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Show NEWS OF OUR NEIGHBORS Gathered by the Editor in His Weekly Rounds The real estate activity at Delta bus become contagious and the Hinckley teal estate m ukel is getting quite live, ly. N. I Peterson has Just sold his splendid 4S0 acre ranch southwest of Hinckley to Martin Bios., of Colorado. It. E. Itoiiiusoii has also sold 40 acres of Improved land to Colorado parties. Charles Burke believes In concentrating concentrat-ing his efforts on fewer tracts and has sold one of his 40 acres southwest of town. Surveyor Callister started work this week surveying the new town pint and every land owner In the Incorporation will be in It before the work Is completed. com-pleted. T. (ieo. Theobald and his brother have gone Into the real estate business ns will be seen by their ad elsewhere. It you bav property for sale list It with them. If you want to buy see their list. They are also prepared to put up any kind of a building for you. Pratt Bros, are encouraging the cash buyer by offering a chance on a silverware silver-ware set with every fl purchase. These drawings proved very popular last fall and will doubtless draw many cash buyers. Their llrst drawing will be on Saturday, March 2. We are sorry to learn that Mrs. C. i A. Broaddus will reuse giving her piano pi-ano recitals after the next one, February Febru-ary 28, and yet we are not surprised. The small Interest taken by the faculty at the Academy and the people of Hinckley In the recitals does not Justify Jus-tify the large amount of time and labor la-bor required In their preparation. The editor baa attended as many of them as he could and always found them very interesting, though tie don't know much about music. He never .found " more than fifteen or twenty in attendance, attend-ance, though twenty-five coinplimen- ' '--tarles were given away, Including those to all the faculty. We never saw one of them there. It couldn't have been lack of money, for there li plenty of money for dances, dramatics and basket-ball. It really looks like a lack of culture or appreciation. Thousands Thou-sands of people In Salt Lake, would be glad to pay fifty cents each to hear recitals that plenty of Hinckley people didn't rare to hear for nothing. We understand the Relief Society tried to take them over, but didn't get sufficient suffi-cient encouragement. Now, then, some body get up a minstrel show. Any one has brains enough to understand and enjoy that. We haven't seen In any store In Millard county as big a stock of fine crockery as the Hinckley Co-op. Is displaying. At the price they are selling sell-ing them, It looks as If somebody must have got away with a carload when tbe manufacturers were not looking. look-ing. Their ad elsewhere will tell you about prices. Last Friday evening a week ago the Deseret Dramatic Company presented, "A Soldier's Sweetheart" to a large and well pleased audience. Although tbe performers had practiced for the play only a short time some of them anly a few days, every one took their iuirts in an excellent manner. An-511s An-511s A 11 red temk the comedy part In a say that brought down the house, and ihowed considerable talent. The play vas repeated at Delta on Wednesday. Hid was well received. The editor bad the pleasure of nieet-ng nieet-ng with a number of the Indian war eterans at the school house at Dcs-ret Dcs-ret last week. Interesting reminls-ences reminls-ences were given by a number of the eterans, old songs were sung, the hlldren of the school helped enter-aln, enter-aln, and refreshments were provided or the visitors. The editor greatly en-oyed en-oyed the occasion. They exjiect to tslt the Delta school before long. Word comes from Salt Lake that Irs. Maxwell Webb, who was taken to lalt Lake last week Is getting along II right and the baby boy that was orn there Is doing well. Dan Black hlp-d another carload f alfalfa seed from Oasis last week nd another car will have been ahlp-ed ahlp-ed by the time this is In pront. The rice paid was ten cents, and this Is lie first shipment for a couple of jonths. See Dam run Hawiey's new ad his week and the special reduction ale. to begin Monday, March 4. |