The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-12-23
Brigham City Bits.
.ENTs Of the season.

BfJSUdm OlGy DlISs
COMPLIMENTS Of the season.
CHRISTMAS trees are beautiful and
cheap.
The Coop bargain store is again
open and doing big trade.
ELDER JAMES BROWN is preaching in
all the settlements and wards of the
stake.
PEOPLE are sometimes silenced but
not convinced. We Ire neither silenoed
nor convinced.
Has anybody been oppressed by the
Powers that be, or even subdued? Not
that we know of.
MRS. NJ. L. ENSIGN has gone to Lo-
gan to care for, nerture and look after
the wants of another grandson.
SENTENCE in the case of James Han
son, mentioned in our last, has been
deferred until some time in February.
PROFESSOR J. J. ANDERSON, wife, and
Hiss Sadie Tanner, of the Stake AGA
denny, will all spend the holidays in
Utah County.
MERCHANTS ARE all overstocked with
rubber goods. Lovely weather for
Sheep and stock men, but hard on ice
merchants and coal dealers.
Rev. S. L. GILLESPIE started for
Washington Court House, Ohio, yester-
day. Of course, he will visit Pork
opoiis and other centres of interest be-
fore he returns.
The HERALD subscription list. for
Box Elder County, is more than 100
names longer than it was this time last
year If it doesn't keep on growing it
WiiInot be our fault.
3. G. M. & M. Association sports a
dummy Santa Claus, life size, laden
with presents for the children. B. NJ.
Young is the designer and builder.
The work is cleVerly done. a
The Brigham orchestra plays at =
ball in Mendon tonight, and to-mor
row for wedding party at Collinston.
NJ. Wells, a railroad man, and Miss
Standing are said to be the contracting
parties.
Now there is talk of moving the ma
chinery out of the lower part of the
WOODEN factory aud converting the first
floor into an opera hon e. The build
ing is all right, but how about the 10,
cation?
THERE was Seventies Conference at
Willard on Sunday last. Presidents
Gates and Cannon were present; also
Secretary Campbell. The bailding was
NOT nearly large enough TO to accom-
Im0date the people.
The Liberal petition, 'No State, ODD
for Utah." was also hunting autographs
III cur town and was being passed
around with the celebrity worthy bet
ter cause. They are rustlers, these
Liberals, and no mistake.
O. A. WELLS, the produce merchant
OF Willard, is about to take unto him
self partner in business, build an ad-
dition and branch out into general
merchandising. Wells is the curve
twirler of the Willard baseballists.
TIE Gazette still lives and thriVes
under the wise and able management
ofO, w. Snow. The little Gazette is
only pamphlet paper, fostered IN the
interests of mutual improvement, but 1t
is filing the measure of its creation sd-
mirably.
COMMISSIONER CARRINGToN has in
vested in a cheap violin and is trying to
learn to play it. Suffering humanity,
what next2 Oh fof an expelling society
for the prevention of cruelty to human
Beings. We pity his neighbors for va
rfous reasons.
QUITE NUMBER OF times curing Cn0
past few years, as an occasional mem
Der of the Brigham Dramatic and
Lyric Club, E. A. Box has sacrificed a
full flowing beard for the stage, Now,
Warden Pratt will require him to part
with it for another son.
JOHN WHITNEY, of Cleveland, O., was
assessed $40 and costs, forpetty larceny,
by Justice Ensign on Wednesday. That
means twenty-five days for John at the
county wood side, saving and splitting
cord wood. Keep your fingers off th,
bedclothes that hang on fences; especi-
ally in the day time.
The Utah Journal is little severe
but just, in its criticism of the Snow.
Houtz Dramatic Co. g second night, but
how could it be otherwise and speas
its honest convictions. Had not the
Journal critic seen the same piece put
ON in his city by another company
recently, the verdict might have been
different.
At the Iumberyard of McMaster &
Fasgreen the other night lamp burned
dimIy; over few smouldering ember
IN The Office stove sat the proprietor
with hands together, and wits at worh
plotting against the Whites (Charle
and Ephraim) yea, even against tn
6now.Whites, all the other lumbel
callers in town.