| Show PRESTON IDAHO preston idaho june ath 1898 during the past year many bial improvements have been made in preston and vicinity and the front part pan of the ten acre public square in f t the center of main street has been sold tor for business premises sidney stephens y and the opera house company and I 1 others propose erecting handsome busi t ness blocks heretofore preston has been so 80 scattered people living on tracts of land all the way from a city cit lot to one hundred and sixty acres but now they have an eye to the future viz vis the dividing of onelda oneida county and thus making preston a county seat and this is what should be as it is 35 miles to malad and the people find it very dij W convenient to go so far to record a deed or transact any legal business band and in winter and spring the bad condition of the roads make this a great hardship on saturday the stake priesthood meeting was held and men came long distances from pocatello and chester neld fifty and one hundred miles 1 the school elections were held on I monday donday and james johnson was elected for preston this is his third term and not one vote was recorded against him A on friday next the stake academy closes its yearly labors and it has been a very successful one the stake t presidency and people are highly pleased with the labors of professors hickman and dalley who axe are assisted 1 ly an efficient staff of teachers preston ton is a nice place to live in and people are coming here as the years come and anad go the ranchers f for miles i around amund bloc flock k here on saturdays saturdays s and an fact almost every day and the amount of business that is done is im araen the stores do a large trade 1 pour ar or five wagon and farm ample ment establishments I 1 all say trade Is better than ever the farmers are buying carriages and all machines ebeo saxy and this on account of the fine appearance of their crops all they now ask ak to is warm weather as the r three weeks rain has made all crops ta sure thing good health abounds and everybody is busy and very happy I 1 the merchants and business men last ideall I 1 ull abandoned the scrip currency it rw a lithographed lithographer litho graphed article much re abling the greenback and by it and through tt it all trading was done the e at the birth was paid I 1 in n scrip baad the minister took it at the mar kiage rl age as also did the doctor and sex ston it was everywhere present and was invisible this paper w waa at all stages since it was miu burned money alone has been the currency eur rency both here and at franklin frnklin f at first it was very awkward there S being no banks here checks were paid f and they must go to logan to be tax cached hed but in a short time money was fc plentiful ful and the change has hae been very Sfa etory both to the merchants and the doing away of this scrip haa bag given a new impetus the ton everybody has haa been bene fitted and it would be a great blessing both here and in utah if a state law was passed prohibiting any firm from issuing it with the free coinage ot of silver and scrip banished money would be much more abundant |
