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Show I BRIEF LOCAL NEWS B. i Thelma Williams and Tarie Lewis are helping with the holiday rush at i.he Mercantle Store. The Committtee on W.S.S. pledges are checking up the 1918 acount, to sec who have kept their pledges and who have not. What with high taxes, the influenza, influen-za, the redemption of W.S.S. pledges and the purchase of Liberty Bonds, added to the high cost of living, :t looks as if Old Santa Claus would not get much of a "look in" this year, in the majority of homes. Wc are in receipt of a letter from one of our Saharaites who went to Sunny California lookifr for work Mid climate, and he seems to think if he were only back in Sahara the world would look brighter. Lots of room here. All restrictions have leen removed from building projects and anyone desiring de-siring to erect new structures or extend ex-tend and improve existing buildings are at liberty to do so without the formality and inconvenience of applying ap-plying for a government permit. -- The local stores are beginning to put on a holiday appearance, with the displays of Christmas goods. The trade at the general stores, despite the influenza, continues very fair, but the cafes and bakeries, barber shops, millinery shops and other small bus-ness bus-ness establishments are feeling the pinch pretty keenly. William Smith, a local sheep man and a somewhat recent comer from Kane county, has developed pneumonia pneumo-nia after several days of influenza, and is reported in quite a serious condition. con-dition. He is being nursed at his home and is being given the best of medicul attention and care, ami a favorable fa-vorable turn is hoped for in the veiy near future. Due to the late start we obtained on this issue and the extra work en tailed in the delinquent tax-list, the copy for which did not begin arriving arriv-ing until Wednesday noon, this issue of thi' paper is a couple of days late. However, if no unforseen contingencies contingen-cies arise, we expect to be on a normal nor-mal basis and on time with our next issue. The influent! "may bend outlines out-lines of defense, bilt they don't break" and our readers will get their full number of issues, after all. |