The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-02-26
Newsy Briefs From Many
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A NOTED WORTHY AND PIONEER
Box Elder Rius-From the Little Re-
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BOX ELUER BITS .
Interesting News Melange From
the Northern County.

1T Is hard to say whether blowing or
ball playing has the greatest number OF
Votaries.
NURSERY MEN say no reaches, no
pears. no aprlcots this yeaE.
RACES AT Willard to-day, and this
evening theatre by the home COM
pany.
Our PosToFFICE is to be removed to
more commoOious quarters (noI to say
respectfully, and nearer the centre of
town. Sing and rejoice
Rev. T. G. ILIFF is IN town to-day,
presumably to ioJK after the cro ked
conduct of the abSconder, Nelson Staal-
borg.
IT Is not unlikely that one or more
lady mem oers of the Brigham Dramatic
and Lyric Club will appear at Salt Lake
in April next. providing Conference is
held there. Negotiations are nending.
There is hisir )n'c ent and ability here
that Will Lot always remain III obscur-
ity.
4 VERY pleasant affair was the sur
prise at the residence vi eX- President D.
G. Snow, OH Monday in honor of his
39th birthday. The night was spent in
exercises appropriate and customary at
such gatherings. An original song and
chorus entitled, Papa ID ar Papa
written and composed for The occasion
by David Booth, aud sang by six child
rem, ranging IN age from to Ia years,
was the gem of the evening.
J. ANDERSON, alias Prof. Van Eyck,
our local sllgnt-of-hAnd performer has
been trying has dextt riCy up Ger
tain sewing machine agent Of Ogden,
who is more persistent than wise in
off ha
found the professors hands too quick
for the eye and be was knocked out the
drst round out of he house We mean.
The man of machines promises to go
cunning for the man of tricks the first
time he catches him out alone.
n. P. ANDERSON. furniture dealer. has
closed out his entire STOCK TO Elias
Jensen and now there IS talk of Jensen
and Nelson joining forces with the |
Coop sho2 aod shipping direc from the |
factories IN car load lots, making this |
distributing point for a wide section of |
country. north and west f us. There's |
monev ia it gentlemen; push ahead. |
The wholesale trade in our town alone |
amounts TO seven cars per year, and |
Ogden has controlled it quite long
enough.
THERE WAS lively runaway on Main |
Street yesterday. The horses were |
Haillng'S, likewise the broken wagon. |
One of those blarsted bikes is what did |
the mischief. A day or two before q |
man by the name of Paul Nelson was
nearly killed by a runaway team south |
of town. He was blowing and had the |
lines wrapped around his body; the |
horses became frightened, got the |
advantage Of him, tIipped him up aud |
dragged him from the field to the barn |
yard, fully quarter of a mile. There |
were no broken bunes, but DR.. Davidson |
had to shave the sufferers head be lore |
he could get the cuts and wounds
plastered and sewed together. He is
still very sick man.
GEORGE L. SAVAGE, Salt Lake, and
Lana Snow, Brigham City, were married |
in the Logan Temple on Wednesday,
the 22d, Washington birthday. AIe-
ceptton was to have been held here the
gSme evening, but the engineer was
steiegrapbed for from Ogden, on &C.
count of sickness, the tran ran ahead
of time and the newly welded pair were
Left in the matrimonial city much
against their wishes The postpo ed
reception came off at the home of the
brides mother last evening, fif'y-six
s& tas beRrest relatives partici-
batting. Eilbles and turntables were
ample and the finest in the
land; toa Is witty and profuse, and the
presents rich and elegant. President
Clawson and vie were present by
special invitation, and joined III the
festivities with apparenE gusto. An
other bloodlhirstv Say ge co.Lesttst
and made white auu ii delightso me |
people," yea, even unto the whiteness |
of Sno The affair bias Lana long |
time in allowance; Georg verse and |
rural rumor mad it We'll maturei year
ago or more. Mr.. ana Mrs. Savage will
take up ornament residence IN your
city.
SARAH DAVIS, of whom complimentary
meuJIon Was made In former article.
died Monday at the advanced age of So
years and five months. She has been
identified with the growth and develop
ment nf Brigham City since the build
ing of the first house in what was
Known as the Old Fort. She was a
member of one of the first companies to
cross the plains, and has been sharer
and sufferer in everv exodus and in all
the prosecutions of the Saints, from
Kirkland to the move south. She rode
into the far west, from one of these eX-
pulsons, on a pack-horse, with one
child in her arms and another behind
her, and was saved from sharing in the
horrors of the battle of little Crooked
River almost by a miracle. She was
twice ordered out OF, her home, at Far
West, by an infuriated mob. and she it
was who armed with an iron poker,
ran one of the mobocrars out of the
ho Sc who sat with a loaded musket on
his lap, trying to intimidate her. They
were finally driven from their home,
and before they got out of sight the
house was fred. and she stood and saw
it burn to the ground. Funeral ser
vices were held in.the Tabernacle on
Tuesday, and feeling and appropriate
addresses, euIogistic of the life and
Iahors of the deceased, were made by
Apostle Snow, President Clawson and
Elders Ensign, Box and Rees. Minis
tering 10 and comforting the sick and
afflicted has been her life one m ssion,
and there does not sleep within the
e To