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Show PLAIN CITY NO FES The farmers hnve all been busy during the past week repairing tho ditches and canals from the Weber river to the plain City district. They expect to have all tho ditches through tho district ready by the last of this week. The gardens and the "small I fruits have been suffering for the ' want of water, and for a time It ' looked as though the beet crop had a por show on account of the extremely hot weather during the greater part4 of last week. At one time the thermometer ther-mometer registered 80 degrees In the shade, which is most unusual for this time of the year. The change in the otmo?pher last Thursday gave the i tiny rots to tho sugar beets a chance I to gain a little strength, and the 1 farmers were saved the necessity of replanting. Ray Hansen, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Hansen, left during the week for a mission in the central states. A farewell party was given him in the J mcetlc? house and a purse of $50 was presented to him. A pleasing program was rendered. At the conclusion tho joung mnn made a short address Last Sunday evening the Y. M. and, V. L. M. I. association? met and held a conjoint mooting, at which a very Interesting program was rendered. Miss MatilJc Peterson, primary supervisor su-pervisor of the Weber county schools, gave a pleasing historical address on the legends of the river Rhine. The ward choir rendered three selections In addition to the following numbers, which preceded Miss Peterson's address: ad-dress: Organ solo, lone Moyes. recitation, reci-tation, Cora Carver; solo. lona Gar-i ner; quartette; solo. Pearl Taylor; reading, Lizzie Y. Thompson. A feature fea-ture of the program was the solo by Fred J. Kenley, who composed tho music and the words. |