Show ROUND AROUND the the the- TOWN alt lt It Lake Sidelights RATS RAT'S BATS BAT'S SOME SO SHOVELING Howd How'd you OU like to shovel li nj of ot coal into the same heating vt furnace That appears to tobe be bc the record hun hung 1 up by Walter J J. Edgar Ed J gar 67 of r Blair 1 street who has nas J i iI cI c- c I tired alter 37 ye years rs I of continuous service ser vice as fireman at atthe atthe the city and county county coun coun- ty building plant Mr Edgar started started start start- ed firing the boilers boil boil- ers at the city nail hall heating plant in 95 about one ine year after alter the buildwas build build- was completed and occupied He Heis HeS is S been on the same job ever since I Between 2500 and tons of at mine ick Jck arc shoveled into the stokers rr cry year at the heating plant where r Edgar worked as as s shown by theal the theal theral al ral purchase orders Two T firemen arc are kept on the job ring Iring the winter season but it is are a i fc re bet Mr Edgar says that he has hasl l at least half hall the coal which into the furnaces during duringS S past 37 31 years That would to total tol l tons I The boilers were first equipped lh steam stokers In 1925 these were than changed ed for electric automatic but the coal had to be just the same Silme regardless of s type of stoker in m use i The usual Christmas shopping was milling about a downin down down- wn in wn department store the other da day dayEh t Eh r when a terrified wo- wo Ine DC ll Little mans man's scream made madet madei stand still t i TT Upset f 4 everyone at Then someone saw hole Shop a woman run mad madly jf down an aisle still r reaming earning and beating her skirts When store officials finally calmed lr t hysterical hysterical woman and were listen listen- I j to an e explanation of her unusual other screams creams were heard ld d traffic in another mother aisle exceeded l department store speed r at ut it Finally the cause of the uproar uproars is s discovered disco A white r rat one of my liny o offered ered for sale at the store d climbed out of his cage and was toyIng yIng himself meandering around Ie e gift gitt filled counters r- r NO ONE Winter Governor George H. H cm discovered m to his dismay Wed Wed- y is no respecter of persons Utah's chief executive ivas forced d his shower lie Jo the fact that all water pipes i the bern home at East South street were frozen f. f AKES NO SO CHANCES George P. P Murphy assistant mete irete at the Salt Lake weather urean is t taking king no chances of being lamed for the present cold wave When he studied the weather map nd ad found there is no relief relle e expected r. r awhile he decided a 1 leave of ab ab- ece would be the best thing So he at work Tuesday with ba bags s a. a ked for or a two weeks' weeks trip to south south- rii rn Ti California He Ife offered to send end a forecast of 01 fair and warmer to J. J Cecil Alter cad lead of oC the bureau from Los An An- cles eles |