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Show ((founty CLEVELAND Last Friday evening a disastrous fire occurred here in which the home of C. N. Christensen burned to the ground. The fire was caused by the explosion of an oil heating stove in an upstair room. Fortunately there was a dance in progress pro-gress in both halls and by the timely aid of the dancers everything was saved in the rooms on the ground floor, everything every-thing upstairs was lost. Besides the loss to the Christensen family three of our school teachers, Darwin Brinkerhoff Mira McKee and Grace Cox lost everything every-thing they had except the clothes which they were wearing when the fire occured They were boarding at Christensen's and were occupying upstair rooms. One of the uistressihg features is that Mr. Christensen is practically an invalid and the shock has been very severe on him. The people are getting up a purse for their benefit. Our sick folks are all on the mend now, no new cases since last report. The stork visited the home of W. E. Cowley last Saturday and left a bouncing bounc-ing baby boy, all concerned doing nicely. nice-ly. Papa Cowley is very proud of his boy as they have a large family of girls and only one boy until this little fellow made his arrival. Our store is closed this week for inventory in-ventory of stock on hand. The Mart Jensen steam thresher just finished up the last job of threshing here Wednesday of this week. It appears as though Miss Spring has come a little prematurely this year, it rained here most of Tuesday. The snow is going very rapidly, water running run-ning all over. We hope she will see her mistake and retire for a month or so, or we fear the time she should make her strongest appearance she will have contracted a severe cold, which will be fatal and we again be in the hands of King Winter. J. H. Otterstrom is again seed king of this place, he has just finished threshing thresh-ing and his crop this year was 289 bushelB of alfalfa seed and about 700 bushels of grain. EMERY Thursday evening about 40 of the Sunday School officers gave Mrs. P. R. Nielson a pleasant surprise. She has been the secretary of the Sunday School for the past fifteen years and has now resigned her position. Lunch and icecream ice-cream were served after which a pleasant pleas-ant evening was spent in games. Mrs. Nielson was presented with a handsome leather suit case. Mr. P. R. Nielson who has been a sufferer from rheumatism for many years is going to Arkansas to visit the mineral springs. This remedy has been recommended to him and we hope he will be benefited by going. Mrs. Nielson Niel-son will accompany him. William Milo, who was reported as being critically ill, passed away Monday evening, January 9th. Funeral services were held Thursday. We hear that we are going to los our "hello girl." We don't know how true it is, but it is said that Ezra Huntsman Hunts-man of Ferron and Alice Keele of Emery are to be married Monday, Jan- uary 16th. John Christensen and Arthur Black -um have traded homes and both families are moving into their new dwellings. The character ball which was to have been given January 13th will be postponed post-poned a week. We have had several new phones installed in-stalled this week. The new ones on the line are: Niels Hansen, Alfred Hansen, Chas. L. Foote, Parley Beal and Lewis W. Peterson. Things don't look quite so encouraging encourag-ing at the oil fields the last few days. More water has been found which hind- era to a certain degree. |