Show NEWS ITEMS FROM BEAR RIVER CITY BEAR RIVER CITY feb 19 friday evening the daughters of pioneers gave their annual ball at the ward amusement anitis ement hall an unusually la large g crowd was in attendance and a most splendid time was had by those present old time dances were the feature of 0 the evening directed by J P christensen of elwood homemade home made beer and cookies were served many guests from out of town were present from the following places brigham city Tre tremonton onton monton elwood and honeyville about 50 people attended the farm bureau social and banquet held at ai the bear river high school saturday professor william peterson was the agricultural college was the speaker at the mutual improvement conjoint meeting sunday evening his subject being that of oe retaining land values professor peterson pointed out that we are allowing a mortgage to creep in on us year after year in vie the form of weeds and that it is costing the average farmer tor for cultivation who have this weed to tight fight just what the interest on a mortgage of from one to two hundred dollars paying ing an I 1 per cent interest annually would cost t he also spoke in regards to the destruction st and combating with the treacherous morning glory whitetop white while top and the purple top eads the professor further stated that the brown rat was making some very marked inroads into our state and that in one community in the southern part of the state they stated that the brown rat had cost them last year that one rat rait alone was found to have eaten chickens that they have already been seen as farnworth far north as brigham brig nam city mr petersen stated mr peterson appeared on the program in response to the request of the officers of the F farm arm bureau |