Show PRETTY MTV PLEASANT Au Enterprising Little Town of Liberal Persuasion Mt Pleasant is the most liberal town in the kingdom of Canute There is a temperance society here The Rev Morris is president The Liberals claim that they do a good half of the business here S J Neilsen runs a liberal store in the south part of the town and does ago a-go business F A Jensen a true loyal young man runs a splendid furniture store and does a good business Decoration Day was very appropriately observed last Tuesday evening at the Methodist Church Several of Mt Pleasant stockmen expect ex-pect t leave in a short time for New Mexico They are going for sheep The town has a curfew law which is curew strictly enforced the bell of the Presbyterian Presby-terian Church being tolled every evening at 9 oclock Jensens billiard room is a popular resort re-sort for the boys and a place where some of the elders of Israel spend portion of both their time and money D McArthur saws more than 75000 feet of lumber annually His saw mill is in Pleasant Creek Canyon about five miles from town Mac is one of the boys One ol the jolliest fellows your representative repre-sentative met while in Mt Pleasant was Prophet Moroni Seely stockman and gentleman of leisure when not otherwise other-wise employed A company of Liberals have a store in this place they call tho Sanpete Coop What is the good of doing things by halves Why not put over the sign the Allseeing eye and Holiness to the Lord Aug Lundberg is i a very useful citizen to MtTleasant Besides being watchmaker watch-maker tinner and dealer in jewelry hardware guns pistols etc he is always ready and willing to alleviate human suffering by extracting teeth The Mt Pleasant drug store is in the hands of Mr J B Hunter a true Liberal an elegant gentleman and an allaround rustler Much of the enterprise enter-prise of the town is due to Mr H Besides Be-sides his drug business he keeps an excellent ex-cellent stock of liquors wines and cigars as THE DEMOCRAT man can truthfully testy There is need of a good loyal paper in Sanpete county and for the surrounding counties Mt Pleasant would be the very town to print it in The liberal peo po ple would be glad to support such a paper pa-per Cant some of the many bright newspapermen in Salt Lake take up the field now there is opportunity afforded Last Sunday evening Rev Ed N Murphy Mur-phy gave a most excellent sermon in the Presbyterian Church The discourse was written and occupied about an hour to deliver it I was full of splendid ideas and those parts which referred to Utah and her troubles were very sensible and pertinent I the reverend gentleman will keep right on in that line he can do much good in the Kingdom of Canute A good Gentile hotel is conducted by Mr and Mrs N B Feilsen They are very attention and obliging to travelers looking after their wants and comforts in a homesort of a way that makes a guest feel a though he were not merely stopping at a hotel but very much at home The charges at this Neilsens I house were the most reasonable wer mot IlSonable Our correspondent has so far found on the trip The traveling public will do well to call on Mr and Mrs N when in Mt Pleasant Mt Pleasant is t have a firstclass driving park as a company with that object ob-ject is about tc incorporate with a capital stock of 10000 part of which is already subscribed for The park is to be just south of town It contains twentyfive acres of ground enclosed by a sevenfoot fence There will be in the enclosure en-closure a halfmile track base ball ground fair ground stalls stables and sheds for taking care of stock and Much other things a people usually bring to fairs for exhibition I is expected that by next October the track will be ready and races will take place under the auspices of the association associa-tion which will offer purses for the best runneas and trotters in this and adjoining adjoin-ing counties The chief promoters of the Driving Park Association have been Messrs J B Hunter J H Erickson A Cahoon and Moroni Seely MILO ZIP MT PLEASANT May 311887 |