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Show MIDWAY MUSINGS. A Spicy Budget From This Thriving: Thriv-ing: Place. Correspondence of 'The DisPATcn. We aie petting up in the world really and truly. .Not only in farming and stock raising, school teaching and mining, even in sporting we are coming com-ing to the front and are bidding fair to occupy "opera chairs" after a while. Our ambition is that of the noble hero Achilles, 'always to be to the front and eminent shine above others," as I made bold t' render the Homeric hexameter. Midway is bound to make headway, leaving all her neighbors and competitors a long way behind in the race. Last week some gentlemen were up here from Lehi. lecturing about the culture of beets for the manufacture of home sugar and the consequent support sup-port of home industry. Free seed was distributed among'the audience, but I doubt whether any beets will be raised here beyond "the needs of domestic do-mestic consumptinn, as in fact the raising of roots has heretofore been somewhat neglected, so that last season sea-son the local demand exceeded the home supply. Last week, Ulricu and Gottfried Buchler. with others, and their families, fam-ilies, left for Logan to attend to some Temple work in behalf of dead relatives rela-tives and friends. While the industrious tillers of the soil are busy completing their plowing and sowing operations, preparatory for the harvests which promise remunerative remu-nerative abundance, one crop is being be-ing garnered copiously. It is "Utah's best crop." In one week alone I recorded re-corded three babies to swell our census, and all of them boys, to be come Aldermen in the city of Midway in the near future. The respective happv "daddies" are Jacob Kummer, I oh if M wry and Moroni Gerber. By the way, the births, this year, are largely of the male majority. Probably Prob-ably because we have a daily mail (?). Or is it to prepare tor the exig;-ncies'of the town of Midway, for the incorporation incorpor-ation of a petition which has been signed by :.u overwhelming majority of those directly interested, so that we are fairly sure that the county court at its session on the first Monday Mon-day in June, will give us ;jthe patr'aiciijd !.! sshi-;"1 .and nffi.-uil sanction too: r munvienl emancpii! ion ami fist d: ( f "self-govrrnment." The j-r.Viit. sei;...:l in lie public school i-ou-e (a coiiliniiaf ion of she winter course o! the pa! a;.d an intro-inctoi: intro-inctoi: io '.he e lr.i.' g sc'-'olastie y ear) continues iu f';:or. the av ya; -e attendance at-tendance being Ml. gnuh'tl all the w ay from char', up t. fourth reader. Special Spe-cial attention s paid to a thorough instruction in Utah geography, or rati er 'Utahgraphy," the chapter in Appleton's large "geography being supplemented frm other sources, such as Wo-it's excellent map, the D. & R. G. W. R. R. Co.'s handsome pamphlet on -The Yaiie'.s cf the Gieat Salt Lake," "The Handbook of Reference" Refer-ence" and ot! er available matter helping in the inquisition oi' a uioie than shallow knowledge (if the Territory Terri-tory in which the children live and have their being, and where most of them will probably die. With improvement in the weather there is an improvement in the state of health. Everylhing hxk.s lovely, everybody feels hopeful, and the noose h-.mgs high, but not too much but what I can pluck a quill and subscribe sub-scribe myself. Lko ILv.mxi. MiSWAYj W&natch County, May 11. |