Show LOCAL ITEMS several of our citizens have been undergoing a of gripp so far no serious cases have been reported dr burtons bartons Bur tons office work has so increased that he is compelled to add an hour or so extra quite frequently quent ly if you want your initials or name printed nicely in gold on your stationary bring it to the times office phil benson is having a neat 5 roomed cottage erected S A and hugh matheson have the work in charge better get your kerosene can filled hard freezing weather may come any time now and cause a shortage of electric light miss aliss bertha stevens of this city is visiting with mr and mrs F L culver at el centro centre and will remain during the winter months the pavement recently put down in front of the new coop co op al al co building is an excellent piece of work and tends to intensify its say you band boys what are you up to anyhow practicing regularly twice a week and never so much as attempt to play a tune or two for the people of the town now arent you vou ashamed of yourselves every man who is in business no matter of what nature should have printed stationary on which is plainly stated the business he is engaged in it costs but little more and gives a certain distinctiveness to his correspond correspondence ance that he can get 4 in no other way we have been informed that the mutual organizations are contemplating putting on a drama within a short time hope they do many abany people of this city would far rather see our home thespians perform than any that travel this way from outside localities wonder if it would not be a good thing for the city fathers to order the laying of payment across each street where the people have to travel to go about their customary business it would mean that shoe leather would be saved because pedestrians would not have to walk ankle deep in dust during dry weather and avoid wading ankle deep in mud in wet weather we are in receipt of a letter from mrs airs F L culver who with her husband and family are residing in el centro california for the winter mrs culver states that all is well with her and that there is but one thing missing to make happiness complete that is the fact that the times so far has not been mailed to el centro centre and the lady asks that this be done so that she may keep in touch with the doings of the parowan carowan people wm 0 orton showed to a times reporter a petrified tooth the other day which was taken from the pump well that is being dug for attorney general barnes of salt lake city the tooth or rather a piece of a fp tooth measures over an inch in diameter and is about four inches long and the ragged end shows that thai it has been broken no doubt by being excavated from the well it is from some extinct animal of the mastodon Ma Ala variety that inhabited this part of the globe thousands of years ago the well diggers encountered the tooth at a depth estimated at between 47 and 48 feet this jar you port master VV L adams informed our reporter that during the month of november 1 SOO 00 money orders were sent through the parowan carowan postoffice post office some of the money thus sent was for legitimate purposes but a large part of it no doubt went to mail order houses which is hardly legi mate unless it was sent for some articles that are not carried by our local stores many times our citizens have sent money off to mail order houses for goods which when received have proven to be far from the kind and quality ordered the prices have been attractive which has induced the people to tn send for the goods only to be |