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Show the only chance for the postmaster to hold hlii Job I to make a clean and de-cent de-cent office and improve the nervier, for we beard many complaint of mis-sent, mail. If thi Isn't done auy Iemocntt who will aKree to put in a good con venletit otTlce and give service ran ensly gel the Job. llatton I a little settlement ' of eleven families three miles from Kanosh where they raise the finest of alfalfa seed. Between llatton, Kanosh Ka-nosh and Meadow about 35iu bushels of need were raided this year, of which 101)0 bushel are ot 111 unsold Had the front In September held off two week over 4 1 iO(i bushel of the finest need would have been harvested. About 4000 bushels of wheat, oats and barley were rained on the Irrigated lai.d, which, at llatton, requires only about one-third as much water as do the lands higher. The grain is fed to stock, a large amount of which I raised in these settlements. As the editor always praises every piece of good road ho sees he has a right to kick at the poor places. We would suggest that. Commissioner Bushnell have Hoad Supervisor Robinson Robin-son fix that very bad crossing near tbe llatton pontofflce, and put on a eouple of men for a day to clean the big rocks out of the road between Meadow and Fillmore. They make travel by nuto an Impossibility and travel by team a constant menace to horses and vehicles. Otherwise the road Is In first clans shape. NEWS OF OUR NEIGHBORS i Ciiirrtd bj tie EJifor b His WccU; Rounds , I ON THE EAST SIDE. " Editorial News Notes and Comment from the East Side Towns. The editor spent nearly the whole of last week with our east side neighbors, neigh-bors, and as usual had an Interesting and profitable time. He, of course, took the trip In one of the autos of the Millard County Transportation Company, whose service Is growing In patronage and popularity. Although it was one of the coldest days of Jhe winter when we made our trip plenty of wraps and an enclosed machine made It almost as comfortable us a street car ride. We made the (rip trom Delta to Fillmore In exactly two hours. We had a careful and experienced expe-rienced driver who knew hew to jget the best speed without risk to the Bia-chlne Bia-chlne or discomfort or anxiety on jhe part of the passengers. The roifd a In fine condition, but we suggest that the road supervisor should flx the crossing coming into liolden, which 1 without a bridge and a bad p'uoe for both autos and loaded wagons. Fillmore Is Improving. Mlah Day Is preparing to put up a fine building, on Main street nearly opposite the' post-office, post-office, and Pjper & Anderson will house their moving picture show and a store In a new building near by. .Manager Stevens reports a good holiday holi-day trade at the Stevens Mercantile j Company and prospects for a (rood trade the coming year. We toots In severul sessions of the harness shop club where questions of great' 'Importance 'Im-portance are discussed. Here JSiey decide tbe shape of the earth,, the proper methods of educatlou, thjrue function of ijoveriuueqt. They tlsjw the corrouptfoft of courts and legislatures, legisla-tures, the Influence of Morgan and the English government in dictating the nominations of president, the dlshon-I dlshon-I esty and Insincerity of all rich men and tho honesty and sincerity of all wage workers eeclally eTucLillst. Geodge Ade would find much material In these discussion. We visited the High School and found a capable corps of teachers carrying car-rying on their dutle In a poorly arranged ar-ranged and badly heated and ventilated ventilat-ed building. Fillmore certainly needs a new High School building and we hope the attendance will soon reach a point where the erection of a new and convenient building will be necessary. neces-sary. The enrollment Is now S7 with an attendance of between 70 and 75. Principal II. C. Lewis showed us around. We noticed a w-ell equipped chemical laboratory and were told that equipment for a physical laboratory would soon be Installed, W. L, Jones U In charge of the chemical department depart-ment and also of agriculture, dry farming farm-ing and athletics. There are 27 In the class In agriculture and somewhat less In dry farming. Miss Odessa Hendricks has a well equipped kitchen for domestic science and most of the girls are learning to be proficient house keepers under her able Instruction. J. Frank Day has charge of English, mathematics, bookkeeping and history and makes these usually dry subjects Interesting to his pupils. E. K. Bas-sett Bas-sett teaches music and I making tbe pupils proficient in sight reading The new county board was organized organ-ized on Monday with Ed. Itushnell as chairman. T. E. Itappleye and Amnion Hunter were appointed deputy assessors assess-ors and Mrs. Dora Anderson, a skilled stenographer, deputy clerk. The other appointments will be made at tbe next meeting on the first Tuesday of February. Feb-ruary. The new board starts out with shout ;o,imm) In the treasury. Everybody In Meadow seems to be prperous snd contented, although some of the sheep raisers were a little anxious as to whether the Democrats, w ere going to put wool on the fr e list. While the editor Is sn absolute free trader he believes t here Is more excuse ex-cuse for protecting wool growing thsn sny other Industry. It I not a monopoly mo-nopoly a are most of the manufacturing manufactur-ing Industrie. It benefits the farmers and the benefit are widespread, and we don't know any other srticle on which they can be protected, and i less burdensome than many other tariffs, a much wool of other grades hss to be Imported. Meadow has a home Industry that Is of considerable benefit, and that Is the I creamery, or cheese factory. It Is a co- I operative enterprise and Is run by C. i H. Hull and his brother, both expe- ' rlenced cheese makers.' They handle i about 2o()0 pounds of milk per day ami ' sell tlie cheese between Meadow and 1 Provo. A big load was being shlppod i the day we were there. There are 44 patrons of the factory who receive checks every month amounting to from i $10 to 170. quite an acceptable cash I Income. The farmers expect to lm- i piove their dairy herd and at their i Institute meeting we attended they had i a discussion on the best cows for a dairy. Meadow used to be the site of an an- dent Indian village If we are to judge by the Indian relics dug up. We were shown some Interesting pottery that was dug up In excavating the ditches for the water mains. One was a large , Jar perfectly formed and of about five gallons capacity. These ancient potters pot-ters also knew how to enamel and decorate dec-orate pottery as was shown by a well formed basin with simple decorations of black and white. Meadow Is one of the town on the east side whose Inhabitants do not have to take their domestic water from the same ditches their stock drinks from. They have an excellent supply of pure water piyd from the mountain moun-tain springs tlx miles away. Its Installation In-stallation saves time, labor and health. Kanosh has a larger population and more wealth per family, we should judge, but the people still take their water from tho same ditches the stock does, although a few have cisterns Into, which the water Is run from the dltrbes and allowed to settle. A Heaver company agreed to put lu water works and furnish water for about II per family per month, but thefyroposlUon was turned down. There Is some talk of water works being put In by the town, but It will probably be all talk until an epidemic if tftrftoTd" and1lp;ilherhi takes off a number of tlie people. It would only cost about $100 per family, much of which could be paid In labor. Kanosh could well afford It If the people peo-ple would only think so. We are sure it absence will prevent any one com-Ing com-Ing there to live who wants pure water for domestic use. Kanosh anil Meadow raise the finest of fruit and vegetables of all kinds, but owing to lack of transportation facilities fa-cilities there is littto etirouragement to keep the orchards up or raise more than what is required for home consumption. con-sumption. The George Hotel Is one of the best hotels we have struck In the county, and Mrs. George sets a table that Is a treat to one accustomed to ordinary restaurant fare. The town also has an excellent cheese factory. It was started up In November by Jeramlah Watt and Hiram Iverson, the latter being the cheese maker and be certainly turns out a good article. 11 has 42 patrons and last month paid them f i"0 In amounts from 5 to $25. They expect tbe patronage to Increase as the benefits bene-fits of the business are shown. Ksnosh also has one of the best school buildings In the county. There are 150 pupil with four teachers. R II. Itarton ha been the principal, but he has been elected county superintendent superin-tendent of Besver snd will leave for there this week. HI place will be taken by J. W. Jones. Having said these good thing about Kanosh we must call attention to the fact that It ha the dirtiest, most inconvenient in-convenient and iKjftirest served jwjst-office jwjst-office In the county. The lobby where the patrons get to the boxes I about two feet by five and two customers cus-tomers cannot reach their boxes at the same time without crowding. Tbe bark room In which the general delivery de-livery Is served Is dark, dingy and dirty. The place Inside and out looks as If It had never been swept and the windows sre black with the dust of aes. Vet the building Is large enough j j ti nuke a roomy and comfortable of- I flee. If a partition with the lock boxes, general delivery and registry windows was put across the entire room about eight feet back of the front windows It would provide a good sized and well lighted lobby In front and plenty of room behind for the postmaster post-master to work, but a long a the 1 building I devoted to storing old ' meat, decayed grain, broken machin- ' ery snd trash or all kind, with a little cubby hole for an office there will be 1 no Improvement. We think any sanl- i tary inspector would condemn the i whole premise. Now that a new ad- I ministration I coming In we think ' |