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Show CREAM OF THE NEWS. State street is paved to the intersection of Second South. Travel continues good and a number ot eminent people are in the city. Dr. Newell has succeeded Dr. Beatty as surgeon of the Union Pacific Railway company. com-pany. Some fellow entered the room of Dr. E. B. Whitney late last night and stole his diploma. di-ploma. The P. O. S. of A. picnic arranged for today to-day to Garfield has been postponed on account ac-count of the diphtheria scare. As a letter writer Mrs. Daniel Carson needs no tutor, unless it be to add the scriptural scrip-tural injunction. 4,P. S. Burn this." Sixty-flve shares of stock in the Natsonal Bauk of the Republic, this city, at 9S, for sale by Ritchie & Ritchie, 59 Commercial block. The Harmony Glee club serenaded H. S. Goddard last night as a kind remembrance before his departure for the East to take up voice culture. Miss J. Jennings of this city is domiciled at the Continental hotel in New York and A. B. Montgomery is scanning the bill of fare at the Lafayette in Philadelphia. Bids for the paving of Main street from South Temple to j-'ourth South street will be opened Monday. The contract for side-walking side-walking Main street has been awarded to Frank Harrington. The Board of Education has leased a room on Richards streets in which to store the 15,000 to 20,000 free text books until the board is ready to distribute them among the various schools. These books cost $12.'ooo. Fred S. Fish, legal advisor of the Stude-baker Stude-baker Wagon company is in the city. He is authority for the statement that the Studebaker company will erect larger and more commodious buildings in this city for its trade. . A boy was driving a team hitched to a load of brick for the Power, Light and Heating company this morning. When opposite the theater, on State street, he turned out to avoid a car and the axle broke, precipitating the boy to the ground and spilling brick right and left. The Utah Title, Insurance and Trust company com-pany pay 5 per cent interest, pavable quarterly, quar-terly, on saving deposits, insures titles to real estate, and issues abstracts. Directors, J. E. Dooly, R. C. Chambers, A. L. Thomas, W. S. McCornick, T. R. Jones. J. J. Dalvanrf E. B. Wicks. Mrs. B. B. Nesbitt has taken charge of the Manltou dining-rooms, situated just east of the Knutsford. She is prepared to serve the general public, as well as dancing, theater and other parties and club. Board, per month, $32.50; per week, $3.50. Sunday dinners and merchant's lunches specialties. About fifty members of the Knights of the Ancient Essenic Order attended the meeting called for last night to discuss the advisability ad-visability of continuing the order. The committee appointed at a previous meeting was not ready to report on the subject and nothing was done la-t night. Well No. 5 of the American Natural Gas company is expected to blow off at about 4 o'clock this afternoon. Gas is already escaping es-caping from the mouth of the we!L There will doubtless be no exhibit of this well, as one of the company's best walls was greatly damaged by being blown off at full pressure. pres-sure. . The local senates of the -naient Essenic Order held a meeting last evening for the purpose of discussing a proportion to remove re-move the headquarters of the order to Illinois, Illi-nois, but as the attendance waa small it was decided to postpone actios until next Monday Mon-day evening when the full membership is expected to be present. Governor Thomas has received word from the governor of Mexico to the effect that an interstate wool congress is to be held at Albuquerque on the 16th and 17th of Sep-i Sep-i tember for the purpose of diseussln? ques-! ques-! tions which involve the extent, value, increase in-crease and prosperity of the sheep aud wool I iuterests ot the states west of the Missis. ! sippi. Governor Thomas Is requested to appoint delegates to the convention. Miss Edith Wefler, assistant secretary to E. A. McDaniel of the Utah World's fair commission, has her hands full just now sending: oat copies of the Utah World's Fair Advocate, a neat thirty-two-page book de-i de-i scriptlve of the object of the commission and the different departments of the Columbian Colum-bian exposition. Mis WeUer will send out 000 copie9'ofhv4rffoeaJ. |