether too lovely for anything the health of the people is ke excellent ellent generally eue rally as you may aggee when you ascertain that we have hake lost but two of our population by y death during the past twenty eight mouths months we have er enjoyed joyed the use of our good bursian bial new meeting house lot lor the past nine months and our sabbath meetings are well attended I 1 elder james brown called this dav while en route for our northern settlements and favored our with a on some of his missionary experience peri ence returning on friday last he be gave ave an account before the saints of his travels and experience amons tile the natives of the society islands which was very verv internee dinst and instructive conr bloc kinen rejoice in the mildness of our winter and alit me haystacks hold aull ou with a tenacity 1 adt must be ex to lo the anti ests bats of utah I 1 our lai predict an early spring and are immensely elated at the prospect thereof 0 our ur district school has 47 pupils and is very successfully conducted by bro john S bramwell late of plain city occasionally a baby appears ox oa the bo boards ards and none I 1 believe out of the marriage relation ve have no saloons or liquor dealing in our county and I 1 believe that there is scarcely any used in our town we dance sing sin meet in our improvement associations etc and as a rule attend to our own affairs have a couple of outside families with us ua whose rights have never been infringed upon and who have as much liberty as they could get anywhere that grass grows or the sun shines but of course this is a mormon settlement and is under the domination of the priesthood and so ao mote it ever continue burco our operative cooperative co store has a trade including nearly all of the three settlements to the county north of the divide and is generally conceded to be a blessing to tile community your paper increases in favor with our citizens as you are aware hy the coustant constant addition to the list of subscribers bers from this region personally I 1 admire your consistency and your unimpeachable and continuous integrity to the true welfare of the citizens ot of our misrepresented but none the less peaceable and thriving territory I 1 was about to say that the NEWS arrives here in good time and regularly but it does not for some time past our papers and quite au an amount of our other mail matter have come via montpelier in this way our letters papers etc come 0 K on thursday nights as usual out our papers paper sete etc that came when sent via evanston invariably on saturday nights do not reach us till monday nights As your agent I 1 have several times complained at your of lice and your mailing clerk has printed tile the wrapper around the lake town toft parcel via evanston your local columns noticed the grievance and 1 I understand your business manager laid the matter before your city postmaster resulting I 1 believe in our papers coming on saturday nights once but all has receded to the old way of keeping our business and social correspondence away from us unnecessarily for forty eight hours in each week the remedy is to be found iu in sending our mail via evanston as of old and I 1 take this opportunity through your columns in behalf of the citizens of this precinct to respectfully invite the attention of the proper officers to this matter and feel assured that as soon as the sit situation nation Is ascertained by them they will readily make the desired change Wi bishins you continual success success and an ever increasing litt of subs I 1 am dear sir yours respectfully JOSEPH IRWIN |
