Show MIDSUMMER CARNIVAL JEAN RUSSELL MORE THAN MAINTAINS MAIN-TAINS HER BIG LED An Information Bureau Established Today Some Thirty Thousand Votes Have Been Cast Already Beginning with today an information bureau will be connected with the carnival nival headquarters This is a necessary neces-sary adjunct to every celebration of any magnitude and it will prove of decided benefit to visitors a well as to our own people The design is to keep a register of all houses where accommodations commodations and board will be furnished fur-nished to visitors the prices that will be charged for the same and the nature I ture of the entertainment that will be afforded Parties who intend to turn an honest penny in the manner described de-scribed are invited to avail themselves of the bureaus facilities That the hotels t ho-tels and lodging houses will be unable un-able to care for all the people Is a selfevident fact to all in touch with carnival affairs and our people should take pride in seeing to it that all visitors visi-tors are well cared for THE VOTING CONTEST The voting contest for state queen now that it has narrowed down to five candidates bids fair to b in the closing days one of the most excitng affairs of the kind ever conducted In I this city Last evening the vote stood Miss Jean B Russell17303 Keep your favorite above this line if you wish her to succeed Miss Vilate Peart 8325 Miss Clarissa Thatcher 2S03 Miss Laura Beebe 915 Iss Mrs A JAtkins 798 VOTING COUPON Cut this out and send to executive ex-ecutive committee room 327 Atlas At-las block city My choice for queen of th carnival car-nival i M This coupon entitles the holder to one vote I CARNIVAL NOTES Charles Woolfenden having resigned Hon J T Tolton will act as chairman chair-man of the Beaver county queen contest con-test Adam Paul has been authorized to organize a band of scouts and pioneers for the parades and empowered to appoint ap-point a committee to assist him Yesterday the executive committee decided to engage for the three days celebration Ogdens best band and the Held and Denhalter bands of this cityThe The committee on decorations has been instructed to canvass the merchants mer-chants and learn from them their plans for decorating their business establishments establish-ments E K Bassett of the Mormon Sunday Sun-day schools informed Director General McGarvie yesterday that he could guarantee the cooperation of at least 1000 children in making the Floral festival fes-tival a success The executive committee no longer has the time at its command necessary to properly count the votes for state queen and yesterday decided to detail de-tail that duty to a committee of five allowing each candidate a representative representa-tive A mass meeting of the citizens of Iron county was held at Cedar City last evening to take action on a communication com-munication from the executive committee com-mittee relative to electing a county queen and preparing float typical of the resources of the county The chairman of the Davis county committee writes that a mass meeting will be held in Kaysville tomorrow night for the purpose of arranging for the county queen contest and to decide de-cide whether or not the county will be represented in the parades by afloat a-float C R Berry a patriotic citizen has suggested that a liberty pole be raised on Capitol Hill and that on the morning morn-ing of Independence day the monster flag hitherto exhibited in the tabernacle taberna-cle and said to be the largest flag 111 the world be hoisted amid the booming of cannon and the huzzas of the spectators spec-tators J B Moreton chairman of the committee com-mittee appointed for the purpose of organizing the school children of this city for the Floral festival has appointed ap-pointed his assistants They are W J McCoy George Buckle F A Druehl Mrs F S Fenton Miss Lucy Van Cott and Mrs William Bartling Mayor Holbrook of Provo called at headquarters yesterday and to the executive ex-ecutive committee heartily endorsed the carnival saving that It was a most laudable undertaking and should receive hearty support and encouragement encourage-ment He Is chairman of the Utah county committee and promises to use his best efforts to bring the county into line It has been stated that Miss Russell who leads in the race for carnival queen is a Scotch lassie This is a mistake The young lady is a native of Pennsylvania and never saw the land o cakes although her people are from Scotland She is proud of being an American and among her warmest supporters are those who are not eligible to membership in the Caledonian Cal-edonian society Art Director Clawson has designed a magnificent float for the floral festival It is in the form of a basket twenty feeC long and sixteen feet high and is to contain twenty beautiful young Ja dies each representing a wellknown flower Another design of the art directors di-rectors which is much admired Is a reproduction of the Eagle gate beneath be-neath the arches of which stands a heroic figure of Utah and at her feet a beehive to which she ia polntlcg expressively ex-pressively |