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Show THE NEWS FROM FILLMORE Public Affairs and Local Happenings at the County Seat Bishop llrunson was persuaded to rcca'l his resignation from the city council. We think he acted wisely In this regard. One should not accept public office unless he Is willing to perform the labors the public elected him to perform He should forget that In the city council he tills a place from, which the public expects the most with little pay and uq thanks. Howard Small Is having 'still more difllculties. This time, with Henry Hanson. Henry, It' appears, paid him $2.) on account. Small did not have his receipt book, but promised to mill a receipt the next day. Many days came and went, but no receipt. Finally, Final-ly, Small refuses to give one at all. Ex Deputy Sheriff Will Payne has returned home. Tod Ashman, Wesley Ashman, and Clint Day returned recently from Mil-ford, Mil-ford, where they were working for the railroad company and Incidentally being be-ing persecuted by the Btrlkers as scabs. It Is reported that the strikers have It In especially for Tod. and that they make dire threats against his safety. Mr. Fox. the Socialist lecturer, failed fail-ed to get here for last Friday on account ac-count of the bad railroad connections. He arrived Saturday, however, lectured lectur-ed In Meadow that night, and returned to Fillmore for Sunday and Monday nights. The local church authorities were disagreeably affected by the pro. posed Sunday performance, but Mr. Fox went ahead anyway. He Is a clever and entertaining speaker. The Fillmore Socialist club Is a very wide-awake and live organization, and Includes In Its membership Home of the most Intelligent and public-spirited men In town. The writer, though not a socialist, In party affiliation, has spent some time in studying the principles prin-ciples of Socialism, and will state without with-out fear or r-oiitradlc'lon. that these principles are of serious Import and worthy of any miiti's careful Investigation. Investiga-tion. The Mutual Improvement association or the Fillmore ward has sent Mr. Nelson Nel-son Cooper to Salt Lake City to take a course of study In physical culture In the Deseret Gymnasium. I'pon his return he Is to train the Fillmore ath'etes for the coming Stake Mutual Improvement track meet. A. Roberts, one of the proprietors of the new "Golden Rule" store, was arrested the morning his store opened on complaint of Daniel Stevens, for se'iing goods without a license. Mr. Roberts paid 8 1".." fine, ll.f.O for a license, then returned to the Bank building and sold, according to report, one hundred pairs of shoes, to say nothing of sundry other articles. Millard Day and James Chesley went to Milford to try to get onln the railroad shops. They failed, however, to get a Job, and returned home with some vivid notions of the relations be-tween be-tween strikers and scabs. The two county boarders, for some time confined In the county Jail, were released last Wednesday. They may like other prisoners remain to furnish a lively and Interesting addition to our population. (Pen Trimble, the other day complained com-plained on himself and was fined $10 tor allowing a group of minors to gam-ble gam-ble with cards In his home. Laura Hanson Black, former editor of the Milford Times, Is the mother of a fine baby boy. The Chronicle extends ex-tends congratulations. |