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Show i ? CORRESPONDENCE I SAHARA. Sahara, Utah, May IN. 1917. Messrs. Maker, I'oaree, and Miss Laura Hodrick took dinner with Mrs. fe S. A. Davis Thursday. 4H Mr. Reynolds is visiting his family fam-ily this week. Charles J. Helling! went to Enterprise Enter-prise for hay one day this week. Mr. Karl Markwith has received his patent for his claim. We are :lad of this, and we wish him the he.st of success in the years to come. ": -.'? t Shino, the .Jap section foreman who recently went to Japan, has returned, brinjrinjr with him one of Japan's dainty cherry blossom wives, and has returned to his former place as foreman fore-man at Sahara. We have radishes, turnips, peas, corn,, flax, sweet clover and sun flowers flow-ers up and jrrowinp fine in our par-dens par-dens and fields. Also our goose-berry bushes, recently acquired, are leafing out. It has recently come to your correspondent's corres-pondent's ear that some of our neighboring neigh-boring towns are laboring under a mistake with reference to our social gatherings. For the benefit of those to whom this report has gone I will state, as superintendent of Sunday School, that we positively do not dance after Sunday School is over. Also, we have made it a rule, strictly adhered ad-hered to since January 1, 1917, not to dance after midnight on Saturday nights. Altogethr, though we have no minister to lead us, we try to act civilized and Christianized and, will, in all probability continue soto act on to the end of the chapter. It seems to us "Hut a sorry trade" for a minister ' of the gospel to help spread a report like the one cited above, without first making careful Inquiry and verifying the facts. We have had the pleasure of feeding feed-ing quite a number of wild birds lately, late-ly, among which are noted quite a few mourning doves and a few ringed doves. Contrary to the general opinion, opin-ion, practically all, if not all, the birds found here on this part of the desert are friends, apd not enemies, of the farmers. Kven the several species spe-cies of hawks and owls do vastly more good than harm. We have frequently seen hawks with chislers and rabbits in their talons. It would seem to lie to our interest to make a special effort ef-fort to protect rather than destroy out-feathered out-feathered neighbors. One thing is certaina few crumbs scattered where cat or dog cannot molest, will soon bring a flock of songsters around your cabin and help materially to relieve re-lieve the dead monotony of sage and sand. An epidemic of tatting seems to have descended upon us. Wherever two or more of the gentle( ?) sex are gathered together, one is almost sure to see the shuttle flashing back and forth from nimble fingers. We have tried, but vainly so far, to get some of our young lady friends to give us lessons in tatting. So far all we have succeeded in getting is the icy glare. 1 However, we are firm believers in the old saw, "If at first you don't auc- I !," etc. 0 Messrs Foreman, Mryant Hedrick, Chas. Magnussen and "Pete" Corn are expecting to enter the employment ' of the Salt Lake Route soon. We are in receipt of a letter from FOBS Hoylsnd stating that, while he is not well, by any means, he hopes to be able to return to Sahara by June 1st. Friends of Mr. 0. C. Hutchcrsnn will be sorry to learn that he is at present suffering from a nervous break down, and is unable to attend to his business affairs. We saw our old friend "The O' Reiley" in town Sunday. This is the first time we have seen Michael for some weeks. He's as busy as an old hen scratching gravel. A little thin ner, perhaps, but full of the same old "blarney." We miss him at our club and Sunday School. ;: Saturday night was regular club night, but it looked so stormy and was so stormy that the president, a-fraid a-fraid of getting his feet wet, in which event, on account of their size, he would have been half wet all over, failed to put in his appearance, so 'the club had a real, genuine, jolly ' time. In spite of the stormy night a good turnout was registi red and a jolly dance was Indulged in until midnight. mid-night. While all this was going on the president was home kicking himself him-self because he was at home. :": a": The well diggers on the Helen Holmes place are reported to be having hav-ing a deuce of a time on account of the rock encountered. They are making mak-ing but slow progress. Mr. Guy Johnstone and Mr. Fork-ner Fork-ner are visiting in Milford this week. "Doc" Hoxie is planting the ground at Mountain Springs this season. He has in potatoes and 1,000 onion sets. The latter should bring him about $1,000.00 this fall, at the rate onions are soaring skyward. :,- a A man in Chicago recently paid $125 for a 10 pound box of cherries first on the market. The way times are at present, with thousands of our people being compelled to do without actual necessities of life, we think that a man who would squander that amount for the notoriety of purchasing purchas-ing the first box of cherries, should be made to eat box, cherries and all, box first. 600 stenographers wanted for the war. (News item.) The U. S. Commissary Com-missary had better lay in a heavy supply sup-ply of bon boni and chewing gum if the most efficient service is desired of the valliant 5,000. |