| Show correspondence LAIKE VIEW LAKE VIEW utah county december 29 1886 editor deseret news lu in looking over the columns of your vanlua ble paper I 1 often observe communications from different parts of the country inform informing ill 5 our leaders of the condition and g 0 ya n at posit position iov of their respect i respective ife loc localities i but I 1 very seldom see any mention made maae of our precinct and for fear it will oe ne forgotten if ever your readers knew of it I 1 venture a few lines in the hopu hope you will give them a place in your widely circulated paper lake view in utah county is situated between pleasant grove and provo occupying a strip snip of land between four aud and live miles mile s lon long and from one to two miles III ih width the western side of the strip running down to the edge ot of the utah Lake ami antt tile the eastern side renning fnning rf ea east s t t to 0 what is ib known as prove Provo Ben bench ell is well named lake view commanding a it does a full view of the utah lake and nearly neaily the entire valley the chief pursue kursu t ot the people here is farming although a few secure a tidy income by fishing and supply supplying ing the balt bait lake market with the fly finny tribe lake view was once a aortic n of the corporation horation po ration of provo but bat a few deais ago go it t was severed aiom that municipality and thus thui it became a precinct of its own and I 1 vet venture iture to say it it grows glows awell in the next ten years as it has done in the past ten provo fiovo will have no ao reason to be asli ashamed amed of its offspring As yet we ae under the ecclesiastical watchcase watch care eare of our aged parent so we are aie sull called the fifth ward waid of Provo asa As a church ward we consider we are on a par with any bartl of this county for so sobriety britty and morality none can beat us and judging from the lack of business in the justices coart court we are aie about abolt ti a as good citizens as can be found in any part of tile the united states al thou gli within the latt year or so a tendency to hoodlumism hoodlumism sm has been manifested by petty offenses committed by a few of our boys such as breaking windows etc at we have hav etwo two sunday schools in good running order one oce in the south and ove in in the north end of the ward they are both under the of brother john johnson we have also two day schools with a lair attendance in each there has been an aa organization of the Y M and Y L associations for quite a number ot years but it was considered necessary to or a branch blanch of the young mens association in the nor north di end consequently the two branches of the Y M M 1 I association n are running under the one presidency with brother andrew madsen as president fres P resident ident and broaders Brot Bro ders edward georgenson Geor gensen and chas craig as coun i selora the here according to the advice of the ws are set to work and are labo laboring Ting energetically am amongst t the people and thus binding J the saints more inore firmly together th than anever ever they have been the co common in verdict of the saints sainta here is that persecution e elution is doing more towards binding zb aag the people together than a thou thousand sard sermons could do may god speed the is the prayer of your humble servant C C |
