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Show 40 YEARS AGO . . . From the Files .... OAK CITY In the near the future the people peo-ple oi Oak City and vicinity will be so arranging their affairs as to have the most profitable business year of their existence. In the Des-eret Des-eret News a call is being published publish-ed for a meeting of the stockholders stockhold-ers of the Sevier River Land and Water Company for March 15, 1911 in Salt Lake City, to double their capital stock and authorize a bond issue of $400,000 to resume construction con-struction upon the first unit of their irrigation scheme. The county engineer has devised devis-ed a plan by which that portion of Taylor Flat above the canal, the bulk of the land on Fool Creek Flat and a large acreage contiguous contig-uous to and north of Oak City irrigated ir-rigated lands will all be placed under cultivation with pirmary wat er rights. The above indicates that 25,000 acres will be supplied with water not later than April 1, 1912, and our beautiful sinks will be a matter of past history. . HINCKLEY Saturday, afternoon was pulled off one of the most closely contested con-tested basketball games ever played pla-yed in this section. The Murdock Academy of Beaver were here to give our Academy boys a return game. The visitors were defeated in a fast game in the gym of the Millard Stake Academy by the Academy. Ac-ademy. The score stood 49-36. The line-up for MSA was M. Moody, R. F.; J. Greener, L. F.; A. Reeve, C; A. Ashby, R. G.; J. Wright, L. G. BURTNER Mr. F. A. Strain, engineer for the new land company, came to town last Thursday morning and has been looking Into the work that will be done here this summer. sum-mer. He has been staking off the ground 'for the new spillway at the dam and Sunday morning mater- ial arrived, so work will commence in the next few days that will make a showing that something will be done. Everybody seems quite enthused over the prospects for a crop this, coming season. They are beginning to get things ready and will start seeding their land just as soon as possible. ABRAHAM There seems to be quite an awakening aw-akening of the people here, judging judg-ing from the way our Sabbath school and church meetings are attended of late. The speakers in meeting last Sunday were Bishop Hogan, who exhorted the people to be loyal to their home town, and boost instead of knock. Brother Broth-er W. S. Taylor spoke on the divinity div-inity of the Book of Mormon in a very able manner. Brother Le Roy Young, then gave some very good counsel. OASIS Mr. Milton Moody of Salt Lake City is here with us again. He is here on business or else he thinks there is no place to equal Millard. The speakers at church on Sunday Sun-day were Elder Samuel Rutherford, who gave an interesting report of his labor and Milton Moody, who gave a very good sermon which was very very interesting. |