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Show BINGHAM BRIEFS Dr. Elmer Christiansen, dentist, of Salt Lake, has purchased the office In the .Vienna apartments'- formerly occupied oc-cupied by Dr. Brockbank and has reopened re-opened the place for the practice of dentistry. Dr. Christiansen is a brother broth-er of Dr. J. F, Christiansen, secretary to the state board of dental examiners, examin-ers, and has been engaged in tha practice prac-tice for some time. Before taking up dentistry he was for some time editor edi-tor of the Ephralm Enterprise. John K. Praggastis, who enlisted in the army early this year and had been stationed at San Diego, California, has safely arrived in France, according to a letter received by his people here this week. He was a seasoned soldier before entnng the American army, having fought with valor in the Balk-cm Balk-cm war, where he was seriously wounded. ..- J. Aardema of the Deseret News, spent this week in Bingham in the Interest In-terest of that paper. iMrs. Ew H. Coray of Salt Lake, who is engaged in Y. W. C. A. work, was in Bingham, Sunday in the interest of that organization. Mrs, Coray says that the Y. W. C. !A, is doing a great work in the encampments and on the various battle fronts, and that the membership of the organization is growing rapidly. ," Mr. and Mrs, w; E. Brooks spent Wednesday in Salt lake. .' Miss, Edith Jeffrey, who has.- been spending some time here visiting her people,, returned to iMagill, Nevada, last Saturday, where she Is. to be married in a short time, to I, iL. Stone of that place. Miss Jeffrey" was a member mem-ber of the Bingham school faculty last year. ' ' Mrs. John Alden Shepard of Salt Lake made a speech in the Commercial Commer-cial Club yesterday afternoon to the members of the Red Cross who are Interested in knitting. Miss 'Vera Stringham of St. Mary's Academy, spent the woek-end with her people here. The new $960 organ for the Meth-' Meth-' cdist church has arrived and will be Installed as soon as the church building build-ing is completed. .. ' , Raymond Hosklns, who was Injured last week by being run over with , a truck has recovered sufficiently ' to be taken home from the hospital. - ;;;,, ,.'.,: K . Mrs. James Garnett delightfully entertained en-tertained a number of friends at her home at a dinner last Friday evening. Those present were IMr. and Mrs.. Q.( B. ;KeJbr, (Dr. and.- Mra." J. ..F,. Tynn,' ' Mr. and Mrs. IW B. Jane, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kemp, Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Garnett and ILouls (Buckman. The entertainment en-tertainment of the evening consisted of , playing Ive -hun,dre4 and- ftter, games. r . " : - 'Misses "Esther, ' J enny and j Vera Blora and Mrs. Hannes spent Friday In Salt Lake shopping and attended the theater. O'--;' Roger Felt Is visiting friends" in Bingham while awaiting his call to the colors. in the camp the churches are not generally gen-erally crowded so as to make them dangerous places. The employes of the Utah Copper Company held a mass meeting In Canyon Can-yon Hall, Tuesday night to aek for the establishment of the eight hour system. 'A large crowd attended and quite a little speech making followed Before adjournment they decided to leave the matter to the war governing govern-ing board for settlement. Work on the iMarkham water tank has been temporarily suspended on account of the lack of material. Miss Evelyn Mano, who Is a student stud-ent at St. 'Mary's Acaflemy, spent the week end here with her folks. ' ' ' ' j ' In making up the flag displays in the business houses and public places plac-es of the countries of the allies the first allotment consisted of the flags of England, France, Italy, Belgium, and Serbia. The Greek flag was not incladed because at the time of making mak-ing the arrangement Greece was not a full fledged member of the entente. However, that flag has been ordered and will be placed along with the others at an early date. On account of the shortage of help the Vienna Grocery Company has made up a new method cf salesmanship salesman-ship whereby their customers can to a certain extent wait on themselves, The goods In the shelves have prices marked on them and the purchaser con pet them without the necessity of calling a clerk. , , 1 1 Chief of 'Police A. E. Pautsch received re-ceived a message yesterday morning 1 staling that his son, Harry Pautsch. who is a student at the State University, Univer-sity, was seriously ill. Mrs. Pautsch left yesterday afternoon for Salt Lake to assist in caring for the young man. Louis RIatto, aged 49, a miner, died Wednesday of pneumonia. The funeral funer-al will be held Sunday afternoon at one o'clock by the 'Highland Lodge number 21, Odd Fellows of which deceased de-ceased was a member, lie was also a member of the Italian Society and was well known and highly esteemed by a number of people of the camp. The burial will be in the old cemetery on Sunday afternoon. He is survived by a widow. There la some little scare in tho camp over the possibility of the Span-IbIi Span-IbIi influenza reaching Bingham and the people have ben cautioned, but people have been advised by the authorities au-thorities to avoid getting Into crowded crowd-ed places. AIho about riding In parked park-ed crowded cars. Such places a the picture- theaters and schools would be dungtrous sihould 4he epidemic strike the town. Also the churches have been mentioned, but unlesn the epidemic should make its appearance |