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Show The llume cr'sing the sidewalk on Main Street in front of the Pavilion Pa-vilion needs repairing. Fr Meals a'id Lunches: the Uakery is the only place in t"Tvn. There was a leak in the water- 1 works pipe on south Main Street ( this week. It was promptly re- I paired by Superintendent Olson. j Attorney 13. IT. Jones could no longer resist the temptaliun to "blow" himself and is now numbered num-bered among our happy bicycling 1 fraternity. The selection of Pruf.J. II. I'aul for President of the Agricultural College Col-lege of Utah is a mighty good one. As an enthusiastic and progressive educator. Prof. Paul has few peers in the west. There was a pleasant ice cream party given at the home of Axel Chri.stcnsen, Sunday evening, by his son Christian. A large crowd of friends were present and all enjoyed en-joyed themselves together. Miss Ora Gates and Miss Alice Green, the new teachers of the Presbyterian school in Brigham City, have accepted work in other parts of the Territory. Two other ladies will take charge of the school. The Millard Progress treats its readers with the following significant signifi-cant threat: Stay with your county paper, patronize it liberally and do not hang back with your subscriptions. subscrip-tions. The tone of the paper will, in a great measure, be in accord with the support it receives. The question now agitating the fruit growers of Utah is '"Does spraying fruit poison the fruit?'' Some say it does while others say The Republicans will hold a convention con-vention Monday. June 11. Have you tried the tine Suda ' Water at the City Drug Store? t J. M. Harris of Blind Springs was seen on our streets- one day J this week. JJuii't forget that a good ad. ad- vertising a gwd article, should be run in a good paper. Printers' Ink. ' i Cash paid for wool and pelts. I Inquire of John Y. HicJi at Bank, of Brigham City or at the old Tan- j nery building in Fourth Ward, t ! An exchange says that grated 1 horse radish root held in the hand until it becomes a little warm and then vigorously snuffed up the nostrils will cure nervous headache. head-ache. That tenderfoot who had hold of the public telephone Wednesday morning ought to have been run in , for disiurbing the peace of the community for three blocks around. A man with such a resounding voice, we would naturally think, would have no use for a telephone. The "City of Homes" was well represented at the brilliant A. C. ball Thursday evening. Among the belles and beaux from Brigham Brig-ham City present we noticed Misses Ralph, Lambert and Knsigu, and Messrs. Ren Stohl, Homer Rich, Henry Kotter and 'Toot" Wilson. Logan Journal. A Lake Side farmer tells it as a fact that when carp get hungry they will wiggle out on the bank, fill up on green lucern, Hop back into the pond and go swimming about as if nothing unusual had occurred. Any of our contempora- IV'Wii in the backwoods of the FUt Waid some good old fellows' are .-till found staking their sheep ! on the sidewalks. j The Co-op has a change of ad on I second page today. They are of- j fering some eye-openers in prices i on u ire and nails. The latest quarterly report of City Sexton Lorenzo Burt shows , eight deaths during the months of March, April and May. ! Mrs. F. G. Brown of Promontory, j gave birth to a 10 pound girl Tues- day morning at 4:'.Q o'clock. Mother and baby doing nicely. j Art Boot he captured a young coyote at Jiear River this week. , It was brought to town and exhibited exhibit-ed on our streets from a wagon to many curious spectators. The Bakery is the only place in town where they serve fresh homemade home-made cakes with their ice cream, f J. Peter Lai-sen, the artistic young painter of the Second Ward, has rented the vacant building on Main Street half block north of the Court House, where he has opened up a paint shop. Mr. Larsen seems to have all the work he can handle. This week a doctor came up from Ogden and successfully removed re-moved a piece of dead bone from the jaw of a child of Mr. and Mrs. Nels Madsen. The jaw had been terribly swollen for sometime, but since the operation the child seems to he improving. Wc arc informed that a match bicycle race is being arranged for July 4th between E. W. Dunn, J. Y. Rich and J. C. Knudson. Each is to put up $5. The place for run-nimr run-nimr the race has not vet been de- Monday evening Mrs. Riley j Kent v-eut to Bear Lake. here her father is sick. Several patches of snow are still distinctly observable on the prominent promi-nent pate of Boxelder Peak. Govs. Waite and Peunover ought to go on the stage now. The twain would draw better than did Booth and Barrett. Ephraim Johnson seems to be recovering very slowly from his recent attack of sickness. He was reported worse this week. The lumber is being collected on the grounds in preparation for the erection ot a fine barn by 0. G. Snow at the rear of his imposing residence. If the local Dog Catcher gets if 1.25 for every cur in town, lie no doubt comes near handling as much money during the year as the I cashier in the bank. The outskirts of the city are alive with dogs. D. A. Sanders of Farmington, w ho ow n s se vera 1 h u n d red acres of good farm land in the vicinity of Plymouth, was in town Thursday Thurs-day on his way north to look after his property. One day this week M. L. Ensign was out in his garden with a little pump he has, and in three hours sprayed 175 trees. At this rate, one man could easily spray 500 trees a day. So five cents a tree would be ample remuneration for sprayers. We received this week, too late for publication in today's Bugler, an interesting letter from Wilford Reeder in which he narrates the recent impressive Decoration Day services at the famous battlefield of Gettysburg. The letter is dated at Quincy, Pa., Juno 1. Judging from the appearance of the milch cowsdnring the last week or more, one would think the herd boys were vieing with each other as to who could drive his cows into in-to the deepest mud puddles. Most of the cows are filthy with mud nearly up to their backs. This makes it very disagreeable for the milkers. Alfonzo Burt, formerly of Brigham Brig-ham City, was badly injured in Sal t La ke a fe w day a ago by a drunken fellow assaulting him with a stone, because Burt refused to give his assailant money. Burt was taken to a hospital, where he was seen by relatives from Brigham. He was able to be on the streets a few days later. The street sprinkler will be started next week. There were 22 teachers present at the examination, yesterday. M. M. Faulkner was this weidc engaged engag-ed in doing some sign pointing for Uors-ley Uors-ley & Sons, on one o( their buildings on Main Street. We are indebted to Secretary George Walking for the account of the S.S. Conference Con-ference proceedings which appear in today's to-day's Bl OLEll, Mrs. Lewis Feck presented her husband hus-band with a fine little girl, Thursday evening. This makes four l'ecks in nil in the family bushel. Selectman T. II, Blackburn expects to leave this morning for l'ark City, where he is going on business connected with the County Court. Sidney Biddle has been very sick this week with rheumatism and lung trouble, lie came up to the shop lo work one day, but hail to be carried home in a buggy. Tlie rain storm the latter part of this week is worth thousands of dollars to our farmers. In some localities the hot sun and drying winds were beginning to burn out the grain crops, but tins opportune oppor-tune spell of dampness will probably help most of the dry farmers to tide over the hot season and gain profitable crops this fall. Yesterday, Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Torhen-?en Torhen-?en were in from Snowville on business. Mr. Torhensen says the recent storms I have not readied as far west ns Snowville Snow-ville and consequently the props out that way are not very prosperous. He hopes tho storm of Thursday night spread over the central and western part of the county, which would be as1 good as hundreds of dollars in the bins of the farmers. it does not. The future will prove which is'correct; but as California got rid of worms and insects by constant spraying for a number of years, we feel that the verdict will he that it does not. Park City Record, The local company of the Utah guards were out on drill Monday , evening. They were joined about 10 o'clock by acrowd of serenaders. The aggregation marched to the Bakery, Bak-ery, where Peter "set 'em up." They then serenaded First Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Steed, who appeared and gave the boys a patriotic speech. They soon after disbanded for the night. Messrs. John Morgan and T. L. Davis, formerly of Willard but now of Promontory, gave Tiir BuoMiH ofiice a business call.. Wednesday. They were on their way back to Promontory from Willard. where they attended the fare-well party, Tuesday night, of W. E. Cole, who left for West Point, Friday. There were about a hundred persons present pres-ent at the sociable and a good time was enjoyed by all. A destructive worm, new tothcae parts, is appearing in some of the strawberry patches in town. The worm does not touch the berries, but contents himself with devouring devour-ing the leaves, leaving behind little else but bare stalks and the berries, which fall off before maturity. The worm is of a greenish color and is three quarters of an inch in length. Ho finally spins a web similar to the leaf caterpillar and curls up in the leaf, where he probably dies. Spraying in the right season will destroy all such pests. The subject of irrigation is becoming be-coming an important one in this Territory and is receiving careful consideration at the hands of both individuals and corporations. It is very evidont that a few more years will sec irrigation facilities in Utah more than doubled, and thousands of acres of good land now idle brought under cultivation. cultiva-tion. Water is the life-giving lluid that nourishes all things, and once it is brought under perfect control ! in this Territory the good it will j accomplish can not now be esti- mated. Park licconl. Chief Pratt has inaugurated a crusade on the bloomers and divided divid-ed skirts, as far as women of the town aro concerned, and acting ; under his inst ructions Captain j Donovan has served notice upon ; the demi monde that hereafter they will not be allowed to appear upon ; the public thoroughfares or In iho ' parks, or on foot or astride bicycles clad in bloomer?. Tin pace wa . set by several society ladies and j the problems were nut slow in adopting a fashion which gave them such opportunities. They bave carried the thing so far as to be disgusting. S. I,, Ifcml.l. cided upon. The distance will be two miles and a half. A gentleman came in this week and purchased an even hundred mining location notices from The Bi'oi.eu office. The boys mean business this spring and are doing considerable prospecting in the hills east of Brigham; also in the western part of our county. John Hailing, an old gentleman of the Fourth Ward, died early Monday morning. Although he was quite aged and has been rather feeble for a considerable length of time, the news of his death came with a shock to his relations. The funeral services were held, Wed-nesda-, after which the body was interred in the Brigham City cemetery. ceme-tery. News continues to come in of disaster and death caused by floods in the Fast and in the West. While sympathizing with the sufferers it is but natural that we who live in Utah should rejoice that our lot "has been cast in a land that is exempt ex-empt from the destructive ravages of the elements peculiar to nearly every other section of the United States. Ogden Press. Wm. Zenor, age 82, died of heart disease near Corinne, Saturday. He had been out fishing from the banks of Bear River. While returning re-turning home he suddenly dropped stone dead. The corpse was afterwards after-wards found stretched upon the ground, lying upon the string of lish the old gentleman had recently recent-ly caught in the river. Impressive funeral services were held in Corinne Cor-inne next day. There was a disgraceful fight on Central street last evening between two women, an aunt and a niece. It happened over some trouble between be-tween their children. They stood up and knocked each other with clinched fists like men until both were bloody. One also received a badly scratched cheek. No warrants war-rants have been sworn out against them, but if such a disgrace happens hap-pens again they will both appear in the police court. Provo Enquirer. A party of serenaders were passing pass-ing down south Main Street Monday Mon-day night. Near Mayor Peters' residence their sensitive olfactories detected an odor as of burning clothes. Following the scent they soon came upon a blazing carpet which had fallen down into an ash heap near the fence. The boys extinguished ex-tinguished the (lames before thev . reached the fence, and went on I i heir way mingling the sweet ' strains of the guitar and their own : melodious voices with the soft ! sighing of the night winds through j the trees. When the Mayor's I family awoke next morning they were no doubt grateful fur the Christian act of the midnight sere i nader.-;. ries got an opening for a first-class snake editor? Jno. T. Hanson writes from Deweyville: ''My Bugler did not come this week. Please send it, as 1 cannot get along without it." We would like to know if the postmaster post-master up there will swear on a stack of of almanacs thatTiiK Bimu.eks of the date mentioned never arrived ar-rived in the Deweyville office. This week Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Becks tead of Swan Lake, Idaho, were in town visiting relatives and on business. Mr. Becks tead says the crops and grass up his way look much better than at this time last year. A few days ago he disposed of a number of stock at very fair prices. Thursday, quite a number of Scandinavians met in Gidney 's grove, where they celebrated "Holy Day." This day is to them what Independence Day is to Americans. A program was rendered, consisting consist-ing of songs, speeches, etc. The picnicing was an especially interesting in-teresting feature of the proceedings. Bishop Carl Jensen was over from Bear River City, Saturday. He reports that prosperity perches j high up on the ladder of labor out that way. But the river is rising fast and becoming quite threatening. threaten-ing. Some low tracts of wheat land of several acres in extent have been inundated a f e w m i 1 cs north of Bear River City. But it is thought the damage will only be slight. All changes of advertisements ahould be handed in not later than the Wednesday before the Saturday Satur-day in which the change is to appear. ap-pear. If the business men will bear this in mind and see to handing hand-ing their copy in early in the week wo wili have more time to get up better ads for you, and it will save us much rush and hard work on press days. Thomas Slatter has one of the largest and most productive strawberry straw-berry patches in Brigham. The berries have been ripe for over a week and the vines arc literally loaded down with the luscious berries in every stage from the blossom t the ripened fruit. Mr, Slatter also has a large number of the finest looking blackberry bushes bush-es in town, all of which are covered with beautiful white blossoms. A work train and freight train on the Union Pacific collided in n deep cut about two miles west of Wahnatch on Tuesday at noon, j Two of the crew of the work train t were killed and seven injured. One I of the latter has since died and two are in a critical condition. Four cars were entirely demolished and. j one engine dismounted. The injured in-jured were taked to Ogden. The wreck occur red through a mis-' mis-' understanding of the Ijagging slg-rals. slg-rals. Coalville i'hr-micte. i A small blaze occurred about t I o'clock Tuesday morning in a bed 1 on north Main Street, just south of , Julius Smith's home. The lire bell aroused a good majiy people, the 1 firemen among the number, who were quite disgusted when they pulled up out of breath to tie.d it was nothing but an old shed fire that had got them out of bed so early in the morning. The lo--s , was but a few dollars, eoeend by insurance. The place Ivlong- to i Frederick Poulson, commonly ; known as "'liatuhkho-jn." |