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Show CLEVELAND Uncle Lewis Larsen is fueling very poorly. He was taken to Hiawatha Tuesday to be unier a doctor's care. We have plenty of mud but we are informed by those who went to conference confer-ence that there are worse places than Cleveland for that article. Those places certainly have our sympathy. The "Jailbird" was presented by the Sunday School Dramatic Co., to a crowded house Thursday night Itwa well rendered and gave good satisfaction. satisfac-tion. Dan Johnson is strutting around like a peacock these days as a result of the arrival of a baby at his home. He says it feels fine to be papa. All concerned v doing well. Sam Richards and Sant Larsen of this place chame near meeting an untimely un-timely death at Hiawatha where they were digging coal. They went into their place of working and when they neared the face of their room, a shot which had hung fire from the other shift exploded, which came near costing them their lives. As it was they had not quite reached the face of their room which is all that saved them from a horrible death. Richards escaped with a few bruis.es. Larsen was more unfortunate. unfor-tunate. He had two of the smaller Mrs. Maren Jacobson, who passed to the oetter life Jan. 31st, was born in Denmark in the year 1832. In 1855 she married Andrew Mortensen with whom she lived happily for seventeen years. In the year 1872, Andrew died, leaving her a widow. Seven children were the result of this happy union. She embraced the Gospel in the year 1881, and for two years she stood the jeers and taunts of her heighbors for affiliating herself with such an unpopular unpopu-lar faith. In 1884, she emigrated to Utah, coming direct to Ephraim, residing resid-ing there until 1892, when she came to Cleveland where she had been living with her daughter, Mrs. Hyrum Otter-strom, Otter-strom, until the day of her death. She had been an invalid the last ten years of her life and had suffered greatly. She is survived by six children, three sons, viz: Hans, Christian, and Fredrick; and three daughters, Mesdames Chas. Burk, C. N. Anderson and Hyrum Ot-terstrom; Ot-terstrom; thirty-eight grandchildren; and thirteen great-grandchildren. The farmers completed their organization organi-zation Monday with about thirty charter members. Some few who were present pres-ent did not join owing to the knocking statement made by the Progress in last week's issue. At this writing it is not known if Mr. Thompson will be employed employ-ed to handle our produce or not, but we assure the Progress and public that if he is employed, he will be placed under heavy bonds, conditioned on the faithful faith-ful performance of duties as Exchange manager. Below is the official roster of the association: President, Jos. Potter; Pot-ter; vicepresident, Lars P. Larsen; directors: di-rectors: Oliver Jensen, N. C. Oveson, and William McFarlane; James T. Johnson, John-son, secretary-treasurer; and J. H. Ot-terstrom, Ot-terstrom, local sales manager, bones of hia right foot broken. |