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Show BOY SCOUTS Mars is the red star rising at about nine o'clock in the east; the small telescope shows it quite ruddy. It is now the closest it has been or will be for some time. The large bright star in the middle mid-dle south about nine o'clock is Jupiter, Ju-piter, the largest planet of our system; sys-tem; it has four small moons sailing sail-ing around it, and all four of which may be seen with a small 'scope, if not behind the big planet. Saturn sets at about nine thirty, so that if one wishes to see that beautiful planet, with the wonderful rings, one must be quick about it. As to contellations, the following are visible each night this month: the Big Dipper, the Little Dipper, the Milk Dipper; the Scorpion, with its fine red star, Antares; Arcturus, very large and very distant, many, many times larger than our own sun; Perseus, Andromeda, the Great Nebula Neb-ula of Andromeda, a system in the making, as it were; Pegasus, the Northern Crown, Hercules, Job's Coffin, the Swan, which contains the nearest star to us yet discovered, discover-ed, so close(l) that It only takes light (which travels 186,200 miles 'a second) 2 YEARS to come from it to -us and that's the closest one! Then there is the star Vega, and Al-tair, Al-tair, and the "Lazy W" or Cassio-pea's Cassio-pea's Throne. Miss Elma Hinton of Hurricane is spending a vacation visiting relatives rel-atives at Hinckley and Delta. Mr. George Bishop and son Albert came in from Snake Valley Tuesday to attend the funeral of Mr. Bishop's sister, Mrs. Annie Webb. Angus Allred and family went up to Salt Lake City this week to take in the Rodeo and visit relatives on the way back. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Mortesou Of Salt Lake City returned ater a visit vis-it with hisi sister, Mrs. Harry Pearson; Pear-son; while here they took a trip to .Bryce's Canyon. -B. M-. Prescott, Traveling Service Agent of the Union Pacific was a Delta visitor this week. Wm. H. Gardner returned to Delta Del-ta this week to attend the farm of his son Wm. N. Gardner, who is in Cortez, Colo. Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Ashby and Mrs. William Schiffer and daughter motored mo-tored up to the City Monday to take in the Rodeo. |