Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1918-05-17
SAHARA.

Sahara, Utah, May 10, 1918.
Mrs. A. +. Phillips has been i'll for
some time but is getting better at
present.
"Pete" Corn is building an addition
to his house this week with the aid of
Ross A. Brown.
Chas. J. Hellings had the misfor-
tune of loosing "Jim," one of his team
Of horses, through illness.
Mr.. s. A. Sarvis and family and
Mrs Farley went to Newcastle for
hay Wednesday and Thursday. Both
days proved fierce
Fresh snow showed all over the
north range Thursday morning, melt
ing rapidly, however, under the com
bined influence of the sun and wind.
We are in receipt of big bunch
of beautiful roses from sunny Cal
ifornia. oh, oy. They sure make us
see things: Birds and flowers and
trees and water. Oy, Oy.
II. o. Dougherty has put in quite a
bit of lucerne this spring as an ex-
pertinent. We know it will grow here
but so far no one has had sufficient
means to SOW any quantity Of this
seed
Mr.. Athol Griffin, one of our stars,
is finally permanently assigned. His
address is: A. T. Griffin, Co. c., 800
Field Signal Battalion, Camp FIRE.
mont, California. Write, to him friends
and let him know he is remembered
The first reading of our new consti-
tuition and ritual will be Saturday
night, May 18th. Every member OF
the club should make a special effort
to attend the readings and the subse.
quent votings on the constitution.
We are just completing dandy
chicken yard 40 40 feet. All We
need now is a chicken. Brown-eyet
one preferred, gentle disposition, uset
to living on natural desert products
i.e., air and sage. For such CHECKER
we might be persuaded to add 9 x
tie-house to the yard.
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Rev. Rice Of Cedar City preache
for us last Sunday, May 9Th, and the
babe good bye as he is going to at
tend conference at Columbus, Ohio
He will not return in time to fill hi
appointment in Sahara the first Sun
day in June, but will be here the sec
ond Sunday in June instead.
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Lack-a-day, with all this high cos
Of living we have four more mouth
to feed, or will have in week o
two, as our office cat has presente,
us with four kittens. Nothing mucl
to look at just at present but each
potential possibility in that it may de
velop into mighty hunter.
How did our plan for Afternoon
Sunday School work? Fine. We sc
the hour at 4:30 p. m. and by 5 every
one was in and settled for the lesson
Had much larger adult class, we ar
glad to say. Mrs. N. A. Meade wa
appointed to fill the vacancy made b.
Miss Hedrick, as teacher of the Jun
Tor class.
Friday evening, May 18th, we Wi
give banquet to our departing
teacher, Mrs. Hobbs, and to the chill
dren. We overheard some of tn
plans for the big eats and if they ma
terialize, we can "Hooverize" for
week after storing away our porto
of the food, By the way, this was t
have been a surprise banquet, but
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Saturday, May IL we had yer
pleasant dance at the club house. M
we personally were not there. That
one reason no doubt, it was such
pleasant evening. A party drove owe
from Lund, composed mostly of CO
darites. We are surely glad to haV
our friends visit us and we like a
ways to be able to say good bye an
come again.
We have been planting Is acres c
milo maize, not because we like mil
but because we had 10 plant in
hurry and plant what we could ge
This makes US 40 acres under cult
walton, well fenced and showing pros