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Show I Insoh PEOPLE I BENEFITED . I; fig, ;lNSON, Oct. 28. The closing of leA. C. U. and the D. Y. C. has 'Hi the means of affording the Ben oav farmers a good deal of help In harvesting of their sugar beets, M'thls work has been of much ad-IMtee ad-IMtee to the young men who have fcWsfrom different parts ot the '. osntry in affording them an oppor- ' salty ot earning good wages while '' iMble to attend school. These wing people who nave come In from k different farming communities i W capable and energetic workers a as far aa we hate been able to Mrs are of good character. 8ome Kg spoken. in eulogistic terms ot Miadustrlous aad progressive splr-tfltt splr-tfltt the farmers In this locality. J lo far the health ot the people ot kpson Is generally good. However i.W. Reese and family have all had ,E influenza but are now convales-jlt, convales-jlt, we are very pleased to stats. '' ujjfcelng quarantined they have had Vwery Inconvenient experience and j jflbelng unable to work It has been Moss to htm as ho 'and his four Mb make a strong force In the har-Stlng har-Stlng ot his bast crop. jaBefore mo Is a picture of the bat-flfin bat-flfin Franco where our young Mend M. J. Falslav Jr. was wound-m wound-m He clipped it from a Paris pa- Jflr per and enclosed It to his parents. He states In his lotter that he Is feeling tine and again on the Job of fighting the Germans. W. O. ReeBe recently received a letter from Ltout. N. E. Munk in which "Mr. Munk states that ho Is feeling tine although there were in tho 'camp of 60,000 men, 3500 afflicted af-flicted with tho "flu" but hopes were entertained that the disease would soon be under control. Very few casualties were occurlng in the camp. In a letter to bis parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse T. Reese, Lavern states that he Is teaching electricity to a class In Prance. Ho la feeling fine. As far aa we know the boys who have gone from Benson write encouraging en-couraging letters home. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Reese received receiv-ed word last week from Pocatello that their son Guy L. and his wife and son were very ill with Influenza, Influen-za, and that Edmund Round?, brother-in-law ot Guy's wlfo, had died In the same house where they were HI. Of course the parents felt considerable con-siderable concern but word came later lat-er that all were en that Improve. (The death of Bert Cartwrlght came as a great shock to his Benson friends of whom he had a good mauy. Ths writer first mot Elhler Cartwrlght In Auckland where ho was laboring as a missionary. As It was his week for house keoplng ho prepared the dinner for tho 'elders who Just Arrived to labor In Now Zealand and also for those who were on their way to Australia, His courteous treatment won the good will of the elders and the same disposition dis-position has made for him at home hundreds ot warm friends. We are among those who mourn his loss for It is surely a great loss to have a worthy man taken from a community commun-ity Just in the prime of life. The many deaths that are occurlng among us certainly gives evidence that wa are living In "perilous times." Mrs. C. WY Anderson is still In the hospital but she Is getting along splendidly and feels that she Is ready now to return home. However Howev-er It Is thought best that she stay awhile lo'nger until she has entlrelly 'recovered. i . I While we had the Indian sign for rain, cloudy all around and pouring down In the middle with not a spot of blue sky to be seen, the farmers who have a good many beets to har-i har-i vest were blue last night fearing that It might turn to snowing and make beet digging very difflcult, but now they are foelln better. Wo often of-ten go too far to find trouble. Blessed Bles-sed Is the optomlstlc man. |