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Show 40 YEARS AGO . . . From the Files . . . . Reuben Turner of West Delta is feeling happy over the birth of their first baby. It is ia girl and arrived on Monday and the whole family is coming along fine. With the modesty of true greatness great-ness Cas Lewis disclaims .being the winer of all the prizes at the fair credited to him in last week's Chronicle.. While he took all the exhibits from here over and they were entered in his name he got a prize only on his chickens. The hogs came from J.H. Underhill, the sunflower from Henry Volhart the German wheat from A.A. Ack-erman, Ack-erman, barley from S. H. Thompson, Thomp-son, the squash from Henry Volhart. Vol-hart. The west side certainly did well. Delta is to have a bank, the First State Bank of Delta. The capital stock will be $20,000, divided divid-ed into 200 shares of $100 each. A subscription list was circulated this week and shares were subscribed sub-scribed in a very short time. Twenty per cent is payable on incorporation and the balance in ten monthly installments. Nearly every business man in town took stock. A Salt Lake bank signified its willingness to take ia good share of the stock so there will be no trouble about getting the capital and probably most of it will be raised around Delta.. Work on the new school house on the corner opposite Jerome Tracy's on the west side wil be comenced shortly. The Delta Company Co-mpany generously contributed the money to erect it, although the country wil probably pay for it finally. HINCKLEY . . . George Theobald is decorating his home with a front porch. Last week his little four year old son tried to climb the scaffolding and fell, breaking his coller bone. Two very serious fractures were added to the long list of summer accidents. Norman Bliss' fourteen year old son, Clark, fell while scuffling with another boy on a load of hay and was run over by the wheel. .Dr. Broadus was called from Hinkley and found tha the upper part of th thigh was badlly fractured!, requiring an elaborate splint frame too hold the hip in place. Everything seems to be doing nicely. Sunday afternoon Will Bishop, s litlle eighteen months old boy was struck on the head by a falling m o win g knife, which severely fractured his skull. Dr. Broadus found that an oval disc of bone :a half inch in diameter was chipped chipp-ed out of the entire thickness of the skull and the membrane under un-der th skull was ruptured, the blade even having entered the brain. The child was finally brought br-ought to consciousness in spite of the heavy loss of blood.and is now geting along nicely. A number of Hinckly and Desert people have returned with loaded wagons from Holden, Oak City and Leamington and have joined in the general epidemic of putting up fruit. The Academy has reached an enrolment of nearly one hundred now, and the district school is in full swing with Mr. Pack as prin-ciple.and prin-ciple.and Mr. Johnson, Miss Stevens, Stev-ens, Miss Justesen, Miss Stout and Miss Mackelprang as teacers. The new houses of H.S. Oahoon and Joshua Bennett seem to be fast nearing completion. In Hinckley Hinck-ley some of the new houses are for Heber Bishop, Charlie Webb and a new family of Mexican refugees. re-fugees. r |