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Show Benson Bits. BENSON WARD, July 10, 11KKI.-We 11KKI.-We people who havo been traveling a long wajs to get to Logan want to to make It In less tlmo and propose to open up a short cut through the fields, I If possible. There has been talk of I the O. S, L. making a short cut across tho valley, but they are too slow for j us besides wo want a shorter wagon road. Will write jou more about this 1 later. i Wc are happy and contented hero, no sickness worth mentioning partlcu- larly, our only real atlllcllon being peddlers und book agents How ever, 'most eery Jamlly now has a band of trained mosquitoes that are turned I loose on such offenders, and they grow Iojs every day. Our beets tire superUne at present, I wn haegood crops generally, also the vhooplng cough. t Wo need help In the harvest Bold and would suggest that Idle laborers elsewhere could eomo here with profit to themselves and to us. We have already al-ready imported many Jap, but It's always better to export than Import. At the election on Monday of last week Yacob Yorgensen was'olcctcd to succeed T. II Reese as school trustee. Wc expect Jake to sec to It qpw that we get two or three fine new school buildings. There Is every prospect of getting a beet spur some day. The farmers have been promised that when they plant beets a spur will bo built, and it seems to us vc'ro getting In lots of beets. This section Is sutllclcntly metropolitan metropol-itan to have n dally nlcat wagon, a weekly call from the laundry wagon, and an occasional visit from the tailor and shoemaker Most of tho residences In this section sec-tion have been supplied with telephones, tele-phones, and wc alwajs have had some of this grapevine wireless telegraphy Horsemen hae bced In this vicinity recently buying up all the good animals ani-mals Fair prices have been paid. Benson is going to celebrate on the Twenty-fourth. |