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Show Counties to Be Organized for Mormon Battalion Memorial Drive. All of tho counties n Utah are to organize or-ganize for tho caniralun to raUio fund for the erection of tho Mormon liatlallon monument, according to orrnnKomont.'! made at a reient ineotlmr of tho committor:. commit-tor:. Report of the campnlnn's Initiation at 'ornaI on f'ionoor rlay shownl that tho project mot with favor there. 'n,c mayor of tlie clly coin ill, uici liir Hnd other lariro donatlonn were mado by leading lead-ing clllzeriH. :ont rlhiil lona are holnir received from r'anaoa, Arizona, California and Idaho an well an from Ctah, and a lariro Hum has lioon received from Victor .Morrln of I'eru. Mr. Morrin neut the donallon In memory of his mother. Mrs. Matllo ridtotl, who was the daughter of Nalhanlol Jones, one of the memliers of the Mormon hallallon. The cnmmltlee also h'-nrd a repurt oji tho proKiivis of the "Mormon luillallon histor." which Is holiu; prepared as a textbook for J 1 1 -rli and olomenliu v schools. Two editions of the bor.lt win bo Issued! one for children and one for older renders. rend-ers. The hlslory will ileal wllh Iho famous fa-mous march of tho batlallon In 1 nig nnd 1M7. and tho discovery of koI.1 In California, Cali-fornia, In which the Mormon batlallon took an acllvo part. It Is proposed lo set a day apart In Iho latter part of January ns Mormon ba I -tallon day. on which appropriate exercises exer-cises will ho held throunhoul Ihe stale. |