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Show . f MUNICIPAL OFFICEP.S. UTAH DRY FARMERS MEETIII6 . Mayor Richard Jefferies. Recorder E. M. Clark. Treasurer Mr. E. M. Halllday. ABRAHAM LINCOLN r LJ i - . Many Interesting Papers Are Read at Annual Convention of Mon Interested In Dry Farming. COUNCILMEN. George Hammo-- d, W. P. Hudson, R. M. Rydalch, A. J. Anderson, Eph. Rowberry. Provo, Utah. The State Dry Farm Game Warden John Hammond. association met here in annual ccm ventlon February 2. President LewGRANTSVILLE COMMERCIAL CLUB is A. Merrill made a very optimistic address on the conditions in this stats President J. C. Woodmanaee. Vlce-Preof the dry farm Industry, which li C. R. Rowberry. taow, said the president, established Secretary B. W. Black. on a safe basis. Treasurer Fred M. Cooper. L H. Grace of Nephl spoke on "The DIRECTORS. Profitable Size of a Dry Farm." This Tom Jennings, Alex Johnson, W. K. depends somewhat on the man, said ' Solenburg. Mr. Grace. The average size would Directors meet every second Tues- probably be 160 acres, with 80 acres day of month. Members meet every as a minimum and 250 as a maximum for one man and four horses. He gave third Tuesday of month. much valuable information on sum-pe- r fallowing and other, features of OFFICERS GRANTSVILLE DESERET the Importance of good cultivation; BANK. horses and Implements with IntelliPresident Eugene T. Woolley. gent work .was urged. Tice-PreLeo Johnson. Dr. Robert Stewart gave a lecture DIRECTORS. on The Most Profitable Vareity of C. Leroy Anderson, Robert T. Brown, Wheat for the Dry Farm." If wheat Is it must be Wdl J. Clark, J. Alfred Ellason, raised for bread-makin- g such kind as the baker wants, and Charles 8. Burston. Turkey Red wheat was the best, said Cashier Fred M. Cooper. Dr. Stewart, for bread-makin- g It . B. W. Schools Public Black. Supt makes bread equal to that manufactured In Minneapolis. Gold Coin and STATE OFFICERS. some of the softer varieties would U. S. Senator George Sutherland make good pastry, chicken feed and and Reed Smoot also for mixing with Turkey Red U. S. Congressman Joseph Howell. where a mixture is needed, Executive. 8ylvester Pierce of Gunnison spoke on "The Growing of ''Alfalfa on Dry Governor Wm. Spry. Farm Land in Juab County. He adSecretary of State C. S. Tingey. vised growing alfalfa for seed only on Auditor J. D. Jewkes. dry land; he had produced six to Attorney General A. R. Barnes District Attorney E. O. Leather-wood- . eight bushels an acre by seeding one and a half pounds of seed to the acre, planted in rows with the plant twentySupt Public Instruction A. C. Nel- -on Inches apart son. John Q. Adams of Logan talked on Librarian H. W. Griffith. the same subject basing his remarks Bank Examiner C. A. Glazier. on experience In Cache valley. On Coal Mine Inspector J. E. Pettit sandy soil, which was the soil moat Horticultural Inspector J. E. Tay- used for alfalfa, a crop of hay and a crop of seed was raised each season. lor. Carl R. Williams of the publicity Engineer Caleb Tanner. ' spoke on "Available Dry Pish and Game Commissioner P, bureau Lands In Utah." He estimated that W. Chambers. Pood and Dairy Commissioner Wil- there were about fifteen million acres available for dry farming in the state. lard Hansen, Jr. He urged that some means he adoptChemist Herman Harms. ed to thwart the efforts of dishonest Insurance Commissioner Willard locators, who located settlers on Done. greasewood and shad Scale land Veterinarian Dr. A. C. Young. which was not adapted to dry farming and resulted in loss to the individual and to the state by converting U. 8. LAND OFFICE. a boomer into a knocker, Federal Building. "The Next Dry Farm Congress," Register, E. D. R. Thompson; Re- was the subject talked on by Dr. John ceiver, M. M. Kalghn. A Widtsoe, president of tbe Interna-tiona- l He reDyr Farm congress. STATE BOARD OF LAND COMMISferred to the great advancement that SIONERS. had been made of late In dry farming by all the nations of the earth. These 61 City and County Building. conventions were for the purpose of W. D. Candland, Chairman. exchanging Ideas and learning about W. H. Farnsworth, Secretary. asked that, big delegaW. D. Candland, W. H. Thain, M. M. the art He tion be sent from Utah to the LethSteele and A. G. Glauque, Commisbridge, Canada, convention this year. sioners. There will be a great effort made at the Lethbridge convention to take COUNTY OFFICERS. the 1918 congress to Hungary, Austria, and other countries, and the County Commissioners Alms Swen- Utah delegation would strive to get son, Mercur, Utah; Joseph C. Orme, the convention for Salt Lake, and the , Tooele, Utah; Wm. J. Clark, Grants-vlll- larger the delegation the eaieer it will be to land the 1918 congress for Utah. ' D. M. Clerk County Ajax. "Reasons for the Summer Fallow in County Attorney Wm. 8. Marks. was Dr. Widtsoes Dry Farming, M. M. Bush. County Sheriff theme at the afternoon session. SumCounty Treasurer Samuel Johnson. mer fallowing not only gives the land a rest, but It tends to conserve the County Recorder Fred Bryan. moisture necessary for the growth of County Assessor Whiter James. the crop. County Physician J. A. Phipps. Hon. A. J. Stookey of Clover, Utah, Supt of Schools Lillian Rowberry. Commissioner of Roads Andrew spoke on the success of dry framing in Rush valley; Stephen L. Chlpman . Russell. of American Fork told of the "Suc. M. W. Horticultural Inspector Rycess of Dry Farming in Cedar Valdalch. , ley," and Hon. James W. Paxman of Surveyor E. 8. Bowman. Nephl spoke of the success achieved Imon Levan ridge in Juab county. IF YOU WANT TO KNOCK. GET provements of Wheat on the Dry A HAMMER. IF YOU WANT TO Farm by Selection and Breeding" wat HOLLER, GET A HORN. IF YOU the subject taken up by P. V. Car Nephl WANT TO BE A PROGRESSIVE don, superintendent after which a general discussion CITIZEN, WORKING FOR A BETTER GRANTSVILLE, SUBSCRIBE was Indulged In by the delegates. The officers elected for the ensuing FOR THE "REFLEX AT ONCE. year. are: Professor L. A Merrill of the Utah Agricultural college, pretl To keep parasites. Ignorance, super- dent; J. W. Paxman of Nephl, vice stition, malice, greed, trickery and president, and Carl R. .Williams oi crime out of the human family, spray Salt Lake, secretary. well with education. At the afternoon session Frank Love, charity, and' benevolencd is the cornerstone of Hinckley, a deelgate from Utah counall good; upon this stone erect the ty, spoke in favor of protection Im and advocated their propsga great throne of all good, "the School coyotes destruction. Mr House." He who indebts himself for tion Instead of their, declared that the coyote Hinckley tbe training of the child commends was a staunch .friend of the farmer the respect of everyone, while the yel- in destroying squirrels. Mr. Hincklow pages of history behold him as leys views were supported by Pro feasor E. D. Ball, one of the directors king of the good, of all mankind: of the Agricultural college, who said WANTED You to know that we that, in addlton to tne coyote, the have an L. C. Smith Typewriter that skunk and hawk were friends of the we will sell on easy terms. Machine farmer and should be protected. At state pays a bounty for has been used but a short time, with present the of coyotes, a system the killing two payments being made on same. which was declared by Mr. Hinckley Call at the REFLEX office and see it. and Professor Ball to be entirely $15 down and $10 per month takes it wrong. 1" -- J 1 dont what you want ask for it. We have it. a. Everybody should see our New Line of the latest, durable, reasonable, and undoubtedly the best line of New Earlv Spring Shoes ever shown in up-to-da- ville! ' ' . sub-statio- NEW TIME TABLE ON THE WESTERN PACIFIC. No. 1, going west, 2:65 p. m. No. 8, going west, 11:24 p. m. No. 2, going east, 2:66 p. m. No. 4, going east, 6:05 p. m. Miss Frances Donovan Grantsville i $ Utah Asserts Detective Tried to Kill Him. Indianapolis, Ind. Charge that he assaulted and attempted to kill Frank Mr. Ryan, president of the International Association of Bridge and Struo tural Iron Workers, were made in warrants issued Saturday night against Robert J. Fbster, a detective. -- Butter Thief a Bigamist. Fargo, ,N. D. A J. Murray, convict ed butter thief, who is charged with being a bigamist, was sentenced to five years in the state penitentiary on the theft charge. H. , ,! GRANTSVILLE s. e. te, CO-O- P. Where you gee good treatment, good goods, at good prices. , - . Hours are Dollars in this busy age. This is especially true In traveling. So In traveling east or west, north or south by rail, you plan to get to your destination in the SHORTEST POSSIBLE TIME; you want MODERN COMFORT, and you expect and require EVERY POSSIBLE MEASURE OF PROTECTION. Without these features travel la what General Sherman said war la. ism AFTC ON The Oregon Short Line and removed to Springfield to practice It "In 1846 I was once elected to the lower house of congress. Was not a From 1849 candidate tor to 1864, both Inclusive, practiced law more assiduously than ever before. Lincoln's, . Story of His' Life Always : erally in connection with the Union Pacific, Southern PaR. A N. Lines, desires to serve you cific and 0.-to all eastern points, the Pacific Coast and locally. these $76,000,000 is being expended in double-trackinlines west of the Missouri River; the block signal system for protection is being kept at the highest possible atate of effectiveness, and equipment and service are continually being Improved and brought to the latest standards of quality. Consult any g a Whig in politics and genthe Whig electoral ticket on making active canvasses. I was losing Interest In politics when the repeal of the Missouri compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then la pretty well known. "If any personal description of me la thought desirable. It may be said 1 am In Might six feet four Inches nearly, lean In fleshy weighing on an' average 180 pounds; dark complexion, with coarse black hair and gray eyes. No other1 marka or brands recollected. "Tours very truly, Oregon Short Line . F special Interest at this mo- ment Is the brief sketch of Ilfs Abraham Lincoln's which he furnished for pub-licatlon when he was pitted against Stephen A Doglss UUndteTtn for senator-o- f ' runs as follows : "I WSS born February 12, 1809, In Hardin county, Ky. My parents were both born Jn Virginia of undistinguished families second families perhaps I should say. My mother, who died In my tenth year, was iff a family of the name of Hanks, some of whom now reside In Adams, and others in Macon county. 111. My paternal grandfather, Abraham Lincoln,' emigrated from Rockingham county, Vs to Kentucky about 1781' or 1782, where, a year or two later, be Was killed by Indiana, not In battle, "but by stealth, when he was laboring to open a term In the forest- - Hla a castors, who were Quakers, went to Virginia from Berks county. Pa. An effort to Identify them with the New England family of the aame name ended In nothing mine definite than' a similarity of Christian names in both families, such as Enoch, Levi, Mords-ca- l, Solomon, Abraham' and the like. ! "My tether at the death of his tether was but 6 years pf age, and' h 4 grew up literally without education. He removed from Kentucky to what is now Spencer county, Ind in my eighth year. We reached our new home about the time the state came into the Union. It was a wild region, with many bears and other game animals still In the woods. There I grew There were some schools, up. but no qualification was ever required for a teacher beyond readln, wiltin' and cipherin to the rule of three. If a straggler supposed to understand Latin happened' to sojoute in the neighborhood he was looked upon as a wlsard. There was absolutely nothing to excite ambition, ter ' education. "Of course when I came of age I did not know much. Still,' somehow, 1 cofrld read, writ and cipher to the rule of three; but that was alL I have not been to school since. The little advance I now have upon this store of education I have picked up from time to time under the pressure of ' r necessity. 1 was raised to term work, which I continued, till .1 was 22. ' At 21 I came to Illinois and passed the first year in Macon county. Then I got to New Salem, at that time In Bam garnon, now1 Menard county, where I remained a year aa a sot of clerk In a afore. , Then asm the Black Hawk war, and I 'was elected a captain of volunteers, a success' which gave me more pleasure than any I have had alnoe. I went through the campaign; was elected, rqh ter the legislature the same year (1882) and was beaten thu only time 1 pave ever been beaten by the people. The next and three succeeding biennial elections I elected to the legislature. I was not a candidate afterward. During thla legislative period I had studied lav. . - A LINCOLN. Thla was written a couple of years before' he ran the first time for presie dent. The rest phrase is, "la history." Though Douglas beat him ter senator, the popular vote of the state was with him, as the legislative returns showed, namely, for Lincoln 126,048, for Douglas 12L940. In hla first campaign for tho presidency Lincoln received 180 of the SOS electoral votes, and had a plurality of 491,295 of tho popular vote In a total of 4.60898. In hla second campaign he received 212 electoral votes out of 288, leaving McClelMn only 81, and he had a dear majority of 411,428 in the popular vote. Thus, as In tbe tribute of London Punch, by Ton Taylor, the dramattat, when the assassin's bullet had laid him low, hla course add conduct of tbe war had been via- - ' representative when you are ready to travel. . f Perfect Team Work of Perfect.Units---Th- at as-th- 86 h grew up, a destined work to do. And Hvd to do It; four longfi suffering III Cat, in feeling, in report lived through, And then he heard the hlaeee change to is What Wins the Typewriter Game THE FIVE NEW-MODE- L. C. Smith & Bros. Typewriter LONG-WEARIN- (BALL-BEARIN- G) is a rare and unusual combination of mechanical features of superior excellence, each of which is designed, Firsti To do its individual woyk . better than it could be done in any other wayi and Secondi To work so smoothly and accurately, in' conjunction with all the others, that the completed result is just as perfect as die work of any indi vidual part That is what makes a typewriter, it is what justifies the overwhelming verdict of 150,000 users in ap proval of the L. G Smith and Bros Typewriter! it is why this typewriter does all kinds of work superlatively well without attachments and gives no disappointing results. good-workin- g His work was done, but he was cut off In his hour of triumph. - . EXPERIENCE NEW. TO LINCOLN k But Ho Had to Admit That Ono Tima Ho Got tho Wont of It in a ' Hors Trade. FRIEND, a prominent Illinois judgo, and Lincoln worn S'entf for free descriptive matter today LC. Smith & Bros. Typewriter Co. 38 West 3rd South St., Salt Lake Gty, Utah . bantering' bach other as to their knowledge horsee. of Tell you whet, Lincoln Judge,' quoted himself aa saying, TU test this thing with a real horse trade. Ill go It blind, too. Each of no must go, now, and bring his horse; and we are to swap oven. If either of us refuse the exchange, he must forfeit $26. "The Judge agreed. A crowd assembled while we sought the By ind by the Judge arrived with his the'bonlest, most sway backed, foundered, galled Jade, blind In both eyes, that I ever saw. I followed, with the carpenter's horse Td relied on. EvI knew the Joke erybody roared.-bu- t was. on me. "Madge 1 told him, TU stand by the bargain hut ith the first time rve ever got the wont of It la a hone Grantsville Fashionable Haberdasher The only complete line of Gents and Boys Furnishing in Town. Shoes and Underwear , For the whole Family. Never Uadersold. t . ts. trade.'" Grantsville Mercantile Co. Dr. J. C. PHYSICIAN . At Coatoduo failing, but folL i. . - Honor Ueo not ta la rteteg ovary time GRANTSVILLE office " : Day and Night, UTAH |