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Show t HUNTINGTON Our district school opened Monday morning with all eight departments well-filled and some to overflowing. It looks like it would need some more dividing. We have certainly got the students. Clerk Edw. G. Geary of the school board is sporting a new Dodge car. The wagon missionaries are here and just as busy as can be, trying to explain their God-of-space to the children. chil-dren. They do not have very large adult crowds, howeveras the people are almost too busy to look after their religious interests just now. A move is on foot to repair our tithing tith-ing cellar as they are expecting a large crop to garner this season for ' the Lord. We had quite a frost two or three nights back made most of the vines look dark-complected but no serious damage. Our most excellent crops are being gathered and all are making special use of the nice weather to care for the same. Three threshers are in service. ser-vice. The corn crop is ripening too without danger from frost a fairly good crop. A move is on for a new banking institution. A committee is canvassing canvas-sing the town for a few citizen-stockholders. The present manager will locate lo-cate in Salt Lake City the first of the new year. He is closing out all local business inerests except his farming interests. John E. Hanks, the Rawleigh medicine medi-cine man, has located in the Glassman corner between the stores. Manley Bradley of Emery has purchased pur-chased the little homestead of Thos. Williams, deceased, and will move here, report says. We understand that Dr. T. C. Hill will be back to his little home on Main street in a few days. His wife is somewhat improved. Her health . - has been the cause of his wandering for the past year and we hope it has been for permanent good. Our townsman, Wrm. J. Green, has just returned from Sanpete county where he went to bury his father, John Green, a pioneer of Fountain Green since 1859. He was 82 years old and an Indian war veteran of the Black Hawk times. He had out-lived three wives and several children. The funeral was held last Thursday at Fountain Green. Our saw-mill men are at the mills arranging to start the lumber this way and we are needing it bad. The Hon. Don C. Robbins is still here with an eye to the Freed interests inter-ests in Huntington canyon where they have some of the most extensive coal prospects in the West and where, no doubt, some of the largest coal camps in the country will soon be installed. So may it be let us encourage all good moves with good words if nothing noth-ing more. |