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Show of the, Hinh:iiii Bi'.'lrtin, lie re-' jx n'tts prosperous Limes down his way. The Three Mile Crc.-k people had ;i bi opening in their new brick meeting house, yesterday. A htrc crowd was r--.-tMit and they are reported as having liad a splendid time. The dispatches f-ay 5,000 miners and prospectors liave already ' Hocked into the new San Juan gold i fields, which are situated in the extremo southeastern corner of Utah. The entertainment at the Chapel Monday evening was quite unique. They had a Santa Clans house in stead of the customary Christmas I tree. The cantata proved a plea- j sunt success. Work on the upper room of the "Court House is progressing rapidly. The fire laddies are anxious for the place to be completed so they can get permanently settled in their new quarters. 0. J. Call, who has been teaching teach-ing school at Heber City for several months, is spending the holidays with his parents at Willard lie gave The JIltgi.er office a business call, Thursday. The Bugler's entire reportorical face of some stranger we will i ; i - quire if our eru.-ty old bachelor! friend, Milo-Zip. of the UrihUm '. Star, has been down there. j The Second ward people had a grand Lime eel el 'rating ;he holidays. Monday and Tuesday. CM, children's day they liad two line Christmas trees. Several hundred j children were present and enj vcd , themselves as only children free from this world's sorrows and can-s 1 can do. The two days' program ! proved a decided success. About ten years ago a certain young man, then of Ilrigham Cily, got married. A few days after this important event in his history, a cheap sale took place in town. lie embraced this favorable opportunity opportuni-ty to purchase three little boy's caps. These he hung in a conspicuous conspic-uous place in one of his rooms. Today To-day lie is the father of three little boys and no girls. Last Saturday vc printed invitations in-vitations for the City Council's ball. Monday, a few CYuneilmen met and decided on some vast changes in the wording of the "copy" furnished us, going so far 1 as to strike off the names of five gentlemen from the committees. This necessitated new invitations. Mayor Jensen and Councilman j Mad.-on came, t our ollh-e Monday to hnve the new invitations printed. Our olJiee was closed for a holiday and we were away. They ! hen listened to the entreaties oi" :hc third party and took the job elsewhere. There was a dance, in the'' First ward meeting house last evening. Did you catch a glimpse of big-hearted big-hearted old Santa? Trobably there is a last chance for you tomorrow. to-morrow. Advertising is like learning. A little is dangerous, Tn every newspaper news-paper man's experience the largest lar-gest advertiser is most pernmiont and finds least fault with the bills, says an exchange. We hear that the TfcmLh Tribunr and Logan Journal has each got out an elegant Christmas edition, but up to date we have not been fortunate enough to get a squint at either. There arc three or four big dry t goods boxes in the Hardware store, 'all chuck full of old text books, which have been taken in exchange for the new school hooks. There are probably several thousand in the lot. They will be shipped oast. ! force spent their holidays at the ; Capital this week. Our absence from home accounts for our not being up to our standard this week in the matter of local . happenings. Sheriff Loveland and County Prosecuting Attorney Jenson returned re-turned from their Terrace collecting collect-ing tmir, having taken in between and 'f'oOO from persons who had previously refused to pay this tax. That gas company which leased some of our best gas fields in this vicinity seems to have resigned its hold without much of an effort ef-fort to do anything with them. The leases were for six months, which have now expired. Scores of young men and young ladies of Brigham who are either attending school or who have employment in other places are at home with parents and friends enjoying their vacation amid the scenes of their childhood. One day this week a number of boys gathered on the square cast ; of the Court House and enjoyed a j lively game of base ball. There 50TEJ OF THB BUGLER. A happy: New Year to you all. Drop your 2's and mind your 3's now. Tomorrow is the first day of 18U3. The voting contest will close tonight to-night at S o'clock. The Hardware Co. has been , taking. stock this week. ! The first peals of the new bell rang out at 2:30 yesterday afternoon. after-noon. The case of Ann Burt vb. Roxcy Box will be heard in the District Court Jan. 5th. For rent. One I5x20jfoot build- ing for rent. Next Bugler office. 1 Only $5 a month. How about that proposed can- ning factory for next year? Will it be a go or not? j The First ward Sabbath schools had their dances Thursday afternoon after-noon and evening. j The vacation will end and most 1 was iiu snow on nit; grounti iiuu the day was warm and pleasant. How's that for midwinter? The most pleasant and profitable way to spend an evening hour Christmas week is to read Dickens' wonderful Christmas Carol. It is rated as the finest gem of its kind in the English language. We recommend rec-ommend it to our readers. Any common man, especially in a small town like Brigham, who takes it upon himself to "down" a local newspaper usually seos times when he deeply regrets his shortsightedness short-sightedness in waging war against a power which he has not trized up. An eastern exchange says: The wind bloweth, the farmer soweth, and the Lord knoweth that we are in need of our dues. So come a runnin'. ere we go a gunnin', we're not a funnin', this thing of dun-nin' dun-nin' gives us the everlastin' blues. of the schools will resume work 1 again next week. j One of the excitements of the; week was the arrival of the big; new town bell, Wednesday. i Money to loan, on farms with water right, at Hank of lirigham , City. O. G.Snow. Pn-sidi nt. The Fnnvt House has placed a ' new haeh in '.he liei 1. Jt will ply between town and tho depot. 1 We have m.tde arrangements I s,o , .-I n -v) 1 1 any number of ! en-,. : - rA.i Wd.ty. Order ; y . .- -- A d vcrti.-'i ng is t- 1 1 , - I 1 team power is lo :n ' grand motive : mask ball two weeks J i' 1 pi !., night. The Christensen Lr. 1 frehestra. of Ogden, will have i j.nursaay,ine iumsiiuu umeroi Featherweight Praternalists issued a poorly-punctuated and badly-spelled badly-spelled warning of dreadful por-port! por-port! It actually stated it had names of certain office holders in its possession posses-sion and that they were being watched!?!?! Lord help the poor othec holders. Ne:;t Monday evening a benefit dunce will be given in the First ward school house. H. P. Spoilsman Spoils-man is in charge. The proceeds wiil be used in defraying the expenses ex-penses of some old folks from Europe. Everyone is invited. Tickets, 25 cents. We are informed that several wags of this city clubbed together and purchased a complete toilet outfit, and that it was presented as a Christmas present to a certain individual in-dividual of this city who has the reputation of taking only about three baths during the year. elurge. i'iie tannery is b.-ing fixed up for the wool pulling business wc h we already referred to in scv-eal scv-eal previous issues. We understand there is a poor, ; Scandinavian woman in town who has twins she would like to place in good hands. i A handsome iron fence is being placed around O. (i. Snow's premis , es. This will fidd greatly to the appearance of the place. The Salt Lake liberty pohyaised three years ago by the Liberal party, blew down, Thursday night. Prob-aMv Prob-aMv that augurs the downfall of ih" party in Salt Lake County. Vinn in Salt Lake, Sunday, we hid the pleasure of meeting Captain Cap-tain Wutts, the high mucky muck Wc have experienced this week some phenomenal Christmas weather. All snow disappeared from the face of the earth and tho sun shone warm, bright and cheerful. cheer-ful. It really appeared as though sprightly Spring had uprooted and frightened hoary old Winter away. ! This week the cnterprisingTir'n 1 of lioothe tfc Peirce has sent out , some forty or fifty cute little ' baskets of candy, each basket cor.- t'lining a card with the com pi i-, i-, mcnts of the season printed thereon. They make very neat little presents and were sent lo their best patrons. They say truth cuts deeper than lizard stings. Sometimes in telling the truth you unconsciously strike your best friends. Next time we 1 tell of a Provo girl spitting in the |