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Show Salt Lake Sidelight; XMAS TBI! STILL STANDS Records of sundry kind ar being i attempted daily, but unknowingly the family of Dean Henry Attwell Poat of St Mark's cathedral la believed to have established a new one. The 1D32 Christmas tree still Intact but shedding Its dry pine needles freely, free-ly, remains In the Post home. The ornament ar all bright and glistening, glisten-ing, although the cotton snow haa become somewhat soiled and the Santa San-ta Claut has a dirty (ace. Two Christmas wreath (till hang in the windows. "Yes. the family enjoyed the tree so much that we decided to let It remain," re-main," Dean Poat said, "but it's shedding shed-ding now and will have to be disposed dis-posed o(." Salt Lake's "renovlilng" campaign has bared a mystery! Wallace M. Brsnsford, owner of the Branalord apartments at 105 Esst South Temple street Is pondering over how the following articles came to be sealed In a wall opened a lew day ago (or the first time sine the building was erected In 1905: A postcard dated April 21, 1178. M years before the apartment were built He's Sure A box of 22-calIber That Tnere spaUnt dlU ot lgBr No Ghost A 11 gauge shotgun shell, dated 1901. All were found embedded between lath when workmen began to rebuild re-build a partition in one of the apartment. apart-ment. And in th door of thi apartment apart-ment was discovered a Jagged hole apparently mad by a large caliber cartridge. The postcard bore a barely discernible discern-ible signature of "S. W. Fisk" and waa addressed to "Frances N. Fisk" in Michltan. the address being unread- able. It apparently waa written by husband to his wife. Th greeting was "My dear wife." and th message expressed ex-pressed desire thst the latter write the sender at "Coolidge Springs." "We can't imagine how these rsme to be there," Mr. Branalord said, "but if there Is a mystery, we're sur of on thing there's no ghost" WANTS 28 TEARS MORE Entering hi twentieth year ol continuous con-tinuous service this month with the Union Pacific system, J. G. Riser of 1808 East Twenty-seventh South street chief clerk in the hospital department de-partment was hoping Wednesdsy he would be able "to be on th Job another an-other 20 years. Mr. Riser entered the railroad service ser-vice In 1914 s a clerk in the general passenger department In 1818 he Joined the army, but, returned in 1818 to become chief clerk in the hospital department of th Oregon Short Line unit ' ' 'I ADVENTURE SOON ENDS How an 11-year-old girl sought adventure ad-venture but found It short-lived after a brief taste was told Wednesdsy by E. E. Stafford, chief clerk at the Hotel Utah. With a playmate, the girl strolled Into th hotel and asked (or a room. Because of her youth, Mr. Stafford j questioned her and the youngster ex-plained ex-plained she wss to meet her aunt at th hotel and go with her "on a long journey." The clerk assigned her a room and a bellboy showed her upstair. But Mr. Stafford became suspicious and learned the girl's address (rom her friend. He looked up her mother and i soon the young guest waa back home, ' the savings she hsd taken from her toy bank to (inane her "vacation" till Intact |