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Show mill Is running day and night, with Karl lllshop on night shift. Two hundred hun-dred and fifty bushels of wheat are converted Into five tons of flour every day, and last Saturday they turned out 13 tons of flour. The mill ha handled over 25,000 bushels of wheat so far, which la as much as it usually does the whole season. Every bin is full nnd the platform on the outside. They sold Henry Huff 17 tons of flour last week and made shipments to llolden. Fillmore and Oak City. They have plenty of flour for sale and about 25 tons of bran; $704 worth of flour was sold last week. About 2000 of Turkey Ited wheat has been taken In and Mr. Cropper hopes there will be more next year. Seventy cents per bushel is paid for It. while spring wheat brings from CO to 63 cents. The wheat Is of better quality this year than last, although some of it Is shrunk. Mrs. N. I Peterson and Mrs. Peter Johnson, of Deseret, gave a very unique Hallowe'en party last Friday. About 00 guests were present representing repre-senting spookr, witches and his Satanic Sa-tanic majesty. William Jensen carried car-ried off the palm as the red devil, while Hoy Justesen, laid out In a bath tub, was a very dead looking corpse. They say he didn't bat an eye the whole evening. Mrs. Carl Day attracted at-tracted attention with her pretty costume cos-tume of sable black. N. L. Peterson showed his proficiency at the pianola by playing the 'Witches' Dance." Entertaining En-tertaining and Instructive games were played and refreshments of pumpkin pie and other seasonable delicacies were served. GATHERED AMONG our nous Horattloo Gleaned by tit- Editor ud ffii Staff it the Nsarfcj ' ; Settlement. The work on the State Road between be-tween Deseret and Hinckley Is about Completed and a good 'Job Is being made of It. A cement bridge has been pvt In across the canal two miles north of Deseret and the canal is bo-Inf bo-Inf straightened. We don't think very much of tiie road through Hlnck-lefy Hlnck-lefy as It Is not wide enough on the crown to permit of two teams passing. It ought to be widened out to the line of ;the walk, nor can we understand why the telephone line was not plac-out plac-out to tbo line of the walk Instead of being put ten feet out In the road. We learn from Dean Peterson, teacher of agriculture at the Academy that sixty of the boys, comprising nearly the entire number In the school are taking agriculture. Half of them are 'freshmen and the rest are second and: third year students. Most of them arsalso taking manual training. We are glad to see that these studies are appealing to the students, as it Indicates Indi-cates that they are not likely to be drawn to the overcrowded cities. It is the men who have had agricultural d!Vatlon that will make the prosjter-Otis' prosjter-Otis' and contented farmers of the future. fu-ture. Additional equipment has been ordered for the department so that It wll soon be able to take up more ad vamed work. Nearly all the girls are taking domestic science, a very prac UcaI line, as they will all be house ''nepers. The Academy now has aboul 'students enrolled. - ;1 Ae HaJld 'en party givsa y 4m student body last Friday was a verj sucessful afaflr. Some of the class rooms were converted into witches caves and ghost chambers, through which flittered grewsome and ghost' ly figures and fantastically dressed characters. After these had been visited vis-ited the crowd adjourned to the gym naslum which was appropriately decorated dec-orated with streamer witches, black cats, bats, etc. Over 100 couples par tlclpated In the dance. Music was fur nlshed by the new Academy orches tra, Its first performance for a dance, The public school also had a Hal lowe'en party earlier the same eve ring. The rooms were appropriately decorated, and Judging by the uproar and shrieks the witches and goblin must have made a merry time. On Thursday evening the Missel Juanlta and Reva Ilawley and Illy Moody gave a Hallowe'en party at Milton Moody's. About 30 guesti were present, nearly all In costume. A Jolly evening was Hnt with music and games and refreshments were served. Farm Demonstrator Joseph Welch reports a very Interesting meeting si Oak City last week. He spoke to th farmers on the selection of seed p tatoes and he took about 35 of the farmers to John Lovell's field to dem pnstrate how the selection should b made. This was to select them from hills having eight or more good-sized potatoes. President Reeve, of ths Farmers' Union, also secured bushels of potatoes for the members of the Union. They will cost 60c pel bushel, delivered. He also secured i number of members to the Union. Mrs. R. I Woodward has Joined hei husband at Deseret, and they are or cupylng rooms in John Dewsnup'i bouse. Mrs. Frsnk Webb, from Idaho. Ii visiting her mother, Mrs. D. J. Black and will remain till after Christmas Pet Black's wife presented hei husband with a fine baby boy lasl week. A baby girl, the first, was born tc Mrs. Colemsn Cropper last week. Mrs. Mary Dickerson. who has beer 111 for the past three months died lasi week. The brick work of the new onion school building Is completed, snd i large force of men are trying to ban the building ready for occupancy bj the first of the year. The architect was down last week and says th building will be one of the finest it the state for the money. We visited the Deseret flour mil! last week and found Miller Croppei and Webb with their hands full. Th |