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Show V 1 j EMERY Forester D. H. Williams has pone to Itiaho to help fight the forest fires. ' Mrs J. T. Edwards from Salt Lake City is visiting with her mother and other relatives here, she expects to regain re-gain here during the coming winter. Mr. S. W. Williams and family have returned to their home in Provo, aft.r a months visit here. Miss Venice Williams Will-iams accompanied them. We are sorry to report a case of t phoid fever in town. The victim being be-ing Miss Agnes Wickman, however she is getting along very well and with go;i I care we hope it will not be long until she is enjoying good health again, as she has been employed to teach school during the coming win'er. The stores have been changing clerk lately. Uyudella Killpack is at Peacock & Sons and Grace Larsen at the Farmers C -op. Mr. John Redd from Price was in town on business a few days last week. Mr. S. W. '.Villiams entertained a largo and appreciative audience at a lec;ure last Sunday evening, taking for his subject "Thesurvival of the fittest" Mrs. Williams rendered ;ome beautiful selections on the piano, which were also highly appreciated. That "niggers' will steal chickens we are all convinced, but for the grown young ladies(?) to be caught in the act, seems almost impossible. However we are sorry to say t'vit such is actually the case in our town. Chicken stealing h is been going on for some time, but at last the thieves have been caught. ORANGE VI LLE Another welcome home party was jjiven for Elder A igus Johnson on Monday Mon-day evening in the Social Hall. Th brass band was out in the afternoon as usual an l discoursed sweet strains and the party in the evening waS atten le i by both old and young and they had a glorious tim? s eeches and sonars, etc. But it seems like that booze has to creep in and no one knows where it eome9 from. Elder Louis Guymon arrived home from Germany Monday afternoon looking look-ing and feeling well, there will be another party in the near future to welcome his return. The St.- mile a visit co the hne of Bennie F. Jewkes and wife on Tuesday Tues-day morning and left a little girl for them to provide for. Mrs. J.?-vke's mother, Mrs. Thonas Jackson of Venice Sevier Co. also came a few days ago to make a visit with her daughter and sister-in-law, Mrs. Elizabeth Reid. Bennie is going around kicking the onlves out of his way and whispering papa ---papa loud enough for the close neighbors to hear it. Mother and baby ai'e doing well. A very serious accident befell the little grandson of our townsman, J. A. Guymon. Mrs. Guymon had been making mak-ing soap and had just taken the kettle oif (he lire to cool when the little fellow came along with his play wagon and was walking backward anil did not see j the kettle and fell into the almost boil-; boil-; ing soap. His arm and one side of his head is badly burned and for r time it was a very serious matter whether the doctor could save him or not, but think now he will recover with careful nurs-i nurs-i ing. The threshing machine has started on small jobs. There is a corps of U. S. Surveyors in town but mum is the word. Our returned missionary Elder Angus Johnson spoke to the people at Sabbath i meeting and gave a short synopsis of his travels and said he felt well to be : home again. t ' i j Road Commissioner Peacock has a J : force of men and teams putting in the i i approaches to the bridge. They have! ! the sou'.h end almost completed. J ! i HUNTINGTON : i ' There was quite a change in the atmosph;-re on Thursday evening, the temperature going down till it reached ; the freezing po'.nr, near .ill the vines ' showed they had been too close to him. ! Mart Jenson, one of our townsman is all smiles- -says he will have the best j ! threshing outfit in the country in a few i i days, a double cylinder, double geared engine and separator of the double self I feed, double grain g.ith.jring apparatus double b .ck action, straw stacker and supposed to gather a double crop each ' threshing for the farmer, we will soon j find oj! about it, for its on the way j j here now. i j There was a new baby girl up at D. j j T. Davis' home on Saturday last and! ! David, through oh a niles said "Ma and ! ! the baby is feeling fine." . j Thai Brockbank house will be one of the good homes in town when finished, j A car load of furniture just got to the ! Miller Mer. Co's store, that means a ' ; whole lot of stuff for peo. le to choose j from and thats the way to get it to sell : : cheap. Save the middleman's commis-i commis-i sion. 1 There is a whole lot of goods at Nix-' Nix-' oil's, but he has sp'.nt the last week in ; Sale Lake arranging for a whole lot : more. Huntington is the place to buy ; goods, where the big stores are, with j their h ist of accomodating clerks; J. W. justj returned. j Th.imas" Rowley's is the place to buy ! tomatoes. He has wagon lors of them of the best quality and sells cheaply It would do your eyes good to look over his patch of ground on the Bide hill. Its a beauty spot on the earth. He has all kinds of fruit, flowers and vegetables Thomas is a "gardener." A posse of our boys went up the Huntington canyon today for the purpose pur-pose of chopping logs preparatory to starting the saw mill. They will saw about 100,000 ft. if all is fair before chasing down again. The lumber is needed bad, as there is so much building build-ing and repairs going on. Another gang will go up Wednesday morning to Miller Creek and prepare for getting out timbers and ties for the coal mines. All is preparatory for a big posse of men to follow as winter approaches. Dr. F. Fiske of Price and an Auto i load of men who looked like money men went south on Monday. They asked I many questions in regard to our valley I its loams, the water, what we raise here and were surprised to know we could raise fruit but we did not learn their business. They were going as j far as Emery. I Prof. D. C. Woodward left Tuesday ! morning for Salt Lake to answer Supt. Nelson's call to the revision of the course of educational studies of the Utah schoois. It seems the candy companies don't forget us. The past week has furnished us agents from all of them in the state. They realize the candy trade a good one in Emery county, with prospects of be-iug be-iug much better in the near future and all want to keep in close touch. Elder A. C. Gardner has been released re-leased to come home. He has labored in Penn. for the greater part of the last 23 months. He made a stop at Baltimore Balti-more for a few days, then will make his way home to family and friends. |