The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-01-21
TEN YOUNG men
WANT THE PLACE
Examination to Be Held for
Rural Mail Carrier on
the Lehi Route.

| Lem. Jan. D--There will be a rural mail
| carriers examination held in Provo on
Fepruary to fill vacancies existing i'm
Lem, Provo and other offices i'm Utah
county. The examinations will be held
under the auspices of the civil service
| commission and the applicants winning
the most points will be certified for APP
pOlhtnent Ten applications have been
sent in from Lehi for the position made
vacant by the resignation of Joseph +
Husson, VINO has gone to Provo to attend
| the Il. Y. L.
Lehi won first blood in the contest
winch will be waged among the high
4 schools OF Utah county for the champion
/ snip IN the county basketball league The
game Friday evening was between Lehi
ana Pleasant Grove. In the first half
| the visitors were successful but lost their
/ lead in the last half, and when the game
/ closed the score stood % to q in favor
OF Lehf The Lehi, American Fork, Pleas
ant Grove, Springville, Spanish Fork and
! Payson high schools have each organized
| a basketball team and formed a county
| league. A series of contests during the
! winter will determine the championship
and much interest is being awakened as
to the final outcome.
Horsemen of this locality are evinc-
/ ing much interest in the Improvement of
! their stock. During the past week two
different companies have been organized
! in Lehi. One company purchased the
English coach stallion Dictator from Nc
/ Laughlin Bros Of Ogden for $500. and
the other company purchased the famous
Percheon stud Telephone from an Iowa
company through l.. w. Lund. Both
horses were imported from Europe within
/ the past year and both are years old.
coming in the spring. They are magni-
! ficent specimens of horse flesh.
Two cars of coal were sidetracked here
/ yesterday and within few hours distri-
! buted among the people in 800 and LOCO
pound lots. This temporary relief from
l nn nj for limo a to anniH aF1r
A train load Of coal was going through
! when two cars got hot boxes" and it
/ became necessary to leave them. num-
Der of teams loaded with cedar wood have
| passed through Lehi the past few days
and in this way some of the people are
keeping from freezing till coal becomes
| less scarce.
| James Peterson, weigh master at the
sugar factory is authority for the state
ment that at one time recently there
were 100 empty freight cars in the yards
at the Lehi factory DlOckading traffic so
J that ii was almost impossible to get a
car of sugar out because Of the empty
cars. This does not prove q scarcity of
cars to be the cause Of the coal famine.
The, installation of the big pipe organ
I in the new tabernacle has necessitated
/ the Encouragement of the speakers stand
and choir seats. The seats for the choir
| are now arranged so that the members
1 face their leader and seats have been
placed for seventy-five members. The
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moved forward. the whole arrangement
/ being a most decided Improvement.
The auxiliary plant of the Utah Sugar
company at Spanish Fork having cut
/ 40 900 tons of beets and completed its run,
/ has been closed for the season.
An orchestra composed of members OF
/ the local high school has been organized
with r. L. Woodward as director There
| are fifteen pieces in the orchestra.
Peter Mcclellan OF Eureka, who died in
a Salt Lake City hospital, was brought
here for burial this week
Milan Atwood of Manila, accompanied
by local members of the state high coun-
ell. is doing missionary work here among
the members of the dominant church.
The ID. r. society at its meeting this
week elected the following officers for
the ensuing six months: Bertha Obran.
regent: Julia Bone. vice regent; Margaret
/ Thurman, secretary. and Achsah SchoW
] treasurer.
John Bradshaw and wife former resi-
/ dents Of Lehi have been visiting rela-
I tives here for the past month. Mr.. Brad
| shaw has 5000 acres of land in Alberta.
! Canada. He has 1000 acres planted to fall
| grain and will plant 500 acres more in
the spring. He has been threshing for
several months and will not have con-
cluded threshing last seasons wheat Tor
a month yet.
Hvrum Smith and Mrs. Amy Kearney
were married in the Salt Lake temple last
wednesday. John Mckinney of Fairfield
! and Miss Hannah Mason of Lehl were
I also married last Wednesday. Inc lat
| ter couple will reside in Fairfield.
Mrs. B. w. Brown was taken to the l..
| d. S. hospital last week and underwent
a successful operation for chronic APP
pendicitis and female troubles.
| Sylvester Evans, who also underwent
i an operation in the same hospital for
acute appendicitis, is reported as pro-
! crossing favorably.
| Daisy Kirkham was operated upon TINS
week by Drs. Holbrook and Steele, nav
/ ing some growths removed from her eyes
| Alex Christensen has closed his skating
| rink i'm Lehi and will open up In Draper
next week.
Mrs. j. II. White of Pleasant Grove is
visiting with her parents. Mr. and Mrs.
John Stoker
James Brown, who has been boiling su-
gar in the Blackfoot factory during its
recent run. is home for brief visit.
| A committee has been appointed by
! the Commercial club in conjunction with
similar committee from Provo and
ture to secure an appropriation to drive
for flowing well in Cedar valley. One
hundred thousand acres of land have been
purchased from the state in Cedar valley
! during the past year, supposedly TO be
| put TO dry farm use. This land is from
| three to twenty miles from water Tor
| even culinary purposes, which makes IL
| necessary that water be sought for by
! driving wells. The state appropriated
money for this purpose several years ago
! but just as the appropriation was about
J to be applied it was discovered that the
| lands were embraced in the Fort Crit
tendon reservation. Now%t that they are
released the state will be asked to make
| f1aor. ,fraft for