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Show MUNICIPAL TREE AT OGDEN IN POSITION V Electricians Are Busily Engaged String- ing Branches With Hundreds of Vari-colored Lighting Globes. Special to The Tribune. OGDEN, Bee. 22. Under direction of C. U. Martin, street supervisor, employees em-ployees of the street department and of the fire department today completed Ogden 'h municipal Christmas tree, which holds the distinction of having been constructed largely by the hand of man. The tall steel flagstaff in Central Cen-tral park was used for the trunk, and 1 ho tree is more than sixty feet in height. Klectricians aro working on the illumination illu-mination of the tree with 500 globes of many colors. The programme at the municipal Christmas festival will be given at ; o'clock Sunday evening, according ac-cording to the announcement of the city commissi oijcrs. A raised platform has been erected near the Christinas tree for the use of those who will participate in the open air programme. George Shorten, citv health inspector, and his deputies busied themselves today to-day with the ((-reparation of 300 bags of candy which will be distributed to children quarantined in their homes Christmas day. About MOOO bags ot candy will be distributed among the children attending the municipal Christmas Christ-mas tree celebration Sunday evening. |