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Show SEWS F110M SPANISH FORK. Merry Making: "With Departing: MissionariesBeet Mission-ariesBeet Money Eag-erlv Looked for Bouncing- Babies Keep Coming: Other Items. Spanish Fork, Jan. SO. Correspondence Corres-pondence Dispatch. The main excitement ex-citement of last week was missionary socials and benefits. Wednesday evening, January 24th, the old time associates of Joseph Mark-ham Mark-ham met at the residence ot Howell Davis Jr., to spend a social evening before be-fore his departure to his missionary field. A dainty supper was served and the evening was spent in speeches, songs and social chat. Thursday evening, Heber Jex in vited his friends and associates to spend the evening at his father's resi-dence resi-dence where they had a most enjoyable time. Friday evening the members of the First ward met at Bishoo Gardner's and gave William C. Marteil a tenu ne surprise. Supper was served and the night was spent in dancing in tbe Iceland Ice-land hall. On tbe same evening a benefit ball was given in Nielson & Creer's hall in behalf of all the departing missionaries. mission-aries. But the climax was reached Saturday Satur-day evening wnen Lee Bradford invited his many friends and comrades to celebrate cele-brate his twenty-second birth day and join in having a general good time be fore his departure. The residences of both Pleasant, and SylveBter Bradford were occupied, and a most sumputoua feast was served. Wine and beer were plentiful, while high five was the prevailing pre-vailing game. All kinds of sinzing was indulged in, both choir and congregational con-gregational as well as solos, duetts, quartettB, Bexfidettes and octoettes. ,,Ye scribe" cannot remember when he spent a more enjoyable time. It was fun, fun, lun, from duefc e'en till the dawn of the Sabbath day, and the unanimous verdict was I never had such a nice time." It will be a solace to the boys when wandering among the dusky inhabitants of the Pacific ilea to look back upon the last few days they spent at home and the glorious times they had. Today the last farewells will have been 6poken and the boys will start upon their long journey, while all the people heartily say godspeed. Lee Bradford and Heel er C. Jex go to Australia, Joseph Markbam and Hial Hales to New Zeland and William C. Marteil to Great Britian. The second term of school is closed and never in the educational history of our city have better results been at tained. The enrollment in the thirteen thir-teen schools was 750, the average daily attendance of which was 83 per cent. A strong feeling is prevalent among our citizens against the proposed new school bill. Some of the farmers are vexed because be-cause they do not receive the rf-st of their money, and are at loss to know why it is withheld f cm them, as they are very much in need of a little cash just now. A number, however, have received their pay in full. The contracts have mostly been made for next fall's beet crop. Two of our elderly citizens, AVilliam Warner and Charles Warner, who have beeD ailiug for some time are both very low and are not expected to live. The democratic ranks are rapidly increasing, in-creasing, the bright eyed cherubs present pre-sent themselves so fast that we connot keep tally of them. The homes of John Jex, Pleasant J, Bradford and Owen J. Rowe have recently been made happy, the latter twice so. The latest arrival come to the home of Kocel Bradford, a few days ago in the form of a bouncing girl. Jashjer. |