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Show mu. mmufb s ifb ait- -, - t) C3R NUMBEE 394 VOLUME 6 PEOVO CITY, UTAH, FEIDAY, NOVEMBEE 27, 1914 J ,r f' BRITISH CRUISER BULWARK m UNK PROVO PEOPLE -S- ENJOYED REAL ENGLISH COAST - Tl Wentto Bcttonr iir Fire PLE Minutes. f caused Local y.: Red Cross Chapter - Nseds Grain and Money to Do Clothing, Its Portion for Starving Europeans. the fall and bursting of : ddlfe'skeHIn her rnag.i by Provo Observed Thanksgiving Quietly But Many Needy Were Cared For and Made Happy. of-th- la London, SHEERNESS, England Not. 27, 2:25 a. m. It Is believed here that the explosion of the Bulwark v a rwelv'c-riici- ni IRE STARVING xine. -- to-m- il Thanksgiving day passed quietly In The people for the most part stayed at home and entertained them- gel vea and famHIe around the family7 health. Exercises for the occasion were given in only a few parts of the city and they were more la the nature ' of memorials. The Third ward, held a Home Coming in the amusement hall that waa very successful and many former residents of the ward went back to vlsi friends and neighbors. Young and old alike joined in the enter fair Provo. 1 The- - explosion-wa- s violent that debrfa from the battleship was scat "tered over the coal fields in Essex county, littering the towns and coun on the tryside. At Southend-on-Sea- , Essex coast, the concussion of the explosion was plainly 7e:t and likeneo by the inhabitants to a severe earth quake. Buildings in the vicinity were shaken their Dense clouds of smoae floated over the Thames estuary, ln ships anchocd near the Bulwark NEW YORK, Nov. 26 This Thankssailors were knocked senseless by tin concussion. Persons olcng the shon giving found 7,000,000 starving perBelgium crying were found prone, stricken insensible sons In for and bread half enougb iut were blast. Scores only furious the by deafened and hundreds of windows food on hand to appease their hunger. Three thousand tons cf food are rewere shattered. The announcement by Mr. Churc- quired each day to feed the todate the' nftea ' States, hill In the house of commons follows: "The Bulwark was bjown up at 7:53 upon which the Belgians must depend a. m. today. Vice and rear admirals In &e malfi, for sustenance, has fur presort reported that they were con- nished less than half that amount. vinced It was an internal magazine ex- Ten ounces a day will save a human inbeing from hunger. , plosion which sunk the ship. An The foregoing epitomizes a statr which tomorrow quiry will be held may throw more light on the occur- - ment issued today by the American commission for the relief of the rence. carrying a plea for the small "The loss of the ship does not sensi of food quantity the i affect position. military bly of the stricken land. "I regret to say that the loss of life inhabitant " A (fafiTe TrorirTUU.H oo v er , chair7 was very severe. Only twelve men were saved and the officers and the man of the London commission, de- rest of the crew, which'T - suppose clared thft situation desperate - and " Hq amounted to between 700 and 800 men, urged assistance immediately. said the commission was chartering were killed." Tlie British trrttlrshp Bulwark, 15,- - several ships for despatch to thd At-.fl0n4.ran.g...U34jajiajiM4-R,gf4a4d--4ofctha. a. them would fill 1902. In with She 1809 Americans Id gut and completed vps il fee Icrg, 75 fot wide end nllcs. The middle states are fect-ot Her armament Ldic -t Ibutions, th? conn'issirn says. coutl,tod cf four f inqh gune Edmund Janies o! the Unlversltj tw ''Ire fcs tr elve- ;:r. grid foil of lilr.ois has started a niOAemnt to r ct-, r t f"'-' put1 she had j raise $09,000, Each of the' ninety-n'ncourt'es ia Iowa soon will con- 730 men. co.rp7crrcst cf r'T,ite' a"' second car load o Pour. ffrntnrkyrgiffri!jTrTfecT n an pie of Its charity being shown the blown was Bulwark tleship "funk in th eirirv of the Medwav ether day "when J. S. Ellington, a Blind and armless soldier, 82 yean-oM- , river at 7:53 oclock this morning. And In c'ntrlbuted 50 cents. 8P0 were 700 and men lost, tn have oractive Kansas 10,000 workers her cuding Captain Cuy Belater, officers.-- Onlv ganized to woik for the cause in ami r.H days, fourteen of her erew were- - saved-- . -I- - Just-te- n A shipload of food will sart next la announced officially that the Califom!a end another-4- s Interior and orlglnated ip week-froin the state of Washing tb thins magazine, ton. Lake Salt most City has given fifty The disaster is the appalling cf cars suffered th in foadstufjs. which will be. sent the British navy has coast. waX It Is even more "of a shock that by way of the west , ' It has been even The and south, though the of loss Aboukir, Cressy the the hands of a single subma- hurt by the way. Is herping too. Alarine In the North Sea, for the Bulwark bama, will send s shipnoad of prowas destroyed 'from within destroyed visions from Mobile about December bscks and r instantly. The men aboard 15. - Flour willvr'be sent m cotton utterly tv r and the sacks when are erapty their for chance a :they Ter had not fighting t' - Iona orders amou n tin g of dollars are coming to the American millp and factories, there are hundreds of thousands of starving people to the warring nations. Our attention ha3 been especially directed to Belgium, where the suffering is intense. Up to date the local Red Crosa chapter has been doing good work, but the cooperation of the people is sadly needed county tcTdo its share. The following report from. -- New York t reveals the r4fconditlon. "While for-Ut- Toun-dation- sev-er- old-tim- e' men of the day. Union services were held In the Episcopal church and Rev. Phllip King ah preached a splendid sermon for the The attendance was good. Other exercises were given at the occasion. meeting. The poor of the city were well remembered. Wednesday afternoon the school children went around the city and gathered up large supplies of canned goods and provisions which were in turn distributed to Piose who were In Want A canvass of the city show- -, ed that Provo bed a large number of people who needed the assistance of war-swe- suffer-ers,Ty- t their neighbors and the people generally to enjoy a Thanksgiving dinner. .fv MRS, EVNICE 3. SNOW . ---- -Ti - IS DEADr KNCW PROPHET Bel-glan- v e -- Ui JOSEPH SMITH AT NAUVOO 8PecL'ied-jQread- vv-2- 3- Pres-den- e T,TTTrnT,77tr-7T6-::i?7TnTTs'Lrtivi'- r, hr - - - -- -- 2 -- 17JVXrr 1WXCI bkmeer-oi.184- TH ? v v m V w W C5.0. & James -- Whitcomb RHcy7s VjrJ For Best Xmas Story to Poht ,$ hasreal , MAPLETQN SMALLPOX SCARE WHEN RESIDENT ARE EXPOSED -- held in the Fifth ward chapel Saturf day at 1:30. The Interment will be in the Mr3rSrrow-wasorn- In harmony with past anther-- seans. The Po4 will "ive a sot of Imoks-- f orth si .rv'TT'Tun c")iKo TTn this year. Janies Vhiteomb H'lcy's no i,& lt.en ihoea as that prize. The stories must he s builrie.l a nota Ie plume and the author's name aJdiess shor.ld he sent in a sealed envelope, which will not be opened until after the ftvbe chosen ht'the editor of this paper, "have readaH judues. "of tli s c mr-ie- r aJ toik-nnl-hav- scare this p H cek w hGn theycarnedahat-- 4. TjUItnn Holly hnd a bad case of the dread trouble. Holly came O do'n fiom Idaho afew days pgo & . feeling very much under the ; leather, but he proceeded to i his relatives and friends. A A snuinj : jears ago, nnd with her parents, Titus yand Fillings, vrshe moved to Nauvoo. where, as a child, Blanth-Morle- she was well acquainted with, the Prophet Joseph Smith and the Patriarch Hvnim Smith. In 1819 the deceased with her parent end other members of the family , after e contain between two an, three thousand words and no stoiy having more than 3,500 worth will bo considered. As the Christmas edition of The Post comes out Dec. 13ch, just one week before Christmas, it will be Frida, necessary for the stories to reach this office not later than Saturday Dec. 12th. , The Post reserves The right to retain any story written : payment of $3.00 to the author. Hoy; Can V7e Build a GreatewUtah County? The Post offers an additional prize of $5.00 this year to tire Provo High School br B. Y. Ur High School student'for the best story of approximate fifteen hundred or two thousand words on 'now Can We Build a Greater "Utah This County,! story must be written in a clear, legible hand or typewritten, and the nom de plume is to be submitted with the paper, while the name must be m a sealed envelope. This story must be in by.pec.12th and The Post reserves .Ihwriirhi to retain any article submitted by the payment to the author of $2.50. physicfpn and 9, aeTfpnrmr'Ttmprar'Ferrrces wni he f a real live smallpox 1 :' com-mtde- MtaUunlceBilUng ganavA died Wednesday aftbrhoort at the home 6f her daughter, Mrs. Jerrv living- - wshort ' learned Jhat k-Lake they moved to Mao- 1,133 srotted.r Since then half vtti, where the family vas among th cf.Mapleton had to he vaccitut- first settlers. Here she fras married ed or quarantned until it was 0( v to John A. Warntr, who was killed in safe to fumigate them and) Jet the Walker Indian war.' In 1856 she them out. , (wras married to George W. Snow, who S ; & died Alew.yeara ago.- I I In 1872 Mrs. Snow moved to Provo, . . . UN ER AL AE R VCES- .O V E R A L4 ft A H OLD g f Part of th e time sl n ce th en- She Is survived by the following children: Funeral services over tag remains Joha A Warner of Provo- - 8nd Samuel of Mrs. Almira Holden were held In E. Warner of Rigby, Idaho; George W. Snow of Orangeville, Mrs. Jerry Cluff the Fifth ward chapel Wednesday 0f this city and Mrs. Vllate Hawley The speakers were Bishop O. H. Berg of Salt Lake. and Bishop Albert Manwarjng, Both1 C reviewed the excellent life SPENDS BENNETT labor, of J&ANK "V serf JHANKSGIVING1N PROVO the departed pioneer." The musie wasj tlme-ia-S- 4 ait ( -- 1 1 , 1 0 T J. Frank Bennett, formerly of this 7 The band was playing aboard! the ginfa Is preparing a cargo of 5000 tons aD am8ejr 33 Mnrrar city but now of Storrs, spent Thanks-- 0 K January shipment. Bulwark. Near her were anchored sevI WAYNE HALES UAPTURED 4ine day In Provo. Mr. Bennett said PROVO MEN APPOINTED morning was eral other ships.-T- he J he waa well pleased to get back that CROSS COUNTRY PRIZ- E- DELEGATES TO MINING buf for the nreaence of the FORMER UPT. RAWLINGS Pim Funeral to nnd visit with friends. Provo services over the remains CONGRESS AT PHOENIX THANK8GIVING VISITOR IN WEDNESDAYS BIG RACE battleship swinging at her Mrs. Sarah H. Jones were held in Bennett states that Storrs In making there was nothing to suggest 8 1x111 ward haPel this afternoon. rea pfrogress, but; Jiotes, alhot that nf Wayne Hales again carried off the Mayor Charles F. Decker has an- - the Former City Superintednent .. a anything rbutpeace. Alongside the PLau piA 8tr,de8 f0rwarL f rela1PrV0 18 makln lnte.d T Le8ter Maatim nd John Bulwark was a lighter. From It were Schools William S. Rawlings came tOcroea honors. Welnesdav The too : Interment to Roundy 'being loaded over the side of the 15, Provo yesterday to spend the days when he covered the qourse of four Mining delegates be the American ) , ace aindr,ed ln j Suit has bfen filed m tho Fourth dlH- cemetery. held at PhoeCongress to battleship fresh ammunition with relatives and friends. Mr. ' 23 minutes , 36 nix, Arisona, from and court by the W. B. Hughes Grain. in miles . trict December 7th, to and guns lings has been making great progress for her company against Provo Mill and Grain acconds, beating his nearest compete the 11th. It Is very probable that 4fce EUGENE CLUFF TO OPEN Suddenly a terrific explosion occcur-- since he moved to Salt Lake and Is to collect $2,924.85. T. B,-tw men .company will go and Provo vili be well it, thp bowels of the ship. A great now principal cf one of the largest toT by ocr hrf f a mile. Dr. H. C. SS AT PRESTON Mendenhall was today appointed re-Fathering cf mm- Menrlll presented him with the trophy eprCBented at . cloud of smoke arose, enveloping the j ceiver for defendants mill men property t j Bulwark and shutting her from sight. Eugene duff. associated cup for the events 1 with A. B. Morgan. , by Judge gpringrlle Schw ab s store fpr a number of years, The Third and Fourth year classe! A gremt white flash cf fire streaked THANKSGIVING WEDDINGS will leave about the first of the month had a great inixup over thq winning of TV the Mack veil; the smoke ( claims Trovo as his home. 4 0 O p Z the fdee. At first It appeared that . SOLEMNIZED HERE YESTERDAY for Preston, Idaho, where he will en- cloud thickened and rolled outward - , ; THREE WILL WARDS ' and Investigated immediately, reported the Thhd' Years had won, as sdinc, of and upward. Two Thanksgiving marriages were BaS in 11,0 confectionory business. w ENTERTAIN OLD FOLKS The great black curtain spread, and it was their conviction that It was anthelr runners ctit short on the course perrermol at the court house yesrrr- - Mr r,uff ,s cneot the most pojulaj & AT THEATRE COLUMBIA as It spread It began to lift When internal magazine exnlosidn that rent(ard teat tte Fourth Year bojs acrosa day, Ed. Rolfe of Sprlngvllle and ytrunS men !d the city and has tho O the local People In. his the spot which had been the Bulwark's j the sMn asunder. WInron Spencer the tape. By the time the course Hazel Handley of Provo Bench were 1)081 lslleB Sharon and Pleasant View, v wan v'shtle a maelstrOiti Churchill, first lord of the admiralty. Judges reached the school the Third married by Deputy County Clerk J neVF venture, Tlmpanogos wards will entertain of turbulent waters waa all that mark- so announced to the, house of common Year students had eaten the turkey M. Chlpman; Charles Dinks of Spring- all residents in those wards over ed tha anchorage. That and the de where he officially reported the dls- dinner. When the real.scrre vlIIe fnd M3ri of Provo were PROVO SPORTS CO ' 60 years of age at the Columbia 11 made wa8,6und that 010 Fouilh IrarrIed , Judge A. B. hTofgan. SOUTH FOR DUCKS t Theatre tomorrow afternoon at seam. The Twark was gone wlth There was no upheaval of water Years were entitled to the banquet A licenses were isaicd to ' 1:30. 'With the old folks they i Sll on board except the few mangled inch as accompanies the detonation of real scuffle ensued and for' a time the following couples: ' W. K. Spaffctd, Knight Starr Jor- - 4 will bring the widows, wives of and struggling forms In the water a mine or the blowing up of a torpedo, trouble was In the air. Finally the Ernest Dnris and Emma Stone, both dan, R. E. Allen, W. Lester Maagmn, and bachelors. mllotmric-She supk In dim minutes from the The bottom was blown out of the ship, classes decided to leave It up to the cf Salem; S. LeGra-f- White and Lmy T. F. Plerpont and E. E. Corfman left During Uo afternoon tho pro- time of the explosion. .she was broken,' warped and bentcommlttoeor adjustment hnd It will Olpin, both of Pleasant GrorcJ Bert Wednesday for a .luck hunt In the gram will be stopped loag enough A vice admiral and a rear admiral ot There was nothing left to her to float probably result tn ahother dinner for John-vand Myrtle Grocenmn. both of Thurher Bottoms, Wayne county The u serve refreshment I the winners. Provo . the royal navy who were at Bbeernes tad she went to the bottom. trip was mad In auto ) 1 fr anchm-chain- s X , Raw-store- 000-to- n ' - one-sixt-h h J ) ( , I , ( fn-ii- - t Ma-rin- ! d i e t .. - - , |