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Show is rapidly an pontile. Foreman Mc; L'ormlck, who baa charge of the work for the Clark Co., any the building will be completed by Christmas so that It will be ready for occupany by i he first of the year. The new building build-ing will be modern la every respect It will have a gymnasium 35x72 feet, an auditorium capable of seating 600, . 8 cUhs rooma, library, rest room, closets, etc. It will have a boiler, room outHide the building which will be heated by steam. The Deseret school started up this week with Mr. Woodward as prln- , clpal, and Mra. Carl Day and Mlas Helen Stanford as teacher. The teachers at Oasis are Carl Day and Mi Mania Heck. Miss Helen Declc teaches the other school In this district. dis-trict. The lleck slaters gave a concert at Deneret laat Thursday. It was a very enjoyable affair, but owing to there belug several other attractions the attendance was small. Mrs. Maggie Ryan Is vlalting Mrs. Virgil Kelly before she goes to California Cali-fornia to spend a few months for her health. Mlas Vernell Moody has gone to Sevier County to teach school. Mrs. C. A. Heed of Salt Lake Is vlalting her daughter, Mrs. Moody. Vlrgtl Kelly U In Wagner, Mont working on an Irrigation project Milton Damron of Nevada Is vlalting vlalt-ing relatives in Deseret Mrs. Lillian Peterson and children from Moapa came tip to the fair and to pay a visit to relatives. Mrs. Howell, an old time resident of Deseret U back on a visit Mlas Hilda Styler of Oaals and Mr. Knoch Glllan, of the Salt Lake Im- plement Co., were married In (Oie Salt Lake temple this week. Farmers around Oasis are rejoicing over a big rrop of alfalfa seed this year. S. M. Hawley threshed 235 bushels from 20 acres. Henry Huff got 130 bushels. John Styler, for the fimt time In several years, got a good ', crop of both alfalfa and clover seed. w I Thompflon &no'-ftfm -eves. Jcyr-j ; 1 Hawley did not get as big a crop this i year as laat .it Alvln Penney has been Installing a ' number of his unequalled gasoline'" . I lighting systems In Deseret and Ilinck- I ley. f Mlas Nina Hawley returned to, her . home In Oaals last Saturday after undergoing a successful operation for ' apetidlcltla at Salt Lake. . r Carl lleck, leader of the Oaals btftid, t organized a band of ten plecee from the various towns and furnished some good mutilc during the fair. I6AHD AMOtlG i OUR UEiGHBORS I Information Gleaned hj tna Editor asd Hii Staff in tna Naarbj Settlements. I The Hi Kt weeks session of the Academy Acad-emy shows a gradually Increasing attendance at-tendance of students fctul lt Is expected ex-pected that the enrollment will soon run up to at least 130. Principal Stevens tells us that they expect to devote special attention to agriculture, manual training and domestic science, las these Hues will be of the most practical service to the students. $200 has been spent In additional equip- I Intent for the agricultural department The domestic science department has I I also received additional equipment . He finds parents growing more favor-r favor-r ably inclined towards tbe academy and r most of the towns will send an additional addi-tional number of students this year. . Col. Tatlock and Dr. Cummlngs were J visitors to the academy last Friday f and the former presented the academy with a handsome flag, j John Reeve, B. B. Theobald and lleber Mitchell have been appointed e. commissioners to the new drainage y district and they have made application appli-cation to the county commissioners lt for an election to pass on the Issuing . of bonds to the amount of about , I $33,000 to do the drainage work of ,, the district Before the bonds are ,f lasued a friendly suit will be Instituted Inst-ituted to test the legality of the new !e law creating drainage districts and ,e I providing for tbe Issue of bonds. Tbe ir experience tbe past summer has deni r. onstrated that the district can be ea U-Illy drained and that It will quickly re ,y store the productivity of the land. Thli summer the water for Hinckley hai a I been" taken from the high, djtcn la ,e J stead of the Theobald canal. This hai re resulted In cutting out the ponds thai )e formerly water logged the land. As i id result tbe water level haa fallen twe y. or three feet and farms that havi )f raised nothing have produced good id I crops of alfalfa this year. The old ie Allred farm produced a good crop ol Df seed this year without Irrigation. W :,f j F. Pratt's farm has not been Irri ,lf gated for two years and It produced I a good crop of hay and seed this yeai d and the water Is not within five feel of the surface. a Tbe telephone company has put uj ay 30 large new poles along the east sld i-t- of tbe street through Hinckley and li ro- removing the wires from the poles It ty. the center of the steret and wll taki n out the old poles so the road cai lie bo graded. In Tbe funeral of Wm. Stapley's bab ps, was held at Hinckley on Sunday an the body was taken to Deseret fo ily burial. iJ Road Supervisor Bennett has a fore a;- of men with teams and scrapers gnu jcti Ing the state road from the point c nt Its completion a mile north of Dei af- eret. The Hinckley people ar on straightening the ditch on the llne c f, K. the road a mile east of Chas. Burke' the The road will be completed for foi t'a- miles north of this point, making l additional miles of good road, ton The foundation of the new Centri Ive sfhool house is completed and tli rlo- force of men has been Increased th his week so as to rush It to complete Jlr uted in leveling the grounds, makiti "!J the race track and building the fenc ,v stalls and grand stand. About $t was expended for lumber. Now thj as the grounds are in good condition an ays many permanent improvements mat on a fair association should be lncorpo 'tit. ated so that a substsntlal building ct ate be erected for the bulk of the exhibit 130. We do not believe that any better I ach cation can be found for a permanei ere fair than at Des'-ret. Tbe heaviest e the (.ense has already been made and rest future fairs larger prizes can be pa uldand there will be more money f outside attractions. ,rg The best of the prize winners we ick. shipped to Salt Lake to be entered a. the State Fair. Bert Wallace went i Pas-1 Monday with a car containing h All-1 borpea. a number of N. S. Bishor , of and some Jacks and J-nnles belongli air. I to Milton and Juel Moody. aV Next week we will give a list and I si ithe prize winners of exhibits ai the races. Tbe committee has not g ret them la complete shape for publU 1ba-tioa this week. |
