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Show TWO RUN-A-WAYS I UP AT LEWIST0N Town Will Spend $2,000 H on Its Streets. H Varied Lot of Items of H Considerable Interest. H IjKW-iston, May .'I. Two exciting ' M and ciulte destructive runaways oc- M currcd here jestcrday. As Samuel BH Kvans was coming up Main street on M his way fiom Richmond, he lnadvcrt- H ently drove on to some tough road M without slackening his speed, causing M a sack of Hour to be thrown from Ills M buggy. He turned his team around H and when In the act or replacing the M Hour they started like a Hash, leaving M Mr. Kvans In the road. They run for H more than a mile up the street at a B lively gait, and when Hearing the M Havball Mercantile company's store M turned" to tho left and went over the M platform and Ittslde tho tlcrall. Fur- BH ther up the road they went astride . BBJ some posts which aro used for tlcing BBJ purposes and got loose from the BBJ buggy. The team was caught on tho BBJ sidewalk In front of Mr. Egbert's BBJ place soon afterwards BBJ Mr Qulnncy, drummer for the .. C. BBJ M. I.,SaltLaKcclt, had just tied to BBJ the railing in front of Hayball's store BBJ and got Inside when Kvans's horses BBJ passed, Ills'cam Jjroke loose and BBJ ran north for about two and one-half ''H miles where they were caught by Mr BB Spackman, who had followed on horse- :BBJ iPBJ Both rigs were turned over during (lH the run and besides losing Hour, robes, iP etc. and having the tops broken otT, llPI they wero otherwise damaged. 'BBJ Road Improvements. H On Monday, April .'10, It was decided ,H by vote to levy a tax of one-hair of one BB per cent for the purpose of Improving BB. the roads in Lcwiston. This will ''PBJ amount to more than $2,000 and witli jBJ what the people are willing to do in 1'H the way of hauling gravel, etc. the !H worst roads should bu so drained that ''BB. thev will not be a continuous mud iBBJ hole cvciy spring. jBB An Accident. H A short time ago Amos Hodges had jBBJ the misfortune to lose the end of ono 11 of his lingers. A pig that he had in a 'H wagon Jumped over the side of the SH box, and In attempting to hold It, he 'Pl accldently got his linger between the Jl box and the iodo attached to tho pig, il cutting his linger oil clean Just below BB the nail. l!H Baseball. IBfl Tile Lowiston base ball team is IBfl starting outright tills season. They Bfl have been victorious in all the match Bfl games they have played so far. Last BH Saturday they played in Weston, and Bfl while the score was held below eight, , Bfl the game resulted In favor of Lewis- ton. Tuesday, May 1st, they played j the Clarkston boys, beating them easl- ? Bfl lv. Saturday tho Weston boys will IPX play u return game here. On Mod- i day the seventh and eighth grade boys il of Richmond defeated the boys of tho 11 samo grades hero on the Lcwiston 11 grounds IBfl General News Items. H Prof. John T. Miller, of the L. 1). S. Bfl Unlvcisity, lectured hero on Tuesday IBs and Wednesday evenings. Hehadra- Bfl ther slim turnouts on both nights, but Bfl those who attended were very much IBs Interested in his talks and felt paid BJ forgoing. It would be better If tho Bfl people In gcneial would cultivate Bfl more of an appetite for things of this BJ character so that they would bo Inter- Bfl ested In and receive more enjoyment Bfl from thoso things which aro Improv- BJ lug In their nature, rather than being Bfl so tied to the accumulation of the BJvJ temporary wealth of this world. Bfl Andersen & Andersen had a large BJ and expensive plato glass broken a BJ few nights ago. Some boxes had been Bfl left in front of tho window and It Is Bfl supposed that one of them was care- Bfl lessly tipped against the pane by some Bfl boys who wero playing on tho plat- Bfl form, .lust who did it is not known. Bfl Mrs. M. Slocks Is in Ogden for a jH short time. Tho occasion of her visit Bfl Is the birth of a son that came to her Bfl daughter's home a few days ago. Bfl Though in a dangerous condition for Bfl a while she Is reported as doing well Bfl now. HM A baby girl was born to William Bjl Jacobson and wlfo on Saturday of last; BJ week. All arc reported doing well. ipa il |