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Show SPAH1SH FORK. The Ecclesiastical Board to Build a $35,000 Church. Some More Timely Talk Upon the Necessity of Having Hav-ing a Bank. Seven of Spanish Fork's Prominent Men to Leave on Foreign Missions. The ecclesiastical board of- the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints here has purchased a valuable piece of property on what is known as the East Bench, for the purpose of erecting a meting-house. On special occasions, and,' indeed nearly all tbe time, the present building is far too small to accommodate the worshippers. It was therefore decided to purchase a suitable piece of ground, ample in size, centrally located and in a commanding com-manding position. This was done. The site is on a shelving elevation, about three blocks east of Main street, and overlooks the entire valley. A dozen team are now at work grading the lot on which the house is to be built, also leveling the roads in the vicinity. The leading spirit in this, as iu nearly all other nutters of a public pub-lic character,is Bishop George D.Snell, who in all m.itters that, concern tin people takes a decided lead. The sales of the Youug Men's Cooperative Co-operative store amounts to $40,000 annually. an-nually. Add to this amount the immense im-mense sales of the Z. C. M. I., the Mercantile Co., Dahleys and numerous numer-ous small stores, together with the thousands of dollars handled in the purchase of stock, machinery, grain, sued, etc., and then thick that we have no bank; that all thtae big sums of money have to be 1 j.ied elsewhere, and then ask the question: '-Won't it pay some one to opeu a bank here?" The authorities of Spanish Fork don't seem to have the same trouble with the liquor-dealers here as do others oth-ers tlsewhere. Upwards of a year a?o Mr. John Rockhill procured a license to carry on the saloon business and as yet bo complaint has been filea against hfmfor violation of the liquor ordinance. ordi-nance. Ouu wide-awake Assessor and Collector, Col-lector, Nicholas Smith, is around again alter a very severe spell of sickness. It can be said with truth that no one holding his position has given such general gen-eral satisfactiou as he, notwithstanding notwithstand-ing the fact that all assessors and collectors col-lectors are iron-hearted. People traveling north or south find it very convenient to call at the store of Oran Lewis, situated in the northeastern part of town. He carries car-ries a heavy stock and sells his goods very low. The following named missionaries will start on a mission to Great Britain Brit-ain in a few days: John Moore. Samuel Sam-uel Brockbank. B. Argyle, David Williams, Wil-liams, Charles Evans, Morgan D. Warner and Jno. Banks. In Utah, in nearly every settlement, we have men who are practical horse dealers, fruit raisers and grain dealers, deal-ers, men who are known to be reliable. Is it not more profitable and wiser to encourage these honest men and thereby there-by help to build up the country than to trust those slick-tongued rascals whose chief aim is to enrich themselves them-selves by introducing spurious articles by false representation. Give them a wide berth, and save yourselves the mortification of being openly swindled by sharpers, who gather up your hard earned means and give you in return therefor an article of a very inferior grade. |