| Show I TOWN TALK With the approach of Thanksgiving turkey raffles are now rampant nightly at the saloons saoons Yesterdays clearings were 5420113 a compared with 52D79D4 for the correspond ing day of last year In tho charity raffle for some hand painted China held last evening for the benefit of the poor Mrs E C Pclz won Sheriff MelCaller came in from Mercur last evening bringing with him a man named W J Fisher who is held pending pend-ing an examination as to his sanity Deputy Sheriff Hansen came in from Murray last evening and placed in the county jail three men of the Doe and Roe families against whom are charges of petit larceny for small thefts at Murray Mrs Alice W Jones of Wellsville Cache county wife of Simon H Jones died i this city yesterday after a protracted pro-tracted illness The remains will be shipped to AVellsville today by Undertaker Under-taker Joseph William Taylor for inter meat Deputy Sheriff Burt last evening arrested ar-rested a man named Walker on suspicion of leaving stolen a sot of harness and the man is held pending inquiries The harness which is at the county jail is of red leather single set rope reins and an extra riding bridle accompanying The Deseret Sunday School board and first council of the seventies have choser George D Pyper as secretary of those organizations to succeed John M Whilaker who laves shortly on a mis slon Mr Pyper will assume his new duties on Dec 1 with Leo Hunsaker as assistant Somebody has formed the habit lately oJ firing off a pIstol at night just east and south of the police station Last night about 1 oclock the neighborhood was Ftatled by hearing a shot fired in the vicinity of the station The police made a thorough search but nothing could be learned of the shooting The regular ministers meeting was held in the rooms of the Y I C A yesterday yes-terday morning at which there was a Hood attendance The change of views of the Rev Fay Mills on eastern evangelists was the topic under discussion tmu several sev-eral of the ministers present took an active part in the subject The Lowells overcame the Washington I team yesterday afternoon on the Uni yersity campus in the proportion of four 0 nothing The Lowell men had the I setter of the game from the beginning ulthough they were like Lo the poor Indian In-dian In being obliged to fight eleven men I and the referee Clever work was done i for the Lowells by Billy Adams Young and Romney Lawrence was the star of I the Washington youths For a while last evening the postoffice was in darkness and Jt was found almost al-most impossible to transact business The cause was the giving out of the power for the electric lights After waiting for a while candles were procured and by their dim light business was continued I in a slow manner Some of the box renters had a hard time of i After searching in the darkness for quite awhile a-while to find their numbers they could not open their boxes on account Of not being able to find the key hole The report of Superintendent Mills patigh for the second month of thui school year shows as follows Total enrollment en-rollment 13273 average daily attendance litilhl average daily absence 540 cases of tardiness 1465 not absent nor tardy bLU per cent of attendance S4C percent per-cent of punctuality 99 cases of suspension suspen-sion 7 cases of corporal punishment 9 C cases of truancy 4S visits by patrons S visits to patrons 523 About 5 per cert more girls than boys attend the DublK free schools of the city The colored pupils number 6 of whom one is a Chinese girl The careers of most men fluctuate and change like the fickle vestment of the chameleon and the hand that gather llowers one day may reap a bitter harvest the next But with Captain Thomas Dobscn the well known Main street nightwatchman its different For twentyfour years he has paced his beat and during that period the town has been transformed but Captain Tom ha always been the same A faithful ef Jicient guardian He has just celebratect the first quarter of a century of faith tnt work and his stalwart figure is at > lamiliar on Main street as any of the landmarks Mrs E C Baldry of Houston Tex Teit who came here some time ago to benefit her health and incidentally as the correspondent corre-spondent of the Houston Post returns home in a week but is so pleased with Utah that she will come back and reside hers permanently She Is anxious to secure se-cure a lot of exhibits for the fruit flower and vegetable fair at Houston Dec 611 I and desires to secure a few of the finest mineral fruit and veratable specimens from Utah She Is at room 51 Ricketts block where any who desire to aid her in the laudable undertaking may call She will also arrange for the distribution of any printed matter concerning Utah I the companies furnishing the same will ship It to her The newly appointed trustees of the public library and free reading room have deferred permanent organization for a week Seven of the members of the new board met yesterday afternoon upon Mayor Glendmnings invitation in thee the-e executives office Owing to the absence of Boyd Park and Miss McCornick the fi latter being out of the city it was agreed to postpone the matter of permanent organization until next Monday afternoon at 2 clock when the boards first formal meeting will be held at the mayors office of-fice However a temporary organization was effected at yesterdays preliminary meeting at which Mayor Glendinning performed the function of introducing th I appointees each to the other Mr T G Webber was chosen temporary chairman and Major H C Hill secretary A little informal talk was indulged in pertaining to the law under which the board was created nd some impromptu references were miae to the objects and purposes of the library scheme but i was voted to await the assembling of the board lull organizing membership before permanently |
