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Show ?t CITY AND COUNTY ? i , Items of Interest About People and Events. i Charles W. Mack, of Ogdcn, drove to Smlthtlcld Monday. We sell the Earth and Loan money on It. II. A. Pedersen &, Co. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Benson started for Ycll6wstone park on Saturday. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Carlson, Carl-son, of the Third ward, Sunday nlRht a boy. Mrs Thoebe Snow, of Salt Lake. Is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. J. A. McAllister. Ilebcr M. Smith, of Murray, camo to Logan Saturday night, returning Monday morning. Mrs. L. J. Bourne, guest of Mrs. Maud Hoblnson last week, returned to her home in Salt Lake City Sunday. A.E.Boveridge and wife returned to Salt Lake City Sunday. Mrs. Bever-Idge Bever-Idge has been making quite a stay in Logan. II. C. Hansen, who has been In Montana Mon-tana for some time on mining business, busi-ness, returned home Monday morning. morn-ing. Wellsville's railroad station is now nearlng completion. It will be a commodious com-modious building and fairly attractive in appearance. Irs. "Pete" Nelson, of the Fourth ward, returned Sunday from a six weeks visit with her sister, Mrs. J. B. Kelson at Bozeman, Mont., who returned re-turned with her. Arthur Fames, who Is now an employe em-ploye of the 'A. C. M. I., of Salt Lake, has moved his household goods to the state metropolis, where he will likely remain for some time. Rev. and Mrs. Martin Thomas left for Park City Saturday to spend a few days with their daughter, Mrs. Kemp. They will then attend Methodist conference con-ference at Salt Lake. Mrs. Lucy Cardon, of Logan, came to Kexburg on Tuesday morning to visit her daughter, Mrs. James A. Langton, who has been lll'the past week. Rexburg Standard. S. O. Stevens was up in Gentile valley val-ley the latter part of last week looking look-ing alter some threshing machinery. He says the frost has done great damage to the oats in that country. L. F. Moench went to Falrvlcw, Idaho, Monday morning to close the sale of two hundred acres of his farming farm-ing land at that place. He sold to Wilcox brothers, of this city, the consideration con-sideration being 80,000. J. U. Haderlle,mayor of Providence, was In Logan Monday. There is some doubt as to whither ho camo to deposit de-posit $10,000 made from crops this year or Just to see a certain charming widow In this city. Miss Etta Merrill, of Richmond, returned re-turned from lilackfoot Monday. She will go back to Blackfoot In a few days, having accepted a position in a commercial establishment at that place. Samuel Evans, of Lewlston, is acting as agent in Cache valley for the grain firm of W. O. Kay, Ogden. In three days ho-bought twenty thousand bushels of wheat, for which he paid fifty-seven cents. One dollar per hundred hun-dred is paid for clean white oats. Mr. and Mrs. John Stocks, of Lewis-ton, Lewis-ton, Cache valley, are expecting to move down here In about three weeks. Mr. Stocks will soon aftor lcavo for the east to study medicine but Mrs. Stocks will remain hero this winter with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Argyle. Davis County Clipper, Bountiful. Boun-tiful. Joseph Bethel returned Sunday from a two weeks stay at Brlgham City, where he and Hal Farr disposed of a stock of goods for Dunbar, Robinson & Co. Joo Is authority for the statement state-ment that the hailstorm at Hrigham city Saturday night destroyed a great amount of fruit, and was so severe In ono particular vicinity that a total of 77 dead sparrows were found under four trees. The hall wero of largo size and the storm terrlllc. Go to John II. Anderson's for barb wire. Joseph Pond, ono of the stake Presidency Presi-dency In Gentile Valley, was In Logan Monday. Misses Rose Llljcnqulst and Birdie Savage, of Hyrum, were visitors to Logan Monday. Mrs. Hanson, of Preston, who closed her. hotel owing to III health, will reopen re-open tho place Sppt. 1st. Practically no lucerne seed will bo threshed In Benson this year, the crop having been destroyed by hop-pers. hop-pers. George Lamb and wife returned from Canada last Thursday. Mr. Lamb thinks Alberta has a great future fu-ture before It. Bishop Martin Rlgby was loading wheat at Plant's spur on Monday, for which he paid sixty-two cents per bushel, loose. L. C. Miller, former manager of tho C. W. & M. Co., has been under quar-intlnc quar-intlnc for some tlmo past at his homo In Murray, his children having scarlet foyer. Mrs. N. R, Mooro Is at homo from a two weeks' stay at Soda Springs and Chesterfield. Miss Grace West, daughter daugh-ter of Charles West, returned with her. Mrs. Jos. Davidson went to Salt Lake Sunday on a visit. Joe got on the train with her at the Logan station sta-tion and expected to get off, but the train pulled out In a hurry and Mr. Davidson 'spent Sunday at Cacho Junction. Junc-tion. When passing through SmithUeld, lovers of wild animals should not fall to see tho exhibit at J. C. Harnett's. ne has one of tho best collections of wild animals west of the Missouri river, over one hundred alive or mounted. Mr. Barnctt takes great delight in showing his pets. F. J. Marshall and family are down from a two weeks' stay In Logan canyon. can-yon. Marshall says that there Is great fishing near Card canyon after one "gets onto" the holes In which the fish are, then learns what particular particu-lar delicacy they prefer and at what hour of the day they aro pleased to have their meals. It takes the average aver-age nature-fakir about three days to get next. N. G. Wright, of Paradise, was In Logan yesterday. and while hero sold his residence property. He has decided de-cided to stay on his ranch and take cire of the nine-pound girl that came to his home the other day. Just at present, however, Mr. Wright looks llko ho needs some one to take care of him, the left side of his faco and head being In a rather bad condition, tho rcsult of a fall from a horse a few days ago. A Ono eight and a half pound son was born to Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Cal-pin, Cal-pin, of Smlthtlcld, on Sunday. Mr. Calpln is the druggist at Smlthfleld, and friends near his place of business atllrm that during the hours beforo noon on Monday he made no less than soven trips to see the newly-born. It is predicted that Mr. Calpln will have the new-comer rolling pills In less than a year. There has been considerable talk Indulged In-dulged In about so many diphtheria cases In Rexburg. The Standard wishes to Inform Its readers that at tho present pres-ent time there Is only one case within the city limits and that case will bo cleaned up and out of quarantine In a few days. The caso referred to is at James A. Langton's residence. Ills llttlo girl has the dread disease, but Is now on tho road to recovery. Rexburg Rex-burg Standard Special salo on mens', ladies' and children's shoes, at J. II. Anderson's. i For thoso who have not yet viewed tho comet now In the northeastern heaveps, The Rkpuuuoan will stato that it will be at its brightest Tuesday Tues-day night, Sept 3rd, being then but 47,000,000 miles away from tho earth: Comets visible to the naked eye do not oomo around frequently and though ouc must be up between 3 a. m. and daylight In order to seo tills one, It Is well worth tho while. This particular comet Is the ono known as Daniel's comet at least that what astronomers say. It appears to bo eight or ten feet In length, but considering con-sidering that Its tall is made up of 100 trillion "specks" of burning lava, each speck larger thah tho political beo that gets Into men's bonnets about this time of year, It Is piobable that this heavenly visitor Is nearer 40,000,000 miles In length, On any night that Is not cloudy the comet Is visible at the time stated.1 Men Wanted Lewlston Sutfiir Factory. Fac-tory. Messrs. Lou and John Cardon wero. over In the Colllusion vicinity Sui,-1 day. Mls3 Sarah Merrill, county rccorde , returned 'Sunday from Portnmif iar-yon, iar-yon, whoie she had been with her brother Roy. Lcroy Reese, who has been In the! English mission Held tho past two years, left that country on the 14ti on ' his return trip home. Misses Virginia and Mary Has-musscn, Has-musscn, of Wcllsvllle, have Just returned re-turned from tho Yellowstone Park, whero they spent a most delightful tlmo. The wild (?) animals thcro held considerable Interest for them, and It was their pleasure to feed them "bushels" "bus-hels" of bread, tho animals coining Into camp for their rations. J. W. Crawford and family returned Saturday evening from a trip to Yellowstone- Park. They went properly equipped, took plenty of tlmo for the trip, had two weeks In tho park and enjoyed themselves to tho limit. On August 0 there was a very heavy snowfall snow-fall -and qulto a freeze In tho park. Mr. Crawford Is very enthusiastic over the Teton range of mountains. Ho Is bronzed like an Indian. Thomas E. Daniels, chief grand manipulator of electricity at Richmond, Rich-mond, Lewlston, Preston, Smlthtlcld, eto , camo down to Logan Monday just to get his breath. Lightning has been playing havoo with tho High Creek system recently, and Tom has had to put In day and night and Sunday, Sun-day, too. This last storm put the Trenton mill out of business for a time and upset things at tho Preston mill. A number of transformers along tho line wero burned out. Editor Augustus Caesar Gordon and friend King David have hied themselves them-selves away from Logan's skyscraper district and aro now among tho wilds of Salt Lake, or some other vastness, on a two weeks' vacation. When Gordon left tho Journal sanctum sanctorumtootcm It was with the firm |