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Show Fiti-Sil LOCALS. Text Thursday is the first day of our first spring month. A colony of Swedes lias recently arrived to take up land under the. Bear Kivcr Canal. Dun's Review shows that there is a steady improvement in all branches of industry. Pomologists in this vicinity are anticipating a heavy yield of all kinds of fruit next year. Nels Jensen, a prosperous young farmer of Park Valley, has been in town " this week on business and visiting relatives. Last Thursday, Feb. 22, our nation na-tion was once more called upon lo celebrate life birthday of its grandest grand-est and noblesc hero. This week, Rev. Johnson united in marriage two Swedes who came out with the new colony to settle on Uie Bear River Canal lands. The legislative committee has recommended that $1,000 be appropriated ap-propriated for Box Elder County roads. $4,000 was the amount asked for. The firemen seem to be perfectly delighted witii their brand new hook and ladder truck. We were not fortunate enough to see it out this week. An exchange says the wild ducks are already on their way north from their southern feeding grounds. This is taken as a sure sign of an early spring. Elder II. C. Boden's missionary field of labor has been change! from Birmingham Conference to Worchester Conference. Good reports re-ports of his health are received. A large number of school children, child-ren, both boys and girls, celebrated Washington's birthday 1ml id ay, by e i i j oy i n g a romping s k a to on the frozen streets which overflowed Wednesday night. There is a great deal of snow in the mountains east of here. The Utah Central train has been stuck for the past three days. There are four engines at work just this side of Kimball's trying to get the train through. Tribune. When buying groceries or other family necessities, patronize home merchants. Don't buy of traveling outfits claiming te represent some city house, forin nine cases out often, if you do, you will be in the same fix that, a number of farmers are in an adjoining county, who bought from traveling agents representing a Chicago house. The stuff they got proved worthless and some got none at all. Secretary C. C. Richards, who returned re-turned this week from Washington, said to a Herald reporter: "Everything "Every-thing is looking well for us. Tiie statehood bill will undoubtedly go through this session, and I would not be surprised if it were taken up any day now. We may expect to hear of the rcconstructi.m of the Utah commission very soon too, and other appointments for Utah need not be a surprise to the pco-pic." pco-pic." Win. Kotter" informed a Bug lkh reporter that he actually raised 050 bushels, of potatoes to an acie on the loamy Kotter farm just north of Brigham. U. K. Wilson, whose farm lies to the west of Mr. Kotter's, claims he has raised 800 bushels of fine potatoes to the acre. We have also been informed that 1,000 busluls have been raised from a slrgle acre in one year nt Bishop Barnard White's farm south of this city. A level-headed newspaper man says that tho editor is asked why he don't publish some of the scandal that floats about, or why he don't roast sotii'- certain citizen that has committed a misdeed. Oreal Se:tt, if the editor of the average nous-paper nous-paper publishbd ail that comes to his ears or what heknows has transpired, trans-pired, this world would he a realm j of woe and a field of c mtiotial combat, com-bat, A few in: lances which do rc-1 rc-1 ceivc the attention of the press a re only to sei ve as examples. The 1 average edit ir decrves praise v I not publishing more than he does. |
