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Show Mayor Kelly Issues Proclamation Relative to Event All Clocks Moved Forward One Hour People Readily Become Adjusted to the Change They Get Up an Hour Earlier and Retire Hour Earlier. ., ' ILast Sunday Bingham witnessed a t change of time, when the clocks were turned ahead one hour, trains arrived an hour earlier and people got up and started work an hour earlier. There was slight confusion the first day, but since then everything has been working1 work-ing1 fine. With reference to this change a number of people here have commented on the fact that the clock rather than the sun is the real guide of activities among the citizens. In bringing the change before the citizens of Bingham Mayor Q. B. Kelly Issued the following proclamations (Whereas, By an act of congress, It is provided that beginning the last Sunday in IMarch and continuing until the last Sunday in October, the clocks shall bo set one hour ahead; and, W hereas, The governor of the State of Utah has issued a proclamation in accordance with the provisions of this act; and, Whereas, The purposes of this act are patriotic, and we are going to get up an hour earlier to beat Kaiser , . , Wilhelm, and it will make for greater ! .jSiar efficiency, improve the general j health of the nation, increase the pro-I pro-I duction of feed, save fuel by reducing the use of artificial light and add one I hour to the day light playtime of the 1 "kiddies' ... I'. -Now, therefore. I, Q. B. Kelly, mayor I of the Town of Bingham, pursuant to , I the provisions of said act of congress. . I do hereby proclaim and declare that I , The clocks in Bingham shall be set I 3ne hoaf ftieal n the evening of I ...fluster Sunday. . , 1 ,'i '1 his change is unlverral and will i causae no confusion; business will go ' on just, the same; appointments will -Je kept, just the same; raih-oada will run on . the same time tables and a I million tons of coal will be saved. L Go to bed an hour earlier Sunday night, but before you go, -set your clock an hour ahead, when you awake live your life as usuaL un lesumony nereor l nweunto set iy hand and affix the seal of the Town of (IJingham, this 3jth day of March, tA. 1), 19,.S Q. iB. KHIJLT, 3Iayor. . Attest: F. W. QTTINX, I. . Town Clerk. y The provisions of the above procla mation have been carried out and are being carried out in Bingham in every detail, and no one is inconvenienced on account of the change. |