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Show f&j Bits of Local mm Information J 4 V Cencernnj Ihm Mwt-ntntj and Doings t 1J H Vt J of Our V top It in To tain and County y Mrs. T. W. Dyches entertained a few friends at her home last Monday evening. A very pleasant time was had. We are offering- our entire line of International stock and poultry food at 33 1-3 per cent off. Emery County Meat Market, Castledale. 13-tf The E. S. A. will re-open Monday morning following the two weeks of enforced vacation, and teachers and pupils are more than anxious to get back at their studies. The district school will resume its sessions next Monday, the scarlet fever fev-er scare being about over, apparently. Dr. Graham will take close notice of ail students who appear Monday, however, how-ever, to be on the safe side. Plans are getting well underway for the big time Ferron is going to -show the stockmen of the county on Feb. 9th, at the 1st annual convention of the Emery County Stockraisers Association. As-sociation. A program will be given at 2 p. m., and a big free dance in ,the evening to all visitors. Supt. H. H. Cummings of the church ch-urch school system, made a trip into the county the fir3t of the week for the express purpose of visiting the Academy, but, the school not being in Session, and no public meetings being held, Prof. Cummings was not able to meet with any local people except informally. in-formally. The following board was"elected at the annual stockholders meeting of the Cottonwood Creek Consolidated Irrigation Co., held at Orangeville last Thursday: A. A. VanBuren and F!. R. Cox, representing Series "A"; J. W. Lake, and E. L. Peacock, representing Series "B"; and Ray Cox, representing Series "D". The board organized as follows: A. A. Van Buren, president; E. L. Peacock, vice-president; O. J. Sitterud, secretary-treasurer. Incidentally, Inci-dentally, Mr. Sitterud goes into office for the fifteenth time. Quite some record, eh, what! Ex-Representative and Mrs. Ira R. Browning are located in Salt Lake for the winter. The basketball tryout for this dist-trict dist-trict of the M. I. A. stake league, will be held here on Feb. 2d. The regular meeting of the Bay View Reading club, which should have been held last Wednesday, was postponed post-poned to next Wednesday. The local ice harvest is just about complete and no one could have wished for a better one or better weather wea-ther in which to put it up. The 91st quorum of seventy, comprising com-prising Castledale and Orangeville, will hold a quorum meeting in the Orangeville Or-angeville ward hall next Monday evening. ev-ening. Joseph F. Hanson, who has been laid up the greater part of the winter with typhoid, has suffered a backset after just being able to get around a little, and there was danger of pneumonia pneu-monia at last report. Pres. Victor Anderson of the local M. I. A. reports that the regular Mutual Mu-tual meetings will be resumed Sunday evening, when Miss Jessie Bird of the E. S. A. faculty will furnish a reading as a special feature. County Clerk W. G. Peacock jr, reports re-ports some ten or twelve filings for land under the new 640-acre stock-raisers stock-raisers homestead law recently passed by congress. The law appears in full in another column of this issue of the Progress. . We are in receipt of copies of several sev-eral bills introduced in the state senate, sen-ate, together with copies of the senate journal for the first ten days ot the session, by courtesy of Senator Don B. Colton, who represents this district as one of the three holdover Republican members of the senate. Many thanks! We were mistaken In crediting to our Representative Williams the resolution reso-lution Introduced in the legislature protesting to the department of agriculture agri-culture the contemplated raise in grazing fees on the national forests. It was representative Sylvester Williams Wil-liams of Wayne county who introduced introduc-ed the measure. - |