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Show THE MORGAN SUCCESSOR TO VOL. XVI. CONTAINS MIRROR-MONITO- R MORGAN, UTAH, FRIDAY, DEC 16, 1910. 2,467 PEOPLE According to Last Census the Pop ulation of Morgan County Has Increased 422 in Ten Years. According to the census just given out at Washington, the population on Morgan county now numbers 2,467. This is an increase of 42 2 since the census was taken ten years ago. search for him as soon as he was missed and hunted through the woods during the evening. At last Mr. Wilcox made his way to the residence of Mr. Egbert, Where his daughter was staying, and the barking of the dogs caused her to believe he was at hand. She instituted search with the result that he was soon found and called for. The hunting party was then notified. M r. Wilcox is aged 89 years and is a veteran of the Civil war. He feels very little the worse for his thrilling experience. CONTAINS 10,191 PEOPLE young frieuds tookpossession of TWO PAINTERS INJURED iis house and a real good time was enjoyed by all present. Sup-ewas served and after midAccording to Last Census the Pop night the crowd dispersed, feei- Scaffold Falls and Three Painters tfas Inulation of Davis County creased 2,195 in Ten Years. According to the census just given out at Washington, .the population of Davis County now numbers 10,191, This is an increase of 2,195 since the census was taken ten years ago. the inquest over the body of her great deal. n Henefer, Utah Henefer, Dec. 14. The funeral services over the remains of the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Henefer were held yesterday. The Old Maids Convention was presented here on the night the 13th, under the auspices rftheY.LM U.,a large at- tendance being present. Several plays will be put on here during the holidays by the district schools, Mutuals and Booster club. Alma Richins, who has just returned from his sheep on the desert, reports things very un iavorable for the sheep, feed scarce and no snow. He brought a carload back with him. Case Dismissed- - Ogden, Dec. 10. Justice of the Peace, E. A. Wilde of Devils Elder William Naylor writes from Scotland expressing already joy and satisfaction from his labors. He says he keeps himself very busy visiting' saints, investigators, and sometimes keeping out of the way of broom sticks and other womens weapons, but wherever he can get to talk to anyone he tells them all he knows about the gospel and judging from the letter one would conclude that he was composed of the right material to make an excellent missionary. He wishes to be remembered to his many friends and says he never will forget the kind treatment and generosity received before he left. A letter from any of them, he says, would be gladly welcomed. He says he enjoys the best of health and the spirit of his mission and seems feel exceeding blessed from the fact that his wife and babes left behind are enjoying good health. . Thrilling Experience of Aged Man Farmington, Dec. 15. Jonaresident than Wilcox, an a thrilunderwent of this city, ling experience here yesterday. He started out to the valley, one mile distant, to see about some water, but lost his way and wandered about in the wilderness until after midnight. Sometimes he had to crawl on his knees, as the brush was very thick. He estimates that he traveled about eight miles iu the darkness, and became chilled and exhausted. His sons and others Joegan a old-tim- e George W. Johnson and David Pack returned Tuesday from Idaho, Where they had been doing carpenter work. Music will Visit our be given each day from 3 to 6:30 T. toy-lan- p. m. Mr. and Mrs. Jr. of Salt Lake Bishop Mrs, Hannah Eldredge was suddenly taken quite ill again last night. Richard Pelton is down from, Midway spending a few days with his family. Our store is headquarters for Santa Claus for, variety and prices. D. L. S. Co. The daughter born recently to Mi, and Mrs. Joseph Heaps of Salt Lake City, makes Jthp . forty fifth grandchild and the .third greatgrandchild for William J Parkin of this place. Sills? handkerchiefs, mufflers, ties and gloves make excellent presents. See them at the D. L. S. Co. ' The home of S. C. Howard was released from quarantine,yester-day- , their two children, who had tho scarlet fever hrving recovered. The home of Mrs. Cyrus W. Page was quarantined today. One of her daughters has a very bad case of diphtheria and anothCLEARFIELD, UTAH. er child is ill, but it is not known Mr. and Mrs. Jesse M. Holt whether it is coming down with have two children sick with the same disease or not. - Ogden, Dec. 10. The coroners jury empaneled to inquire into the death of S. E. Turner, the railway agent at Devils Slide decided that he came to his death by a gunshot wound in the head, but did not call it a case of Turners watch had suicide. never been found. Railway officials believe it was suicide, but the court officials believe it to have been a case of murder. WOOD8 CROSS. J, W. McMurrin are here visiting Mrs. McMurrins with parents, Missionary Work in Scotland and Mrs. William Moss. Slide dismissed the case of Arthur Aldrich, who was charged with the murder of Geerge Simp son, Sept. 19th. Simpsons bronchitis. death resulted from a blow from Mrs. Joseph- L. Mabey was a billiard cue, dealt by Aldrich. very sick the first of the week. The evidence introduced by the Mr. and Mas. Joseph Moss state showed that he acted in have had two children sick with self defense. . very bad colds. Jurys Verdict ng they had enjoyed themselves greatly and hoping Ed would remain young for a long time. TheHodson boys and James Flint have returned from Tyhee near Pocatello) where they have been plowing for the past month. They had a very successful run with their new steam thresher during the fall and since finishing the threshing have been the engine for plowing. They have plowed between four and five hundred acres, mostly sage she ranks eighth in the state. Pleased to state that Bishop Ira Baker is able to be out again sfter a long illness. He feels thankful that he can eat a square meal again. Bishop Holbrook is in the Valley again fixing up things around his home. His leg is not well yet, but you cannot keep him still, if he can move at all. B. J. Good the Kaysville home dramatic on its first appearance in their new opera house. He says the play was a splendid one and laughable from start to finish. Those are the kinds of plays we should encourage because we encourage home talent aud we never get a snide play. We should encourage them to go from town to town, because it is a lot of work to learn a play, and it is too bad to be able to play it but once. We hope they will come to Bountiful, and if they do we hope they will receive a good house, for we feel sure they would show us a good time. r Estimating five people to the Mrs Croft Replies family, there are about 2,000 fam10. Dec IDAHO. that ilies in the county. HOLBROOK, Denying Ogden, of Halver services the George The weather is nice out. here. Being so small, Davis County son and Arthur E. Pratt were We have had snow and rain, has been styled the Rhode Island worth more than 100, during which has helped the erops a of Utah, but in point of numbers husbanb, George A. Croft, which was held here, July 29 and 30, Mary I. Croft Las filed an answer in the district court to the com plaint brought by this firm of lawyers, who are endeavoring to collect $300 for their services. Mrs. Croft also cleims that Mil-toCroft, brother of her husband, employed the plaintiffs. Following the inquest, she tendered them a payment of $100, which was refused. Mrs, 'Croft has filed a certified check with the court for $100, payable to the plaintiffs, which she asks that they be ordered to accept. No. 18. SYRACUSE SEEPINOS. Gustave C. McDonald of HoopMiss Bertha M. Cook of er and this place were married Wednesday. Epraim Walkers son, age seven, met with a bad accident, last week. While going to school on the school wagon, one of the children pushed him into the the first of the week to Mr. and Mrs. Harry A baby was born Salter. The D. L. S. Co. are giving a handsome glass calendar to their customers and friends this year. The scene is very appropriate, being a number of sheep grazing on the hillside. Mrs. Mark E. and Mrs. Asa Waddoups returned to their homes in Salt Lake, yesterday, after having spent a few days here visiting with their sister, Mrs. Ezra Waddoups and other relatives. wheel. Arrested for Reckless Shooting Dr. Smedley of Bountiful had two Greeks arrested for reckless shooting, Sunday. They were shooting at a mark up ou a post, and the bullets went whistling in the direction of the doctors res idence, one ball passing about twenty feet over his son Wil Hams head. The doctor, himself, was shot in the leg by a reckless police.-main Salt Lake City, while walking along the sidewalk with his baby in his arms, so he does not believe much in toleratin that kind of work. us-n- g brush land. George W. Parrish was reelected road overseer of this district at the election held Dec. 5. The good roads movement has struck Idaho and George is working as hard as the rest to the bad roads and make travel more pleasant and people more agreeable. Our sugar factory did not run this season. Tbe beets that were grown here were shipped to other factories, but we are as sured that it will run next season, and that the growers will receive $5 00 instead of $4 50 per ton for their beets. The Clipper is very much ap preciated and considered by the writer as one of the letters from home. A merry Christman and a hap py and prosper ius New Year to the Clipper and its readers. . Subscriber. KAYSVILLE KINKS. RuLie Phillips underwent airoperation last night for ap pendicitis. Two or three weeks ago she was operated on, but the appendix could not be removed at the time. Nyals laxacold cures colds and 25c a box, Layton lagrippe. Co. t Drug Mrs. Dr. Morton is at Ameri can Fork, visiting with her mother, Mrs Baker. Arnold Barnes, who recently underwent an operation for ap pendicitis, is improving nicely. He expects to leave the hospital to come home, this Saturday. Mrs. Ephraim Briggs left the hospital last week and is stopping with Mrs. William Bone. She expects to be able to leave here in about another week. Mrs. Ann Bacon and daughter, Lula, who had been at the hospital to b6 treated for typhoid fever, left that institution to go Blackfoot, Idaho, Dec. 12th, 1910. The weather is good. People are still plowing. We have had some good rains and roads are quite muddy. Alma Clough and George Watts were attending court in Blackfoot last week as jurors. Leo W. Pack expects to build on his farm at Sterliag, (about 30 miles west of here) in the near night last, when about 30 of his Bountiful Painting West Meeting House Three painters had a bad fall Tuesday afternoon while painting the ceiling of the West Bountiful Meeting house. One of the supports of the scaffold was defective, having a big knot in it, which caused the scaffold to collapse. The men fell about sixteen feet. Gerald Pack had two or three ribs broken and a gentle man from Salt Lake had his heel badly injured. His injuries were very painful. He was taken to his home in an automobile. The other man escaped unhurt Dr. Howell was called and tended the unfortunate mens injuries on CENTRE VILLI CHATS. C. E France, who has been sick about a month, is now able to get around a little. Mrs. Thurza Tingeys condition has not changed very much. LewRampton is clerking in a clothing store in Salt Lake. John Randall and Miss Pearl Page were married Wednesday. A reception was givqn the same evening. Ward reunion will be held here today. There will be a dance in the evening. Mrs. Eliza Porter, who is away .being treated at. some sanitarium, is improving. It is expected that she will be able to return home next week. Her daughter, Mrs. Malinda Smith, the nurse, is with her. , Hyrum Smith of Ogden spent Wednesday here visiting with his mother, Mrs. Amelia Smith. Mrs. Mabel Randall of Malad is down to spend the holidays with her mother, Mrs. Mary Smith, and other relatives. The Elders quorum gave a sociable at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John E in Woolley honor of their son, Markus, who returned on the second of this month from a to the Samoan Islands. three-year-missio- A fine n program was rendered Little Frederick J. Green Called. Frederick James Greea, son of Mr. aud Mrs. Hyrum A. Green, age three years and four months, passed away at the home of his parents at Lake Breeze, Salt Lake City, on Saturday. He died of what the doctors at first called mastoid abscess, but later pronounced abscess of the brain, after twenty months' suffering. He underwent three operations at the L. D. S. hospital. The first one brought him some relief but the other two did not seem to help him any. After the last operation he began to sink until the end came. Funeral services were held at the family residence, Monday at 10 a. m., which were presided over by Bishop Sherwood. The speakers were, Elders Ernest Benjamin Hollingsworth and Bishop Sherwood. . Tbe remains were then to bountiful for burial, brought ou the Bamberger trainjtwhich leaves Salt Lake at 1.30 p, m. At, Bountiful there were quite number of vehicles at the station to meet the remains and accompany them to the cemetery, where short services were held. The choir rendered two selections and Elders Joseph Hep- worth and J. J. Holbrook spoke words of consolation. The remains were laid to rest in the lot of his grandfather, James Gren. FIVE HUNDRED OUT OF WORK Part of Construction Work on Big Canal Closed Down on Aooonnt of Frozen Ground. Because of the frozen condition of the ground, making it necessary to close down most of the construction work, 500 laborers, mostly Japanese and Greeks, were laid off by the contractors on the Davis and Weber counties canal concrete operations today. As soon as the frost is out of the ground in the spring work will be continued. It is expected that the canal will be finished by the opening of the irrigation season to handle water for the farms. Up till today a force of 700 men and about 300 teams have been kept ousy on the work and throughout the winter the remaining 200 men and a large force of teams will be keptou the job, working on certain parts of the canal, especially in prepar iug the grade for the operations next spring. A large force of men will be kept busy drilling and blasting away the rock, there being over 4C00 feet of solid rock which must be cut through. The entire length of the canal, when finished, will be nine and miles, over six of which have already been completed. and refreshments were served. Elder Woolley is experiencing quite a difference in climate between the islands and here. Choice apples at $1 per bushel while they last, at the D L. S. home, Friday. Co. at Woods Cross. Miss Margaret Odd and Jo Visit at the Deseret seph Malin are to be married in Livestock store at Woods Cross. theneai future. The children will be delighted. John Coles, while visiting the Music each day from 3 to 6:30 p. L. D. S hospital to see his son, m. , accident a of sad tells Lawrence, At the first league game ot basthat befell a young man from ket ball played at the Alberta Crescent, Salt Lake county, Sun- hall, Nov. 9th, between our team day. He was standing with his aud the East Bountiful team, a A hand on his gun barrel arose over a dispute ruling of the younger brother playfully pulled referee, which was appealed to on the hammer unnoticed. The the athletic board of this part of charge passed through his hand, the Davi3 stake. Yesterday the taking off the side of his face. board rendered a decision conThe young mans father is on a firming the decision of the refermission and he is the only boy ee, which gives the victory to at home of any size to aid in car- Bountiful. ing for the place. Dale Parke and Miss Our Home Dramatic will play lor are to be married in May Tay. the near here again tonight. future. Charles Robinson, who came A daughter was born to Mr. to visit his sick father, returned and Mrs. Thomas Cook, of Idaho, to his home in Colorado the first Monday, here at the home of her of the week. His father contin mother. Bonneville, Utah. ues to improve nicely. The road house, which is Nyals croup ointment cures Pleased With Kaysville Dramatic- ing built here near tho One of our Bountiful business tion of the Bamberger croup, common to children; 20c men saw the drama played by nearing completion a jar. Layton Drug Company toy-lan- BLACKFOOT IDAHO future. Ed Parrish was given a genuine surprise at the home of his brother Georges on Monday Fail 16 Feet, While d one-hal- f Herald-Republica- n. - ! is |