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Show 40 TEARS AGO ... From the Files . . . . 40 YEARS AGO THE DOINGS AT DELTA Watch Delta grow. Within the next three months a new hotel building will be built, costing about ab-out $10,000. A new depot will be built, which will cost about $5,000, besides many other smaller build-i build-i ings. ' The new store building of Day & Wise is completed, and within a few days they will open up for business in their new quarters. The building is a one-story cement block structure, 24 X 30 feet, and is a credit to our town. Call and see them if you want to get bargains. bar-gains. The new school house is nearing completion and will be ready for I occupancy on the 18th. As that is the day school will open. We will have four teachers this winter. J. ! Avery Bishop will be the principal. Miss Mabel Speary of Nephi, and her sister, with Miss Millie Workman, Work-man, will be the teachers. HAPPENINGS AT HINCKLEY I T. George Theobald has completed complet-ed plans for a fine brick cottage to be erected at once just below the academy lot for Mrs. M. Erick-' son of Newhouse. This is to be an eight-room building made of brick. 1 The contract has been let and work will begin in the, near future. 1 Chas. Burke has set a good example ex-ample 'for a good many of us to follow - - that of putting in cement ce-ment walks around our homes. He ' has two walks leading from the gates to the house. ) OFFICIAL DIRECTORY The official directory of Millard County appears in each issue of these 40-year-old Chronicles, un -der the masthead. Here is the list at that time: Judge Fifth Judicial District, Joshua Greenwood; attorney, F. H. Ryan; State Senator, Eight Senatorial Sena-torial District, J. A. Hyde; County officers: Commissioners, Geo. W. Nixon, E. B. Bushnell, R. E. Rob-ison; Rob-ison; clerk, Nephi A. Anderson; recorder, re-corder, Jennie Ashby; treasurer, John Cooper; assessor, Leslie George; Geo-rge; 1 surveyor, T. Clark Callister; attorney, R. W. King; sheriff, P. T. Black; supt. of schools, A. J. Ashman; Ash-man; chief probation officer, J. S. j Giles; state representative, J. H. Langston. |