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Show 1 Historical Preservation News... 1884 diptheria epidemic, cemetery work done, new theater plans, fruit tree sales reviewed The following article on Pleasant Grove appeared in the "Deseret Weekly News," April 16, 1884. We are having a very wet spring: rain, snow and rain. Quite an amount of cereals have been planted in this neighborhood, although the wet has retarded farm work considerably. Our present city fathers are to be commended for their enterprise in fencing and ornamenting our cemetery. The grounds have bee.', cleared and leveled and trees planted, and altogether, the land where sleeps our loved departed, has been robbed of that dreadful monotony so common to graveyards. Quite an amount of work has already been done upon our proposed new theatre, and the projectors seem to be earnest over the matter. Mr. Parley P. Driggs is buying a large herd of stock in the north end of Utah Count v. and citn realizing good Ja bovini's. r "Kir Diptheria, which tuis h( tearful in its results the liJ has at last stopped jfc V. career. ;,nd it is to be forever H u ft The call for fruit trces nurseries of this town hsh!?lhi great this season as toT1 exhaust the supply. Manv "J have been shipped to ColoJ ( |