The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-09-09
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.
News From Some Thriving
Southern Towns.
PERTINENT PROVO POINTS.
Spanish Fork Splinfers = District
Schools = Bountiful Crops-
Artesian Wels-Etc
Spanish Fork Splinters.

LEGAL business is dull; duller the
better.
The machinery for the new -four
mill has arrived and will be placed in
pos ton forthwith.
IT is rumored that DR.. Warner, a
leading physician here, is about to pul-
chase a valuable corner on Main Street
and there make a permanent abode.
Mr.. OAKLEY, the Norwegian mer- |
chant, is putting up large brick store |
in lieu of the LUMBER one ne now uses, |
when proves TO be much too small for
his increasing business.
Talking about babies, q Mrs. Simmons
presented her happy husband the other
day With the third set of twins. The
LADY Is doing we'll, and Mr.. Simmons
intends to be banker,
THERE are two denominational
schools here-one Presbyterian and
the other Methodist. The former is
under the charge of Miss Perley and
the latter under Miss Erickson. Both
schools are well attended, with a pros
pect OF an increase.
IT is true the architecture of our city
is not quite up with that of Paris, Lon
don and New York, but it will hold it's
own with Goshen, all the same. Several
new buildings are in course of erection,
among them may be mentioned the
''Hotel de la Boyack." which is bein
e } larged to meet the g. owing demands
Of the travelling public and which has
always had the reputation of par excel
fence.
The trustees have engaged for the
present school year Mr.. joseph A,
Rees as principal Of the district and
TEACHER OF the grammar department,
which position the gentleman has &C.
cupied for some years past; also Mr..
Hyrum Thomas as teacher of the inter
mediate department and Miss Ruth
Brimhall for the primary.
Mr.. THOMAS, the artesianist, is still
driving for water on the public square.
He is now down about 800 feet, having
passed two very small streams. Al
though the prospect is blind and some
what discouraglDg, the golden purse
of our city fathers gives courage
to the ponderous hammer and causes
the pointed drill to gain the right of
way through the contending strata.
The firm of Nelson & Greer
is enlarging its business place.
This firm commenced business about a
year ago, dealing ia agricultural imple-
ments, wagons, ETC., and so steady la
been their growth and rapid too, that
the house is now able to ship whole car
loads of machinery direct from the
east. They claim as their motto in bus.
mess: Reasonable profits and quick
sales. Itappears to bs so.
Our district school houses are under
going a partial renovation an improve
ment much needed. Among other i'm
portant additions one school room will
be blessed with twenty-seVen square
yards OF slated black board and another
with thirty-four and one-half square
yards and another with improved desks
and seats, and all with new educational
apparatus of needed kinds. With the
means on hand our trustees are en-
deavoring to keep abreast of the time
in utility at least with the expectations
of giving beauty her place ere long.
THERE is no wild boom here, but
everybody is busily engaged doing
something. Every department Of busl-
ness is pregnant with activity. The
| threshing machines are strained 10
their utmost and the granaries are
| being well filed with plump grain. Dir.
Rasmus Nelson's steam thresher alone
has threshed 16 $40 bushels of grain TO
date. Add to this the quantities done
by five more machines, and the amount
vet to be done, and the reader may
have an idea of the richness of our soil
and the industrial characters OF our
people. Nor is grain The only product
here. Our orchards are literally
loaded down with apples, pears, peaches,
| plums, etc., while many an acre
\ is denseIy packed with potatoes and
other tubers. The hay crop, although
it has suffered considerably for want of
water, will be ample to meet home con-
sumption and have some to sell. Au
Germ seed brings the ready cash, and
MANY grangers' purse Will grow fat in
consequence thereof this fail. Indeed,
| 1t mas been automatic that if Nc. l
mich COW is needed, bloeded horse,
| improved swine. plump unmixed
cereals, large, sound potatoes, luscious
| fruit, the best of honey, the sweetest
| girls and loveliest of babies you VIA
| find them in Spanish Fork.
INDIAN summer IS here and yet the
water Ratchet of strife IS not buried nor
has the preferred calumet been &C
cepted by a certain party. Court
court" they say, 'tlst us make fat the
greedy cormorants, pay no heed to
counsel, but keep the pot a5oiliDg.'
Non generant dgutla aotatBlbos. r.
SPANISH FORK. September BSSS.