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Newspaper
Lehi Banner
Location
Lehi, Utah, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1906
Page
4
The notice records Leh Utah being entered as second class matter with JAS M Kirkham listed as manager. It notes postal handling and designation by the managing authority.
Columns urge local farmers to visit the Central Experimental Farm regularly to learn of tree planting seeding spraying and other horticultural work of immense value to farming and fruit growing. The piece praises ongoing scientific agriculture and asks why residents do not show more interest.
Our readers are reminded that Decoration Day, Wednesday May 30, requires all city cemetery lots and streets to be cleaned and adorned beforehand. Private families will handle most lots, but the city should arrange help for remaining areas. Propose dedicating next Monday or Tuesday to recruit volunteer citizens for the cleanup work.
A local editorial warns that boys in Lehi smoke cigarettes harming mind and body. It links smoking to weakened intellect, dwarfed physique, immoral habits, and bad company, urging parents to guard their sons against this narcotic influence.
About one hundred Lehi high school graduates were praised at the Tabernacle for completing their commencement. The piece urges students to choose good company and read a few books during the vacation to maintain educational momentum and avoid derailing progress.
The piece argues that while tobacco harms adults, it more severely harms children and adolescents in their formative years, potentially ruining future careers, with emphasis on the lasting impact of early habits on character.
The writer describes olive growing in Tuscany near Lucca with temperate weather and shallow soils, noting five large trees yield one barrel of 30 liters. He recalls local hunting for finches and tin nets, and mentions boiled jay as a dish, bat shooting seen on roads, plus nearby trout fishing with February to April rises.
An excerpt from From a Holiday Journal describes Marie a pretty girl at a German bath who reveals she has a lover. She boasts My Brautigam is young handsome rich and mocks an English girl who admits a suitor this spring. The German girl declares I love him sof and triggers embarrassed laughter among nearby English observers.
A humorous exchange in the Housator Post shows a man offering two thousand dollars to avoid marriage until saving five thousand, while Little Bleworth strings beans at home as his mother directs. The Little Chronicle adds a domestic vignette of a boy named Eleworth helping with dinner chores.
A farm near Biggleswade demonstrated an agricultural motor by lamination of a field with acetylene gas. Two six foot mowers were drawn and the motor cut 15 acres in three hours and thirty five minutes starting at nine pm. The display showed the motor works day and night for rapid mowing or plowing.
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