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Show looking for such an Important meeting to be called by pouting up notices, and again, like you, wo never saw a notice, and did not know of such a meeting until a few hours before It was called. School buildings are the greatest and most Important Institutions any community com-munity can have, but all tax payers are entitled to due and proper notice. They can have a say in the matter besldeH puying the tux. At their meeting last week the county coun-ty conmilsHlonerH appropriated $207.00 for the purpose of assisting the farmers farm-ers of Millard County In the extermination extermin-ation of squirrels, etc., aud to bo used in procuring poison. The clerk was instructed to place said apportionment In the hnnds of reliable merchants In turn district and said merchants were to let the fanners have poison at half price until the apportionment is exhausted. The apportionment Is divided di-vided between sixteen districts aud runs from $2.50 to $20 for each. Johnny Smith, has opened up a plumbing aud sheet metal shop In the bunk building basement. This gives Fillmore two such concerns, Mr. Harrington Har-rington running the one on Jower Main street. mmmmMmMmmmmmmaMaiBmkTmBmmmmmmmmmtiBWmmmmaMBmmlB' ALL THE NEWS OF FILLMORE ftliat . (lie Editor las Corralled ia bis Weekly Round-up of (be Towo Mr. Joseph Payne was reported (piite sick Sunday. The fellow that Is full of hot oil seldom gets'up real steam. W. P. Payne chhio home Tuesday on account of his father's Illness. Mrs. Alice Davis is home from the north, visiting with her parents. Will Crlt hley is preparing to erect a large barn, 2iixt;o, on his place. Several four and six horse outfits go to Oasis this week to bring over a carload or fence wire. When you have land notices to publish pub-lish give them to the Chronicle, the paper the people read. Mrs. L. W. Calsford has 1 n quite ill the past day or so. but glad to say she Is now on the Improve. Poisoning scpilrrels for the next few weeks should be the most Important Import-ant work for farmers, says an expert. The report from the bed side of Mr. Joseph Payne Tuesday morning wu.: to the effect that he was in a very serious condition. Mrs. Doutre's daughter Silva, who has been quite 111 for the past two weeks with pneumonia, was reported considerable better Monday. Rumors are afloat that there will be another drug store opened up here In n short time. Also that another butcher shop Is on the list. Every few days people arrive to look over laud here and a great many Invest. Hardly a week goes by without with-out a lew sales being made. The new butcher shop and harness shop on Main street are Just ah" it finished on the outside ami it w ill not be long before business starts In both buildings. With the installing of the new piessed brick machine, which will arrive about the 1st of April, a boom in the building line Is looked for this Hummer ami fall. Several are ready to build now if they had the brick. At Thompklnson's hall last Friday evening a very good game of basket ball was played between the Fillmore grades and the llolden Juniors. Score,! IS to 20 In favor of the visitors. '1 he evening was finished up with a dance. N. E. Lewis has sold his residence on lower Main street to Joseph Trimble. Trim-ble. The price we understand was $ 1 ,000. This piece of property Is what is known as the old Kelly property, and was sold only a few years ago for $ti.",i). proMTly In Fillmore ap-ix-ara to he Increasing In value every year. The sad news reached the county eat Monday morning that Mr. Win. (ieorge of Kanosh bad passed away early Monday morning after an Illness of but a few days. The cause of his death was stoppage of the stomach. The news was quite a shock to his many friends here, as he was well Bnd favorably known by all. (Seo. A. Cooper, son of John Cooper, our county treasurer, has been appointed ap-pointed county superintendent of schools of Summit County, to fill the vacancy of tho lute superintendent, who was killed in a snow slide there a few weeks ago. Mr. Cooper', many friends In Millard will be pleased to hear of his appointment to this position. posi-tion. The census bureau has Issued the results re-sults of the thirteenth census for Uk' Incorporated cities and towns of I'tah. Among them we find in Millard County as follows: Fillmore for 1910, 1,202; for 1900, 1,037. Sciplo, for 1910, 646; for 1900, 572. Hinckley, for 1910. G53; Kanosh, for 1910, 013. Meadow, for 1910, 331. No figures are given for 1900 for the last named three towns. It will be seen that Fillmore has gained IC5 In the past ten years. The great amount of rain which fell last week made some of our farmers (?) send up a wail of too much wet-wheat wet-wheat would be amuty, etc., but the dry farmers are feeling fine and expect ex-pect good result from their hard work In preparing and planting new land last year. The prediction Is made that some bumper crops will be raiitv-l on the dry land thla year If the proper harrowing Is done and the little pesky squirrels are fed the proper amount of poison. Jly posting up a notice or two i meeting was called for last Saturda to vote on whether Fillmore should er-rt a new school building. Accord Ing to the vote there were sixty pres ent. 45 voting yes and 15 no. The voted for a tax of 25 mills 15 for 1911 and 10 for 1912. It is the purpose It have the lower rooms finished thli summer and ready to be used next fall. The Chronicle siuc ibis inert ing has been asked why we did Qui announce such an Important matter m. all tax payers who wished could hav attended, and had voice In the mat tor. We plead guilty, but Justification Like you, dear friends, we were not |