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Show (cranty j HUNTINGTON Down goes the scaffold from the meeting house. The cornice is on and painted which makes a few changes in the outside appearance. Next Friday there will be a grand banquet and ball for the whole ward. Everything free for $1.00. All goes to finish paying the expense for completing the building. Last Saturday evening many friends gathered at the McKee home to say good-bye to Uncle Nate Stevens. He is getting along nicely from the effects of his operation and is going home to his family in Idaho,' which he left before be-fore the holidays. He feels he will be strong and well for a number of years. Friday evening the four highest grades surprised Principal Woodward and Blackburn. Step-dancing, music and readings were rendered and to wind up, nuts and candy were served. A very enjoyable time was spent by all. The Buffalo Hollow boys are all smiles these days. They have their ditch completed com-pleted and about twenty will farm there this season. They will likely want a town there next. On Monday morning the water was turned out of the Huntington Canal south and west of town. Mart Jenson headed a posse of men to make repairs for the season. Jesse A Washburn of Theodore called in on Sunday evening on a business visit for three or four days. Jesse is an old time resident here and is -well known to most of us. We bid old friends welcome when they come to see us. Thursday was a day of general soliciting. solicit-ing. The committee appointed by the bishopric to gather means for the meeting meet-ing house expenses made a tour of a house to house visit, and the committee for the banquet did likewise. The Lawrence ball team came up last Saturday and played the Huntington team a close game of ball. All worked for what they got. The score was 4 to 6 in favor of Huntington. You'll have to take your sweaters off, after this, boys. A big debate next Tuesday night for the Mutuals. We expect some real oratory for and against the question, "Be it resolved that the insurrector of Mexico are right." E. G. Geary will support the affirmative and M. J. Blackburn Black-burn the negative. The association has had a nice time the past season. The young men have finished the last lesson of the Manual. The little four year daughter of John Guymon died of croup last week. A pleasant evening was enjoyed at the home of J. W. Nixon last Saturday evening, by a numerous number of their friends. The ' occasion was in honor of Mrs. Nixon's birthday. Another birthday party was held at the home of J. V. Leonard on Friday evening. Mrs. Mart Jensen met with a very painful accident last Tuesday while she and Mrs. J. P. Johnson were on their way to Otteson's. She was thrown from a large two seated buggy and run over. She was taken toOtteson's where she was cared for until she was able to jgo home. No bones were broken but it was an awful jar. The B. Y. U. students attending school from Huntington will be home to spend the April vacation. The Enterprise Canal company of Huntington has their tunnel completed and are within three hundred yards of the flat where the water is to be taken out. I I EMERY ! Last Wednesd ly George Mortenson and Florinda Larsen accompanied by j Arile Johnson and Bjata Keele, made I a hurried trip to Castledale where they j were married in the court house, j Dances were given in their honor Thurs day and Friday nights. May they have la long and happy married life is the J wish of their many friends. Mrs. Stena Williams has boen very ill for some days, we fear she has the pneumonia. Mr. and Mrs. Niels Hansen have a very sick baby. Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Larsen have moved to Gunnison where they expect to run a hotel. Miss Grace Larsen went with them. Superintendent N. L. Williams visited visit-ed school last Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Nielson have gone to Salt Lake where Mr. Nielson will resume re-sume his treatment for rheumatism. CLEVELAND Mrs. Jos. J. Larson was visiting with her parents, in Castledale, President and Mrs. L. P. Oveson last week. Emar Ericksen narrowly escaped a terrible death last week. He had hitched hitch-ed a pair of colts to a harrow, they became be-came frightened and started to run, in some unaccountable manner Ericksen fell in front of the harrow, just as it started over his body it struck a lay-off machine which raised one side sufficiently to let it pass over him without serious injury, he escaping with a few bruises and flesh wounds. Adolph Hansen of Ephraim was here on business last week. Ernest Davis and Wm. McFarlane were in Salt Lake City last week. Davis was up buying scenerv for his new opera house and Mr. McFarlane having his eyes treated, he having suffered suf-fered considerable with them of late Mrs. Erick Ericksen was very ill the fore part of the week. She gave birth to a child Sunday but the little one was dead.- - - ' PERRON The Ferron Irrigation company has been constructing a nine hundred dollar cement dam at the head of our water systtm near the roller mill. When the dam is completed it will be fifty feet long, fifteen feet high and seven feet thick. It is constructed so as to turn the water into three main channels, upper up-per north, upper south and Molen. F. A. Killpack, who has been working work-ing in the assessor's office at Castledale for the past two weeks, is home again. Dr. Graham was taken to Salt Lake City last week accompanied by Mi is Metta Nelson, an L. D. S. graduate nurse. The Doctor is suffering from typhoid fever. MOLEN We are having lovely spring' weather here now. The men are all ready to go to farming farm-ing now. They have completed the large cistern on the bench north of town and the water is now at every house in town. , Miss Lydia Andersen entertained her friends Sunday evening. A very nice time was had by all. Nearly every one in town is down with the grippe. At the conjoint session Sunday night, there was a debate given by the voung men, the subject being, "Who had the prior right to America, the white man or the Indian?" It was very interest ing and the judges decided in favor of the Indian. Both sides brought out some very good points. The ball game played between Ferron and Molen Sunday, the 19th, was not quite what the Ferron correspondent represented it to be. It's true Ferron beat us, but not quite so bad, only 12 to 7. There were six innings. Ferron has practised all spring and Molen has not. We notice one thing Ferron cnn't be beat at, that's throwing slurs. How j about it ClawsonT Miss Bessie Beach is confined to- her bed with the grippe. Mrs. Ida Beach is still unable to be I up and around. j John Larsen hast gone to his home in Uintah cour.ty. His family will join him later. Niels Rosencrantz and family have moved from Ferron, where they have lived the past four or five years, to their old stomping ground, Molen.' Mrs. Effie Hansen and children accompanied accom-panied John Larsen as far as Cleveland for a few weeks visit with her mother. A bunch of Molen boys will leave in a few days for Price where they will shear sheep. ORANGEV1LLE We have our townsman Jesse B. Jewkes. state auditor with us for a few days looking after his interests in the vicinity. He is looking and feeling well. He went out on the flat the other day with a narrow rimmed derby hat on and when he came back his nose and face looked like he had been out fishing with the boys. Robert Reid just came home from Denver to try and recuperate from a long siege of sickness. He has been under the doctor's care for about a year and he thinks that the change will do him good. He has fallen away from 180 to 130 pounds, but fresh milk and bracing fresh air will bring him around again. Mrs. Edna Reid, wife of John F. Reid just received the sad news by phone that Joseph Neil her brother whose home is in Salt Lake City, died at Pi-oche, Pi-oche, Nevada Thursday at 11 p. m. No particulars as to the cause. He was a boiler maker by trade and was working in one oi mining piam-a ai uiu She had a letter from him a short time ago and he was then well and feeling firstrate. Fears are entertained that he was killed by accident. Mrs. Reid will start for Salt Lake Saturday and the funeral will be held on Sunday afternoon. af-ternoon. We hear that the mother of Miss Nordfelt, one of our school teachers died at Salina Thursday. We sympathize sympa-thize with the bereaved. - |