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Show AROUND L the Salt Lake Sidelights ,.T AX-AX" VALENTINE Heart of candy and lace-trlmmed paper accompanied by endearing verses were the order of the day Monday Mon-day aj Salt Lakera prepared to ob-tenre ob-tenre St Valentine'i day Tuesday. Etationert, confectioners and florists flor-ists did a thriving business aa schoolboys, school-boys, aweethearta and hunbanda made " ready to reveal their teellnga to their lady loves. Although valentines have changed great deal since the custom originated originat-ed eeorea ol years ago, many shops displayed lace-trimmed cards bearing ' the age-old inecription: 'Rosea are red, violets blue: - Sugar is sweet, and so are you." And with the host of other verses 1 that may be found Issuing from the I ipe of rosy-cheeked cherubs, some ' Wag submitted the following aa a : likely greeting for the legislature: , "To Senator Holmgren and Herble B. i Maw, To Griffin and Hunt and Booth (R-, Utah), to Muggins and Fowle and Fennell (Juab), Jj Senator Bowman from down In Kanab. To anions from Davis and Emery and Wayne, Ti om Box Elder, Cache, Rich and Duchesne; Du-chesne; Tj those from Weber and those from Piute, And others from Millard and Sanpete to boot, f send you thia greeting on Valentine's Valen-tine's day Ta remind you, to aik you, to beg and aay it unless yoo proceed to cut down the tax. Well call at the eapitol armed with " an ax." SCAVENGERS ARB "RENOV1ZED" T ; Wo longer will the esthetic sense of Salt Lakers be disturbed by the Unsightly appearance on public Streets of dirty, insanitary garbage wagons and trucks. J Two gleaming white garbage trucks, which will replace the present pres-ent equipment, arrived Sunday at a4 the city barns. Eighth South and Second Sec-ond West streets. J. Fields Greenwood, Green-wood, street supervisor, and two mechanics me-chanics drove the machines here trom a Wisconsin fsctory. Garbage hoppers on the new trucks are completely covered. The machines ma-chines are so arranged that refuse ia , emptied into a trough at the rear ' ot the truck and hoisted mechanically to the hopper, which opens automatically automati-cally as the hoist operates. - The trucks, which cost about $2500 each, will replace several obsolete pieces of equipment now in service on garbage collection routes. City Commissioner Harold B. Lee an-L an-L nounced. |