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Show Hinckley Happenings. Our gardens and crops are looking better since the warm weather began, after having such a long cold dry spring. Mrs. Alta Morris was very ill Sunday but is improving slowly now. We have a number of visitors in town now. Mrs. Nancy Stans-worth Stans-worth of Grafton Utah, is here visiting her sons. Mrs. Walter Stout of Hurrican is visiting her aunt, Mrs. J. E. Wright. Will Wright, an old resident of Hinckley, Hinck-ley, is here also. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Mech-am, Mech-am, Mrs. Sarah Mortensen and J. H. Langston and family from Lynndyl, were all celebrating the twenty fourth here. New houses recently built are one each for the Christenson, Wilson and Swayer families, north of town. Jim Blake is building another bungalow for renting perposes. One for Frank Wright, wife and mother. The drainage system is going merrily on. The surveyors can be seen with their striped poles in all parts of the town during the day. The Y. L. M. I. A. was recently recent-ly organized with Mrs, Rose Jarvis as President, Delta Blake and Mattie Knight as counselors, Nina Pratt secretary and Ruby Stout organist. A powerful and interesting sermon was delivered Sunday by a Dr. Caldwell of Brooklyn, Mass., who is a recent convert i to the Mormon church. He is a : friend of Jene Hilton, who i brought him down from Salt Lake in his car. Wilford Hilton is also here and we are pleased to welcome them both back home after a long stay in the north. The weather man is at last favoiig us with a nice rain. Our twenty fourth celebration was ushered in by the firing of guns and raising of the flag and1 . serenading by the band. The citizens of the town, after being awakened to the necessity of supporting the band, treated them very royally. They gave them candy, nuts, ice ceam, soda water, beer, cake, apples and a great many expressions of ' of appreciation, also six dollars ; in cash. ' The program was successfully carried out. The oration being very masterly and forceful as . well as instructively given. The song, Utah We Love Thee, by Bly Moody, cornet solo, by Al-i Al-i bert Christenson and original . poem by Eda Tippetts, were very well rendered. The sports in the afternoon were only just i begun when ended by the storn: The dance at night closed a celebration cele-bration that was charaterized b . a greater patriotism and enthus-. enthus-. iastic spirit than has hithertc ; been exhibited in former celebra-. celebra-. tions. |
