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Show r- . J PERRON After a three weeks vacation the district school will reopen next Monday as nearly all the children of school age have had tne me isles and are so far recovered that the usual public gatherings gather-ings can be resumed, and no doubt the school board will arrange to have the j school complete th year's work, j The infant child of Mr. ana Mrs. James Westenskow was buried last Sunday forenoon. Mrs. Fred Zwahlen is so far recovered recover-ed from her recent illness that she is able to attend to her duties. The farmers of Rochester are busy this week"cleaning the canal. Quite a large acreage has been planted and sunie apprehension is felt for the early ! grain on account of the cold drying ' winds that have lev.. 1 d since planting. plant-ing. Feais .. - .a .a t that the grain wui .r:ii ..aC; c.,-. die unless moisture is sou., xortheo ng. MissVida Oi.-tn ti.uicd a number of friends Sunday i.int. ' Kay sad, j "we had a mighty nice time." j The District school band has receiv-I receiv-I ed a set of grade "two" band books I and are very anxious to get lo work on them. The measles have left some of the boys looking rather paie but a few days of sunsnuic and hard p.'..ecice will bring the "color" back. So brush up. Feins, and blow the measles out j of our helscon. -V I (From another coi repoa j nt) i The few warm spring days we are ! having are helping to make the lawns ! green. We must wake up, spring ! is h?re, and we must take- auvantage ' of it. ! We aru sorry to say that the little oabe of Mr. and Mrs. Morris Singleton i has been very ili, suffering from an sbcess growing in the throat but is now on the improve. We feel to give jou our deepest sympathy, little Roaia. Mr.-. A. G. Conover aud daughter, Rita, accompanied Mrs. Easl. y to Moab, v.h- re they will visit awmle. It has Leen reported that Mrs. Conover has undergone an operation and is doing nicely. Wc- expect to ee them in our vicinity before long. Miss Fleming opened school for her department Monday .norninj as all her students have had the measles, and as it is drawing near the closing of school, they are yery anxious to get their credits. I It is not always the case that measles I go by your door without knocking. We are sorry to say they made a call i on Horace Nelson without an . invitation. invita-tion. He is quite sick at this writing, eh, Horace! I Oar Central, Mary Black, left Ferron 1 last week for Salt Lake City, where ; she will attend quarterly conference j before her return to take up her position. po-sition. Dr. Ward, our Ferron dentist, took a flying trip to Emery Tuesday to do a little dental work. We expect to see him back in a few days. By some reports whooping cough is spreading among our children. Now we, as parents, must use sound judgment judg-ment by keeping our children from exposing ex-posing others. Why are men like dough? Because you "need" them (not) and they are hard to get off your hands. Alma Jensen is visiting with his sister, Mrs. Willi am Djgmore, and family. It seems good to see our friend, Mrs. H. W. Curtis, up and around again, after her long spell of illness. We have not yet mentioned the great change in the stage line. Uncle Sam wns an auto, eh, and we get our mail at noon. Now, more haste, and more pleasure in traveling. Good for you, Uncle Sam! ELMO We have kept a little of old March's weather with us. There is not very much sickness here at present, but it is reported that there is a case of chickenpox in the home of I B. Erickson. ! Five of Mr. Braithwaite's six afternoon after-noon students, decided to surprise him and stayed home from school, but the dayended in good feeling on both sides. Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Olivsr with their two youngest children visited in Salt Lake City last week. Mr. Lillard Tucker and family are in the city for a few days. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Alger welcomed a little child at their home Sunday night. The spring work has begun in earnest. The house of H. H. Oviatt sr. is go- , ing up rapidly now. It will not be long until he will move here. Mr. Wm J. Atwood has movej! his family into his brother's house. HUNTINGTON Emma Roscalia Young, wife ot Dow -Young of this place, died on -Saturday morning, April 5th. bh; was the daugh-! daugh-! ter of Emma E. Thurston and Christian i T. Balle. Mrs. Young was born in Mayfield, Sanpete county, March 24, 1 1SS3. She was married to Dow Young ! April 25, 190G. She kad not bean feel in well for a few days. She got up i Saturday morning, cooked the break-I break-I fast and,ate wi'.U her husband. Shortly Short-ly afterward she complained of severe pains, and had two fainting spells; the second on was fatal. The doctor was4 sent for, but shortly after he came Mrs. j Young died. Her funeral wa" neld I Monday afternoon, the speakers were I Bishop Akelund of Castledale, Elders D. C. Woodward, M. J. Blackburn, i Mai tin L. Black and Bishop Nielson, j who sp jke comforting words... The 1 music Was rendered by the choir under the direction of Prof. Thomas I.. Hardee. Thoma3 G. Wakefield, one of the pioneers of Hunting: i r.ad of Enery county, was found Ocad b his sou at 4 o'clock Friday (the 4th) afternoon. He was in his usual health and after a hearty dinner had gone out to plow. Some time later his son noticed the body of his fathei hanging over the seat of the plow with the team still in , motion. The team had goni perhaps 80 yards after the death of its driver, j Mr. Wakefield was b7 years old and i was father of a large family. He was j a veteran of the Indian wars of Utah. : OIRANGEV2LLE j The traveling show that played our j town Monday and Tuesday nights was a good one. They played to a full house each night and gave perfect satisfaction. Mr. John S. Curtis has moved into his old home again, having vacated it for a season for repairs' and added two more rooms. It is now more handy ai.d commodious. Mr. Leonard Snow and Miss Jessie Reia were joined together in holy wedlock Wednesday lasc and gave a dance in the evening. Mr. Snow is son of Mr. S. P. Snow and the bride is the daughter of Bishop Reid, all of Orange-ville. Orange-ville. We wish them a pleasant future. fu-ture. Mrs. Alger of Nine Mile has left for her home after a pleasant visit with her brother, J. G. Bernett, and family. ' We are informed that Miss Alice Reid will be able to supply the ladies with their summer hats. Better give a call. (Continued on last page) SCCtET ' uUKDo LETTER iConlinui-d from 1 :-t week) Th 'Tahiti ins are a t pica! Polynesian race, closely c nieeted physically wi-.h the Mar.iesans and Rarotongans, but wid ly divided fro n them in many of thuir customs. Tha dialects also of the three groups are different, the Tahilian being perhaps the softest in all Oceania. The women rank with the most beautiful of the Pacific,' though theaccounts given of them by early voyagers are much eiaggt rated. For general symmetry of form the pee-ple pee-ple are unsurpassed by any rae in the world. lv; n now, in its decadence, after generations of drunkeness an! Euro', ean diseases and vice, grafted on inborn idoienee ail liceiuiou many tall and robust people (f feet and even upwards in height) are to be found. The women, as a rale, are smali in proportion to the men. Men an '. women of good lerth c. n ger.er i"Hy he distinguished by th-or height and fairness, and often, even in their early a'-, by their enor nous corpulence. Tne skin varie; fro n a ve.-y light olive to a full dark brown. The wavy rr curly hair and the excessive eyes are black or nearly so; the mouth is 1 arge but well shaped and set with beautiful teeth. We have about twelve hundred saints scattered through these Islands, but we are laboring under difficulties on account of not having our people colonized. colo-nized. The ' Islands are hun lreds of miles apart and in soma cases our saints do not get visited by the elders jenoigh. However, we are putting ; forth our best efforts to bring this ! native p.'ople to the li hi of the Gospel 1 and also trying to sho.v them the beau-tics beau-tics of the same, and we feel that we I are accomplishing some good .here as ! servants of God. I pray for God to bles3 the people of j the Kingdom of Emery with peace anil 'prosperity that they may serve H'-.n : from whom all blessings flow in truth and soberness. Your brother. Elder Montrose Kiilpack i |