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Show 40 YEARS AGO i. . T From the Files ... IN AND AROUND DELTA The National Trust and Savings Co. has leased the Hotel Delta and will call it the Delta Club. W. C. Van Bergen is managing it for them and they expect to devote it exclusively tp the entertainment of visiting land buyers. They will i rearrange it and put in new furnishings. fur-nishings. The first motorcycle has made its appearance in Delta. It is owned own-ed by A. N. Rosenbaum. When the roads are not muddy they are ideal for a motorcycle. The machine ma-chine got a little fractious on its first trip and threw tihe rider off, but with no serious damage to rider or machine. Delta is to have waterworks. A company is being organized with a capital of $5,000 divided into 50 shares of$100 each. The subscription subscrip-tion list is now being circulated and a good many shares have been sold. The water will be supplied sup-plied from driven wells with a large cistern. A five-hoursepower gasoline engine will elevate the water into a 3',000 gallon tank from which it will be carried by gravity in pipes to the patrons, it will be a great thing 'for the town. THE HIGH SCHOOL QUESTION day, Principal Petty took his pupils and two grades of Hinckley school over to the old fort, cleared out the brush from part of it, raised the Stars and Stripes over it, and had an interesting program. Sons of the old Indian war veterans were presents pres-ents and participated in tihe exercises. exer-cises. An effort is going to be made to have this historic monument monu-ment o'D pioneer days restored and preserved for future generations. The people ought to see that this is done, for it is well worth preserving pre-serving for a monument. Ora Lake of Abraham is seeding seed-ing another 100 acres of his farm to alfalfa, and it is coming on fine. This will make 320 acres Mr. Lake has in alfalfa the largest alfalfa farm in the valley. H. L. Bishop of Hinckley has sold his old home eft 160 acres west of Hinckley to a California man. Mr. Bishop has lived on this farm for over twenty-five years. But he has plenty of other land so will not have to leave to found another home. EVENTS AT OAK CITY (In the paper of 40 years ago two full columns were devoted to the question of a high school for the east side of the county. Hinckley had the Millard Stake Academy, and Fillmore was asking Since the last corespondence, Mrs. Mary M. Lyman had traded homes with Joseph P. Callister of Delta. We are sorry to lose Mrs. Lyman and her two boys, as they are a big help to the town. We like all we have got and hate to lose them, and welcome all we can get. Mr. Oallister and wife are formerly of Oak City and are no doubt glad to get back there once more. A farewell dance was given Mr. Stanley Lovell Friday night. Mr. Lovell left Sunday morning for a mission In Enland. One hundred and twenty-three dollars was raised rais-ed to start him on his way. for a high school there. Editor Norman B. Dresser was in favor of a high school iat Fillmore, and quoted from Bishop H. E. Max-field, Max-field, N. S. Bishop, A. N. Sorenson, Hyrum Knight, E. D. Marshall, H. J. Law, John Steele, John Avery Bishop, Milton Moody and S. J. Hawley, all in favor of a high school in Fillmore. Henry Huff advised ad-vised a wait of a year or two, and also favored Holden for the location. Hinckley was generally unfavorable to a high school at Fillmore. The question was voted on in the week after this 40-year old paper came out and toy looking look-ing into the issue ol April 25, 1912, we read that Fillmore got the high school with majority of 125 votes.) NEWS . OF OUH NEIGHBORS Deseret is the only place we have heard of that had ia real celebration cel-ebration on Arbor Day, last Mon- |