| Show GARDEN CITY ON BEAR LAKE fator editor deseret denrel newa As it la Is a long time since anything has been heard of through the columns column of the NEWS regarding our little burg a few items may not be ami amis aels s on the of december a two year old son bon of hyrum and annie V cook succumbed to the dreadful disease of diphtheria which has some time past and to ie yet quite prevalent in our which not suddenly checked cause disaster diameter in our small town david B S cook esq has been ap appointed hinted quarantine officer and is doing doing all in his power to check the spread of the disease it to is said to be diphtheria in a somewhat milder form than is usually the cue case but is never very contagious it to ia reported that some take the disease in such a mild form as not to make them sick and these are the ones that mostly carry the disease on them and consequently through lack of care on their part the sickness la Is spread around town no one knowing how and from whom the next victim has caught the malignant mali anant disease day school which was wag fairly well started has bag been stopped as have also all religious services of all kinds and there Is no knowin ir how bow long such a condition of affairs will last as mostly all the people in town have been more or less exposed to the sickness winter has made its appearance although the fall weather was exceedingly fine the first snow to stay on the ground fell in the early part of last week the weather at present to is quite cold and has been at times very oban gable the stake presidency of the Y M M 1 I A held meeting here on the of november and reorganized for the winter although no meetings have as yet been held three democratic Democrat io school trustees were elected in this pie precinct at the late election all the town and county officials are also democrats this corresponds rio ponds with the national election good crops have agat again n covered the labors of the garden city farmers with the exception of the potato crop which this year proved almost a failure hence we realized a pretty good market price for what little we raised there will 9 son 11 be a good passable road between garden city and logan thus giving the poorer people of our small but thriving settlement a better and more commodious trip to the temple city quite a number of our young ladies have already rone kone over the road to work where the rough places laces have been made smooth and all gave have returned with a future protector 20 among them were the following edward benzley of randolph to ann hobbs of garden city harvey lindsay of Bennington Benning tong bear lakato lake to irene L lee of garden city prank frank findlay of fish haven to miss min hattie pope garden city all these were married at logan we wish them all joy and unalloyed happiness on their trip through life there have been quite a number strangers added to the ward in shape of beings from the spirit world except the daily complaints the the people feel satisfied EMIL EMIEL CITY rich county utah december |
