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Show THE NEW BABY YEAIL j WHAT PEOPLE DID TO WELCOME IT AND SAY COOD-BYE TO THE OLD. It Camp Into i:xltnes Amidst (.reat Nnisj From Kumlisalid Horns, With Christmas Christ-mas Wutehinjr, ami .Society IVolIt hiding in the Ounce Hour are you ItSftJ? Happy .New Year. Have, you sworn off. Ilow'-s the luiby this afternoon. All of the federal otlices are closed todays The sum of (H, 500,000 was spent in Sal Lake dining rw.M. Salei of Sail Lake real estate during lJl amounted fo c'. TTti.T 17. The reception totiay at the Y. M. C. roomej la a very pleasant oeoasion. There are 1,810,081 sheen in the territory, valued at 12,047,547. I tali produced 14M,oj tons of aalt during the year ISM Jnat ended. The Social Everting cluh will gdve a rlnuco in the new Odd Fellow's hall this evening-. There nre 1 1ST miles of railway in L'taU and this will be largely increased thci coming ear. Many people will eontinne to writ1 i down lS'.il for some time vet Tvnen ilutins their 1, tiers The postofllce was open two hours todny from in to 12 o'clock. Box rents ara duo from today. Ne w fear calling is an obsolete) custom, and an "open house" now is the exception rather than the rule. Miss Joeie Simmons gam a char mine seif per to her friends last nij;ht who celebraAed, the season at tier borne. Electrician J . N. Smith of the Street Rail way coin puny was presented with 11 haavU some gold headed cane by his associates. I The Plumbers, Oas and Steam litter's ball al the opera house. Junuary l.i, promises to he one of the most successful of the season. Today commencing at 1 o'clock the children chil-dren of the Kiirbtcenlh wurd Sunday school are holding a party in Independence school house. Swear-offs do not go until tomorrow. There is ton much peg uojr anil other holiday holi-day beverages about to commence the new? bale today. Over eight millions of dollars nre on lc. posit In the thirty seven luniks i.f the territory. terri-tory. The total banking; capital ia .s,14S,. i'il.TS. Chief of the Fire Ucparttneht Stanton wna preM'iiled w ith a magnificent solid oxyiliaeci silver curving set. It was from Uie memliert of No. 2 company. The territory in Wl produced 2,4(10, 4.r. biishc.li! of wheat, llini.lOfl tons of ulfalfa, au. nvertii1 of three tons to the acre, mid a vasb quantity of fruit and dairy pr. duels. F. Auerhai h kept his clerks to a late hour taking stock. As soon us this duty eiirlec? Mr-, ami Mi-s Meyer came in ami presided over a delightful supper gut up for tho occasion. oc-casion. The wool clip in l-tah for MM was quite an improvement over that, of the previous year. The prices realized were very satis, factory. The product was 0.(100,000 pounds, for which l,flV6,0B8 was paid. r?t. Mark's church had a beoutiful pro. gramme lard night for watehin the death of the old nud the birth iX tho new year. There were devotional exercises anil music, including a charming solo from Mrs. t-ilva. Tin: Second Ward tVlec club, conalstixkg at Vred (indium, Frank Chandler, S. W. lisrw-on, lisrw-on, Harry Chandler, C. F. Chandler, T. A. Borne, ir., favored their miiuy friends wit.ra a New Year's greeting both vocal and instrumental. in-strumental. The Epworth club rendered a programme last night consisting of music , declamations, descriptions of the .lapanese eostunieie worn, games aud refreshments, occupying the evening until 12 o'clock, when devotional 1 exercises were, held iacomim moraUonof tho New Year. Knur hundred and eightv-rive homesteads) wi r.-entered at the L'uitcd states la ndo Hi e o during the year endlug Novmnber 30, 180V. There were 2112 desert land entries and rash entries during tho same period. The total .creage entered for the year at thrf lei. dottle- was iv,.iij acres. George Arbogast rave n pleasant party br -his twenty -five employes Wedm aday even. ing at his residence on Fourth Ea.-t street, and such an enjoyable time waa had that It. was about 3 a. ni. bfore th merry maker, realized tbat It. was time to go horue. Mr.. Arbogast rives a party every year at thiav, season to his help. Fully 200 ot (salt Lake's most brilliant so clety people, gathered at the Kuut.-ford last night, the occasion lieiuir the Urst assembly ball. Bp 0 o'clock the rooms were erirwdeil. with ladies dressed in the handsomest toilet- ever seen in the city. There was a tine hand of music and duncing was tho Older ofc the night. County Recorder John 1 1. Kumel, jr., has, eleven employees In his ottice, and Jut bo., fore thi-y left the office last niyht ho pro, sented each one witti a handsome New Year'a card pinned to a well rilled purse. The employees em-ployees were naturally enonuh doligbteA with such substantial rcneiosity anil went away hissing the man of big body aud bigger big-ger soul. Miriam R. Iieckah Lodge I. ). O. P. gav a hall last night at the Odd Fellows halt, The new year was welcomed with music aud dancing until a late hour. The committee 011 arrangements were Dr. S. Ewinir, Mr. VV, .1 Moore, Mrs. Ew ing, Mrs. Boom, Mrsu Moore and Mr. A. .1. M. lntyre. The floor managers were Messrs. II. B. Young and F. M. Schulze. W. P. Reed, superintendaut of tho &alh Lake City Street ftuilwuy company was. notiticd that 11 committee of his ernployesa would tu at his office at 5 p. in. vc-ti clay ami as h sat autiei it I 1 -'riKCi ten or a dozen of the men walked in and presented Mr. Reed, in an extremely neat sp. i . b, with a liaudsomo jcold chain, Wtttcla ami charm. it's a pretty infant this 1S92, and was grce ted with such a tooting of horns aud tiring of crackers, bombs and sky rockets as would have frightened poor little Ruth ( levcland to death if she bad been within a mill- ot the corporate limits. It brought a good deal of hapiflness with It too, lor it gave so many the occasion to show their suli-taiitial good will toward friends thai they cared for, ami trove others tho opportunity oppor-tunity to "eveu up'' on unexpected Christinas Christ-inas presents. |