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Show FROM PROVQ. T'no electric wires are being stretched to the principal business houses in the city. The patronage this enterprise is receiving is very flattering and the company com-pany is pushing the work ahead as fast as is practical. The lights will be burning burn-ing this week. At a meeting of the board of directors of the insane asylum held last Saturday the business of letting the contract was disposed of. Tho brick, mason and carpenter work was let to the Provo Lumber and Building company. About 250 men aro employed on the building and the work is 'beginning to hum. John Grler will have the contract for plastering. . The Hreniau are arranging for an excursion ex-cursion and ball to tho Garden City bathing resort on Wednesday, July 80. About 100 tickets are already sold for the ball. August 0th the veteran fireman of Salt Lake will join with Provo in an excursion to the lake where an elaborate programme will bo given. The opera house band has been secured for the afternoon concert and evening ball. Hold & Johnson's band will also be present. Little Kate is taking a rest today and having some of her bruises attended to. Her labors since Julj 24th havo been I almost bevond what she is capacitated to fulfill. Some damage has also been done to one of the cars by being pushed from the track in backing up from the lake. A. B. Tomson was in Provo yesterday, yester-day, exhibiting the prospectus of a campaign cam-paign bulletin to be issued before the coining election. Men who know whereof they speak state that a new bank is soon to be established es-tablished in tho Taylor block. The business that is looming up in that part of the city will justify this enterprise, and we hope to give full particulars ia this connection at an early day. Felt, Olson & Co. have bought the Arcade restaurant fixtures and have placed a French cook in charge. They will run the business this way until August Au-gust !J4, when they expect to re-rent their building. |