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Show NEWS FROM J'ROVO. The Enquirer is against the Sunday liquor traffic: ;-j Tlio watcrmaster has a force of men at work cleaning out the ditches. All over the ci(y are to be seen busy preparations for the erection of buildings build-ings this summer; The firm of Bunnel, Eggertsen Co. is doing a fine business, although not more than two weeks old. Three more real estate agencies are to start up in Provo within a few weeks. The number then will be fifteen. Kershaw & Malmquist, late of the Salt Lake Advertising company of Salt Lake, have open up a business one door south of Drake's livery stables, and opposite op-posite the Opera house. Tho East Co-op. store has, according to the last 'report of Superintendent Chipman to the directors, been doing a very profitable business during the last six months. Stockholders have reason to feel satisfied with the outlook. The old Hyde property, the scene of so many diphtheria cases, has been thoroughly renovated and fumigated under un-der the supervision of tho quarantine physician, Dr. M. H. Hardy, and the City Marshal Brown. The old house has been torn down, and not a vestige of it now remains. A runaway occurred on Tuesday in which Ruben Birkin, son of Robert Bir-kin, Bir-kin, and tho driver of the wagon, had his leg broken in two places and most frightfully lacerated. The bone in the thigh was sticking out six inches and the femoral artery had been snapped. Dr. Simmons arrived upon the scene just in timo to tie the artery and thus save the boy's life. Amputation will be absolutely necessary. A pleasant surprise was tendered Lars L. Kelson Tuesday night at the Second ward assembly rooms by the Y. M. and Y. L. M. I. A. of tho ward. Tho ladies provided picnic aud the gentlemen presented him with a purse to help him in his missionary labors. Songs, speeches and music were the order of the evening until about 10:80 o'clock when the benches were removed and those desiring to do so engaged in the dance. |
