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Show CLUB WILL WORK FOR BETTER BOULEVARD The civic improvement department of the Salt Lake Commercial club will take immediate steps in a campaign to secure uniform parkin on t'ie Thirteenth East boulevard ;ind to gel the boulevard paved as soon as possibk-. A communication from the department was read to thc board of governors at the meeting yesterday yester-day and was referred back to the department depart-ment through the committee, with instructions in-structions to proceed at once in the movement. move-ment. The board adopted resolutions commending the Salt Lake City board of education for its work thus far toward Americanizing foreigners, through special classes, and requested that the work be continued. The board also indorsed plane for a celebration to mark the completion of the new lighting system on Main street. The new system wilt be completed about May 1 and the board requested thp civic improvement department to arrange the details of the celebration. The report of the annual banquet held last Tuesday night showed that the affair af-fair was a financial success. A resolution resolu-tion thanking President F. C. Richmond for his work in connection with the banquet ban-quet was adopted by the board. A report re-port of the military committee on the work of the Merchants' association of New York City was read, treating the subject of national defense and preparedness, prepar-edness, with a request that similar activities activi-ties be encouraged amontr the merchants here. It was approve! and referred back to the committee. The board authorized the civic improvement department to arrange ar-range for a cii beautiful campaign here this spring. F. R. Rockwell, assistant general manager man-ager of the Denver & Rio Grande, an., F. H. Yahrnkamp. a mining engineer, wer- made members of the club. |