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Show THE NEWS FROM F1LLM0RI Public Affairs and Local Happening: at the County Scat Farmers have begun to hay. A largt crop will be gathered. Contractor Young of Rlchlleid is in Fillmore to have a settlement with the school district. I may be hard for an agreement t' be reached. The building was under contract to be finished October 1st, 1911. For every day after that date .Mr. Young was ti lose $10. The people expect that he will he held as far as possible to this contract. Some extra work was done and Mr. Young should receive a fair price fur this, but he cannot be serious se-rious in putting In his bill for il.'O for making a road up the canyon. This bill was probably put in to divert attention at-tention from other doubtful matters which he wants allowed. The taxpayers tax-payers havo lost for one year the use of the money placed In this building; at 10 per cent this loss amounts to $1,400. The people who pay the bills are expressing themselves as being dis satisfied at the way our new school building his been constructed. It Is said tli.it poor material h is been used in places, that the plastering Is weak; lli.'it ton long a time was taken, etc., etc. It may be that circumstances were at times against the progress of the building. 1 so, fair allowances should be made In otir criticism. Hut as this is a business pr . position It should, of course, have a business settlement. set-tlement. The canning factory will likely have a good run during tills, its first season. sea-son. The prospect Is good for plenty of fruit, and several farmers have some fine looking fields of tomtit es. The company has chosen an excellent board of directors, all of whom are nireful and mi.-cessftit business men ;r practical farmers. It would be, per-tiaps, per-tiaps, Impossible to ph k a better bo ml 'r 'in this large company, and If the iiislness falls, It will not be because :he company is n.t managed by a ;,od tuning board. They are: .1. Ailed Ai-led Koliison, president and director; 'mest Carting, vice-president and ill-ector; ill-ector; Frank Partridge, director; iVm. N. Meliiide, director; Will "rltchley, director. In addition to hese officers the shareholders elected I Frank Day, secret ay ami Alon.o luntsman, treasurer. These last two iff leer have no voice In the manage nent of the iuslness, I heir duties lie-iig lie-iig c'erlcal only. Most of the mem-icts mem-icts of his comp.iny did not subscribe i:ock with the expectation of receiving in;t dividends, but becjtise they hough! a canning factory would be a ;ood thing for Fillmore, and the ad-olnlng ad-olnlng towns. Now it must be remem-iered remem-iered that the factory will help the leople only as the people raise raw Materials for the factory. More irchaids should be planted; more oinato fields cultivated. Prosperity ollows In the wake of Industry; it i!l folio nothing else. The two prisoners who escaped from he cust uly of Deputy Sheriff Peter luntsman have no; as yet been caught. |