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Show Franklin Items. Little Squibs Telling of Improvements Improve-ments and Sickness. Fuankmn, Idaho, Feb. 10. The weather here during tho past week or so has been very cold One night It was down to 22 degrees below zero. It Is now considerably warmer. The snow Is melting fast and sleighing, Is done for. Business Is rather dull. The good people of Nashville, a pait of Franklin one mite north-east, are going to build a lock school house and meeting house combined, 23x40, Just across the Lovvlston canal. Mr. Abiahain Whitehead has donated one foutth of an acre of land to build it on. Many perches of rock have been hauled haul-ed on tho giound already. They will commence building as soon as the weather Is favorable, improvements aie In contemplation such as bilck houses and so you can see that wo are not going backward anyhow. Our joung.folks are waking up In earnest and sec the necessity of Franklin getting get-ting out of the old way of doing business busi-ness and commencing to Improve. Success to them. Wo have still some sicklies among us, especially among children, such as colds, lagilppc, pneumonia and tluo.it diseases. We had a couple of cases of measles but It is all gono from our midst. We had one death of pneumonia pneu-monia this week. The 10 months old baby boy of Brother Parley and Ruth Hecley, died on Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock. It was their llrst baby. We deeply sympathize, with them in their beieavemcnt. Mr. William Whitehead, one of our lumber men, is putting up a steam lumber mlll.atChenyville, about two and half miles from cast of town. It Is a good site on the road from three canyons. As soon as spi Ing opens It will be In operation. That Is one Improvement Im-provement In Franklin. Sister Shnmway, the wife of our ie-spected ie-spected pioneer, Bro. Andrew T. Shumvvay, has been very sick for a good while but she Is now slowly Improving. Im-proving. On the 14th, Valentine day, the young rolks of Franklin had a mas-quciadc mas-quciadc ball. They had a good time and a full house. Eltieis Win. Mctulenhall and James Held weie down from Gentile Valley visiting theh relatives and ft lends on Wednesday. Thcj went home Friday. Brother and Slstei William Albis-ton's Albis-ton's little boy, 13 months old, Is very low with pneumonia, and David Nash's little baby girl Is sick with tonsllltls. Wo hope the two little ones will iccovcr. Elder Isaac II. Nash, ex-assessor of Oneida county, with his wlfo and two children, are gone on a visit to Big-timber, Big-timber, Montana, to Bro. and Slstir Israel West's, father and mother of Sister Nash. |