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Show From Over the County Franklin on the North, Mendon on the West and Wells'ville in the South. FKANKL1N, Idaho, Oct. 28, 1900.-It 1900.-It Is very busy times up this way, and laborers aro very scarce. Heet raisers cannot get men to help gather their beets. Threshing Is going on but slowly slow-ly as the steam threshing machines cannot get coal for their engines, and there Is hardly any horse-power machines ma-chines going. A good many farmers are busy plowing and sowing fall grain, especially on their dry farms. The weather has been very much In their favor, and If the line weather w ill continue con-tinue a little longer, a large quantity of grain will be sown. Tomorrow Elder William Klrkup will leave us for awhile, as he has been called to till a mlsson in England. The stake Sunday schools will miss Hrothcr Klrkup very much, as ho has been for years the Stake Sunday School Superintendent, Super-intendent, and a very ctllclcnt man, for ho took a great Interest In the prosperity of the Sunday schools. Jt will be pretty hard to Unci a man to till his place. On Friday night a farewell entertainment was given to Hrothcr Klrkup. A line program, consisting of songs, recitations, speeches, was arranged ar-ranged and all had a line time together. togeth-er. May he have a good time while on his mission, and may he be as ef-llccnt ef-llccnt on his mission as he has been In the Interest of the Sunday schools. Today tho Sunday School union meets at Preston and a supcrinten-daut supcrinten-daut will be appointed to take Biother Kir kup's place. Last week we had a visit from Stephen Morgan, a brother of our esteemed es-teemed citizen, Samuel Morgan. Mr. Morgan Is from Callamus, Iowa, and Is a retired farmer, pretty well-to-do. lie Is on his way to Los Angeles, California, Cali-fornia, to visit a daughter who lives there. Mr. Morgan Is sixty-live years old and looks hale and hearty. On Monday of last week, another visitor made its appearance In Franklin, Frank-lin, arriving about 11 o'clock a. m. The young lady came to tho home of Wm. Goaslind, his wife presenting him with a line daughter. Mother and child are doing well, and Will, poor fellow, looks like he will get over the shock If he lives long enough. Miss Lillian Parkinson, ofllyrum, who Is teaching school at Whitney Is a visitor today with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs, I. II. Nash. She looks well and feels well. Franklin Is still on the Improve.ncw buildings going up. Dr. Statcs'snew house is very nearly completed, and It Is a line house nothing In Franklin compares with It. We hope tho Dr. and his wife will live long to enjoy it. |