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Show ; ' j - ' ' '""'': - v . . .... , ? ' '" ' . ... ? ; ' - -- ' " . '' - - '' .. N ' ' " ' ' ' ... ' ,; ' ' ...".-- . ' ................. . -- ; : " ... TKE PRESSBULLETIN ; VOLUME 48 ' r . BINGHAM CANYON, UTAH, FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1918 , " NUMBER 15 Letters From Bingham Soldiers The boys with the colors are still sending letters to the ; folks back home, telling what's going on at the battlefront and at the army camps, and among those in stock this week lai .onefrom K. S. Kim,' a native of Honolulu, of Korean parentage, but who resided in Bingham a number of years before joining 'Uncle Sam's big army. . He had not been in the bStv- - ;ice long before he went to Join the boys overseas.. He is something of a literary artist, and if he devotes " a Jittle time on the subject he may wind up as a war correspondent. His letter Is dated-"Franc-e, Somewhere, July " and addressed-t- o Wdlliam As-kew reads as follows: "Bill, how's the boy, and the rest of the fellows?" Give them my hello. I've crossed the pond you see, and tho' Sherman said war was hell, I've found the shrieking of German shells pretty chilly all along my spinal column My hair has forgotten to lay down, and they are all growing stif fer than a porcupine's bristles, and I'm several inches shorter, So pity me. But France is a nice country," beautiful In scen-ery, quaint and .peaceful in appear-ance. Nevertheless I'm getting lone-some for a guy liere has to perles-vou- s French to gft by. I wish I had eaten a Jew of them frog legs' a la French and learned to twist my tongue. .. '. "Bingham is heaven compared to the conditions we have to contend, but this is a man's game amrl like it well, although the hikes, marches, once got my most refined goat This isn't going to last long, and if the Dutchmen spare me, I'm going no far from here that , my French friends would have to spend 100 bucks to snd me a post card. You see his country is not like ours, and being so near the firing lines one cannot find any thing to enjoy to enjoy himself. "The girls here are all pretty, but give me the (Louvre or old Frico for a good time, and I'll tell the Dutch-men to go to (deleted by the censor) "I've drank so much 'champagne here that I'll have to learn anew o drink whiskey straight. : "So . long, J'm : going to chew." Another letter is from R." I. (Merrill, who is stationed at the training school at the (University of Arizona, Tucson, and he hs the following to say with the exception of that which has been blocked out by the censor: "AHave Been awful busy lately and don't have much time to write, we had so many little things to do when not class or drill. Last night my platoon all wanted to go to town, but we were called out. after clas for an extra drill in the manual of arms. After about ten minutes drill wo were asked if we' thought we could do it About 16 of us held up our hands and were lined up by ourselves and put through the work. I made one mistake but got straightened out before an officer saw me. W& were tured loose in a few minutes and went to town, and the rest of the men had to stay and drill all evening. "Am getting along fine in the radio work. Some of us are taking about 18 words to the minute straight read ing, words of code matter is a passing grade, but of course code Is much harder than straight stuff. We expect to leave here about the first of September, but of course, we do no4 know where we are going, and will undoubtedly split up and go all directions. The Y. M. C, A. is giving a party up here for us tonight, biukIc. lunch, dancing etc, and they will fur-- nish the girls. JAnother outfit is giv-ing us a free dance Friday night down town. The principal language one hears spoken here is Spanish anfl a good per cent of the population is Mexican. IBut there is a lot of Ameri-.ca- n and Castilllan Spanish girls run-ning around here who will make ) things interesting for us when we get acquainted.' Thank you for the papers you sent me. I enjoyed them immensely." (The remainder of the letter ;ls about his 'sweetheart, and is there-fore censored).' ; ( , The following is a letter from "Me-lton Manoogian, who enlisted from Bingham several months ago and Is now with the 12th Field Artillery in France: v - V ,'; - ' ' "I was very glad to get your letter and also the paper you were so kind jlo send me. I Just received them : although they wore mailed on 28. We are in a good American !May with two large Y. M. C, A. where they have band con-cert- s and moving pictures every night "We do considerable drilling, but I suppose you get as tired as us with all our war activities which must be done at home as well as here. We i ope to soon be able to do our lit at the front "I feel glad to know that I have many friends the lTpltd , States,, although X have "hot lived there jna&j years, but I feci sure of returning some time in the near future to enjoy i the blessing of the best country in .the world. I - "I will gladly do you a favor ting you know if I should have the which Is a great favor to me, of of being hurt or injured badly. I thank you for the offer of any service I might need, but I have no-thing just now to ask of you, except that I might remain your friend, as ever." - ;. ',:' i!K I1UCI ' :u isiiici wins Name Delegates To District Convention Plans Made --For ;Vig-oro- us Campaign The Local Delegation JVvill Demand That Bingham Be Represented On County Ticket . The Republicans of the camp got ' together ,' quietly last Tuesday . night and held their primaries in the vari-ous precincts and named delegates to ; v the district convention to be held fSalt Lake today., The primary was not very widlv " advertised, but from those who were i j ' present at the different precincts it Is learned that good crowd were in i attendance and that there was some little contesting c in the matter of 5 effecting the organization. The local Republicans say that they ! ' are sure of victory In the county this ' year and that they Intend to' have the . best men available oa standard bear-ers. They claim that the O. O. P. has the man power this year and Tt that it 'will roll up a big majority of i' votes in the November election . i v The Republicans also decided that j .this camp mut be represented ' on ' -- ' the board of county commissioners. In fact they were so strong on this ' point that it was said by some of the leaders that Bingham would not go j ? into the convention unless It could be H ereed that this camp was accorded i -- that consideration. , ! At the precinct, up town Dr. P. & Straup and Dr. A. L.- - Inglesby were 1 named as delegates to the conven- - Jtjem. The delegates named, from t other precincts are as follows: lLower precinct, R, E. JAlexander; . Copperfield, John Knudson; Phoenix, . Joe Melich, and Highland Boy, Cap-tain James Smith. The Republicans say that they are . going to have a pini- - n the platform to allow home-- rule in this camp. VI10 WMl 11! Come For Purpose Of Investigating Conditions Of Local Stage LinesSpent The Day In Town And Visited Various Points In Camp They Gave Out No Statement Regarding Findings Hon.-- Joshua Greenwood, president, and H)enry CM. (Blood, . commissioner, of the Utilities Commission, were in town Monday for the purpose of the matter of the "service rendered by the Consolidated Auto , Stage line, operated between liere and Salt Lake, and the local lines op-- rated between points in the canyon. Also the attorney general' was here. He is the counsel for the state lines. The commission go In town and i out without. talking to all the people., or at least very few of the public men got to talk with them. Of , . 'course they went over the town, but it seems that there 'were a great many people who wanted to see the members of the commission who were unable to find them. , Among theses was a prominent assayer at one of the mines who wished to present matter before that body. It seems that tliis man had some veryj Import-- - A ant business in Salt Lake' on tho-rn orning .of that very day. and an engagement that, was to take place at a certain hour after the scheduled time of arrival of one of the stage line cars, but it seems that he was unable to get the 6tage line to take him. In the afternoon of that day . he dispatched a letter to. the commission here stating that he presented himself at the local stage-- i line depot at an nearly hour Monday morning and that When the scheduled time for the car to leave there waa no other passenger than himself, and' he was informed by the stage line people that he .could Jiot be-tak- en at that time as his tare would not pay . for the gasoline. So hw had to change . , . his plans "and make the trip jon the railroad and failed to reach the Lake at the time appointed for the meet-- , ing. "v This letter waa sent to The Trib-une by the local correspondent, but at this writing the Tribune has not seen fit to give it publicity. The Tri-bune cannot afford to have a rupture with the stage line because that ie the only means it has of getting its papers into this camp early in the morning. Ji , After looking over the camp for some time the members of the com-- , mission left without Riving out for publication any intimation of what sort of sentiment they iound here. When aBkcd by a representative of this paper about their findings they said thev had a mighty good time here and that Bingham was a wonder-ful town,, but they said n ithing nw. t what they had heard about the stage line business. The opinion here Is that the appli-cation for license bv the proposed new line will be denied. This paper has not been pdvocating a new lin. In tact it knew nothing of the new ' , , line at the time it commenced call-ing attention to the bad servica, Ml that this paper was after was that - , this community be given a proper service. And we think we will se-cure this matter. The conditions Tin-der which etagoa ae to operate are plainly set out by the rules and the oomnany doing business must com-ply In a general way with these pro-visions. It is said that the promoters of the new line that they will curry their contention to the Supreme court if denied a license. The independent operators say that they are going to continue to operate their cars until they are shown that they cannot. So there is likely some-thing interesting to develop in tbe matter later on. ; . . IMPORTANT NOTICE 'A great number o people In this camp bought Liberty 'Bonds on the Installment plan and this la a very good plan, . but there are also a number who are, behind In their month- - ly paymenta. '' These purchase erg should be very prompt In " the matter of these payments as they are carried, ' by the banks for the benefit of the purchasers and the govern- - "ment almoet gratultooBly. No ' one should be delinquent in paying these Installments.. Also It will not be long be-- fore the next liberty Loan drive will be launched, and : 4 everyone in the caup should 4 be, ready for it. Those wno 4 are in arrears on 'Liberty Loans 4 should pay up at once. , ' -- '' ' . IMAGER CF J. C. ftWl ' C0LjS 10 WAR - - '' II . - - TJ k V B. E. WILLIS "B. K. Willis, one of the most prom-inent young business men of Bing-ham, who for more than a year has been manager of the J. U. Penney Company, leaves tomorrow for ser-vice in the United States army. Mr. Willi camp to Bing'iaui from Enfield. Illin is, over two years ago, and early laft yfear became irian'igef of the J. C, Vunney Company, aiorcnn-til- e establishment. During the Mm he was manager of the company he was a tireless worker and by his splendid' executive ability and busi-ness acumen greatly increased the patronage of the store here. In addition to his bvsiness qualifi-cations he is an all around good man and has wielded a great power for good in the camp.. He is a good churchman and has assisted greatly in the movement which has resulted in the perfecting of plans for the1 erection-- , of a modern Methodist church building in Bingham which is now under construction. He was superintendent of the Methodist Sun-day - School and an activo worker in the church organizations. , He was a most useful man in Ging-ham and the community' will keenly feel his loss, but he will do good wherever he goes and he is the kind of a mtui who will render erncier! nnd dependable service In the army. The good will and good wishes of the people of Bingham will go with him to the army. MAY BE SCRAMBLE FOR OFFICE Recent developments indicate that there will be some little scramble in the nomination of candidates of the ;Pemocratic party in this county. :t 'appears that a little scrap, is brewing as is generally the case with the par-- . iy which feels sure that Its nominees riH be elected. It seems that the dem ocrats who hold the reins of govern-ment, or rather those in the saddle. are Inclined to favor the renomination of the old officers, and this does not stt well with others of the flock, In other words the fellows on the outside are in favor of rotation in office while those on the inside think it best to Jet well enough alone. ' r Late information is to f5e t ffect ' that Sheriff Corlecs will not be a can ; didate to succeed himself, but that his chief deputy will battle for - the honors of that office. Sheriff Corles bad already, had two terms and if his chier. deputy can get in the sher-iff is willing to let it go. , , PICTURE SHOW FEATURES The Paramount Princess and the Phoenix theatres have an announce-ment In the paper this week that will be of interest to movie fans. They have secured the entire output of the famous William Fox productions for the entertainment of their patrons here. The first Installment of these pictures Waa presented to a large au-dience last Saturday. " The screen stars which will appear in this well knpwn series, are, Theda (Bara. Wil-liam Farnum, Gladys Brockwell, Tom Nix, Jewel Carmen, George Walsh. Virginia Person and Peggy iHyland. This new acquisition will add much to the attractiveness and to the pop-ularity of .these already popular s. "The feature at the 'Princess Saturday night will be Gladys Brock-wel- l. ARCHIE STEWART MAY BE CANDIDATE FOR G0MM1SSIQXER Archie Stewart of the Citizens Coal Company has been mentioned as a possible nominee for county commis-sioner by the Republican party. The suggestion of his name comes by way of the Bait Lake Herald in an article last Sunday dealing with the possible line up of the G. O. P. Mr. Stewart Is a good man all right and would make a splendid represen-tative as' a member of the board of county commissioners. It is under-stood that the local Republicans are going to make a demand that some one from this camp be placed on the ticket for county commissioner. The office of county commissioner is a very Important one and the per sonnel of the next board has been the subject of much comment here. Some people here have been very anxious that both parties name a Bingham man for this position so that Bingham, the great'taxpayer of the county, might be cejjtain of having some say in the management of the county's business affairs. Mcmniioif. - OF SOLDIERS PAY - Earl Randall, president of the (Bing-ham State Bank, requests the publi-cation of the following announcement from the treasury department rela-- 1 tlve to the change in the system of war risk Insurance: . . . - There has been a "change In the1 system of the Bureau of War Risk In-- surance of the Treasury in the matter of allotment and allowance checks..' This results In some of the' checks sent out by the bureau being for smaller sums than heretofore, but the amounts omitted from the checks sent out by the bureau will be in-- i eluded in checks sent out from other sources. The new system will simplify the work of the bureau and is expected to accelerate the payment of allot- - meits and allowances, Prior to July last the (War Risk In- - surance Bureau took the compulsory allotment of $15 a month and what-ever additional sum the enlisted man chose to allot to his family, and the whole nmount, together with the government allowance for dependents was included In one check nnd sent out by the bureau. Beginning with the July pay the bureau will collect and send out only the compulsory allot-ment of $1S a month and the govern-ment family allowance. The excess allotments over the compulsory $15 allotment and the al-lotments to persons not entitled by law to allowances will not be handled by the Bureau of War Risk Insurance, but by the War or Navy Department, the Maflne Corps, or Coast Guard, according to the branch of service to which the enlisted man belongs. ' ' "'- ' . v . -- f . '.. TTncle Sam is no longer going to take ? - It for granted that every Utah citizen is squarely behind the food administra-tis While he is pretty sure this ts so, be n now demanding proof of It. To secure this proof the Federal Food ' : Administration Is starting a campaign for the placing of a United States Food Administration Card in every home In - the state. The card carries with it no pledge but simply the words "Mem-ber of the United States Food Admin-istration." Uelow this slogan .is the Hoover Insignia. Federal Admlnlstra-to- r Armstrong Is asking that one of the cards be placed in the front win- - ' dow of every lflyal citizen's home, knowing that no Utahn woujd care to fly such a banner unless he was doing his utmost to live up to the regulations of the U. S. Food Administration. ' Practically every home in the state has hhown a Liberty Bond card in Its window and during the Chrlftmas sea-- , son proudly displayed the Red Cross emblem. And now not falling a whit behind in Its food conservation Work, it Is believed that every home will show that It is solidly behind the big move-- . ment of feeding, not only those within Jts doors, but Us neighbors across the, sea. ' N The cards are tft show that Utahns t worn to eat d food, when their very sons are In need of energy ' giving sogar to win victory at Hie fight-ing line. They will show that Utahns did their share In squeezing out wheat from their own cupboards to send over seas this spring and that they will con--1 tinue to squeeze until the last crumb If , divided. These cards are going to show that . Utahns have helped to feed 120,000,000 i ; people by voluntary, savings. They TffcCftn that If Utah effort can count for i ; anything, theTe Is going to be an end . to the starvation of over four and a .' half millions of old men and women, young mothers, girls and boys and ' babies, who have been sacrificed to the wur god without the privilege of leav-ing behind them the glorious memory of those who die on the battle field. Believing tWat the distribution of the cards can be affected more successfully through the school children of the state, Administrator Armstrong hns ?ied on the of Superln-'i?fi(le- nt of Public Instruction E. O. Cowans, the superintendent of schools In the larger cities of the state and the county superintendents. The cards will be sent out to the various schools accompanied by a letter from Federal Administrator Armstrong during the flrKt week of the school yenr. As this varies In many districts, some of the schools will he later thnn others la getting the curds to the citizens. ' one curd is to go to ench family and upon Its receipt citizens are asked to Immediately place It in their frorM window. LOCAL MEN INTERESTED IN CORRINE OIL FIELDS Local capitalists are Interested in the developments of the oil and gas fields In the Corlnne section, and It seems that the prospects of finding1 oil and gas in paying quantities there are becoming brighter. The well that ' is now being driven has reached a : depth of 6C0 and a ogod showing of ' oil has been struck. In a recent lostr-o- The Box Elder Journal, published at Brlgham City, appeared a lengthy article featuring the oil industry in the Corlnne field. The company working in that field s composed of some of the bcMt known btiVness mon In the state, and J. Bourgnrd of Bingham is vice pres-ident. Also a great number of; men in this camp have stock in the' com-pany, It Is understood that the pro-moto- rs will sink the well to a depth of 1500, feet. ' ; According to the Brlgham paper quite a number cf alt,Lake and Og-de- n business men have' become inter-ested in the company now operating n the Corlnne field. ECKMAN BECOMES FIRST LIEUTENANT Judge E. iE. Dudley received notice this week that his son-in-la- Victor H. Bckman. who is stationed at Camp Beauregard, "La., had been promoted I from second lieutenant to first lieu- - j tenant. Lieutenant Eckman was among the first Bingham boys to enlist in the service after tho outbreak of the war and he has met with a merited suc-cess since Joining tb,e colors. He- was ' first stationed at Camp Funston, Kan-sas, and It was while located there t that he waa married to 'Miss Louisn Dudley Lieutenant and Mrs. Eckman j were transferred several months ago ' from Kansas to Louisiana. ; Lieutenant Eckman is the son . of Mr. and Mrs. Victor IBckman of Salt Lake City. NEW MANAGER OF J. C. PENNY STORE G. S. Greathouse has been selected jmunager of the J. C. Penney company to succeed B. E. Willis, who renlgned the position to enter the U. Q. army. Mr. Greathouse has been connected ! with the store here for eighteen months and Is a . capable, efficient young burlness man. lie come's from the good old state of Missouri and he posessses all of the good qualities of the state from which he comes. iHe ts thoroughly acquainted with the business and knows the trade of I the community well. We believe that under his management this link In the Penney company chain of Ftores will continue to prosper. COUNTY OFFICIALS VISIT BINGHAM County iAuditor Iverson, Chief riep-ut-y Sheriff. iBurbidge ' and County .Commissioners Stillman and Hughef, , spent yesterday in Bingham. The sheriff's office will be furnished so that it will be comfortable. New-chairs- , tables and linoleum for the floor were ordered by the purchasing agent. The commissioners will ' Improve the road near Welby. iThe foundation of a splendid road has ben' rmvle, , but the surface material has- - ben- - , blown off bv the heavy winds, leav-ing the rocks exposed The tempor-ary roadlng will be improved at oiice and as rikd as the fall rn'ns hpgint the main road will be resurfaced. ' W. W, Barton, county treasurer, has arranged with the Bingham iStrt Bank for taxes to be paid there this year. OUTING PARTY A party of Bingham young people went on an outing trip to Middle can-yon last Sunday. The party was composed of iHugh Grant, M. D. Bringhuret, John Sclioettlin, Glenn Iong, F. iMc.Mahoon and Misses Gladys Byrnes, Florence Dotey and cousin, Clesta Paul, Marie Stewart, Delilah Davis. Isn't it about time for those neu-tral correspondents the kaiser invited to accompany him on that drive to Paris to begin printing some of their stories? RIG LABOR MEETING CALLED AT BINGHAM A labor meeting will be held at Miners' Union IHall Saturday even-ing. Those in charge say that the purpose Qt the meeting is to make la-bor more effective during the war. The following speakers will be present: O. E. Anhrldge, president Salt Lake City Federation of Labor; K. 13. Currie, member of the war la-bor board; J. G. iBywaU-r- , A. J. Web-or- . and 'Matt Alflrevlcli, general 'or-ganizer International Union Mine, Mill and Smelter Worker. The Bingham committee comprises E, G. Locke, illinglmm Miners Union No. 67; T. H. McLaughlin, Brotlier- - j hood Locomotive Engineers; L. T. ' jTlckfion, iBrotherhood Locomotive Enginemen tnd ' Firemen; J. A. '; Buckles, Brotherhood Railway Train-'men- ; . J. Brooks, International A-ssociation of Machinists; Ben Wad-- ) International (Brotherhood cf (Boilermakers; A. J. Pitts, Brother-- j hood Rallwcy Carmen; H. i Sennin-- I eger, United Brotherhood Carpenters and Joiners; J. K. 'Butte; Internation-al Brotherhood Blackt-.mith- and Helpers. SATURDAY IS ' REGISTRATION DAY t Tomorrow (Saturday) is registra-tion day. All men who have attained j the age of 21 since June 5 lastjnust j appear at the Commercial Club rooms and register for service In the army ; This is in accordance with an execu-tive proclamation and it means that rcfitr;llohs hereafter will be held at rgnlar intrv'als for enlisting new men There will probably be about, 2" in this camp who should reglHter at this time and the registration will bo conducted" by Profensor L. W. Niel-sen." BINGHAM POSTAL SAVINGS I NCR EASK ' The postal savings In the fUiiigham post office now amount to $217 0fi2. Tiiin is a splendid showing when tak-en in connection with the wain or war and thrift b t n ri i j h which now , p.motint to inure flym J'l 00,0(11). Americans have often journeyed to Europe about this time of the year, but never before In such a steady, stalwart Ptream and for such a splen-- j (I'd purpoHe. - |