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Show Ikenil club will : hold bench show Organization Effected and Officers Elected at Last Night's Meeting. Organization of the Salt Lake City Keunel club and plans for a bench show in November, which is ejected to attract at-tract exhibitors from all parts of the United States, were perfected at a meeting meet-ing at the Newhouse hotel last night of a number of local dog fanciers. Officers of the new Kennel club were elected aud within a few days the organization or-ganization will be incorporated. It will bo affiliated with the American Kennel club, which will give it national standing stand-ing among dog fanciers and make the forthcoming bench show a championship affair. Plans for the kennel club have been under way for some time. For a number num-ber of years there has been no organization organi-zation of dog fanciers here and Salt Lake has been about the only large city in the country which has hot had its annual bench show. The organizers of the new club expect to enlist not onlv all the fanciers of the city in the club but to recruit the membership and participation par-ticipation in the show from all over the state. F, W. Paget, manager of the New-house New-house hotel, who owned valuable kennels ken-nels in Lenver before he came to Salt Lake, was elected president of the new club. Joy H. Johnson was elected first vice president: W. W. Armstrong, second sec-ond vice president; Harry Rand, treasurer: treas-urer: J. (r. Whitaker, secfetarv, and Dr. J. H. Halton, veterinarian. tr. W. M. Wadoll, Harry Rand and Joy H. Johnson John-son were elected the board or directors. President Paget is chairman of a special comittee to have charge of the bench show, Dr. Waddell and Secretary Whitaker being the other members. Secretary Sec-retary Whitaker s office is 339 South Main street, where it is expected manv members of fhe club will be enrolled within the next few days, as the organizers organ-izers are going to call upon all the fanciers fan-ciers to join. Tentative dates for the bench show, when the blue ribbon dogs of Utah as well as from all part? of the country will be on dress parade, were selected at last night's meeting. It is planned to have the show November 25, 26 and 27. Further arrangements for the show have still to be worked out. There was a good attendance of fanciers fan-ciers at last night ' meeting. Besides those already mentioued, there were among those "present: J. C. Covkendall, formerly of Denver and owner of some famous Boston terriers; O. J. Kraft, another an-other Boston terrlor fancier, and George A. Cranfield, who has judged uianv bench shows in Australia, Hngland, Canada Can-ada and the United States. The president will call another meeting meet-ing of the new clubs in about ten davs, when plans for the bench show will "be discussed further. |