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Show to- their friends after will be at borne' Oot 20 at 525 Bast Second South street. - , ft ft Mr; and Mrs; Rulon S. Wells and Miss 0. Wells left last Sunday evening for New York to be gone till the middle of November,. . . . left Tuesday Miss Leigh Block ing for Washington. v morn- ft .ft engagement is announced of Miss Myrtle A. Purcell and Mr. Fred Luff. The marriage will take place 'S on the 22nd of the month. The . ft 41 Mrs. Adam Paul has gone to Baker City, Ore., where she will spend some time visiting friends. ft ft . When the information came to Truth books were being bought without the formality of submitting the lists for bids, it became apparent that the system of buying could be improved It is a well settled principle thatupon. the expenditure of public money should always be under the form of bids thus doing away with competitive Truth hasneveif in- timated that the money spent for n.?fiS?nKTe8teaior the benefit of?hl librai'y- - This paper found fault of buyin M D0t ing judicious and the most busi- llke- is satisfied that the errors are TrYth being corrected, but R. B Shepard is still on the war path. The subjoined correspondence has taken place since the last issue of this paper. the-mos- Elizabeth Genter spent the week as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Dav Mrs. id S. Murray. ft ft ft ft ; Mrs. George M. Downey gave a delightful card party Thursday afternoon ift-f- t ' The young folks bf the Twenty-fir- st ward gave a ball in their ward hall on Friday evening' The cpmmmittee who had the affair in charge were Joseph A. Williams, G. M. Williams, Bert M. Olsen, Walter, J..Poulton. Jr., Miss Hazel Calder and Florence Foulger. ft ft S. W. Hendetson entertained at Mrs. ' cards Thursday; ! . BOOKS AND AUTHORS. t . J The College club met Thursday evening with Mrs. H. D. Travis, 10 Kendal terrace. plied to in our letter of the 9th. As to the letter of the 9th, it is evident to the writer that the library board does not care to purchase books cheaply as per our offers made in September and October. You say in your letter of the 9th that communications should be addressed to the book committee. I beg leave to suggest that we addressed communications to the book committee on September 1, and another on October 6, which you and it received, but which, to this date, are unanswered. In the face of this do you expect one to waste time in addressing communications to you and the book committee who pay no attention to them in any way, shape or form, not even giving us the courtesy of acknowledging their receipt? Time is too valuable to waste upon futile efforts on our part, superinduced by yours. There is no use writing letters ft ft to a public body that is spending public Shepard Book Co. , City funds, offering to save the public fund 110 expenditure of many dollars, when letter the rwiK?ieS:r?elying yur the I 8th, desire to say that I public servants in charge of that can accept or decline no offer institution refuse to grant the moiety pertainof a courtesy by even acknowledging ing to the purchase of bcoks. A list of new books is of the letters, and as far as their prepared bv receipt me each month, aud submitted contents are concerned remaining as to the book committee, to be as silent "clams. it approved or rejected, and I have by We have stated to you that we would further nothing to do with their purchase. furnish books to you at a price that Therefore, all communications relative to that you cannot, taking into consideration matter should be addressed to the book the tax payers of this city, ignore, and committee, which meets at 10 a. m. the yet we have failed to receive an aye or first Tuesday of each month, and is no to our communications. Such being made up of the following the fact, we do not feel like wasting persons: Major Hill, Wm. Igleheart, Mrs. J. M. any more of our time on writing wasteDart and Mrs. Emily Richards. basket epistles to members of a board who wholly ignore them, not even Respectfully, Annie E Chapman, granting the scant courtesy of a reply. You speak in your letter of the 7th Librarian. Upon reading the forgoing letter, instant about "legible lists and submitting lists we would beg to say that we Richard B. Shepard said something have submitted lists for the last thirabout being informed for the first time teen months and have had them, with of the personnel of the book no almost exception, turned down, absocommittee, and and dictated to Mb stenographer the lutely completely, for what reason we not. know We have some of the following tart reply: lists of our four hundred books returned To Miss Annie E. Chapman and the of them new, which we offered to Book Committee of the Free Public manyat less than wholesale price, out of you Library, Salt Lake City, Utah. which not a single volume was selected, The two letters of the librarian of or even a hint as to tbe books you date October 7 and October 8 are before wanted to buy. given This is passing strange the writer, who will attempt to reply indeed. Under this statement of facts, to the same. The one of the 7th we re which are true, do you expect one to that . Richard B. Shepard, lawyer, book collector and politician, has put on the gloves with the Salt Lake public library. That Shepard has stepped into the ring for a finish fight there seems to be no doubt. ' Shepard makes the claim that for more than twenty years he hast been a collector of books, until his library contains more than 15,000 volumes. After establishing the Shep ard Book company, he says that he 1 ai constantly added to his collection, carrying most of the new books. Notwithstanding the fact that he carried a large stock of new, 'old and rare books, he has been unable to deal with the public library book buyers except in an insignificant manner. He says he does not blame the library board, the membership of which' is made up of some of the leading business men of the city, but has reason to believe that those who are entrusted with the duties of selecting and buying the books, have refused to treat him fairly as a dealer, simply because they have personal animosities toward him or show favorite-istowards one other. ' .ft ft Truth has already published a series of communications ' passing between Shepard and the library' letter-writer- s In justice to all the book dealers of the city, the library board at its last meeting, passed a resolution directing the book committee to furnish copies of all the lists of books required for the library to every local dealer and to request bids. This action was taken to avoid any favoritism being shown. Shepards offer to furnish new books at wholesale prices and second hand books at a price ten per cent less than any other dealer wouid supply them, has not yet been noticed officially. Just why Shepards magnanimity should have been ignorec has cot beeb. explained. It is under-stoohowever, that the board was averse to giving any one dealer a mon11 opoly, and ordered lists sent to m READ OF THIS COMFORT AND BLANKET CHANCE,,, P J, MADSEN'S FURNITURE STORE, to 57 E. First South 51 St use his time and labor in submitting to you lists which serve no further purpose than to fill or partially fill wasto baskets? We have the largest stock of books in the city; in fact more different books than all of the combined, and yet, although we have repeatedly solicited you to examine our stock of books for the last thirteen months, you have up to this date, failed to do so. book-selle- rs ft ft We have no copies of Alexander Du- mas "Celebrated Crimes to offer less than cost, or for nothing; but we can procure sets of these, if you desire them, although we cannot offer them at less than cost. Would beg to say, however, that we have many books of much more intrinsic value than Dumas i Celebrated Criipes, which we will sell to you at ten per cent cheaper than any one else will offer them. But why prolong this discussion. It is usql$SB, more than useless, for it has become apparent to the writer, who, is president of the Shepard Book company and who masquerades under the name of Richard B. Shepard, that it is not yQur intention to buy books of the Shepard Book company no master if they would offer them to you at ten per cent of the wholesale price. With this incident, however, we will is consay, that as far as letter-writiWe ceases. our cerned, controversy have made offers to your library which have been wholly ignored in every respect and in every manner. Our offers are still open to your board and will say in rejoinder, that if you are afraid that we will not be able to carry out the contract offered you, that we' 'will enter into a bond of $10,000 for its faithful performance., ; Very Truly Yours, , V , Shepard Book Co. ' ng Therell be winter bye and bye, for all that this balmy weather may be pushing it into the background. Quilts will be needed and blankets, too, and heres a paying reason d for you to be in the preparation. . . fore-hande- MONDAY AND WEEK . . ..i Bed comforts filled .with the snowflake cotton prepared in a way that makes it light and flnqras, down silkolin6 covered, band border and ruffle to finish, $4.50 comforts for $2.50; the $2.50 for $1.75. . Silkoline bed comforts with filling of snowflake cotton, which if made at home, even, would be $2.25 here $1.50. . . Cotton sheet blankets, good quality, heavy, white, gray and tan; commencing Monday. . . . The The The The 10-- 4 11-- 4 11-- 4 12-- 4 size, 75c kind 45c. size, $1.25 to $1.35 regular $1.00. size, $1.50 to $1.75 grade $1.25. size, $2.00 grade $1.50. . d, $1.20 CASH OR CREDIT . - . Solid Oak Cane Seat Chair This week WaJker Bros. Dry Goods Co. i- . " ' " , Speaking further of the controversy, which has long ago reached the amus-in-g stage, Richard B. Shepard said: "1 am not satisfied with these transparent subterfuges that are being practiced on me.. They are trying to give me the razzle dazzle and I know it. lama lawyer and know what I am talking about. I am ..through begging and pleading for a chance to stand on an equal footing. You will next hear from me in the courts, wherfe I will enjoin the. book committee from expending public funds, in secret contracts. 1 will go into court as. a taxpayer. - For accident insurance see Warren . Foster, 300 Progress building. |