| Show UNCLE SAM AS A SAilTA CLAUS POSTOFFICE DOING A GREAT BIG BUSINESS In Forwarding Christmas Presents Express Companies 4re Also In the Swim Uncle Sam is playing Santa Claus on a very extensive scale this week All day yesterday the postofil was crowded crowd-ed with people loaded with Dackages i and bundles containing presents for distant friends relatives and more oftener perhaps sweethearts Christmas week is always a busy time for the postoffice department The onh difference Is that when times are good the clerks have more to do than hen money Is not 50 plentiful Taking the business at the postoffice yesterday as a basis there must be an abundance of money for the rush was little short of a jam The stamp clerk handed out stamDS as fast as he could m31re change while the weighing clerk had enough to keep two men busy but he succeeded in keeping the line down to moderate proportions The outgoIng mails yesterday were just loaded down and the big business will continue for several days The express companies also dId a bg 1uslness and hundreds of parcels were sent out on their mission of jOY TOWN TALK A fine son was born yesterday to Mr and Mrs 1 A Clayton Merry Xmas George Altman of this city and Miss Lena Maddox of Clifton Ida are to be married today Yesterdays clearings were 52569 as compared with 318Em fOr the correspond lug day of last year Franklin G Price and Miss Emma Gil son both of Draper were married yesterday yes-terday at the county court house by Deputy Clerk Blair Bert Seaboldt who has been superin tending the placer operations of the Gold Hope company on the Colorado river returned re-turned to the city yesterday A quartette composed of Orson Johnson John-son 1irst tenor Heber YIckens second tenor William Power first bass and George HIlton second bass visited the editorial rooms of The Herald last night and rendered some exquisite selections R A Ross who Is well known In Salt Lake as a vendor of medcines is reported re-ported w be wandering about Davis county coun-ty somewhere dn a demented condition although al-though his 1 location has not been n11 t He left this city on Wednesday and was last seen at KayslIle His landlady Mrs Robinson of Ill South West Temple is making InquirIes regarding him A warranty deed conveying from Neil Gillis to Alfred Yo McCune for a consideration con-sideration of 11000 67 513 feet front by 165 feet deep and the brIck and stone dwelling thereon at the corner of Third South and Fourth East streets was Hied for record yesterday with the county recorder re-corder The property was formerly the home of Sarah Heath Cannon Ward and will be occupied by A W McCune jr The D L Verthelmer company was incorporated in-corporated yesterday in Salt Lake City to conduct a general merchandise busIness at De Lamar Nev and elsewhere on a capital stock of iCOO II 10 shares The compans principal place of business wili be at De Lamar David L Verheimer Is president treasurer and secretary Leo bsorJer1 r1 ii fJ pold Werthelmer vice president anti Samuel L Terthelmer henry Rives and Frank IcNamee are the other directors Mr C E Street the cIgar dealer who befriended the Park City boy hy advanc lag 1W on a watch it now develops did the act as a charity The boy pleaded poverty to lIr Street having no place to sleep and the pawn shops beig closed Mr Street thought he was doing the boy n favor by advancing the money He was not 10th to give up the watch but de livered the ticker promptly on its being described by the owner Miss Alice Newtop daughter of James Newton of Sugar house was taken sud denljo ill on Thursday last with appendicitis appendi-citis and became so much worse that by Saturday she was removed to the Holy Cross hospital and on Sunday it was found that an operation was necessary It was performed by Drs S L and J S Richards and Wflcox and yesterday oven ing the patient was reported as doing nicely Miss Newton is a wellknown and estimable young lady and has many friends in the city Owing to the absence of Councilman Buckle the fire and police committee which was slated to sit at the city hall last night pestponel the meeting until Thursday evening Formal action was taken only on one matter last night The committee I resolved to ask Jermisslon of un CILy cunncl1 to solicit bIds for the pro I posed hooting apparatus for the fire and police departments and city jail The com mittee Consisting of Chiefs Devine and I Pratt and Councitmnn Howe appointed to secure vlans for the heating apparatus has not yet prepared a report I |
