Show 0 PROVO POINTS THE STAKE E conference attracted quite a nuniberof people from settlements on Saturday and Sunday Apostle Grant was one of the principal speakers on Saturday forenoon and again at the Priesthood meeting in the evening and also on Sunday afternoon the general meeting Although there was no other meetings to interfere there was rather a slim attendance at the theatre on Saturday Sat-urday night to witness the last and best performance of the Green Lanes of England Eng-land There does not appear to be so much interest takea in theatrical matters mat-ters now as there was six or eight months ago Those who did attend howeverwitnessed a good performance AN ERRONEOUS idea seems to have prevailed pre-vailed regarding the proceedings at a recent session of the city council to the effect that those members who opposed op-posed the financial measures introduces by the finance committee were opposing op-posing the legitimate taxation of the liquor traffic but the liquor question was not under consideration Under our prohibitory ordinances the drug stores have no more right to sell liquor than any other store has and consequently it would be illegal to tax them a higher price for license The idea wa to tax thadrug stores a higher license because they do sell liquor which they have no right to do THERE ARE now aboutadoz n artesian wells in Provo yieding all the way from twenty to fifty gallons of water per minute The well on the East Coop store lot is one of the bestand water from It has recently been utilized quite extensively A pipe underground across the street connecting this well with the bank building carries the water to all rooms in that building The work was completed on Friday and a waste water stand pipe sixteep feet high was placed by a telephone pole east of the bank from which the wast water will be conveyed down again into the sec There will also be a drinking 1 fountain in front of the Coop store and a water trough for animals just west from the store all from this one well B PROVO Sept 5th 1886 |